Daniel Hendler

Daniel Hendler

1976-01-03 Montevideo, Uruguay 59 Credits

Biography

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, ...

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Un cabo suelto

2025

Writer, Director

Writing Directing
The Summer Hit

The Summer Hit

2025

10.0
Acting

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 th...

The Silence of Marcos Tremmer

The Silence of Marcos Tremmer

2024

as Dr. Alejandro Tremmer

7.3
Acting

Marcos Tremmer is a successful publicist who lives in Madrid, madly in love with his wife, Lucía. One day, Marcos discovers that a deadly disease will...

The Parties

The Parties

2022

as Sergio

6.0
Acting

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 wh...

Lunáticos

Lunáticos

2022

2.0
Acting

"Lunatics" narrates the experiences of different characters who live in the cities of Buenos Aires, Mexico and Montevideo. Their stories intersect. Th...

15 Ways to Kill Your Neighbour

15 Ways to Kill Your Neighbour

2022

as Jose

5.2
Acting

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...

The K.E.O.P/S System

The K.E.O.P/S System

2022

as Fernando

6.0
Acting

Belgrano neighborhood, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Someone is watching Fernando Berlasky from one of the countless windows in front of his apartment and ...

Virus: 32

Virus: 32

2022

as Luis

6.9
Acting

A virus is unleashed and a chilling massacre runs through the streets of Montevideo.

The Intruder

The Intruder

2021

as Leopoldo

5.7
Acting

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 ...

Straight to VHS

Straight to VHS

2021

as Self - Filmmaker

6.6
Acting

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 s...

The Future is an Angel and a Smile

The Future is an Angel and a Smile

2020

as Angel

7.0
Acting

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 h...

Erdosain

Erdosain

2020

as Fischbein

9.0
Acting

A film adaptation of the TV series "Los siete locos y los lanzallamas" by Roberto Arlt.

The Moneychanger

The Moneychanger

2019

as Humberto Brause

6.9
Acting

Humberto Brause takes advantage of Uruguay’s poor economy by specializing in offshore money laundering. Spanning the fifties to the seventies, the fil...

The Sleepwalkers

The Sleepwalkers

2019

as Sergio

6.9
Acting

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, ma...

Cuando brillan las estrellas

Cuando brillan las estrellas

2018

as Narrador

2.0
Acting

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...

Uma Noite Não é Nada

Uma Noite Não é Nada

2018

as Abril

4.3
Acting

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 ...

La obra secreta

La obra secreta

2018

as Elio Montes

6.0
Acting

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 Curu...

Severina

Severina

2017

as Amigo 1/Hombre Cinta

6.4
Acting

A melancholic, aspiring writer and bookseller is shaken by the appearances and disappearances of his newfound muse who steals books from his bookstore...

The Lost Brother

The Lost Brother

2017

as Cetarti

7.1
Acting

Cetarti is drowning in nothingness. With no job or purpose, he spends his days inside watching documentaries on television, until one day he is inform...

Al Borde

Al Borde

2016

as Martín

3.5
Acting

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 abo...

The Candidate

The Candidate

2016

Director, Writer

5.6
Directing Writing

A team of advisers is brought in to manufacture the image of Marchand, producing social media profiles, commercials and a new public persona. Conflict...

Easy Ball

Easy Ball

2015

6.7
Acting

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...

My Friend from the Park

My Friend from the Park

2015

as Gustavo

6.4
Acting

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-...

Tatuapé Mahal Tower

Tatuapé Mahal Tower

2014

as Javier Juárez García (voice)

7.0
Acting

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 ...

To Fool a Thief

To Fool a Thief

2013

as Sebastian

6.2
Acting

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 tog...

Por un tiempo

Por un tiempo

2013

Executive Producer

5.3
Producing

Leandro and Silvina, a young and successful middle-class couple, are experiencing the happiest time of their lives. But the sudden appearance of Leand...

Between Valleys

Between Valleys

2012

as Carlos

6.6
Acting

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...

Norberto's Deadline

Norberto's Deadline

2012

Director, Screenplay, Producer

5.9
Directing Writing Producing

After being fired from his job, Norberto tries his luck as a real estate agent, but he doesn't tell his wife right away. His new boss advises him to t...

My First Wedding

My First Wedding

2011

as Adrián Meier

5.8
Acting

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, co...

The Romantics

The Romantics

2010

Producer

4.9
Producing

Alliances are tested when seven college pals reunite to watch two of their own say “I do” at a seaside wedding. But the maid of honor and the groom sh...

Cabeça a Prêmio

Cabeça a Prêmio

2010

as Denis

3.7
Acting

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 tim...

Cabeça a Prêmio

Cabeça a Prêmio

2010

Associate Producer

3.7
Producing

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 tim...

Phase 7

Phase 7

2010

as Coco

5.5
Acting

A man protects his pregnant wife from their neighbors after the apartment is quarantined.

The Paranoids

The Paranoids

2008

as Luciano Gauna

7.1
Acting

Luciano works in birthday parties and writes his first feature when friend Manuel returns from Spain to repeat his TV show, "The Paranoids", together ...

Extraordinary Stories

Extraordinary Stories

2008

as Narrator (voice)

8.0
Acting

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 ma...

La ronda

La ronda

2008

as Pedro

6.0
Acting
A Stray Girlfriend

A Stray Girlfriend

2007

as Miguel

3.0
Acting

A romantic holiday has left Inés all alone. She's not at all happy about it.

Cheese Head

Cheese Head

2006

as Vercovich

6.1
Acting

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, i...

Los suicidas

Los suicidas

2006

8.0
Acting

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 M...

The Dog Pound

The Dog Pound

2006

5.0
Acting

David, has just failed his university examinations and has one year to re-write them. Ruben, his father, a pragmatic and successful businessman, has b...

Family Law

Family Law

2006

as Ariel Perelman

6.2
Acting

A man in his thirties does not want to be like his father, but that seems to be unavoidable.

Queens

Queens

2005

as Óscar

5.9
Acting

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 c...

Whisky

Whisky

2004

as Martín - newly-married husband

6.9
Acting

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, ...

Lost Embrace

Lost Embrace

2004

as Ariel Makaroff

6.3
Acting

In Buenos Aires, the twenty-something Jewish-Argentinean Ariel Makaroff ditches the University of Architecture and spends his time wandering through t...

Despedida

2003

Acting
The Bottom of the Sea

The Bottom of the Sea

2003

as Ezequiel Toledo

7.0
Acting

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 ar...

Musical Chairs

Musical Chairs

2003

Thanks

6.7

Victor, who lives abroad, must travel to his country of origin sent by the company where he works and will have only one day to visit his family who w...

Saturday

Saturday

2002

as Martín

6.8
Acting

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, ...

No sabe, no contesta

No sabe, no contesta

2002

as David

7.1
Acting

A handful of young people deal with their personal and emotional tribulations in this teen-centric romantic comedy from Argentina. Laura (Karina Dali)...

The Eye on the Nape

The Eye on the Nape

2001

as Diego

Acting

This is the story of Pablo, a young uruguayan exiled in México, whose father was disappeared during the military dictatorship.

25 Watts

25 Watts

2001

as Leche

6.8
Acting

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 ...

De vuelta a casa

De vuelta a casa

2001

Acting
January 6th

January 6th

2001

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

Two friends wake up on January 6th, they have breakfast, they take a shower, they play boggle, and they get presents from the Three Wise Men. This fil...

Waiting for the Messiah

Waiting for the Messiah

2000

as Ariel Goldstein

5.1
Acting

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 nig...

December 31st

December 31st

1996

Writer, Director

Writing Directing

Roque and Cristian have no special plans for the day.

Víctor and the chosen ones

Víctor and the chosen ones

1996

as Pete

Acting

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.

Crazy Old Lady

Crazy Old Lady

N/A

as Pedro

Acting

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 bec...

El espíritu de la ley

N/A

Acting

27 noches

N/A

Director

Directing