Francesc Orella
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.8947 |
| Birthday | 1957-06-11 |
| Place of Birth | Barcelona, Spain |
| Also Known As | Francesc Orella i Pinell, |
2006
La silla
10/1
A man is consumed with the idea of acquiring a chair from a bric-a-brac shop.
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La silla
2008
Shiver
6.105/105
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,...
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Shiver
2021
The Good Boss
6.934/476
Julio Blanco is the proprietor of Básculas Blanco, a Spanish company producing industrial scales in a provincial Spanish town, which awaits the immin...
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The Good Boss
2012
Frozen Silence
5.115/39
Russian front, winter 1943. Soldier Arturo Andrade and Sergeant Fernando Espinosa are commissioned to investigate a mysterious murder while the Spanis...
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Frozen Silence
2012
The Wild Children
6.139/18
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...
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The Wild Children
2009
Tres dies amb la família
6.4/10
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...
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Tres dies amb la família
2001
Clara y Elena
5.333/3
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Clara y Elena
2024
From Good to the Hood
6.087/23
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 th...
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From Good to the Hood
2002
Smoking Room
5.771/24
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...
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Smoking Room
2008
The Pianist's Hands
0/0
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...
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The Pianist's Hands
2011
Terra baixa
0/0
The film raises the contrast between the plain corrupted (the Low) and uncontaminated mountain (High Land). The protagonist, Manelic, a simple, primit...
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Terra baixa
2012
Radiacions
7/1
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...
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Radiacions
1997
La moños
7.5/2
Barcelona in the 1930's: with extreme makeup and outlandish clothes, "La Moños" (Julieta Serrano) is a mysterious character of Las Ramblas. Pepi, a gi...
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La moños
2024
Checkmates
7/102
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...
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Checkmates
2014
Lasa & Zabala
5.977/22
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...
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Lasa & Zabala
2023
Teoria dels cossos
0/0
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Teoria dels cossos
2023
Bye Bye Boy
0/0
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...
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Bye Bye Boy
2010
Julia's Eyes
6.661/866
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...
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Julia's Eyes
2014
Prim: el asesinato de la calle del Turco
4.9/7
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...
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Prim: el asesinato de la calle del Turco
1983
Assault at Central Bank
6.5/6
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
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Assault at Central Bank
2019
L'enigma Verdaguer
0/0
Jacint Verdaguer, poet and priest, had an exciting life, lived literary glory and became the most prestigious poet of his time. But circumstances and...
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L'enigma Verdaguer
2014
Interior. Familia
6/1
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...
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Interior. Familia
2012
Tocant el mar
0/0
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Tocant el mar
1990
Boom boom
5.583/6
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, bo...
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Boom boom
2005
The Good Boy
5/8
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 mo...
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The Good Boy
2017
The Invisible Guest
8.075/5073
Barcelona, Spain. Adrián Doria, a young and successful businessman accused of murder, meets one night with Virginia Goodman, an expert interrogation l...
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The Invisible Guest
2003
Nudos
10/1
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 drowne...
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Nudos
1995
Land and Freedom
7.336/301
Summer 1936: young unemployed communist David Carr leaves Liverpool to join the fight against fascism in Spain. He joins an international group of Mil...
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Land and Freedom
2017
The Invisible Guardian
6.499/741
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, rumo...
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The Invisible Guardian
2017
Brava
5.286/14
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...
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Brava
2017
Killing God
5.955/89
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...
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Killing God
1998
The Pianist
7.833/6
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...
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The Pianist
1983
Victòria! La gran aventura d'un poble
9/1
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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Victòria! La gran aventura d'un poble
1983
Victòria! 2: La disbauxa del 17
4/3
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Victòria! 2: La disbauxa del 17
1995
Laia, el regal d’aniversari
7.5/2
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Laia, el regal d’aniversari
2003
Sleeping luck
7.167/6
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...
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Sleeping luck
1990
Warsaw Bridge
4.909/11
A female professor, a writer, and an orchestra conductor--three characters, two couples--attend a grand literary cocktail party. The writer has just w...
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Warsaw Bridge
2018
Mirage
7.461/2027
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...
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Mirage
2019
Love Me Not
4.3/10
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....
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Love Me Not
2019
Elisa & Marcela
7.3/405
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...
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Elisa & Marcela
2019
7 Reasons to Run Away (from Society)
5.933/30
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...
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7 Reasons to Run Away (from Society)
2001
Mi dulce
4.333/3
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...
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Mi dulce
2019
The Legacy of the Bones
6.541/469
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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The Legacy of the Bones
1984
Victòria! 3: El seny i la rauxa
10/1
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Victòria! 3: El seny i la rauxa
2020
Offering to the Storm
6.464/351
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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Offering to the Storm
2016
The Best Option
0/0
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...
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The Best Option
2015
Truman
7/401
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...
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Truman
2001
The Journey of Arián
5.4/5
Arián, a young Basque girl, idealistic but naive, joins a ruthless terrorist gang and, hoping to prove her commitment, volunteers to participate in th...
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The Journey of Arián
2000
Yoyes
5.6/15
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...
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Yoyes
2020
The Barcelona Vampiress
5.9/44
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...
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The Barcelona Vampiress
1998
Subjúdice
7.5/2
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Subjúdice
2000
To Die (Or Not)
6.333/3
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...
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To Die (Or Not)
1990
La teranyina
7.8/5
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-militar...
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La teranyina
2014
Falling Star
5.875/16
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...
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Falling Star
2019
I Know Nothing About You
4/1
During an ordinary car ride to a friend's house, father and son share a conversation about their estranged relationship.
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I Know Nothing About You
2007
Caravaggio
5.571/14
The tumultuous and adventurous life of Michelangelo Merisi, controversial artist, called by Fate to become the immortal Caravaggio. A violent genius t...
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Caravaggio
2011
A Thousand Fools
4.2/5
Fifteen stories, contemporary and some historical, where humorous, sarcasm and courage passed bills to pain, old age, death and love, but above all wi...
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A Thousand Fools
1995
What's It All About
5.208/12
Minimalistic frieze fifteen episodes about human behavior (desire, submission, love, jealousy, wisdom, honesty, sincerity, passion, faith, ...) locate...
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What's It All About
2022
Toscana
5.7/9
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Toscana
2005
Mentiras
3.333/3
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...
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Mentiras
2024
Where the pines lament
7/1
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...
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Where the pines lament
2004
El año del diluvio
6/4
In a particularly hot summer, Sister Consuelo, superior of an order dedicated to caring for the sick, decided to transform the dilapidated hospital in...
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El año del diluvio
2025
Emergency Exit
4/1
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...
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Emergency Exit
Todo arde
0/0
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Todo arde
2021
Chasing Wonders
4.7/7
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...
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Chasing Wonders
2003
Utopia
5.708/12
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...
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