Juan Pablo Olyslager

Juan Pablo Olyslager

Born: January 1, 1975

Movies for Juan Pablo Olyslager...

Free Dead or Alive
Title: Free Dead or Alive
Character: Father Marco
Released: August 9, 2022
Type: Movie
Set along a dangerous trail to the Mexican border, where every migrant is prey to assault. A proud knife-wielding heroine born into impoverished circumstances must escape a ruthless cartel to find true freedom.
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The Eye and the Wall
Title: The Eye and the Wall
Character: Germán
Released: November 29, 2021
Type: Movie
Condemned to live in scarcity behind a colossal wall that divides Gabhán City in two, Alba is part of a network that distributes medicines and water to the most needy in a clandestine hospital. Her godmother, Lucre, seeks to save her by risking her life in a covert traffic of illegal people to the other side of the wall. Alba refuses to leave her people and the hospital, so Lucre is forced to lie to her in order to convince her and thus embark her on a journey across the border that changes her life forever.
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Cadejo Blanco
Title: Cadejo Blanco
Released: September 12, 2021
Type: Movie
After her sister goes missing, Sarita, a working-class girl from Guatemala City, travels to the seaside town of Puerto Barrios to infiltrate a group of young gang members. As she risks her life to join the gang, Sarita becomes involved with her sister’s dangerous ex-boyfriend and gets closer to learning what happened to her sister.
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La Llorona
Title: La Llorona
Character: Letona
Released: July 25, 2019
Type: Movie
Accused of the genocide of Mayan people, retired general Enrique is trapped in his mansion by massive protests. Abandoned by his staff, the indignant old man and his family must face the devastating truth of his actions and the growing sense that a wrathful supernatural force is targeting them for his crimes.
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Tremors
Title: Tremors
Character: Pablo
Released: February 8, 2019
Type: Movie
A family man torn between the love for his family, the boundaries of religion and the freedom to choose whom to love.
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September
Title: September
Character: Domingo
Released: September 28, 2017
Type: Movie
After a terrorist attack on Guatemala in the 1980's, a small child is left deaf and motherless. Now her father has to step up and take care of her by himself while the fear of inner armed conflict looms over the country.
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El Paletero
Title: El Paletero
Character: Don Toribio
Released: September 15, 2016
Type: Movie
After the tragic death of his mother, Carlos "El Paletero" won't have a choice but to take justice into his own hands. His destination is a far away town. His mission is to recover his mother's ashes. The means in which he will be fulfilling his goal don't matter, what matters is that nothing is left in impunity. El Paletero is a Honduran western that promises justice.
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Where the Sun is Born
Title: Where the Sun is Born
Character: Conquistador
Released: June 16, 2013
Type: Movie
The story of the Maya People through four stories which allude to important moments in the in its history over the course of the last half millennium. The central protagonist in all these stories is a young woman named Maya who witnesses the invasion of her homeland and must run away to survive. Then living a nomadic existence as a refugee across the centuries she experiences the sufferings of her people resulting from the loss of her ancestral lands and increasingly her cultural traditions.
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The Xendra
Title: The Xendra
Character: Carlos
Released: October 12, 2012
Type: Movie
Four scientists live a series of paranormal events. Their only track is a message that would lead them to a place called Ciudad Blanca.
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Toque de Queda
Title: Toque de Queda
Character: Daniel
Released: April 15, 2011
Type: Movie
In Guatemala, violence is contagious. The neighbors of Villas de La Esperanza, in fear of an eventual invasion of those infected by violence, arm themselves and patrol nights, risking their lives for the safety of their families. But battling violence with violence only spreads the contagion, and the neighbors will realise that the greatest danger is not what lurks outside their secure gated community. The real danger lies within. In Guatemala violence is contagious, and we are all infected.
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Snuff Dogs
Title: Snuff Dogs
Released: January 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Over the course of one extraordinary day, the lives of a devious woman, a ruthless screenwriter, a hunky junkie and a snuff-film producer collide in an explosion of sex, violence, intrigue and death in this stylized urban action thriller. Twists and turns accumulate with alarming speed in the fast-paced film, which stars Juan Pablo Olyslager, Mafe Guarin Mcallister, Emanuel Loarca and Robert Rex.
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La Bodega
Title: La Bodega
Character: Tono
Released: August 28, 2010
Type: Movie
A young woman is brutally assaulted by gang members in the middle of Guatemala City. As usual, the authorities have no suspects or leads, leaving the girl to become one more victim in a society where thousands of women are assaulted every year. Jacobo, the victim's brother, along with Antonio, his best friend, decide in their frustration to extract some their kind of revenge.
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V.I.P.: Very Important Prisoners
Title: V.I.P.: Very Important Prisoners
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
Crime - Shot inside of one of Guatemala's most dangerous prisons, with it's inmate population as actors in the film. - Juan Pablo Olyslager, Monica Palmieri, Jorge 'El Pumita' Asturias
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The House Across the Street
Title: The House Across the Street
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
The small coastal town of Roquesas de Mar (village invented by the author) is shocked by the disappearance of one of her neighbors sixteen years of age. When days later found the girl's body, horribly maimed in the back of the house of one of the most famous residents of the village, all Alsina Alvaro suspect as the perpetrator.
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Rita
Title: Rita
Character: Jefe de Policia
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Rita, a 13 year old girl, runs away from her abusive father to the big city. She finds solace until she's placed in a safe house run by the State. Rita and her cellmates plots an escape that ends in a shocking act of violence.
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Mistura
Title: Mistura
Character: José Eyzaguirre
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A prejudiced Franco-Peruvian woman opens a restaurant after her husband leaves her for another woman. Through it, she falls in love with the gastronomic and cultural diversity of Peru during the prosperous but troubled Lima of 1965.
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10 Kilos
Title: 10 Kilos
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Sharon Yitzhaki traveled to Bolivia with a guy she barely knew. She was indicted in an attempt to smuggle 10 kilos of cocaine out of the country and sentenced to serve her time at one of the cruelest women’s prisons in the world. She quickly became a media sensation in Bolivia, had an affair with the head of La Paz’s drug cartel, established a family in prison that included a 7-year-old orphan and an amazing transgender, ran the cartel business in prison to protect her family, became addicted to cocaine and quit to save the loved ones in her life, used a loophole in the law to smuggle herself and her family to Brazil, from there back to Tel Aviv and then wrote a detailed, bestselling autobiography.