Manuel Callau

Acting

Manuel Callau

Born 1946-08-26 · Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Manuel Callau (born August 26, 1946) is an Argentine actor.

Acting credits

Swim Alone poster
7.0

The film does not describe, rather it observes, in a distant manner, the world of Martin, a seventeen year old who feels he doesn’t belong anywhere, not at home, school, nor with his friends or members of his rock band. In search of some happiness, Martin takes off to the coastal town of Mar de Plata, where his older brother lives. Unglamorous, yet enchantingly addictive and refreshingly genuine, Acuña paints a confused and uncomfortable world, and makes us want revisit it over and over again.

Swim Alone

2003

Extrañas Salvajes poster
4.3

An anthropologist arrives on an island inhabited by two tribes, one dark-haired and the other blonde, and begins to form a close relationship with a young woman from the latter group. One of the few co-productions between Argentina and Sweden, this is an erotic comedy featuring actors from both countries.

Extrañas Salvajes

1988

Overflow poster
4.2

Overflow Psychiatric hospital. Lighting in a stormy night's sky. With almost 12 years without seeing each other, Marcos Ferro (36) and Ivan Manusovich (37) meet the morning after having heard the news about Martin Tayal's death, Who was once a member of Journalism and writing workshop in the hospital. They were both part of the workshop's creation and of a very recognized and conflict magazine which one generated therapeutic, institutional and social effects that proved to be too much for it. The words heard through the phone the day before make them need to find out what happened to Martin and his body. While discussing about this very same subject a word makes them remember about the beginnings of the workshop.

Overflow

2011

Wake Up Love poster
5.4

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 together after 25 years, they decide to gather all the members of the “old gang” in order to revive those old feelings the best way they know how, through some good old rock n' roll. Amongst one of Ernesto's encounters is Ana, an old love who will bring a twisting unexpected turn into his life. The old gang is comprised of Ricardo's depressive, hypochondriac wife Ana and her socially-conscious former lover Ernesto, a journalist who left Ana years ago to pursue his political ideologies in socialist Cuba.

Wake Up Love

1996

Muerte dudosa poster
NR

A young businessman, owner of a major publishing house, is found shot to the head. Everything suggests a murder, since he was doing a journalistic investigation about a shady business.

Muerte dudosa

1994

Nocturno poster
8.0

The story of a town inhabited by vampires, located on the outskirts of Buenos Aires.

Nocturno

2001

Sand Eyes poster
NR

Clara, a psychologist, and her husband Gustavo have been separated since the disappearance of their son, Lucas. A year after Lucas' disappearance, Gustavo finds on Facebook information about a girl, Augustina, who went missing just two days after Lucas. The broken couple go Augustina's parents in an attempt to find clues about their sons disappearance.

Sand Eyes

2021

Maro’s Secret poster
7.8

No synopsis available yet.

Maro’s Secret

2021

To Realize poster
7.2

After a brutal car accident, a young man falls into a coma and is left to be looked after by a doctor who suffers in his personal life and commits himself fully to save his patient.

To Realize

1984

El karma de Carmen poster
NR

Carmen fails to adapt to the world and society in which she lives. She worries about not having a partner. In a raffle he wins as a prize a week with all payment for two in Mar del Plata. She is willing not to go alone.

El karma de Carmen

2014

Night of the Pencils poster
7.0

The Night of the Pencils was a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances, followed by the torture, rape, and murder of a number of young students during the last Argentine dictatorship (known as the National Reorganization Process). The kidnappings took place over the course of several days beginning on September 16, 1976.

Night of the Pencils

1986

Safe Passage poster
4.5

In the present, in Spain, Miguel's mind, affected by a brain disease, seems cloistered in the past, in Argentina, in the seventies, when he risked his life for his ideals. He is obsessed with finding a woman named Diana. Mario, his son, who has been away from Miguel for a long time, now feels compelled to unravel the mystery of a name that, like a curse, pursues his father.

Safe Passage

2015

The shield of the condor poster
9.0

A little circus pawn and his trainer are sent to an unknown planet where, protected with his powerful shield, he fights robots.

The shield of the condor

1989

Cuando yo te vuelva a ver poster
NR

Thirty years after living in Spain, Paco returns to Argentina to sponsor the wedding of a friend. Retired and separated from his Spanish wife, he is reunited with his affections. As always, in the last thirty years, Margarita, and retired as a teacher, life creeps forward. In the wedding party, best man and Paco Margarita like in charge of catering, intersect again but not found, until he discovers a video of the party. Love truncated by the absence and her refusal to answer his letters, reborn in a search for lost time.

Cuando yo te vuelva a ver

2013

Summer of the Colt poster
8.5

This award-winning film by André Melançon -- set on a ranch on the pampas of Argentina -- tells the story of three children spending a summer with their grandfather. The youngest, Felipe, makes friends with a puppy; his older brother, Daniel, breaks and train his first horse; their 13-year-old sister, Laura, struggles with the transition between childhood and growing up. The kids find it difficult to adapt to their proud and stubborn grandfather, and he learns that he has to change his ways and try to understand them as they all experience the joys and sorrows of growing up and growing old. ~ Alice Duncan, Rovi

Summer of the Colt

1991

Buenos Aires plateada poster
7.0

A television director seeks the support of two old guerrilla comrades, now incorporated, like him, into the squad to broadcast the pilot program of a television series based on his own story, but they, who occupy important positions in the media of communication and the government now has other commitments.

Buenos Aires plateada

2000

Murder in The Senate poster
5.2

Historical film that focuses on political and social events took place in Argentina during the beginning of the 30s. Santafecino Deputy Lisandro de la Torre complaint in Congress Argentine meat business with England.

Murder in The Senate

1984

Canción desesperada poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Canción desesperada

1997

Brain Drain poster
5.7

Fideo and Panta are two teenage rascals and thieves who dream of traveling to "the promised land", the United States. Rambling between good and evil, roc and tango, this is an action story turned romance when the two youngsters fall in love innocently, but face life with extraordinary maturity. Moving between haunting love scenes beneath starry skies and police chases, watch out…while these two might plan to steal your car radio, they will definitely steal your heart.

Brain Drain

1998

Terapias alternativas poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Terapias alternativas

2007

Los dueños del silencio poster
9.0

A Swedish journalist in Buenos Aires is about to reveal the circumstances surrounding the young Swedish-Argentine woman Lena Melin's disappearance. The military junta of Argentina is threatening to deport him.

Los dueños del silencio

1987

Los amores de Laurita poster
4.0

Laurita, a 40-year-old woman, accepts taboos of all kinds. In the search for an identity, she goes from one man to another, from the present to the past, from fantasy to reality. However, there is a tension that grows and grows, until it culminates in a surprise. Her memory goes back to review her loves and the different stages of her life: adolescence, her transgressing role and her fight against her own prejudices.

Los amores de Laurita

1986

Comix, cuentos de amor, de video y de muerte poster
8.0

In the episode "Textual," set in the near future, a man clings to a pornographic video he's found. The episode "Trip" takes place on a space voyage where a device records and reproduces sexual sensations. In the episode "Fade to Black," a house's caretaker, a video enthusiast, obsessively spies on a neighbor.

Comix, cuentos de amor, de video y de muerte

1995

The Arrangement poster
7.1

Luis is a righteous man who begins a struggle and a moral debate with his family, neighbors and close friends when a corrupt municipal official offers a very convenient "arrangement".

The Arrangement

1983