Daniel Hendler

Daniel Hendler

Born: January 3, 1976
in Montevideo, Uruguay
Daniel Hendler (born 3 January 1976) is a Uruguayan film, television, and theatre actor who works mainly in the cinema of Argentina, where he lives. He is known for his starring roles in films such as Bottom of the Sea, Family Law, The Paranoids, Phase 7 and Lost Embrace. Working on both sides of the Río de la Plata, Hendler achieved international recognition due to his awards as an actor. Hendler is part of the generation of actors who revitalized the Uruguayan cinema with films like 25 Watts, and is one of the regular actors of the so-called New Argentine Cinema.

Movies for Daniel Hendler...

Title: Community Squad
Character: Miguel Rossi
Released: February 17, 2023
Type: TV
The members of a diverse vigilante group formed to boost the police's image are put in jeopardy when they stumble upon an unexpected drug deal.
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The Parties
Title: The Parties
Character: Sergio
Released: November 5, 2022
Type: Movie
Sergio, Mali and Luz reluctantly agreed to spend Christmas in the country with their mother; in part because of the guilt they feel about saying no when she has just come out of the hospital after a heart attack, but also because it would be nice to escape from their frustrations for a while.
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Lunáticos
Title: Lunáticos
Released: August 4, 2022
Type: Movie
"Lunatics" narrates the experiences of different characters who live in the cities of Buenos Aires, Mexico and Montevideo. Their stories intersect. The madness of the globalized world and the local reality, of each one of them, is affected just at the moment in which the North American president begins to send posts on social networks, eliminating all trade with China.
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15 Ways to Kill Your Neighbour
Title: 15 Ways to Kill Your Neighbour
Character: Jose
Released: June 8, 2022
Type: Movie
"Drinking, dancing and... killing me. It's the new life my neighbour Jose has decided to live. What better way to escape boredom than coming to kill me every thursday? His wife, Lucie, prefers to go to a shrink. To each their own therapy.
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The K.E.O.P/S System
Title: The K.E.O.P/S System
Character: Fernando
Released: May 12, 2022
Type: Movie
Belgrano neighborhood, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Someone is watching Fernando Berlasky from one of the countless windows in front of his apartment and sending him e-mails.
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Virus:32
Title: Virus:32
Character: Luis
Released: April 21, 2022
Type: Movie
A virus is unleashed and a chilling massacre runs through the streets of Montevideo.
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The Intruder
Title: The Intruder
Character: Leopoldo
Released: July 30, 2021
Type: Movie
Inés works as a dubbing actress and sings in a choir in Buenos Aires. While on an idyllic trip she suffers a traumatic episode that she can’t recover from. She has trouble sleeping and experiences very vivid nightmares as strange sounds begin to emerge from inside her. Awake, Inés feels suddenly surrounded by people that seem to come from her dreams.
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Straight to VHS
Title: Straight to VHS
Character: Self - Filmmaker
Released: March 25, 2021
Type: Movie
Act of Violence Upon a Young Journalist is a film shot in 1988 and released on VHS in 1989; a mysterious cult work of Uruguayan cinema surrounded by strange theories about Manuel Lamas, its unknown creator. Until now.
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The Future is an Angel and a Smile
Title: The Future is an Angel and a Smile
Character: Angel
Released: December 4, 2020
Type: Movie
Martín Garabal is the best employee of Garabal and sons, his father's real state agency. Leonardo envies him deeply, Tomás admires him and Eva loves him. But something is wrong, the world seems to be telling Martín that he should take a different path. Martín doesn't listen because he's worried about his dad but, where is he?
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Erdosain
Title: Erdosain
Character: Fischbein
Released: April 26, 2020
Type: Movie
A film adaptation of the TV series "Los siete locos y los lanzallamas" by Roberto Arlt.
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The Moneychanger
Title: The Moneychanger
Character: Humberto Brause
Released: September 26, 2019
Type: Movie
Humberto Brause takes advantage of Uruguay’s poor economy by specializing in offshore money laundering. Spanning the fifties to the seventies, the film follows Humberto as he gets increasingly in over his head with multiple shady book-cooking schemes throughout South America, leading to an ultimate life-or-death decision.
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The Sleepwalkers
Title: The Sleepwalkers
Character: Sergio
Released: September 25, 2019
Type: Movie
A woman and her 14-year-old daughter, who is a sleepwalker, in the midst of awakening. A marriage on the edges of a silenced crisis. A ritualistic, matriarchal, and endogamous family. Grandmother, siblings, cousins. A new summer, sweat, alcohol, traditions. Naked bodies, changing bodies, and the gazes upon those emerging bodies. A new New Year's celebration in the old historic family mansion is the trap for the sleepwalkers to finally awaken.
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Cuando brillan las estrellas
Title: Cuando brillan las estrellas
Character: Narrador
Released: November 1, 2018
Type: Movie
As a child, Lucas falls in love with Ana. His story is truncated: she moves away and he loses track of her. Today Lucas does crossword puzzles and has almost zero love-sexual life. Meanwhile, his friend Santiago has a blind date with Verónica that ends after a few seconds. Verónica's neighbor is in a secret and quite toxic relationship.
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Uma Noite Não é Nada
Title: Uma Noite Não é Nada
Character: Abril
Released: October 20, 2018
Type: Movie
São Paulo, 1984. Agostinho, an old and tired Physics professor, is married to Januária, a retired school principal. In his classes, he begins to feel attracted to one of his students, Márcia, an HIV positive teenager. Quickly, the attraction of the two turns into an impossible love.
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Title: Edha
Released: March 16, 2018
Type: TV
Revenge, passion and dark secrets push a successful fashion designer and single mother to her limits when she meets a handsome and mysterious man.
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La obra secreta
Title: La obra secreta
Character: Elio Montes
Released: January 25, 2018
Type: Movie
Half a century after his death, Le Corbusier, the greatest exponent of modern architecture, arrives by train to the city of La Plata to visit the Curutchet house, the only work he carried out in Latin America and which he could not know in life. The film is at the same time a portrait of Elio Montes, a devoted architect of Le Corbusier who spends his days in charge of the guided visits of that house, waiting for the impossible.
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Severina
Title: Severina
Character: Amigo 1/Hombre Cinta
Released: August 21, 2017
Type: Movie
A melancholic, aspiring writer and bookseller is shaken by the appearances and disappearances of his newfound muse who steals books from his bookstore. When he discovers that she also steals from other bookstores, he is consumed with jealousy and starts living in a kind of love delirium, on the border between fiction and reality. The closer he gets to her, the more indescribable she becomes and he begins to wonder why she steals, what are her values and who is the older man she lives with. In the end, what is real and what isn’t? And will he find a place in her life as he moves away from his own?
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The Lost Brother
Title: The Lost Brother
Character: Cetarti
Released: March 20, 2017
Type: Movie
Cetarti is drowning in nothingness. With no job or purpose, he spends his days inside watching documentaries on television, until one day he is informed that his mother and brother were gunned down. He travels from Buenos Aires to Lapachito, a decrepit town in the province of Chaco in northern Argentina to deal with their bodies and to get the life insurance money. There he meets Duarte, a sort of boss in the town and a friend of his mother's murderer who also kidnaps people for money. Cetarti's path will lead him to committing illegal acts to get his hands on the insurance money and to his involvement in Duarte's dark dealings, leading to an absurd and unexpected outcome.
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Al Borde
Title: Al Borde
Character: Martín
Released: December 11, 2016
Type: Movie
During a couple of days, different extreme situations lead the characters to discover that human relationships is what keep us on foot when we are about to fall: the love of a father towards his son choices, the unconditional love of a friend, the homefeeling of a neighbour who's almost part of the family. On the edge explores those extreme experiences that confront us with our prejudgments, exposing them and giving them a new meaning.
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Title: Según Roxi
Character: Dr. Mariano Pezzola
Released: May 24, 2016
Type: TV
Segun Roxi is a comedy featuring a mother who divides her world between friends and enemies. Desperately fighting to tackle the pitfalls of motherhood, Roxi faces her challenges with sincerity and humor combined.
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Easy Ball
Title: Easy Ball
Released: November 2, 2015
Type: Movie
Sometimes the links can be built from the passions. Sometimes those links can become passions. For Hugo, a solitary taxi driver from Buenos Aires, the total, absolute and exclusive passion is San Lorenzo, which is not only an active part of his past, but a healthy obsession that bathes that gives color to his life. Until a single mother and her son cross their path. Now there will be someone to share the passion with. Maybe something more.
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My Friend from the Park
Title: My Friend from the Park
Character: Gustavo
Released: September 17, 2015
Type: Movie
While her filmmaker husband works in Chile, harried young mother Liz struggles to take care of her infant son. Feeling out of place amongst the tight-knit group of other parents at the park, doubted by her husband, and judged by her newly hired nanny, Liz is drawn to factory worker Rosa, a plain-talking single mother she meets at the swings one day. Despite Liz’s liberation upon finding a bold new confidante, the friends’ increasingly apparent class differences, along with swirling rumors about Rosa’s motives and muddy family situation, feed Liz’s suspicions that her new pal might be a sinister influence on her already fragile life.
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Title: Buenos Aires Under The Orion Sky
Released: September 11, 2015
Type: TV
Six teenagers witness a cosmic event that grants them special powers. With these new abilities, each one discovers the worst and the best of himself, while a journalist and a mysterious woman pursue them with unclear ends.
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Tatuapé Mahal Tower
Title: Tatuapé Mahal Tower
Character: Javier Juárez García (Voice)
Released: July 26, 2014
Type: Movie
The film is about the life story of Javier Juárez García, an Argentinian scale model figure who decided to live in São Paulo to seize the city’s real state boom. After a betrayal, he decides to change his life and work in architectural models around the world. But he never forgets about his real goal: to come back and take revenge.
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To Fool a Thief
Title: To Fool a Thief
Character: Sebastian
Released: August 1, 2013
Type: Movie
Sebastian meets Natalia when trying to steal an important piece of art from a museum, and she wins the hand. Rivals declared, the two have to work together later in a robbery more complex: a valuable and unique bottle of Malbec from Bordeaux in the mid-nineteenth century, listed as one of the best wines in the world and jealously guarded in the vault of a bank, in Mendoza. In a world full of glamor, between vineyards and mountains, the thieves will have to display their magic, but while preparing discover theft, each to his own, that nothing will be as thought
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Title: Famoso
Character: Daniel Hendler
Released: May 31, 2013
Type: TV
Martín Garabal, a first-time interviewer who used to work with his dad at a real-state agency, meets many of Argentina's most renowned film and music stars, but all of the encounters end up with a twist.
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Title: Famoso
Character: Ángel
Released: May 31, 2013
Type: TV
Martín Garabal, a first-time interviewer who used to work with his dad at a real-state agency, meets many of Argentina's most renowned film and music stars, but all of the encounters end up with a twist.
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Between Valleys
Title: Between Valleys
Character: Carlos
Released: September 28, 2012
Type: Movie
This is the story of Vicente, a successful, married, economist with a nine-year-old son. It also tells the story of Antônio, the same man, living as a hugadores—one of the homeless, trash scavengers who live and work in Brazil’s enormous garbage dumps. Vicente seems to have it all, but as we watch his life begins to crumble little by little. Meanwhile, Antônio, already at rock bottom, struggles to rebuild his life.
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Title: Graduados
Character: Andrés Elías 'Andy' Goddzer
Released: March 12, 2012
Type: TV
Graduados (English: The Graduates) concerns a group of people who graduated from high school in 1989 and reunite twenty years later. The main character, Andrés Goddzer (Daniel Hendler), discovers that María Laura Falsini (Nancy Dupláa) was pregnant in 1989 and married Pablo Catáneo (Luciano Cáceres), who thought that he was the child's father. The resulting parental dispute, the love triangle of the main characters and 1980s nostalgia are frequent plot elements, and story arcs related to school bullying and LGBT rights are also featured. The frequent flashbacks of the characters to their high-school days use the same actors, playing teenagers.
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My First Wedding
Title: My First Wedding
Character: Adrián Meier
Released: September 1, 2011
Type: Movie
On her wedding day, Adrian, nervous, make a small mistake that aims to hide Leonora, his girlfriend, to avoid problems. But far from avoiding them, complicates the matter and the party runs the risk of end badly, like the future marriage of the couple.
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Cabeça a Prêmio
Title: Cabeça a Prêmio
Character: Denis
Released: August 20, 2010
Type: Movie
The Menezes, a powerful family of animal breeders from the Mid-West, have always been at the helm of all illegal dealings in the region. In recent times, they've watched as the system that protected them for so many years slowly disintegrates. Mirão Menezes lives at the mercy of the drug-trafficking industry, the ever-encroaching authorities, and the constant and violent power struggle with his brother Abílio. Mirão's daughter Elaine becomes involved with her father's pilot, finds herself pregnant and decides to flee with him after her Uncle Abílio bribes them. Brito, the hitman sent to find the couple and finish them off, is ironically also victim of a love story.
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Phase 7
Title: Phase 7
Character: Coco
Released: July 13, 2010
Type: Movie
A man protects his pregnant wife from their neighbors after the apartment is quarantined.
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Title: Para vestir santos
Character: Damián
Released: April 21, 2010
Type: TV
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The Paranoids
Title: The Paranoids
Character: Luciano Gauna
Released: October 23, 2008
Type: Movie
Luciano works in birthday parties and writes his first feature when friend Manuel returns from Spain to repeat his TV show, "The Paranoids", together with his girl Sofia. Manuel is everything he is not and him trying to be helpful in his career and with women, only worsens the conflict.
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Extraordinary Stories
Title: Extraordinary Stories
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: October 4, 2008
Type: Movie
X arrives in a small town and witnesses a violent act; Z takes the job of a dead manager and discovers that he had a notebook written in code and a map; H is hired to go down a river and investigate a series of mysterious monoliths built on the shore.
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La ronda
Title: La ronda
Character: Pedro
Released: May 29, 2008
Type: Movie
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Title: Aquí no hay quien viva (Argentina)
Character: Román Bobadilla
Released: January 10, 2008
Type: TV
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A Stray Girlfriend
Title: A Stray Girlfriend
Character: Miguel
Released: June 7, 2007
Type: Movie
A romantic holiday has left Inés all alone. She's not at all happy about it.
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Cheese Head
Title: Cheese Head
Character: Vercovich
Released: October 12, 2006
Type: Movie
It tells the story of four Jewish boys during a few summer days at the country club where their parents take them, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, in 1993. Within the club, the four define themselves as outsiders, since they do not participate in the sports activities that are practiced there, and therefore do not fit into the logic that governs the place, being permanently bothered and mocked by the rest of the children of their age.
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Los suicidas
Title: Los suicidas
Released: October 5, 2006
Type: Movie
Daniel is a journalist who is commissioned to write an article based on a photograph of a presumed suicide. As he begins his investigation, he meets Marcela, the enigmatic photographer assigned to him as a colleague, with whom he has never had a relationship before, and with whom he slowly begins to fall in love.
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The Dog Pound
Title: The Dog Pound
Released: May 5, 2006
Type: Movie
David, has just failed his university examinations and has one year to re-write them. Ruben, his father, a pragmatic and successful businessman, has been paying for David's education, the pursuit of which he considers a waste of time. Ruben wants David to work and make himself useful and he strikes a deal with him: David can stay and study for his exams at Ruben's house in La Perrera, a coastal resort town, while he builds a house for himself. And so, a year-long adventure starts for David, an urban intellectual, in the isolated La Perrera and among its off-season residents who include nearly as many dogs as men, where the only women are either pregnant or prostitutes, and where no one wants to work and things are done out of friendship more than anything else.
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Family Law
Title: Family Law
Character: Ariel Perelman
Released: March 23, 2006
Type: Movie
A man in his thirties does not want to be like his father, but that seems to be unavoidable.
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Title: Killer Women
Released: July 19, 2005
Type: TV
Anthology series, in which every episode introduces fictionalized versions of real cases about women who, for different reasons, ended up committing murder.
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Queens
Title: Queens
Character: Óscar
Released: April 8, 2005
Type: Movie
In Spain, a couple of days before a collective gay wedding, the lives of five mothers, whose sons will get married, are entwined: Judge Helena is in charge of the ceremony; the entrepreneur in hotel business Magda is hosting the guests in her hotel and is responsible for the banquet, while facing a strike leaded by her lover and chef; the nymphomaniac Nuria is facing problems due to her disease; the wealthy Reyes is having a crush for the father of her son's mate and her gardener; and the Argentinean cooker Ofelia is facing financial problems and difficulties in with her son's mate. Along three days, they have complicated relationships with their sons and mates, ex-husbands, lovers and employees.
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Whisky
Title: Whisky
Character: Martín - newly-married husband
Released: August 6, 2004
Type: Movie
When his long-lost brother resurfaces, Jacobo, desperate to prove his life has added up to something, looks to scrounge up a wife. He turns to Marta, an employee at his sock factory, with whom he has a prickly relationship.
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Lost Embrace
Title: Lost Embrace
Character: Ariel Makaroff
Released: March 14, 2004
Type: Movie
In Buenos Aires, the twenty-something Jewish-Argentinean Ariel Makaroff ditches the University of Architecture and spends his time wandering through the downtown gallery where his mother has a lingerie shop and his brother runs an importation business. Ariel has never understood why his father left him when he was a baby, but when his dad returns to Argentina, that will soon change.
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Despedida
Title: Despedida
Released: December 7, 2003
Type: Movie
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The Bottom of the Sea
Title: The Bottom of the Sea
Character: Ezequiel Toledo
Released: August 26, 2003
Type: Movie
An architecture student is obsessed by his girlfriend. When she is invited to go alone to a party sponsored by her company, he becomes paranoid. He arrives at their place unexpectedly and finds a man hidden under their bed. He follows the man trying to find his name and occupation, along a night full of incidents and misunderstandings.
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Saturday
Title: Saturday
Character: Martín
Released: August 22, 2002
Type: Movie
One more Saturday in a desolate Buenos Aires hard to recognize. Six young people that try to avoid their solitude by complicating their daily routes, unsuccessfully looking for a glance that changes something or a new sensation that reveals them some sense. A couple used to their common tediousness, a girl who has already decided she wants to be alone, his boyfriend who does not know how to deal with that, a famous actor who does not seem to feel comfortable anywhere and a girl who pretends to get fun without realizing she's always bored.
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No sabe, no contesta
Title: No sabe, no contesta
Character: David
Released: May 26, 2002
Type: Movie
A handful of young people deal with their personal and emotional tribulations in this teen-centric romantic comedy from Argentina. Laura (Karina Dali) is a woman who has unwittingly stolen the heart of Joaquin (Mariano Martinez), a brash film student, but while he makes plans to woo her, Joaquin has to take care of some other matters first. Joaquin is moving into a new flat, and he and his friends discover just how hard it is to move a piano; meanwhile, he also is drafted into helping his buddy Marcos (Facundo Espinosa) win back his girlfriend, which means lending Marcos his car.
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The Eye on the Nape
Title: The Eye on the Nape
Character: Diego
Released: January 31, 2001
Type: Movie
This is the story of Pablo, a young uruguayan exiled in México, whose father was disappeared during the military dictatorship.
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25 Watts
Title: 25 Watts
Character: Leche
Released: January 28, 2001
Type: Movie
24 hours in the life of three street youths in Montevideo. Three teenage guys try to figure out what they're supposed to be doing with their lives in this drama from Uruguay that puts the emphasis on character over narrative.
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De vuelta a casa
Title: De vuelta a casa
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
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Waiting for the Messiah
Title: Waiting for the Messiah
Character: Ariel Goldstein
Released: May 25, 2000
Type: Movie
In 1999, Argentina's peso craters. Ariel, a young man from Buenos Aires' Jewish community, deals with his mother's fatal illness, finds a job as a night shift surveillance camera monitor, and wonders when he'll discover sex. Santamaria, middle aged, loses his bank job and is dismissed by his wife; he finds stolen wallets in dumpsters to return to their owners. Ariel tells Santamaria's story to a TV reporter who profiles lives on the street. She's Laura, in a relationship with another woman, but perhaps available. Ariel desires Laura, while Santamaria courts Elsa, a washroom attendant who's husband is in prison. Christmas and Hanukkah approach; can anyone connect?
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Víctor and the chosen ones
Title: Víctor and the chosen ones
Character: Pete
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Two friends staying at a summer house find a strange animal in front of the house looking at them, and they discuss what to do with it.
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El espíritu de la ley
Title: El espíritu de la ley
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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The Summer Hit
Title: The Summer Hit
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
When Felipe’s ex-girlfriend breaks his heart, it feels like it’s the end of the world – and he’s not wrong. A strange zombie plague is unleashed on the paradise beach his friends have taken him to get his head in the right place. This is how the hectic pursuit for survival begins, where telling apart the living from the dead becomes the hardest part. Felipe will do whatever it takes to save his life, his friends’ lives and Ana’s life, a beautiful and problematic girl. Who would’ve guessed a zombie apocalypse would be the beginning of a new life and new love?
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Crazy Old Lady
Title: Crazy Old Lady
Character: Pedro
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Pedro receives a desperate message from an ex-girlfriend asking him to look after her senile mother, Alicia. What seems like a simple mission soon becomes his worst nightmare. Pedro needs to escape; but Alicia won’t let him...