With Leonardo Sbaraglia, he appeared in "Plata Quemada" (English: "Burnt Money") (2000), an Argentine film directed by Marcelo Piñeyro. Noriega went on to star in another Piñeyro film, "The Method" (Spanish: "El Método" (2005), reuniting with "Plata Quemada" co-star Pablo Echarri. He appeared as Jacinto in "The Devil's Backbone" (2001), a film directed by Guillermo del Toro and produced by Agustín Almodóvar and Pedro Almodóvar, about life in an orphanage in the last months of the Spanish Civil War. The film also stars Marisa Paredes and Federico Luppi.