
Francesc Orella
Actor · b. 1957 · Barcelona, Spain
Francesc Orella i Pinell is a Spanish actor born on 11 June 1957 in Barcelona, Catalonia. He studied acting at the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona and later continued his training at the Herbert Berghof Studio in New York. Active in film, television, theatre and voice acting since the early 1980s, he is especially known for playing philosophy teacher Merlí Bergeron in the television series Merlí. His work also includes El ministerio del tiempo, Los ojos de Julia and The Invisible Guest, and he received the Max Award for Best Actor for An Enemy of the People.
Movies24
Movie8.1DramaMysteryBarcelona, 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.
Movie7.5ThrillerDramaDuring 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.
Movie6.9ComedyDramaJulio 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.
Movie6.7HorrorThrillerJulia, a woman suffering from a degenerative sight disease, finds her blind sister Sara hung in a basement. Despite all signs pointing to suicide, Julia decides to investigate what she intuitively feels is a murder case.
Movie7.0DramaComedyTomás, 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.
Truman
2015 · 405 votes
Movie6.5ThrillerCrimeWhen 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…
Movie6.5CrimeThrillerInspector Amaia Salazar confronts the origins of her nightmares as she unfolds the darkest secrets of the Baztan valley. Part 3 in the Baztan Trilogy.
Movie7.3WarDramaSummer 1936: young unemployed communist David Carr leaves Liverpool to join the fight against fascism in Spain. He joins an international group of Militia-men and women, the POUM (Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista). After being wounded, he goes to Barcelona, where he joins another group of fighters.
Land and Freedom
1995 · 309 votes
Movie6.1HorrorThrillerSanti, 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.
Movie6.6ThrillerCrimeInspector Amaia Salazar must return to the Baztan valley in order to solve a series of suicides that seem to follow a similar pattern.
Movie7.5ComedySubjúdice
1998 · 2 votes
Movie7.3DramaRomanceThe 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 and legal barriers to their relationship, Elisa assumes a male identity, enabling the pair to marry in secret. Their daring act makes them the first recorded same-sex couple to marry in Spain, but their love is tested as they face relentless persecution and sacrifice.
Movie5.9ComedyThe family, the tenant, the wedding, the businessman, the neighbors, the poor child and the run over. 7 black comedy stories of a dysfunctional society.
Movie5.6ComedyRomanceSofía, 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.
Boom boom
1990 · 6 votes
Movie4.0DramaIt 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 travel through unreal landscapes on a journey between life and death, sleep and wakefulness. According to the synopsis, "a tragicomedy with no certainties".
Emergency Exit
2025 · 1 votes
Movie5.7ComedyToscana
2022 · 9 votes
Movie5.1WarMysteryRussian 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.
Movie5.9DramaHistoryBarcelona, 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.
Movie8.0DramaComedyBarcelona, 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.
Nudos
2003 · 2 votes
Movie5.9DramaHistoryDuring 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.
Movie7.0ComedyCandela, 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.
Movie6.2ComedyCheating 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 that’s exactly what happens when a couple of tax inspectors turn up at his company to inform him that he owes the IRS a lot of money.
Movie5.3DramaFamilyClara y Elena
2001 · 3 votes
Movie7.0TV MovieDramaThirty 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.
Radiacions
2012 · 1 votes
Series22
TV7.1ComedyDramaRecounts 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.
Cuéntame cómo pasó
2001 · 59 votes
TV8.6ComedyDramaHe’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.
Merlí
2015 · 1.2K votes
TV7.6DramaAction & AdventureA 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.
TV4.6CrimeEl comisario
1999 · 7 votes
TVTalk ShowAl cotxe!
2017
TV5.8ComedyCris 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 eager to treat them like kids again. It doesn't matter that Cris and Diego are over forty years old, or have a five-year-old daughter, Cloe.
TV6.9DramaAs 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.
Carlos, rey emperador
2015 · 21 votes
TV7.3CrimeDramaAfter two parents report that their 12-year-old daughter Asunta is missing, the investigation soon turns against them.
TV8.2ComedyDramaIn this drama set at a university, a wayward philosophy student navigate life on campus while seeking guidance from an intriguing new professor.
Merlí. Sapere Aude
2019 · 841 votes
TV2.0ComedyJet Lag
2001 · 2 votes
TV8.9DramaIn Barcelona’s Raval neighbourhood, the family-run restaurant “Can Mosques” faces eviction after an investment fund buys the building. The family’s fight to survive escalates, pushing them to cross any and all boundaries.
TV7.8DramaAfter 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.
Santa Evita
2022 · 70 votes
TVDocumentaryRealityEl llop
2022
TV7.1DramaAction & AdventureA secret unit of cops is assembled to stop a terrorist band from attacking Spain after their leader is arrested there.
La unidad
2020 · 43 votes
TVDramaCrimeCrònica negra is a gripping anthology crime series based on the short stories of renowned Spanish author Andreu Martín. Inspired by actual, real-life headlines from the crime and mystery sections of local newspapers, each self-contained episode masterfully blends reality with fiction. The series delves into the shadows of everyday life, reconstructing the unexpected events, psychological motives, and human tragedies behind some of the era's most shocking crimes.
Crònica negra
1988
TV8.3DramaExplore the healing journey of five strangers, each dealing with the loss of a loved one, whose lives intersect in a group therapy session.
TV10.0DramaEstació d'enllaç
1994 · 1 votes
TV6.0DramaA biographical miniseries of Spain's Juan Carlos I, covering 1948 to 1993.
El rey
2014 · 3 votes
TV2.0DramaMario Conde: los días de gloria
2013 · 1 votes
TVDocumentary
TV6.2DramaInés 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.
TVDramaSince he arrived in Sao Felix do Araguaia, in Brazil, the Catalan bishop Pere Casaldàliga fights for the disadvantaged and the indigenous peoples. Casaldàliga must confront the landowners of the region and rethink the role of the Catholic Church.