Oriol Paulo

Oriol Paulo was born in 1975 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. He is a writer and director. A native of Barcelona, Oriol studied Audiovisual Communications at Pompeu Fabra University before atteding the Los Angeles Film School. Starting out as an editor, Oriol was quick to realize that his real passion lay in writing and directing. THE BODY (El Cuerpo), a noir detective thriller in homage to Hitchcok and Agatha Christie, was his directorial debut. The film opened the Sitges Festival in October 2012, along with being selected for the BFI London Film Festival 2012. Produced by Rodar y Rodar (producers of The Orphanage), it is Oriol’s second writing feature credit after Spanish psychological thriller JULIA'S EYES.

Works

The Innocent

An accidental killing leads a man down a dark hole of intrigue and murder. Just as he finds love and freedom, one phone call brings back the nightmare.

Release Date2021-04-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count8

Vote Count402

The Last Night at Tremore Beach

When a tormented pianist is struck by lightning, he begins having perilous visions of his future and a deadly threat seems to loom over his loved ones.

Release Date2024-10-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count8

Vote Count58

Majoria Absoluta

Majoria Absoluta

Release Date2002-10-18

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Night and Day

Working on a series of harrowing cases, forensic pathologist, Sara Grau, finds the key to a case in which she has unwittingly become a prime target. Sophisticated Spanish crime thriller.

Release Date2016-02-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count13

Vote Count16

The Invisible Guest

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.

Release Date2017-01-06

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count4689

Badla

A dynamic young entrepreneur finds herself locked in a hotel room with the corpse of her dead lover. She hires a prestigious lawyer to defend her and they work together to figure out what actually happened.

Release Date2019-03-08

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Film Writer

Vote Count146

Mirage

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 consequences.

Release Date2018-11-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1845

God's Crooked Lines

Alice Gould, a private investigator, pretends to be mentally ill in order to enter a psychiatric hospital and gather evidence for the case she is working on: the death of a patient in unclear circumstances.

Release Date2022-10-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count735

The Body

A woman’s body disappears mysteriously from the morgue without a trace. Police inspector Jaime Peña investigates the strange occurrence with the help of Álex Ulloa, the widower of the missing woman.

Release Date2012-12-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1308

Julia's Eyes

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.

Release Date2010-08-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count807

The Body

Rich entrepreneur Rebecca Zuin has died from an alleged heart attack, raising suspicions on the part of a police inspector after her body disappears from the morgue. When her handsome young husband becomes a suspect, he starts thinking she may have faked her death to sadistically torment him.

Release Date2024-11-28

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Film Writer

Vote Count59

The Vanished

A detective investigates the disappearance of a woman's corpse from a morgue and tries to uncover the cause of her death.

Release Date2018-03-07

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count83

Dobaaraa

In the 1990s, during a wild thunderstorm night, 12-year-old Anay dies in a road accident shortly after he sees his next-door neighbor committing a crime. Twenty-five years later, in a strange turn of events, on an identical stormy night, Antara finds herself in front of a TV set through which she attempts to save Anay’s life but her good deed causes a disturbing chain of unexpected consequences.

Release Date2022-08-19

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count21

Boy Missing

When her son's alleged kidnapper is released for lack of solid evidence, a reputable and well-known attorney takes matters into her own hands with unintended and spectacularly disastrous consequences.

Release Date2016-08-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count265

The Invisible Witness

Adriano wakes up in a hotel room next to the dead body of his lover, Laura. The door is locked from the inside and there is no evidence of anybody else in the room.

Release Date2018-12-13

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Film Writer

Vote Count331

The Invisible Guest

A greedy police chief learns that a wealthy businesswoman has been wrongly accused of murder and strikes a deal with her – her freedom for a large sum of money. As the case progresses, a revelation that a sadistic politician and the businesswoman have a long standing relationship, the details of which will uncover the truth about the murder.

Release Date2023-12-08

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Film Writer

Vote Count11

Dendam Malam Kelam

Jefri and Sarah are an adulterous couple now desperately trying to create an alibi after the corpse of Sofia, the lawful wife they murdered, mysteriously disappears from the morgue. Arya Pradana, a police investigator, uses all his logic to uncover the truth. Has the corpse come back to life to take revenge on her killers?

Release Date2025-05-28

DepartmentWriting

JobCharacters

Vote Count2

The Body

When the body of a powerful businesswoman goes missing from the morgue, the inspector-in-charge hunts for the truth. When he questions her husband he realizes that there is much more to the case than meets the eye.

Release Date2019-12-13

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Film Writer

Vote Count38

Code 60

Eva, a young police department thefts of the Catalan police and eternal aspiring homicide department, is recruited to catch a serial murderer who is dedicated to killing older women. The young agent, single mother of a six year old, have to combine hunting the murderer with her maternal obligations.

Release Date2012-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count8

Blurr

With progressive blindness setting in, Gayatri has to find answers to her twin sister's unlikely death. As the lines of reality keep getting blurred, is she ready to look the truth in the eye?

Release Date2022-12-09

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count9

Ecos

After the unexpected death of her husband, Alba (Núria Prim), a young woman, tries to rebuild her life with her daughter. However, when they move at their new home, the child dies in the pool. In an attempt to save her daughter, Alba suffers an accident and is unconscious in the hospital for a while. When she awakes, she learns that she has gone deaf and, when she tries to return to her daily live, she discovers that is able to hear conversations from people who are dead.

Release Date2006-06-14

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Adrushya

This is the story of two twin sisters Sayli and Sanika. Suffering from Progressive Blindness, Sayli commits suicide by hanging herself and Sanika comes to Dehradun with her husband to find out the reasons behind it. Despite having a loving husband Lavoon, the incident of her sister's death does not allow Sanika to remain silent. Doctors have predicted the possibility of her becoming blind like Sayli due to excessive stress. Sanika also has to lose her husband while trying to find out the real reason behind Sayli's death. Finally Sanika also has to face blindness. Sanika's eyes are operated after receiving a donor. After that, the game of thriller unfolds in the true sense of mystery.

Release Date2022-05-20

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Film Writer

Vote Count1

The Invisible Guest

Indonesian remake from Spanish film with the same title.

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Film Writer

Antardrishti

A woman with deteriorating eyesight (Rituparna Sengupta) is haunted by the death of her blind sister (Rituparna Sengupta). The official verdict was suicide, but she is plagued by disorientation and convinced that somebody is lurking in the house.

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Film Writer

Un Paarvayil

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Film Writer

Zeta

Five former Spanish spies, who, decades ago, participated in a secret operation in Colombia, are assassinated at the same time in different parts of the world.

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

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