Carlos Olalla

Acting

Carlos Olalla

Born

1957-12-12 (68)

Place of birth

Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Known for

Acting

Credits

53 titles

Known for

Cuéntame cómo pasó poster
7.1

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 Spanish Transition to democracy.

Cuéntame cómo pasó

2001

Elite poster
8.0

When three working class kids enroll in the most exclusive school in Spain, the clash between the wealthy and the poor students leads to tragedy.

Elite

2018

La que se avecina poster
8.1

La que se avecina is a Spanish television comedy created by Alberto Caballero, Laura Caballero and Daniel Deorador. The TV-series focusing around the inhabitants of Mirador de Montepinar, a fictional building located on the outskirts of a big city. Both its storylines and cast are heavily based on Aquí no hay quien viva, which ended when Telecinco bought Miramón Mendi, the series production company. The episodes debuted on the Telecinco network, and were later rerun by the same network as well as cable/satellite channels FactoríaDeFicción and Paramount Comedy. The series debuted in 22 April 2007 and became popular thanks to its funny characters, witty script, use of catchphrases and capacity to integrate and poke fun at contemporary issues; the program presents a caustic satire of many of the 'types' found in Spanish society. The name of the show involves wordplay, as "vecina" is the Spanish word for neighbour.

La que se avecina

2007

Paco's Men poster
7.8

Follows police officer Francisco "Paco" Miranda and his men through funny cases.

Paco's Men

2005

Aquí no hay quien viva poster
8.4

A caustic satire of many of the 'types' found in Spanish society.

Aquí no hay quien viva

2003

Three Steps Above Heaven poster
7.7

Babi, a sheltered upper-class girl, and Hache, a reckless rebel obsessed with illegal motorcycle races, fall into a forbidden love that pulls them deeper into passion and risk.

Three Steps Above Heaven

2010

Film credits

2020s · 14 titles

Un hombre de verdad poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Un hombre de verdad

2026

The Redemption poster
6.4

Lucas, a 47-year-old boy, and Antonia, an old woman, live together in an apartment in the center of the city. Their life goes on as usual until an investment fund acquires the building to turn it into tourist apartments. Lucas tries to get the necessary money to avoid the loss of the house, but a wrong decision will change the rest of their lives.

The Redemption

2025

Can't Live Without You poster
5.8

A gay gym teacher wants to be a father and when his boyfriend's sister, a former addict, comes back on the scene there is now a possible solution.

Can't Live Without You

2022

A Moroccan Affair poster
6.0

Follows the Díaz-Aguirre family, whose perfect universe turns upside down after the death of the patriarch, who in his will asks his wife to recover the 'Sardinete', his first fishing boat which is rusting in a Moroccan port.

A Moroccan Affair

2023

The Home poster
4.3

A family struggles to have a worthy home, but circumstances go against them.

The Home

2022

My Heart Goes Boom! poster
6.2

Spain, 1970s. While a cruel dictatorship rules an eternally grey country through fear, violence, repression and censorship, María, a young dancer, dreams of bringing bright colours into her life and the lives of others, as she makes her way towards personal freedom and pursues her crazy dream of becoming a TV star; a very funny journey in which she will be comforted by the pop songs of the incomparable Italian singer and dancer Raffaella Carrà.

My Heart Goes Boom!

2020

Your Mother or Mine: Mothers-in-Law at War poster
4.6

Paco and Regina are going to get married, but they don't know that this will unleash a fight between their mothers to see who decides every detail of the wedding. Carmen, Paco's mother, is an expert in sentimental blackmail to get what she wants. While Catalina, Regina's mother, is an expert in using her contacts to pressure and extort people until her slightest whim is fulfilled. Their struggle unleashes a battle of epic proportions, where nothing will be left standing.

Your Mother or Mine: Mothers-in-Law at War

2024

Someone Who Takes Care of Me poster
7.3

A profoundly feminine drama about the agreements and disagreements between three actresses of different ages united by family ties and separated by generational conflicts, with artistic creation as a backdrop.

Someone Who Takes Care of Me

2023

Solo poster
NR

Fran works tirelessly while taking care of his father and his son, Dani. When Dani is expelled from school, he is overwhelmed. Dani's behaviour is pushing him to the limit and Fran must act so as not to lose him before it's too late.

Solo

2022

Nato 0. El origen del mal poster
5.6

No synopsis available yet.

Nato 0. El origen del mal

2023

The World is Yours poster
4.8

Rafi sneaks into the Marchioness's hunt, which brings together all the Spanish high society, to sell them his business. He and Fali will discover that hunting is not what it seems, and that the future of Spain is being decided on the farm.

The World is Yours

2022

La farola del mar poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La farola del mar

2025

Alba poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Alba

2021

Olvido poster
6.0

After the Turia River overflows its banks, journalist Olvido and police sergeant Fermín investigate the appearance of six bodies with strange scars that point to a dark conspiracy.

Olvido

2023

2010s · 19 titles

Three Steps Above Heaven poster
7.7

Babi, a sheltered upper-class girl, and Hache, a reckless rebel obsessed with illegal motorcycle races, fall into a forbidden love that pulls them deeper into passion and risk.

Three Steps Above Heaven

2010

The Laws of Thermodynamics poster
5.8

Manel, a physicist working on his PhD thesis, accidentally fall in love with Elena, a young model and aspiring actress.

The Laws of Thermodynamics

2018

Magic Journey to Africa poster
4.3

Jana’s magical journey to Africa contains a deep message about friendship, love, passion, nature and imagination. It is a spiritual journey for adults and a magical one for kids, full of mysteries, adventures and discoveries

Magic Journey to Africa

2010

Nothing in Return poster
6.4

One summer, Dario flees the hellish environment of his home. Luismi, unconditional friend, a poor devil with pretensions of winning, and Antonia, an old woman who collects abandoned his motorcar furniture, become his new family. Three generations living together in a city too big to be alone.

Nothing in Return

2015

Paradise War: The Story of Bruno Manser poster
7.1

1984: Searching for an experience that goes deeper than the superficiality of modern civilization, Bruno Manser travels into the jungles of Borneo and finds it with the nomadic Penan tribe. It is an encounter that changes his life forever. When the existence of the Penan is threatened by relentless deforestation, Manser takes up the fight against logging with a courage and determination that makes him one of the most renowned and credible environmentalists of his time. Eventually, it costs him everything. Based on a true story.

Paradise War: The Story of Bruno Manser

2019

Unit 7 poster
6.1

Angel, a young intelligent and kind, aims to be a police inspector. Rafael instead is an expeditious, forceful and arrogant policeman. Meanwhile, Miguel and Mateo are part of Group 7, a group of rogue cops ready to do anything to achieve their goals.

Unit 7

2012

Onyx: Kings of the Grail poster
6.0

Egypt, 11th century. When a famine ravages the country, the prosperous Andalusian kingdom of Denia comes to the aid of the sultan, who, in gratitude, gives Denia the most sought-after and coveted object in all of Christendom.

Onyx: Kings of the Grail

2019

14 d'abril. Macià contra Companys poster
6.0

"14 d'abril. Macià contra Companys "is a television drama, allegedly recorded in 1932, but with the methods, style and own means 2010. With this temporary license, the stars of one of the episodes of the Catalan capital twentieth century discussed the facts, in first person, while a nosy camera helps us to relive what happened in Barcelona between 14 and 17 April 1931, the three-day duration of the Catalan Republic. All with the aim of showing the greatness and the precariousness of a gesture, half improvised by Companys key sovereigntist corrected by Macià, and that led to a shouting match.

14 d'abril. Macià contra Companys

2011

Sicarivs: The Night and the Silence poster
7.2

A hit man receives the assignment to kill a woman. But what seems as another job complicates when he is about to execute her, but does not. He will have to go after those who gave him the contract, for, in his profession, those who do not comply with their duty end up dead. But the question remains, why did he not kill the woman?

Sicarivs: The Night and the Silence

2015

Clara Campoamor, the Neglected Woman poster
7.0

Spain, 1931. Under the Second Republic, women are eligible, but cannot vote. Victoria Kent and Clara Campoamor, the first women in the Spanish Parliament, intend to fight for women's rights, and Clara knows that the first step is to get the women's vote approved…

Clara Campoamor, the Neglected Woman

2011

The World is Theirs poster
5.7

Rafi arrives at Fali's house with his suitcase in tow because his wife has kicked him out of the house. It is not the first time this has happened, although this time everything will be different, since the mess Rafi has gotten himself into this time... He is one of the big ones. Fali would like to help her friend, but she is in a hurry: tomorrow will be her son's First Communion and all she has to do as a father is take the child's suit to the farm where the event will be held. During the next twenty-four hours, and with the clock counting down stalking them, the compadres will manage to get out of various messes to get into new entanglements.

The World is Theirs

2018

Powder poster
7.4

After a ten year absence, El Chato returns to San Ignacio, his hometown, in order to retrieve a shipment of cocaine that was dropped there by a cartel pilot.

Powder

2019

Amigos... poster
5.3

The strong friendship between three friends is to be tested at the moment they learn that an old childhood companion has died and has left them his entire estate. To get it they must participate in a pre-planned wager devised by the deceased. This results in a mad spiral of competitiveness that will make the lives of the protagonists transformed forever.

Amigos...

2011

Like Shooting Stars poster
4.6

An Italian composer in crisis takes a break in Valencia, where he takes a shine to a famous singer.

Like Shooting Stars

2017

What the Eye Doesn't See poster
NR

All families have secrets and lies, and at some point everyone has thought of confessing everything. But when? How? One by one? Suddenly at a family reunion? Today, on Christmas Eve, it doesn't seem to be the best moment. On Christmas Eve you must enjoy yourself, because Santa Claus is coming, because children are there. Tonight, the secrets are whispered and lies are floating in the air. But who cares about another small lie, it will be the last one. Tomorrow, yes, tomorrow we will tell her everything. So, grandma, Merry Christmas.

What the Eye Doesn't See

2012

Concepción Arenal, la visitadora de cárceles poster
8.7

TV Movie about Concepción Arenal in his role as visiting women's prisons. His struggle to change the conception that was on criminals and they had to be modern prisons.

Concepción Arenal, la visitadora de cárceles

2012

Lo posible y lo necesario poster
NR

The life of Marcelino Camacho (1918-2010), a biography intertwined with the Spanish Civil War, the exile in Algeria, the return to Spain, the birth of CCOO, the communist militancy, the fight against the Franco's regime, the struggle for freedom: a walk through the history of the 20th century. The life of a man of his time who, in order to face adversity, always had to choose between what was possible and what was necessary…

Lo posible y lo necesario

2018

Marcelino Camacho: Lo posible y lo necesario poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Marcelino Camacho: Lo posible y lo necesario

2018

Caged poster
4.8

When her newfound friend goes missing – a vicious young female killer unearths a ring of sinister internet snuff films being made in the middle of the Spanish desert.

Caged

2018

2000s · 6 titles

[REC]² poster
6.6

The action continues from [REC], with the medical officer and a SWAT team outfitted with video cameras are sent into the sealed off apartment to control the situation.

[REC]²

2009

The Consul of Sodom poster
5.6

Fascinating journey through the life and work of the prestigious Catalan poet Jaime Gil de Biedma, both marked by sexuality and eroticism. Charismatic and somewhat eccentric, brilliant intellectual with extraordinary sensitivity and member of Barcelona's 'gauche divine' in the 60s, Gil de Biedma liked to describe himself as a 'poet of experience' while he suffered dreadfully from the dichotomy strangling him: bourgeois and executive for a multinational by day, communist and homosexual poet by night.

The Consul of Sodom

2009

My Name Is Juani poster
5.7

A pair of women leave their small town and dud boyfriends behind for fun in Madrid.

My Name Is Juani

2006

El próximo Oriente poster
5.4

Cain is a self-conscious butcher who lives in the Madrid neighborhood of Lavapiés and who envies his brother Abel, his only family, for having achieved everything he does not have. When Cain discovers that Abel has left a neighbor neighbor pregnant, daughter of immigrants from Bangladesh and Muslim religion, decides to pass for the father of the child and take responsibility for what will be his new family.

El próximo Oriente

2006

Family Ties poster
6.0

Virtu and Ramon have tried to get children for a long time without success and Virtu begins to get tired of all the gynecological tests she is forced to go through. Finally, when it turns out that Ramon is sterile, Virtu suggests that they adopt, but Ramon wants a son of his own flesh and blood. As if the situation was not strained enough, Ramon's father appears after several years in prison and once again wants to become part of Ramon's life.

Family Ties

2005

Violetas poster
NR

Emma is 50 years old and twenty who acts corrections officer. Her life revolves around the jail where he works and her home. Without leaving his loneliness, her order and her almost obsessive routine, lives locked in a reality that has been built for she.

Violetas

2008

Series credits

Cuéntame cómo pasó poster
7.1

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 Spanish Transition to democracy.

Cuéntame cómo pasó

2001

Elite poster
8.0

When three working class kids enroll in the most exclusive school in Spain, the clash between the wealthy and the poor students leads to tragedy.

Elite

2018

La que se avecina poster
8.1

La que se avecina is a Spanish television comedy created by Alberto Caballero, Laura Caballero and Daniel Deorador. The TV-series focusing around the inhabitants of Mirador de Montepinar, a fictional building located on the outskirts of a big city. Both its storylines and cast are heavily based on Aquí no hay quien viva, which ended when Telecinco bought Miramón Mendi, the series production company. The episodes debuted on the Telecinco network, and were later rerun by the same network as well as cable/satellite channels FactoríaDeFicción and Paramount Comedy. The series debuted in 22 April 2007 and became popular thanks to its funny characters, witty script, use of catchphrases and capacity to integrate and poke fun at contemporary issues; the program presents a caustic satire of many of the 'types' found in Spanish society. The name of the show involves wordplay, as "vecina" is the Spanish word for neighbour.

La que se avecina

2007

Paco's Men poster
7.8

Follows police officer Francisco "Paco" Miranda and his men through funny cases.

Paco's Men

2005

Aquí no hay quien viva poster
8.4

A caustic satire of many of the 'types' found in Spanish society.

Aquí no hay quien viva

2003

Los Protegidos poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Los Protegidos

2010

The Mallorca Files poster
6.6

Amongst the vibrant international community of the eponymous Spanish island, a British and a German detective with very different approaches to policing have a clash of personalities. Despite - or perhaps because of - their very different approaches, the sleuths form a perfect complementary partnership as they seek to solve a new crime on the island each week.

The Mallorca Files

2019

The Time in Between poster
8.1

Sira Quiroga is a young Spanish dressmaker engaged to a solid suitor when a suave typewriter salesman upends her life. Spain is being upended by a civil war and the new regime's growing alliances with Nazi Germany. Sira, smart, gutsy and resourceful with a Scarlett O'Hara-like ability to whip up designer duds on a moment's notice, Sira has spunk. Sira gains and loses a small fortune, is dumped by her cad of a lover in Morocco, runs guns to get the cash to start her life anew and becomes couturier to the Nazi wives stationed in Madrid. Urged on by her friend, the real-life British spy Rosalinda Fox, Sira, too, aids the British cause.

The Time in Between

2013

The Time in Between poster
8.1

Sira Quiroga is a young Spanish dressmaker engaged to a solid suitor when a suave typewriter salesman upends her life. Spain is being upended by a civil war and the new regime's growing alliances with Nazi Germany. Sira, smart, gutsy and resourceful with a Scarlett O'Hara-like ability to whip up designer duds on a moment's notice, Sira has spunk. Sira gains and loses a small fortune, is dumped by her cad of a lover in Morocco, runs guns to get the cash to start her life anew and becomes couturier to the Nazi wives stationed in Madrid. Urged on by her friend, the real-life British spy Rosalinda Fox, Sira, too, aids the British cause.

The Time in Between

2013

A Different View poster
6.8

Things change massively at a girls' school in 1920s Sevilla when a new teacher arrives with a secret goal related to the academy itself.

A Different View

2018

Círculo rojo poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Círculo rojo

2007

Sira poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sira

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Àngels i Sants poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Àngels i Sants

2006