Elisa, My Life

Elisa, My Life

1977 · 125 min · ★ 6.5 · Drama

Elisa has not seen her father Luis for nine years, but she receives a telegram from her sister Isabel in a moment of crisis in her marriage with Antonio telling that her father is ill. Elisa decides to travel to the countryside of Madrid with Isabel and her brother-in-law Julián and their two children to visit Luis for his birthday. Elisa decides to stay with her father when her sister returns to Madrid with her family and she gets closer to Luis, understanding why he left her mother years ago. Later she tells him that Antonio cheated on her with her best friend Sophie and their relationship has ended. When Antonio unexpectedly arrives in the house, Elisa makes a decision about her life.

Directed by Carlos Saura · Written by Carlos Saura

Your Rating

Where to Watch

Streaming

Cast

Make it a double feature

3h 50m together

Elisa, My Life

Cria!

Both from Carlos Saura.

More from Carlos SauraSee all →

Cuentos de Borges

Cuentos de Borges · 1993

Cuentos de Borges

Cria!

Ana, an eight-year-old girl living in Madrid with her grandmother and two sisters, mourns the death of her mother.

El sur

Flamenco Flamenco

Flamenco Flamenco · 2010

Flamenco Flamenco

MovieMusicDocumentary

A look at the history and traditions of flamenco music and dance.

The Hunt

The Hunt · 1966

MovieDramaThriller

Three veterans of the Spanish Civil War go rabbit hunting. While doing so, old wounds open up.

Anna and the Wolves

Anna and the Wolves · 1973

Anna and the Wolves

The young but traveled Ana arrives in a manor in the countryside of Spain to work as nanny of three girls and finds a dysfunctional family.

Ay, Carmela!

Ay, Carmela! · 1990

MovieComedyDrama

During the Spanish Civil War, a group of comics lightens the days of the Republican troops. Tired of life in the front lines, they make their way to Valencia, accidentally entering enemy land and falling prisoner.

Carmen

MovieDramaRomance

While rehearsing a flamenco ballet adaptation of Bizet's opera “Carmen”, Antonio, the choreographer, falls in love with the main dancer, Carmen, a fiercely independent woman. Antonio is slowly consumed by jealousy and possessiveness towards Carmen, just like Don José in the original opera, blurring the lines between fiction and reality.

Tango

MovieMusicRomance

A dangerous love affair inspires a director to create the most spectacular and boldly seductive dance film ever made.

The 7th Day

The 7th Day · 2004

Isabel Jimenez is a teenager witnessing a horrible feud between her own family and the Fuentes family, a feud involving broken hearts, property disputes and a mysterious fire that destroyed the Fuentes house. Isabel's uncle is murdered by Jeronimo Fuentes, who later tries to stab her father. After Jeronimo dies in jail, Isabel must look outside of her family for the truth, learning from the village idiot that her father may have set fire to the Fuentes home.

Peppermint Frappé

Peppermint Frappé · 1967

Peppermint Frappé

MovieDramaThriller

Julián, a middle-aged single doctor, is reunited with Pablo, a childhood friend who has just married Elena, a beautiful young woman.

Blood Wedding

Blood Wedding · 1981

MovieDramaMusic

A dance troupe prepares for and completes a dress rehearsal of Federico García Lorca's tragic play "Blood Wedding," which is about a bride who runs away from her wedding with a former boyfriend.

Faster, Faster

Faster, Faster · 1981

MovieCrimeDrama

Angela is a young waitress who turns her back on society when she meets and falls in love with Pablo, a reckless criminal delinquent. Along with Pablo’s gang of car thieves, the pair embark on a drug and disco-fueled robbery spree as they hurtle toward oblivion.

Salomé

Salomé · 2002

MovieDramaMusic

Salomé's story interpreted by a director and a troupe of flamenco dancers.

Flamenco

Flamenco · 1995

MovieDocumentaryMusic

The film presents thirteen rhythms of flamenco, each with song, guitar, and dance: the up-tempo bularías, a brooding farruca, an anguished martinete, and a satiric fandango de huelva. There are tangos, a taranta, alegrías, siguiriyas, soleás, a guajira of patrician women, a petenera about a sentence to death, villancicos, and a final rumba.

El Dorado

El Dorado · 1988

MovieAdventureHistory

The story of an expedition down the Orinoco and Amazon rivers in 1560 by Spanish soldiers searching for the fabled city of gold, El Dorado.

More Like This

After the Wedding

After the Wedding · 2006

After the Wedding

A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.

Revolutionary Road

Revolutionary Road · 2008

Revolutionary Road

MovieDramaRomance

A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.

Visitor Q

Visitor Q · 2001

MovieComedyDrama

In a dysfunctional family where the mother is a heroin addict and prostitute, beaten by her son, and the father is an ex-TV reporter, sleeping with his daughter and filming his son being beaten up, ‘Q’, a complete stranger enters the bizarre family, changing their lives for the better, finding a balance in their disturbing natures.

Brokeback Mountain

Brokeback Mountain · 2005

Brokeback Mountain

MovieDramaRomance

In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.

The Killing

The Killing · 1956

MovieCrimeThriller

Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.

Bed and Board

Bed and Board · 1970

MovieComedyDrama

Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling flowers and giving violin lessons while Antoine fitfully works on his long-gestating novel. As Christine becomes pregnant with the couple's first child, Antoine finds himself enraptured with a young Japanese beauty. The complications change the course of their relationship forever.

Shower

MovieComedyDrama

An aged father and his younger, mentally challenged son have been working hard every day to keep the bathhouse running for a motley group of regular customers. When his elder son, who left years ago to seek his fortune in the southern city of Shenzhen, abruptly returns one day, it once again puts under stress the long-broken father-son ties. Presented as a light-hearted comedy, Shower explores the value of family, friendship, and tradition.

Nowhere in Africa

Nowhere in Africa · 2001

Nowhere in Africa

A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband, Walter, on a farm in Kenya. At first, Jettel refuses to adjust to her new circumstances, bringing with her a set of china dishes and an evening gown. While Regina adapts readily to this new world, forming a strong bond with her father's cook, an African named Owuor.

Clean, Shaven

Clean, Shaven · 1995

MovieDramaCrime

Peter Winter is a young schizophrenic who is desperately trying to get his daughter back from her adoptive family. He attempts to function in a world that, for him, is filled with strange voices, electrical noise, disconcerting images, and jarringly sudden emotional shifts. During his quest, he runs afoul of the law and an ongoing murder investigation.

Curse of the Golden Flower

Curse of the Golden Flower · 2006

Curse of the Golden Flower

MovieActionDrama

During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as his wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family itself.

Pieces of April

Pieces of April · 2003

Pieces of April

MovieComedyDrama

Quirky and rebellious April Burns lives with her boyfriend in a low-rent New York City apartment miles away from her emotionally distant family. But when she discovers that her mother has a fatal form of breast cancer, she invites the clan to her place for Thanksgiving. While her father struggles to drive her family into the city, April -- an inexperienced cook -- runs into kitchen trouble and must ask a neighbor for help.

Y Tu Mamá También

Y Tu Mamá También · 2001

Y Tu Mamá También

MovieDramaRomance

In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.

Rate this film

Your ratings make Midnight smarter