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Eliseo Subiela

Eliseo Subiela

Eliseo Alberto Subiela (born December 27, 1944 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine film director and writer, whose works are considered to be in the 'magic realism' genre.

Subiela is the father of actress, Guadalupe Subiela (who acted in her father's film, Small Miracles). I've won and been nominated for awards at the Toronto, Montreal, Berlin, Istanbul and Havana film festivals, among others.

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Movies Made By Eliseo Subiela (19)

Vanishing Landscapes (2013)

A mockumentary about three young student filmmakers as they make a movie about an alleged film director living obscurely in a Buenos Aires mental hospital. In their visits to the mental hospital, the three students will forge a very special relationship wi ...

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Hostage of an Illusion (2012)

Pablo is being pursued by what seems like a mob of fans. However, the truth soon emerges that his assailants are actually the cast of characters from his books who are angry that he won't continue to write their lives. When Laura, a former student, turns ...

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Don't Look Down (2008)

A sexy Spanish siren named Elvira schools a young man in tantric lovemaking. ...

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The Effect of Love (2007)

Mabel lives on a slum. Does work as a clown at children's parties and as a prostitute. At 20 crosses paths with Martin, a lawyer just shy of 40. He has divorced his wife and left the law firm he was working on. Buys a trailer and goes to live in it. Adver ...

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Heartlift (2005)

Pep Munné is an aging plastic surgeon who falls for a young female assistant (Mariana Anghileri) while attending a medical conference. Soon he begins inventing new reasons to spend more time with her. His wife Cristina (María Barranco) begins meeting wit ...

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The Adventures of God (2002)

A man and a woman find themselves trapped inside what appears to be a dream that takes place in the labyrinthine corridors and mysterious rooms of a large hotel located by the sea. ...

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The Dark Side of the Heart 2 (2001)

The sequel to the blockbuster Argentinean smash hit. After ten years, Oliverio is still intrigued by the works of great poets and continues to search for true love. When he meets the beautiful Miranda, she suggests that they both move in together and find ...

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Little Miracles (1997)

Rosalía is a cashier at a supermarket. She lives alone, loves reading fairy tales and hides in a magic fantasy world in order to survive living in the real one. She thinks she is a fairy who came on a mission and got caught in this world. She travels by b ...

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Wake Up Love (1996)

Ernesto is a journalist in his 40's who comes from a generation which encountered much political persecution and exile; between the memories and unhealed wounds of his past, stands Ernesto. When his good friend Ricardo calls him one day and proposes to get ...

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Don't Die Without Telling Me Where You're Going (1995)

A lonely film projectionist through a series of odd events, discovers that he is the reincarnation of one of the inventors of cinema, and that a woman he sees in his dreams is his eternal companion on a trip through centuries. ...

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The Dark Side of the Heart (1992)

Oliveiro is a young poet living in Buenos Aires where sometimes he has to sell his ideas to an advertising agency to make a living or exchange his poems for a steak. In Montevideo, he meets a prostitute, Ana, with whom he falls in love. Back in Buenos Aire ...

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Last Images of the Shipwreck (1989)

Roberto is an insurance salesman who dreams of writing his own novel. When he meets Estela, a young woman about to commit suicide, it serves him as material to make this work. ...

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Man Facing Southeast (1987)

A new patient mysteriously appears in a psychiatric ward. He claims to come from another planet to study humans and their behavior. The alien is gentle but criticizes humans for their harsh treatment of each other. The assigned psychiatrist is himself unha ...

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The Conquest of Paradise (1981)

Pablo (Arturo Puig) receives the news that his father, who abandoned him and his family a long time ago and was thought dead, wants to see him so he can pass all his fortune to him. Pablo goes to see his father in Brazil, expecting to inherit a large sum o ...

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Argentina, mayo de 1969. Los caminos de la liberación (1969)

A collection of shorts, some documentary and some fictional, showing the political climate in Argentina during the military regime of the late 1960s. ...

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The Shoemaker's Wife (1965)

After the death of the village pharmacist, his widow Lina only inherits debts that he must face. Valentin, the old shoemaker, is the main creditor and the exuberant Lina must pay him what he owes, whatever it costs. ...

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Chronicle of a Boy Alone (1965)

The story of a delinquent eleven-year-old orphan in authoritarian Argentina. ...

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A Long Silence (1963)

Short documentary about "life" in Buenos Aires' Borda Hospital. ...

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Movies Starring Eliseo Subiela (2)

Favio: Chronicle of a Director (2015)

There are very few icons in Argentine culture capable of appealing to both popular and elitist tastes. Leonardo Favio was undoubtedly one of them. An unseasonable Peronist attached to the liturgy of his land, the director, born in the province of Mendoza, ...

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Subiela, El Mago (2014)

Eliseo Subiela is one of the most recognized worldwide Latin American filmmakers. His films last through generations who have succumbed to the particular way of seeing the world of the author. This documentary explores how this author sees the world: his a ...

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