Ariel Caldarelli

Acting

Ariel Caldarelli

Born 1959-01-04 · Montevideo, Uruguay

Ariel Caldarelli (Montevideo, 1959) is a Uruguayan actor, theater director, teacher, musician and writer. He began his training in 1982 at the Municipal School of Dramatic Art. In 1993 he wrote the film Pepita the Holster, and he has performed in several other films, including In This Tricky Life (2001), Giant (2009), and The Silence of the Sky (2016).

Acting credits

Quedamos Así poster
NR

Drawn by the promise of new love, Teresa travels a long way to meet Enrique, a man she met online. As the night unfolds, she begins to realize he’s not quite what she expected.

Quedamos Así

2025

Giant poster
6.5

A chronicle of a supermarket security guard's obsession with a late-shift janitor.

Giant

2009

The Silence of the Sky poster
6.4

After being a victim of rape within their own home, Diana chooses to keep the trauma secret. Mario, her husband, also has something to hide. The silence takes the couple's account over the day turns gradually into a peculiar form of violence.

The Silence of the Sky

2016

Call for a postman poster
10.0

Victim of a psychopathological setback after an accident, the wife of a postman has no other interest than reading the mail that her husband has to deliver. With his behavior, he manages to intervene in the lives of those who write those letters, which causes unforeseen consequences. A kind of disturbing psychological thriller

Call for a postman

1999

Dulce Violencia (aka Sweet Violence) poster
NR

A family plans to murder their daughter’s killer after he is released from a twenty-year prison sentence. Still pleading innocence, the ex-convict tries to rebuild his life until the ghosts of the past return to haunt him

Dulce Violencia (aka Sweet Violence)

2026

Manhunt: Bloody Tango poster
5.3

LKA-Zielfahnderin Hanna Landauer and her new colleague Röwer travel to Montevideo to find the couple Tezlaff. They once kidnapped an industrialist and extorted a 10 million ransom. The money has since disappeared, alongside a third unknown hostage taker.

Manhunt: Bloody Tango

2019

In This Tricky Life poster
5.4

Montevideo, Uruguay. In this comedic drama, Elisa, 27, dreams of opening her own hairdressing salon in one of the rich districts of the Uruguayan capital. A bit of a rebel, one day Elisa moves out of her mother's house with her two children and breaks up with Garcia, her boss and lover who has infuriated her by not wanting to get married. So, in the space of twenty-four hours, Elisa finds herself without a roof over her head, without a man, without a job and without money. Her best friend Loulou finds her a job - in the brothel run by Dona Jacqueline. And without really being aware of it, Elisa slides into prostitution, which leads her to Barcelona. She falls in love, she is exploited, she gets involved in transvestite gang wars, and meanwhile just dreams of earning enough money for her little beauty salon back home.

In This Tricky Life

2001

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NR

Silvio Bertolini can't collect his pension because he's presumed dead. Entangled in Montevideo's bureaucratic system, he'll do everything he can to prove he's alive.

When I exist

The Life Jacket Is Under Your Seat poster
9.0

The vicissitudes of a musician fresh from prison that seeks to resume playing music with his band, the Chevrolés, whose members are scattered around the city, earning a living wage through various activities.

The Life Jacket Is Under Your Seat

2002

Behind the camera