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Francesc Orella

Born: 11th Jun 1957 Barcelona, Spain
Dept: Acting
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 95
Film: 66 (69%)
Television: 29 (31%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Action & Adventure, Reality, Documentary, Fantasy, Action

Filmography

Todo arde Action, Crime, Thriller
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Ponzano
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Unknown/various (7 ep.)
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In Barcelona’s Raval neighbourhood, the family-run restaurant “Can Mosques” faces eviction after an investment fund buys the building. The famil ... view
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Unknown/various (6 ep.)
2025
It tells how 14 characters travel in a mysterious vehicle that they cannot easily get out of. Along the way, they fabricate about their identity and t ... view
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Terra Alta Crime, Mystery
Dec 2025 (first aired)
It centred on the murder of two prominent businesspeople in Catalonia. ... view
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Unknown/various (6 ep.)
Jan 2025 (first aired)
Cris and Diego just broke up and agree they want to stay friends. But that gets tricky when they move back in with their parents. The grandparents are ... view
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Alberto (8 ep.)
Original title: Al otro barrio
2024
Cheating the tax man was just too tempting for Andrés. Besides, what are the chances of him getting caught? Well, as it turns out, pretty high! And t ... view
Character:
Zamora
Where the pines lament Drama, Crime, Thriller
Original title: Donde se quejan los pinos
2024
A rural community awakens to a crime scene in the middle of the forest. Gradually, a series of previous situations show us the conflicts that occurred ... view
Character:
Ignacio
The Asunta Case Crime, Drama
Apr 2024 (first aired)
After two parents report that their 12-year-old daughter Asunta is missing, the investigation soon turns against them. ... view
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Juanjo (6 ep.)
Checkmates Comedy
Original title: Menudas piezas
2024
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 ... view
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Emilio
2023
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2023
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 ... view
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Santa Evita Drama
Jul 2022 (first aired)
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 b ... view
Character:
Dr. Pedro Ara (7 ep.)
Toscana Comedy
2022
Character:
Ramón
Apr 2022 (first aired)
Explore the healing journey of five strangers, each dealing with the loss of a loved one, whose lives intersect in a group therapy session. ... view
Character:
Luis Fábregas (18 ep.)
El llop Documentary, Reality, Comedy
Jan 2022 (first aired)
Character:
Self - Guest (1 ep.)
The Good Boss Comedy, Drama
Original title: El buen patrón
2021
Julio Blanco is the proprietor of Básculas Blanco, a Spanish company producing industrial scales in a provincial Spanish town, which awaits the immi ... view
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Alejandro
2021
A coming-of-age story set across the lush wine country of both Australia and Spain, a young man explores the nature of father-son relationships and th ... view
Character:
Cosme
The Barcelona Vampiress Drama, History, Thriller
Original title: La vampira de Barcelona
2020
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 hypocr ... view
Character:
Salvat
Jul 2020 (first aired)
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 a ... view
Character:
Pizarro (8 ep.)
Offering to the Storm Crime, Thriller, Mystery
Original title: Ofrenda a la tormenta
2020
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. ... view
Character:
Fermín Montes
La unidad Drama, Action & Adventure
May 2020 (first aired)
A secret unit of cops is assembled to stop a terrorist band from attacking Spain after their leader is arrested there. ... view
Character:
Jesús Jiménez (6 ep.)
The Legacy of the Bones Thriller, Crime, Mystery
Original title: Legado en los huesos
2019
Inspector Amaia Salazar must return to the Baztan valley in order to solve a series of suicides that seem to follow a similar pattern. ... view
Character:
Fermín Montés
Merlí. Sapere Aude Comedy, Drama
Dec 2019 (first aired)
In this drama set at a university, a wayward philosophy student navigate life on campus while seeking guidance from an intriguing new professor. ... view
Character:
Merlí Bergeron Calduch (16 ep.)
L'enigma Verdaguer Drama, TV Movie
2019
Jacint Verdaguer, poet and priest, had an exciting life, lived literary glory and became the most prestigious poet of his time. But circumstances and ... view
Character:
Pare Pinyol
I Know Nothing About You Family, Comedy, Drama
Original title: No sé res de tu
2019
During an ordinary car ride to a friend's house, father and son share a conversation about their estranged relationship. ... view
Character:
Pare
Elisa & Marcela Drama, Romance
Original title: Elisa y Marcela
2019
The film tells the true story of Elisa Sánchez Loriga and Marcela Gracia Ibeas, two women in 1901 Spain who fell deeply in love. To overcome societal ... view
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Padre Marcela
Original title: 7 raons per fugir
2019
The family, the tenant, the wedding, the businessman, the neighbors, the poor child and the run over. 7 black comedy stories of a dysfunctional societ ... view
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Família: El pare
Love Me Not Drama
2019
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. ... view
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Character:
Self - Narrator (voice) (13 ep.)
Mirage Thriller, Drama, Mystery, Fantasy
Original title: Durante la tormenta
2018
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 co ... view
Character:
Dr. Fell
Al cotxe! Talk
Oct 2017 (first aired)
Character:
Self - Interviewee (1 ep.)
Killing God Comedy, Horror
Original title: Matar a Dios
2017
When Carlos invites his father and his brother to spend a pleasant New Year in a strange house isolated in the forest with him and his wife Ana. But w ... view
Character:
Padre
Brava Drama
2017
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 ... view
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The Invisible Guardian Thriller, Crime, Mystery
Original title: El guardián invisible
2017
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, rum ... view
Character:
Fermín Montés
The Invisible Guest Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Original title: Contratiempo
2017
Barcelona, Spain. Adrián Doria, a young and successful businessman accused of murder, meets one night with Virginia Goodman, an expert interrogation ... view
Character:
Félix Leiva
Original title: La millor opció
2016
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 c ... view
Character:
Antonio
Còmics Show Comedy, Reality, Talk
Apr 2016 (first aired)
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
Truman Drama, Comedy
2015
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, w ... view
Character:
Restaurant Actor
Merlí Comedy, Drama
Sep 2015 (first aired)
He’s surly, unorthodox, unapologetically blunt, and he’s about to change your life. Meet the new philosophy teacher, Merlí, who will help his stu ... view
Character:
Merlí Bergeron Calduch (40 ep.)
Sep 2015 (first aired)
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 ... view
Character:
Adriano VI (7 ep.)
The Ministry of Time Drama, Action & Adventure
Feb 2015 (first aired)
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 secre ... view
Character:
Alberto Díaz Bueno (3 ep.)
Prim: el asesinato de la calle del Turco Thriller, History, Drama, TV Movie
2014
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 ... view
Character:
Prim
El rey Drama
Oct 2014 (first aired)
A biographical miniseries of Spain's Juan Carlos I, covering 1948 to 1993. ... view
Character:
Carlos Arias Navarro (3 ep.)
Lasa & Zabala Thriller, Crime
Original title: Lasa y Zabala
2014
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 (A ... view
Character:
Enrique Rodríguez Galindo
2014
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 ... view
Character:
Mar 2014 (first aired)
Since he arrived in Sao Felix do Araguaia, in Brazil, the Catalan bishop Pere Casaldàliga fights for the disadvantaged and the indigenous peoples. Ca ... view
Character:
Dom Aloisio (2 ep.)
Falling Star Drama, History
Original title: Stella cadente
2014
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 ... view
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The Bishop
Jul 2013 (first aired)
Character:
Juan Abelló (2 ep.)
2012
Character:
Edu
Original title: Els Nens Salvatges
2012
Alex,Gabi and Oki, three teenagers living in a big city, are completely unknown to their parents, to their teachers and for themselves. Their emotiona ... view
Character:
Àngel
Radiacions TV Movie, Drama
2012
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 ... view
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Frozen Silence War, Mystery, Drama
Original title: Silencio en la nieve
2012
Russian front, winter 1943. Soldier Arturo Andrade and Sergeant Fernando Espinosa are commissioned to investigate a mysterious murder while the Spanis ... view
Character:
Reyes Zarauza
Terra baixa TV Movie, History, Drama, Romance
2011
The film raises the contrast between the plain corrupted (the Low) and uncontaminated mountain (High Land). The protagonist, Manelic, a simple, primit ... view
Character:
Sebastià
Alakrana Drama
May 2011 (first aired)
Character:
Patrón (2 ep.)
Mar 2011 (first aired)
Catalan miniseries. ... view
Character:
Ramon Borrell (2 ep.)
A Thousand Fools Comedy, Drama
Original title: Mil cretins
2011
Fifteen stories, contemporary and some historical, where humorous, sarcasm and courage passed bills to pain, old age, death and love, but above all wi ... view
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Nov 2010 (first aired)
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Julia's Eyes Horror, Thriller
Original title: Los ojos de Julia
2010
Julia, a woman suffering from a degenerative sight disease, finds her blind sister Sara hung in a basement. Despite all signs pointing to suicide, Jul ... view
Character:
Inspector Dimas
Nov 2009 (first aired)
Catalan miniseries. ... view
Character:
Targa (2 ep.)
2009
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 ... view
Character:
Toni
The Pianist's Hands Thriller, TV Movie
Original title: Las manos del pianista
2008
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 ... view
Character:
Shiver Horror, Thriller
Original title: Eskalofrío
2008
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, ... view
Character:
Dimas
Caravaggio Drama, History
2007
The tumultuous and adventurous life of Michelangelo Merisi, controversial artist, called by Fate to become the immortal Caravaggio. A violent genius t ... view
Character:
Peterzano
La silla Drama
2006
A man is consumed with the idea of acquiring a chair from a bric-a-brac shop. ... view
Character:
Artista
The Good Boy Drama
Original title: Segundo Asalto
2005
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 m ... view
Character:
Mendiri
2005
The life of Fabian, an attractive and famous magistrate, is cut short by some strange circumstances. Since then a series of incidents follow. His appa ... view
Character:
Mauricio
2004
In a particularly hot summer, Sister Consuelo, superior of an order dedicated to caring for the sick, decided to transform the dilapidated hospital in ... view
Character:
Cabo Lastre
Original title: La suerte dormida
2003
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, howev ... view
Character:
Miguel Ángel
Utopia Drama
2003
Adrian (Leonardo Sbaraglia) is a young man who has spent years running away from himself, constantly changing city and work, looking for people to rel ... view
Character:
Padre Ochoa
Nudos Drama, Comedy
2003
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 drown ... view
Character:
Mario
Smoking Room Drama, Comedy
2002
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 worki ... view
Character:
Martínez
Clara y Elena Drama, Family
2001
Character:
Eddy
Jet Lag Comedy
Oct 2001 (first aired)
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Cuéntame cómo pasó Comedy, Drama
Sep 2001 (first aired)
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 Spa ... view
Character:
Helio (7 ep.)
Mi dulce Drama
2001
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 Holla ... view
Character:
Antonio
The Journey of Arián Drama, Thriller
Original title: El viaje de Arián
2001
Arián, a young Basque girl, idealistic but naive, joins a ruthless terrorist gang and, hoping to prove her commitment, volunteers to participate in t ... view
Character:
Yoyes Drama
2000
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 ea ... view
Character:
Hombre del mechero
To Die (Or Not) Drama, Comedy
Original title: Morir
2000
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, preve ... view
Character:
Víctima
El comisario Crime
Apr 1999 (first aired)
Character:
Subinspector Telmo Chacón (53 ep.)
The Pianist Drama
Original title: El pianista
1998
This music-themed drama is set in Barcelona of the mid-'80s. When famed composer Lluis Doria visits a transvestite club, he learns his lifelong friend ... view
Character:
Quintana
Subjúdice Comedy
1998
Character:
Martí
La moños Drama
1997
Barcelona in the 1930's: with extreme makeup and outlandish clothes, "La Moños" (Julieta Serrano) is a mysterious character of Las Ramblas. Pepi, a g ... view
Character:
Ricardo
Character:
Joan
Land and Freedom War, Drama, History
1995
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 coalit ... view
Character:
Casado
What's It All About Drama, Comedy, Romance
Original title: El perquè de tot plegat
1995
Minimalistic frieze fifteen episodes about human behavior (desire, submission, love, jealousy, wisdom, honesty, sincerity, passion, faith, ...) locate ... view
Character:
Egotist
Nov 1994 (first aired)
Character:
Arnau Manovens (49 ep.)
La teranyina Drama, Thriller
1990
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-milita ... view
Character:
Obrer
Boom boom Comedy, Romance
1990
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, ... view
Character:
Ramón
Original title: Pont de Varsòvia
1990
A female professor, a writer, and an orchestra conductor--three characters, two couples--attend a grand literary cocktail party. The writer has just w ... view
Character:
Professor's colleague
Crònica negra Drama, Crime
Oct 1988 (first aired)
Character:
Ulleres fosques (1 ep.)
1984
Character:
1983
Character:
1983
In the middle of the first world war, Barcelona is the center of multiple operations related to war, although Spain is a neutral country. ... view
Character:
Original title: Asalto al Banco Central
1983
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 ... view
Character: