Live Flesh (Spanish: Carne trémula) is a 1997 erotic romantic thriller drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, based on the 1986 novel of the same name by English author Ruth Rendell.

A young prostitute, Isabel Plaza Caballero, gives birth on a bus to a son, Víctor.

Twenty years later, Víctor shows up uninvited at the apartment of Elena, a drug addict with whom he had sex a week earlier, expecting another date with her.

Two years later, Víctor, in jail, learns through a televised wheelchair basketball match that David, now partially paralysed from the gunshot, has become a star player at the Summer Paralympics and is married to Elena.

Víctor is later accepted as a volunteer by the orphanage, as he earned a teaching diploma by correspondence during his time in jail, much to Elena's chagrin.

David arrives and helps Sancho clean his wound before showing him photographs he has been taking of Víctor and Clara.

In a voiceover, David reads a letter written to Elena from Miami, where he is spending Christmas with friends, apologising for how everything turned out.

Produced by El Deseo, Ciby 2000, and France 3 Cinéma, Almodóvar's twelfth film opened in Spain on 10 October 1997 on 125 screens.

José Arroyo in Sight and Sound praised the film's "emotional pitch: raw, fearful, passionate", its brilliant cinematic qualities and the high standard of acting by the five leads.

In Neon magazine, Martin Aston concluded that "sexy movies are rarely this thrilling, thrillers never this sexy—and the two seldom combine so movingly".

The website reads, "Live Flesh surveys the fallout from an act of violence with a mature melodrama that sees Pedro Almodóvar working in surprisingly restrained form.

"[4] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 69 out of 100, based on 18 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".