Juan Pablo Olyslager

Acting

Juan Pablo Olyslager

Born 1975-01-01

Acting credits

Rita poster
5.6

Rita, a 13 year old girl, runs away from her abusive father to the big city. She finds solace until she's placed in a safe house run by the State. Rita and her cellmates plot an escape that ends in a shocking act of violence.

Rita

2024

La Llorona poster
6.4

Accused of the genocide of Mayan people, retired general Enrique is trapped in his mansion by massive protests. Abandoned by his staff, the indignant old man and his family must face the devastating truth of his actions and the growing sense that a wrathful supernatural force is targeting them for his crimes.

La Llorona

2019

Mistura poster
6.8

A prejudiced Franco-Peruvian woman opens a restaurant after her husband leaves her for another woman. Through it, she falls in love with the gastronomic and cultural diversity of Peru during the prosperous but troubled Lima of 1965.

Mistura

2025

Free Dead or Alive poster
5.4

Set along a dangerous trail to the Mexican border, where every migrant is prey to assault. A proud knife-wielding heroine born into impoverished circumstances must escape a ruthless cartel to find true freedom.

Free Dead or Alive

2022

Cadejo Blanco poster
7.0

After her sister goes missing, Sarita, a working-class girl from Guatemala City, travels to the seaside town of Puerto Barrios to infiltrate a group of young gang members. As she risks her life to join the gang, Sarita becomes involved with her sister’s dangerous ex-boyfriend and gets closer to learning what happened to her sister.

Cadejo Blanco

2023

Tremors poster
6.4

A family man torn between the love for his family, the boundaries of religion and the freedom to choose whom to love.

Tremors

2019

10 Kilos poster
4.0

Sharon Yitzhaki traveled to Bolivia with a guy she barely knew. She was indicted in an attempt to smuggle 10 kilos of cocaine out of the country and sentenced to serve her time at one of the cruelest women’s prisons in the world. She quickly became a media sensation in Bolivia, had an affair with the head of La Paz’s drug cartel, established a family in prison that included a 7-year-old orphan and an amazing transgender, ran the cartel business in prison to protect her family, became addicted to cocaine and quit to save the loved ones in her life, used a loophole in the law to smuggle herself and her family to Brazil, from there back to Tel Aviv and then wrote a detailed, bestselling autobiography.

10 Kilos

2025

El Paletero poster
5.3

After the tragic death of his mother, Carlos "El Paletero" won't have a choice but to take justice into his own hands. His destination is a far away town. His mission is to recover his mother's ashes. The means in which he will be fulfilling his goal don't matter, what matters is that nothing is left in impunity. El Paletero is a Honduran western that promises justice.

El Paletero

2016

The Eye and the Wall poster
4.6

Condemned to live in scarcity behind a colossal wall that divides Gabhán City in two, Alba is part of a network that distributes medicines and water to the most needy in a clandestine hospital. Her godmother, Lucre, seeks to save her by risking her life in a covert traffic of illegal people to the other side of the wall. Alba refuses to leave her people and the hospital, so Lucre is forced to lie to her in order to convince her and thus embark her on a journey across the border that changes her life forever.

The Eye and the Wall

2021

September poster
6.8

After a terrorist attack on Guatemala in the 1980's, a small child is left deaf and motherless. Now her father has to step up and take care of her by himself while the fear of inner armed conflict looms over the country.

September

2017

Snuff Dogs poster
NR

Over the course of one extraordinary day, the lives of a devious woman, a ruthless screenwriter, a hunky junkie and a snuff-film producer collide in an explosion of sex, violence, intrigue and death in this stylized urban action thriller. Twists and turns accumulate with alarming speed in the fast-paced film, which stars Juan Pablo Olyslager, Mafe Guarin Mcallister, Emanuel Loarca and Robert Rex.

Snuff Dogs

2011

The Xendra poster
4.9

Four scientists live a series of paranormal events. Their only track is a message that would lead them to a place called Ciudad Blanca.

The Xendra

2012

The House Across the Street poster
6.4

The small coastal town of Roquesas de Mar (village invented by the author) is shocked by the disappearance of one of her neighbors sixteen years of age. When days later found the girl's body, horribly maimed in the back of the house of one of the most famous residents of the village, all Alsina Alvaro suspect as the perpetrator.

The House Across the Street

2004

Where the Sun is Born poster
NR

The story of the Maya People through four stories which allude to important moments in the in its history over the course of the last half millennium. The central protagonist in all these stories is a young woman named Maya who witnesses the invasion of her homeland and must run away to survive. Then living a nomadic existence as a refugee across the centuries she experiences the sufferings of her people resulting from the loss of her ancestral lands and increasingly her cultural traditions.

Where the Sun is Born

2013

Toque de Queda poster
7.0

In Guatemala, violence is contagious. The neighbors of Villas de La Esperanza, in fear of an eventual invasion of those infected by violence, arm themselves and patrol nights, risking their lives for the safety of their families. But battling violence with violence only spreads the contagion, and the neighbors will realise that the greatest danger is not what lurks outside their secure gated community. The real danger lies within. In Guatemala violence is contagious, and we are all infected.

Toque de Queda

2011

V.I.P.: Very Important Prisoners poster
3.3

Follows Juan Ramos, an accountant accused of corruption and murder, as he navigates the brutal politics and survival struggles within the dangerous jail, battling powerful inmates to prove his innocence.

V.I.P.: Very Important Prisoners

2007

Mountains of Fire poster
NR

Two volcanologists visit indigenous communities to warn and evacuate them from the fire mountain range where a new volcano is forming. It’s at this time that they begin to uncover the corruption behind the country and its government, and how these ethnic communities are not a priority for the powers that be.

Mountains of Fire

2026

La Bodega poster
6.0

A young woman is brutally assaulted by gang members in the middle of Guatemala City. As usual, the authorities have no suspects or leads, leaving the girl to become one more victim in a society where thousands of women are assaulted every year. Jacobo, the victim's brother, along with Antonio, his best friend, decide in their frustration to extract some their kind of revenge.

La Bodega

2010