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Francesc Orella has 10 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 2 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Merlí.
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The Girl in the Fog
2017
Mystery · Thriller

Hide and Seek
2013
Thriller · Mystery

Dark Places
2015
Thriller · Mystery

A Dark Place
2018
Thriller · Mystery

A Walk Among the Tombstones
2014
Crime · Drama

Felony
2014
Mystery · Thriller

All Good Things
2010
Mystery · Thriller

Blood
2012
Drama · Thriller

Julia's Eyes
2010 · Movie · Actor
Top 14%AMC+ · Included

Elisa & Marcela
2019 · Movie · Actor
Top 23%Netflix · Included

The Legacy of the Bones
2019 · Movie · Actor
Top 32%Netflix · Included

The Invisible Guardian
2017 · Movie · Actor
Top 34%Netflix · Included

Offering to the Storm
2020 · Movie · Actor
Top 63%Netflix · Included

The Asunta Case
2024 · Mini · Actor
Top 63%Netflix · Included

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.
Dir. Oriol Paulo · With Mario Casas, Ana Wagener, Jose Coronado

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.
Dir. Héctor Lozano · With Francesc Orella, Carlos Cuevas, David Solans

Julia, 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.
Dir. Guillem Morales · With Belén Rueda, Lluís Homar, Pablo Derqui

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 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.
Dir. Isabel Coixet · With Natalia de Molina, Greta Fernández, Sara Casasnovas

Inspector Amaia Salazar must return to the Baztan valley in order to solve a series of suicides that seem to follow a similar pattern.
Dir. Fernando González Molina · With Marta Etura, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Susi Sánchez

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…
Dir. Fernando González Molina · With Marta Etura, Elvira Mínguez, Francesc Orella
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.
Dir. Isidro Ortiz · With Junio Valverde, Blanca Suárez, Jimmy Barnatán

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.
Dir. Fernando González Molina · With Marta Etura, Carlos Librado "Nene", Leonardo Sbaraglia

After two parents report that their 12-year-old daughter Asunta is missing, the investigation soon turns against them.
Dir. Jon de la Cuesta, Gema R. Neira, Ramón Campos, David Orea · With Candela Peña, Tristán Ulloa, Carlos Blanco
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.
Dir. Nacho G. Velilla · With Alexandra Jiménez, María Adánez, Francesc Orella
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