Francesc Orella

Francesc Orella

Born: June 11, 1957
in Barcelona, Spain

Movies for Francesc Orella...

Al otro barrio
Title: Al otro barrio
Released: December 5, 2024
Type: Movie
Trying to deceive the Treasury has been a very tempting option for Andrés (Quim Gutiérrez), but he didn't count on them ending up getting caught. And that is exactly what has happened to him. In addition to the million-dollar fine that has fallen on him, he must now move his offices to the Los Caños neighborhood, in the most marginal suburb of the capital, or so it seems to him. But Andrés was taking advantage of a juicy subsidy for having his headquarters there, without him having ever set foot in the neighborhood. Reluctantly, he and his employees move to Los Caños and that is not as bad as they expected... It is worse.
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Title: The Asunta Case
Character: Juanjo
Released: April 26, 2024
Type: TV
After two parents report that their 12-year-old daughter Asunta is missing, the investigation soon turns against them.
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Checkmates
Title: Checkmates
Released: April 12, 2024
Type: Movie
Candela, the headmistress of an elite school, after a traumatic divorce, returns to her old high school to lead a group of rebellious students through chess. There she will learn that in chess, and in life, it doesn't matter if you are a king or a pawn, because everyone ends up in the same box.
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Teoria dels cossos
Title: Teoria dels cossos
Released: December 1, 2023
Type: Movie
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Bye Bye Boy
Title: Bye Bye Boy
Released: October 27, 2023
Type: Movie
Following his parents' divorce, Enzo goes to the village to spend the weekend with his mother. The house has to be emptied and sold, as Chantal can no longer afford it. A weekend to reconnect with their past and pack up all the memories they want to keep. The time they share, after a long period without living together, will demonstrate its passing. The suffocation caused by a slavish nostalgia and a change of pattern in their mother-son relationship. Old age, sexuality and empty nest syndrome appear at a turning point in their lives that will mark the direction of the road they have to travel together.
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Title: Santa Evita
Character: Dr. Pedro Ara
Released: July 26, 2022
Type: TV
After Eva Perón’s death in 1952, her corpse is held for three years awaiting the construction of a mausoleum — a resting place that would never be built. In 1955, the military seized control of Argentina and hid Perón’s body from the public, fearing that it would unite the country against them. But they never imagined that in doing so she would become more dangerous in death than she was in life.
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Toscana
Title: Toscana
Character: Ramón
Released: May 27, 2022
Type: Movie
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Title: When You Least Expect It
Character: Luis Fábregas
Released: April 22, 2022
Type: TV
Explore the healing journey of five strangers, each dealing with the loss of a loved one, whose lives intersect in a group therapy session.
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The Good Boss
Title: The Good Boss
Character: Alejandro
Released: October 15, 2021
Type: Movie
Julio Blanco is the proprietor of Básculas Blanco, a Spanish company producing industrial scales in a provincial Spanish town, which awaits the imminent visit from a committee that will decide if they merit a local Business Excellence award: everything has to be perfect when the time comes. Working against the clock, Blanco pulls out all the stops to address and resolve issues with his employees, crossing every imaginable line in the process.
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The Barcelona Vampiress
Title: The Barcelona Vampiress
Character: Salvat
Released: September 28, 2020
Type: Movie
Barcelona, Spain, 1912. The disappearance of a girl from a wealthy family triggers a series of events that will shake the weak foundations of a hypocritical society.
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Title: Inés of My Soul
Character: Pizarro
Released: July 31, 2020
Type: TV
Inés Suárez, a young, humble woman from Extremadura who sets out for the New World to look for her husband, lost on the other side of the Atlantic along with his dreams of glory. Once there, Inés does not find her husband, but she does find the passionate love of Pedro de Valdivia, Francisco Pizarro's Field Master.
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Offering to the Storm
Title: Offering to the Storm
Character: Fermín Montes
Released: July 24, 2020
Type: Movie
Inspector Amaia Salazar confronts the origins of her nightmares as she unfolds the darkest secrets of the Baztan valley. Part 3 in the Baztan Trilogy.
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Title: La unidad
Character: Jesús Jiménez
Released: May 15, 2020
Type: TV
A secret unit of cops is assembled to stop a terrorist band from attacking Spain after their leader is arrested there.
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The Legacy of the Bones
Title: The Legacy of the Bones
Character: Fermín Montés
Released: December 5, 2019
Type: Movie
Inspector Amaia Salazar must return to the Baztan valley in order to solve a series of suicides that seem to follow a similar pattern.
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Title: Merlí. Sapere Aude
Character: Merlí Bergeron Calduch
Released: December 5, 2019
Type: TV
In this drama set at a university, a wayward philosophy student navigate life on campus while seeking guidance from an intriguing new professor.
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L'enigma Verdaguer
Title: L'enigma Verdaguer
Character: Pare Pinyol
Released: September 11, 2019
Type: Movie
Jacint Verdaguer, poet and priest, had an exciting life, lived literary glory and became the most prestigious poet of his time. But circumstances and his indomitable and proud character caused his downfall.
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I Know Nothing About You
Title: I Know Nothing About You
Character: Pare
Released: May 31, 2019
Type: Movie
During an ordinary car ride to a friend's house, father and son share a conversation about their estranged relationship.
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Elisa & Marcela
Title: Elisa & Marcela
Character: Padre Marcela
Released: May 24, 2019
Type: Movie
In 1901, Elisa Sánchez Loriga adopts a male identity in order to marry the woman she loves, Marcela Gracia Ibeas.
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7 Reasons to Run Away (from Society)
Title: 7 Reasons to Run Away (from Society)
Character: Família: El pare
Released: April 5, 2019
Type: Movie
The family, the tenant, the wedding, the businessman, the neighbors, the poor child and the run over. 7 black comedy stories of a dysfunctional society.
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Love Me Not
Title: Love Me Not
Released: January 26, 2019
Type: Movie
A powerful international army assigns a regiment the task of guarding a mysterious man, held in a maximum security prison in the middle of the desert. Soldier Salome, daughter of Commander Antipas, becomes obsessed with him... Eros and Thanatos together reminding us that truth is based on beauty and love.
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Mirage
Title: Mirage
Character: Dr. Fell
Released: November 30, 2018
Type: Movie
During a mysterious thunderstorm, Vera, a young mother, manages to save a life in danger, but her good deed causes a disturbing chain of unexpected consequences.
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Killing God
Title: Killing God
Character: Padre
Released: October 11, 2017
Type: Movie
When Carlos (Eduardo Antuña) invites his father (Boris Ruiz) and his brother (David Pareja) to spend a pleasant New Year in a strange house isolated in the forest with him and his wife Ana (Itziar Castro). But what promised to be a quiet family dinner, suddenly is interrupted by the presence of a peculiar vagabond, dwarf and very bad man, who claims to be God (Emilio Gavira).
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Brava
Title: Brava
Released: July 7, 2017
Type: Movie
Janine works in a bank giving credits to clients to buy houses and receives the offer of a promotion to work in a future branch in China for which she takes Mandarin classes. One night he travels from work to his home on the subway. There is attacked by two young delinquents a very old woman and Janine tries to avoid it. The young follow her and it is then that they steal and attack her sexually. After recovering from the blows and the anguish he gets up and sees his attackers raping a helpless young girl. Janine, instead of taking some initiative to stop them, flees home. From that situation her life is disrupted and her job promotion to China, her consolidated partner and her present as an independent woman become secondary and worthless issues. Janine lives in anguish and tormented by the memory of that traumatic situation. To try to recompose himself, he travels to the countryside to see his father who is a widower and is trying to rebuild his life after the death of his wife.
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The Invisible Guardian
Title: The Invisible Guardian
Character: Fermín Montés
Released: March 3, 2017
Type: Movie
When the naked body of a teenage girl is found on the banks of the River Baztán, it is quickly linked to a similar murder one month before. Soon, rumours are flying in the nearby village of Elizondo. Is this the work of a ritualistic killer or is it the basajaun, the ‘invisible guardian’ of Basque mythology? Inspector Amaia Salazar leads the investigation, taking her back to the heart of the Basque country where she was born, and where she hoped never to return. Shrouded in mist and surrounded by impenetrable forests, it is a place of unresolved conflicts and a terrible secret from Amaia’s childhood that will come back to haunt her. Faced with the superstitions of the village, Amaia must fight the demons of her past to confront the reality of a serial killer on the loose. But as she is drawn deeper into the investigation, she feels the presence of something darker lurking in the shadows…
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The Invisible Guest
Title: The Invisible Guest
Character: Félix Leiva
Released: January 6, 2017
Type: Movie
Barcelona, Spain. Adrián Doria, a young and successful businessman accused of murder, meets one night with Virginia Goodman, an expert interrogation lawyer, in order to devise a defense strategy.
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The Best Option
Title: The Best Option
Character: Antonio
Released: December 2, 2016
Type: Movie
Koto is a restless and impulsive young African, born in a refugee camp. His life in Catalonia among the paddy fields of the Delta passes by with few changes, always under the protection of his foster parents. He has left behind the tough childhood he had in the Saharan refugee camp where he was born. One day life takes a sudden turn: the doctors tell him that he urgently needs a kidney transplant. The best choice as a possible donor would be his biological mother. The sudden arrival of his Saharan family is a shock for Koto, who watches as the life he has been living for the past 10 years falls apart around him. Far removed from the beliefs and customs of his people, the young man must deal with his origins to try to save his own life. The film is based on a real story and played by Koto himself.
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Truman
Title: Truman
Character: Restaurant Actor
Released: September 24, 2015
Type: Movie
Tomás, who lives in Canada, travels to Madrid, Spain, to visit his old friend Julián. Both of them, accompanied by Truman, Julián's faithful dog, will share many surprising and emotional little moments, triggered by the hard situation Julián is going through, for just a few days.
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Title: Merlí
Character: Merlí Bergeron Calduch
Released: September 14, 2015
Type: TV
He’s surly, unorthodox, unapologetically blunt, and he’s about to change your life. Meet the new philosophy teacher, Merlí, who will help his students view the world in a whole new light, both in and out of the classroom.
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Title: Carlos, rey emperador
Character: Adriano VI
Released: September 7, 2015
Type: TV
As the life of Charles of Habsburg is told since his arrival to Spain, it can be seen how the heir to the crowns of Germany, Burgundy, the Netherlands, the Free County, Artois, Nevers and Rethel, of the territories of the Crown of Aragon and its related Italian territories, and of the territories of the Catholic Monarchs in Castile, North Africa and the Americas, matures as a statesman and gets stronger in face of menaces around him and good and bad advice from his counselors.
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Title: The Ministry of Time
Character: Alberto Díaz Bueno
Released: February 24, 2015
Type: TV
A soldier from the 15th century, a university student from the 19th century and a nurse from the present join the secret 'Department of Time', a secret department within the Spanish government with the ability to travel through time. Their mission is prevent changes in history.
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Prim: el asesinato de la calle del Turco
Title: Prim: el asesinato de la calle del Turco
Character: Prim
Released: December 15, 2014
Type: Movie
Madrid, Spain, December 27, 1870. General Juan Prim i Prats, president of the Council of Ministers and Minister of War gets involved in a treacherous ambush, is mortal injured and dies three days later. A mystery, a conspiracy, a murder that was never solved.
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Title: El rey
Character: Carlos Arias Navarro
Released: October 28, 2014
Type: TV
A biographical miniseries of Spain's Juan Carlos I, covering 1948 to 1993.
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Lasa & Zabala
Title: Lasa & Zabala
Character: Enrique Rodríguez Galindo
Released: October 17, 2014
Type: Movie
In October 1983, members of ETA Lasa and Zabala disappear in Bayonne. Twelve years later, their bodies, tortured and buried in quicklime by the GAL (Anti-Terrorist Liberation Groups) are identified. Then begins a process in which the lawyer for the two families (Unax Ugalde) and his assistant try to justice and that the murderers sit on the dock.
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Interior. Familia
Title: Interior. Familia
Released: October 7, 2014
Type: Movie
A couple of loving parents wake up his son in the middle of the night. They must talk about something urgent and horrifying that will change his life forever.
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Falling Star
Title: Falling Star
Character: The Bishop
Released: January 26, 2014
Type: Movie
During a brief rule towards the end of the 19th century, the Italian duke Amadeo of Savoy occupied the Spanish throne. However, confined to the safety of life within the palace walls, the lonely, frustrated king and his servants succumb to playful adventures focused more on pleasure than his duties.
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Title: Mario Conde: los días de gloria
Character: Juan Abelló
Released: July 4, 2013
Type: TV
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Tocant el mar
Title: Tocant el mar
Character: Edu
Released: June 16, 2012
Type: Movie
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The Wild Children
Title: The Wild Children
Character: Àngel
Released: May 25, 2012
Type: Movie
Alex,Gabi and Oki, three teenagers living in a big city, are completely unknown to their parents, to their teachers and for themselves. Their emotional isolation, led to the limit, will have unexpected and terrible consequences that will shake society.
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Radiacions
Title: Radiacions
Released: May 14, 2012
Type: Movie
Thirty years after exile, Francesc Lamban journalist returns to the city where he was born to reunite with an old friend, attorney Ernest Salesa. The event takes place on the beach that saw the end of their relationship, and this fact is not accidental: Salesa has a business at hand transcendental and mysterious and has to convince Lamban to be part of it, at whatever price . While that behave remove ghosts from the past and the terrible memory of a love lost tragically common.
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Frozen Silence
Title: Frozen Silence
Character: Reyes Zarauza
Released: January 20, 2012
Type: Movie
Russian front, winter 1943. Soldier Arturo Andrade and Sergeant Fernando Espinosa are commissioned to investigate a mysterious murder while the Spanish Blue Division of the German Army endures the fierce counterattack of the Red Army.
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Terra baixa
Title: Terra baixa
Character: Sebastià
Released: September 11, 2011
Type: Movie
The film raises the contrast between the plain corrupted (the Low) and uncontaminated mountain (High Land). The protagonist, Manelic, a simple, primitive, Marta wants to marry a girl from the Low Country that until then had been forced to be intimate with his master, Sebastian.
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Title: Alakrana
Character: Patrón
Released: May 25, 2011
Type: TV
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Title: Ermessenda
Character: Ramon Borrell
Released: March 21, 2011
Type: TV
Catalan miniseries.
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A Thousand Fools
Title: A Thousand Fools
Released: January 28, 2011
Type: Movie
Fifteen stories, contemporary and some historical, where humorous, sarcasm and courage passed bills to pain, old age, death and love, but above all with human stupidity, without concessions, watching her face the difficult life balance and human misery.
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Title: Tres días de abril
Released: November 19, 2010
Type: TV
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Julia's Eyes
Title: Julia's Eyes
Character: Inspector Dimas
Released: October 29, 2010
Type: Movie
The story of a woman who is slowly losing her sight whilst trying to investigate the mysterious death of her twin sister.
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Title: Les veus del Pamano
Character: Targa
Released: November 16, 2009
Type: TV
Catalan miniseries.
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Tres dies amb la família
Title: Tres dies amb la família
Character: Toni
Released: June 26, 2009
Type: Movie
Three Days with the Family deals with the relationship between three brothers and one sister, and with their wives and children, whose father has just died. They don't see each other often, and their different opinions about common problems soon become a problem itself.
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The Pianist's Hands
Title: The Pianist's Hands
Released: May 5, 2008
Type: Movie
In the town of Breda, a construction company wants to build a luxury urbanization development in the suburbs. The body of one of the partners appears on one of the newly built houses. A failed pianist, who makes his living killing animals and pets uncomfortable, becomes the prime suspect. To defend itself, hires the detective Ricardo Cupido for that crime exculpe
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Shiver
Title: Shiver
Character: Dimas
Released: February 8, 2008
Type: Movie
Santi, a young high-school student with a serious physical reaction to sunlight, is forced by his health to move with his single mother to a shadowy, isolated village in the mountains of Spain where the inhabitants begin to reveal themselves as strangely xenophobic. When terrible, violent events begin to occur, Santi becomes first a pariah at school and then strongly suspected by the police of hideous murders. Santi himself, however, wonders if he is not the next victim.
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Caravaggio
Title: Caravaggio
Character: Peterzano
Released: July 3, 2007
Type: Movie
The tumultuous and adventurous life of Michelangelo Merisi, controversial artist, called by Fate to become the immortal Caravaggio. A violent genius that will dare to defy the ideal vision of the world imposed by the Renaissance painters. A provoker that scandalized patrons and institutions, raising the altars the outcast figures he knew so well: drunkards, vagrants and prostitutes.
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La silla
Title: La silla
Character: Artista
Released: August 2, 2006
Type: Movie
A man is consumed with the idea of acquiring a chair from a bric-a-brac shop.
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The Good Boy
Title: The Good Boy
Character: Mendiri
Released: November 11, 2005
Type: Movie
The story follows Angel (González), twenty years old and barely employed, a man of few friends and a not too promising boxing career. Angel and his mother scrape out a living in Madrid. Enter Vidal, a professional bank robber and a real charmer, just back from Argentina. A former boxer with past ties to Angel's mother and his deceased father, he offers Angel a way out of his dead-end life. Along the way, Angel will have to decide who he truly wants to be and, more importantly, what he's willing to give up.
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Sleeping luck
Title: Sleeping luck
Character: Miguel Ángel
Released: November 21, 2003
Type: Movie
Amparo, a lawyer working as an advisor in an insurance company in Madrid is grieving over a traumatic event in her past. She will have to react, however, to the world surrounding her when a young man of her acquaintance dies mysteriously while working in a mine. Amparo will take over his case and discover in the process a world of corruption and illegal measures taken by the company that the young man worked for.
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Nudos
Title: Nudos
Character: Mario
Released: March 7, 2003
Type: Movie
Barcelona, 2002. A coffin is carried to the cemetery of Montjuïc in a chariot drawn by horses. The lifeless is Pep Grau, an old fisherman found drowned and subject to his boat by a complicated knot sailor. The Pep voiceover Grau, portrayed with affection and humor the curious characters he met in life, recounts the difficult moments of his childhood during the Civil War, and finally, we are introduced to Lola, the woman of his life , which has a fish stall in the Boqueria Market beautiful and, after the death of Pep, begins receiving anonymous gifts. Silvia, a teenage ambitious and attractive, is the attorney for the insurance company. Mario, her boss and lover, asked to investigate the strange circumstances surrounding the death of the fisherman. Silvia's inquiries aa allow us to know other characters, like the maverick Dr. Cipriano Mera, Pep old comrade, and his son Gabino Mera.
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Smoking Room
Title: Smoking Room
Character: Martínez
Released: April 27, 2002
Type: Movie
The Spanish branch of an American company is obliged to enforce the ban on smoking in their offices. From now on, those who want to smoke during working hours must do so in the street. Ramirez, one of the employees of this small office composed mainly of men, decides to begin collecting signatures against what he considers unfair. What Ramirez intends is to be use an unoccupied office as smoking room
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Clara y Elena
Title: Clara y Elena
Character: Eddy
Released: October 31, 2001
Type: Movie
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Title: Jet Lag
Released: October 2, 2001
Type: TV
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Title: Cuéntame cómo pasó
Character: Helio
Released: September 13, 2001
Type: TV
Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy.
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Mi dulce
Title: Mi dulce
Character: Antonio
Released: May 4, 2001
Type: Movie
Laura is a fifteen-year-old teenager who receives a letter from her mother, of which she had no news a decade ago. Laura decides to try to go to Holland to meet her, in need of answers and alternatives to the hostile environment that surrounds her. For that, he will have to face Angela, his older sister, a young policewoman who, as a child, was forced to take the reins of the family when she was orphaned. Angela will try, by all means, to keep Laura with her and not be alone. Little by little the violence that surrounds him will make him lose control.
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The Journey of Arián
Title: The Journey of Arián
Released: May 4, 2001
Type: Movie
Arián, a young Basque girl, idealistic but naive, joins a ruthless terrorist gang and, hoping to prove her commitment, volunteers to participate in the kidnapping of the daughter of an important businessman.
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Yoyes
Title: Yoyes
Character: Hombre del mechero
Released: March 31, 2000
Type: Movie
Yoyes, the first woman to hold responsibility positions within ETA, returns from exile in Mexico and try to rebuild her life. But her return is not easy.
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To Die (Or Not)
Title: To Die (Or Not)
Character: Víctima
Released: January 18, 2000
Type: Movie
If one person's destiny were altered (in this case, not dying), how might that event change the lives of numerous other people, or in this case, prevent seven others from dying.
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Title: El comisario
Character: Subinspector Telmo Chacón
Released: April 26, 1999
Type: TV
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The Pianist
Title: The Pianist
Character: Quintana
Released: September 13, 1998
Type: Movie
Mario Gas directed this music-themed Spanish drama set in Barcelona of the mid-'80s. When famed composer Lluis Doria (Laurent Terzieff) visits a transvestite club, he learns his lifelong friend Albert Rossell (Serge Reggiani) is the house pianist. A flashback takes the tale four decades into the past where the younger Rossell (Pere Ponce) rejoins Teresa (Paulina Galvez) after having spent years in prison for helping anti-Franco anarchists. The story continues into Paris of the '30s, the period when Doria and Rossell first met, sharing a mutual interest in music and Teresa, before civil war sent them in different directions.
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Subjúdice
Title: Subjúdice
Character: Martí
Released: June 19, 1998
Type: Movie
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La moños
Title: La moños
Character: Ricardo
Released: March 14, 1997
Type: Movie
Barcelona in the 1930's: with extreme makeup and outlandish clothes, "La Moños" (Julieta Serrano) is a mysterious character of Las Ramblas. Pepi, a girl of nine years, is fascinated by this extraordinary woman. Using her imagination, and collecting the stories she has heard, passionate Pepi reconstructs the life of "La Moños".
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Laia, el regal d'aniversari
Title: Laia, el regal d'aniversari
Character: Joan
Released: November 1, 1995
Type: Movie
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Land and Freedom
Title: Land and Freedom
Character: Casado
Released: April 7, 1995
Type: Movie
David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.
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What's It All About
Title: What's It All About
Character: Egotist
Released: March 10, 1995
Type: Movie
Minimalistic frieze fifteen episodes about human behavior (desire, submission, love, jealousy, wisdom, honesty, sincerity, passion, faith, ...) located between two fantastic stories about the will and doubt.
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La teranyina
Title: La teranyina
Character: Obrer
Released: October 30, 1990
Type: Movie
In 1909, the Rigau brothers are the owners of the most important textile factory in Feixes. When Francesc dies, Julià, a dark and ambitious ex-military man, takes over the steamer and confronts everyone to make uniforms for the Spanish army that is fighting the war in Morocco.
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Boom Boom
Title: Boom Boom
Character: Ramón
Released: June 8, 1990
Type: Movie
Sofía, a dentist, and Tristán, owner of a shoe store, live in the same building but have never met or even seen each other. Disenchanted with love, both have sworn never to fall in love again, until they finally meet.
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Warsaw Bridge
Title: Warsaw Bridge
Character: Professor's colleague
Released: March 1, 1990
Type: Movie
A female professor, a writer, and an orchestra conductor--three characters, two couples--attend a grand literary cocktail party. The writer has just won the prize for his book "Warsaw Bridge." The winner answers the journalist's questions one after another, but he is unable to come up with a synthesis of the plot of his book. They will simply have to read it.
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Victòria! 3: El seny i la rauxa
Title: Victòria! 3: El seny i la rauxa
Released: February 3, 1984
Type: Movie
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Victòria! 2: La disbauxa del 17
Title: Victòria! 2: La disbauxa del 17
Released: December 6, 1983
Type: Movie
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Victòria! La gran aventura d'un poble
Title: Victòria! La gran aventura d'un poble
Released: September 9, 1983
Type: Movie
In the middle of the first world war, Barcelona is the center of multiple operations related to war, although Spain is a neutral country.
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Assault at Central Bank
Title: Assault at Central Bank
Released: February 25, 1983
Type: Movie
Film adaptation of a real event that occurred on May 23, 1981, in which a TV broadcaster, director of a major newspaper, and a deputy were involved