Fran Araújo (Writer)
Little is known about Fran Araújo, a figure with a modest footprint in Writer. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
The Pier
High-profile architect Alexandra faces her worst nightmare when she gets a call from local cop Conrado to identify her husband Oscar's body, found on a pier in the beautiful Albufera landscape outside Valencia. Suicide? How can it be when they had made plans for their future just hours ago? But it only gets worse: Oscar had been leading a double-life with another woman, Veronica. Who is this woman? Who was the man she loved for 15 years? And what happened that fatal night on the pier?
Release Date2019-01-18
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count16
Vote Count107
The Zone
The disastrous meltdown of a nuclear power plant in Northern Spain created a contaminated no-go zone and left the nearby provincial city and inhabitants in a state of shock and mourning. Three years later, while the city prepares for the commemoration ceremony, a mutilated body is found in a warehouse. Police inspector Hector Uria's search for the murderer takes him deep into the no-go zone and into his own past.
Release Date2017-10-27
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count8
Vote Count32
Se tiene que morir mucha gente
Release Date2026-05-21
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count6
Vote Count27
Sirāt
A man and his son arrive at a rave lost in the mountains of Morocco. They are looking for Marina, their daughter and sister, who disappeared months ago at another rave. Driven by fate, they decide to follow a group of ravers in search of one last party, in hopes Marina will be there.
Release Date2025-06-06
DepartmentProduction
JobAssociate Producer
Vote Count705
Arde Madrid
Madrid, 1961. Ana Mari is single, lame, Francoist and instructor of the Sección Femenina. By order of the dictator Franco, she must go to work as a maid to Ava Gardner's house and spy on her, pretending to be married to Manolo, a hustler who will become the driver of the American actress.
Release Date2018-11-08
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count8
Vote Count49
La canción
Spain, 1968, an ambitious television executive is tasked with winning the Eurovision Song Contest. Massiel's catchy "La La La" triumphs with an iconic performance. This is the story behind that unexpected victory.
Release Date2025-05-08
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
Vote Count10
Rapa
When high school teacher Tomás finds the bloodied, dying mayoress of his hometown high up on his local cliffs, he not only becomes obsessed with the case but turns into its first suspect. Though solving the case is local cop Maite's job, Tomás doesn't care if his own private investigation gets in her way. Solving the case might just give Tomás' life the purpose he has been silently dreaming of for so long. Though clashing more than once, the two of them come close as can be to finding the murderer: Norma, Tomas' very own physiotherapist. She killed the mayoress in a fit of rage after finding out one of her many dark secrets - one that lies many years behind but one that has deeply affected her and her family. A twist of fate has it, however, that Norma remains undiscovered; her former fear and powerlessness turn to empowerment and confidence. Then a second murder stirs up the waters. Now an unlikely team, Maite and Tomás resume the hunt for a murderer who is closer than they imagine.
Release Date2022-05-19
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count18
Vote Count38
Little Faith
A comedy of manners that follows the daily miseries and constant micro-humiliations suffered by José Ramón and Berta, a married couple in whom no one, not even they themselves, has much faith.
Release Date2023-07-04
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count12
Vote Count33
La Bola Negra
Set across three timelines — Republican Spain in 1932, the Civil War in 1937, and contemporary Spain in 2017 — the film follows a constellation of interconnected lives centered on three young men, whose emotional and political echoes gradually reveal themselves.
Release Date2026-09-25
DepartmentProduction
JobAssociate Producer
Hierro
In El Hierro, the most remote island of the Canary Archipelago, a murder has occurred. Candela, an experienced judge with a strong character, must instruct the case as she takes up her position in a destination where she doesn't fit in. The island, an abrupt and changing landscape, is the home of a small community with singular traditions, where nobody enters or leaves unnoticed and where secrets are hard to keep. The murderer is surely one of the islanders. Everybody believes it is Diaz, a shady local businessman, who seems to fit the bill. But nothing is that easy, neither with Candela, nor with Diaz. They are both out to find the murderer. She is out to do her job to the best of her ability; he is out to prove his innocence.
Release Date2019-06-07
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count95
What the Future Holds
In 1966, Justo Gil arrives in Barcelona as a migrant with the purpose of gaining enough money to give his sick mother the best care. His great charisma allows him to socialize with the youngsters of the upper-class, until an unexpected turn of events makes him become an informer of the political police, in order to pursue communist cells.
Release Date2018-06-22
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count6
Vote Count26
The New Years
Óscar turns thirty on New Year's Eve with his life almost solved. Ana turns thirty on New Year's Day with her life still unresolved. They meet, fall in love, and begin a relationship that will last ten years.
Release Date2024-11-28
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count10
Vote Count68
Sundays
17-year-old Ainara is a student at a Catholic secondary school, and is about to take her final year exams and choose her future university course. To everyone’s surprise, this brilliant young girl announces to her family that she wants to take part in an induction period at a convent in order to embrace the religious life. Nobody was expecting this. While her father seems to be won over by his daughter’s aspirations, for Maite, Ainara’s aunt, this unexpected vocation is the manifestation of a deeper problem.
Release Date2025-10-17
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count138
Riot Police
A fictionalised look into the human tragedy of riot police and police brutality in Spain.
Release Date2020-10-16
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count6
Vote Count158
The Invisible Line
The birth of the Basque terrorist gang ETA and its first attack, of which José Antonio Pardines, a Guardia Civil traffic officer, was the victim.
Release Date2020-04-08
DepartmentProduction
JobAssociate Producer
Episode Count6
Vote Count25
Sorry If I Call You Love
A successful, attractive, intelligent and brilliant advertising executive is longing to finally find emotional stability in his life, and decides to propose to his girlfriend. After she refuses his proposal, his life takes a turn when a new young lady enters his life.
Release Date2014-06-20
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count535
The Tigers
Antonio and Estrella are diving siblings. He works in maritime works, she studies underwater life and assists him. Its precarious economy could improve after finding cocaine hidden in the hull of a ship anchored in Huelva.
Release Date2025-10-31
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count93
Offworld
A solar storm hits the Earth, causing a widespread blackout. In this new reality, five stories unfold, focusing on characters who struggle to adapt to a world without electricity, telecommunications or means of transport, where they are forced to face up to their most primal needs, instincts and fears.
Release Date2022-09-29
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
Vote Count36
Marbella
César is a successful lawyer based in Marbella, the mafia capital of the world. Handsome, rich, hedonistic, selfish, ambitious, obsessed with social networks... he knows that to maintain his status he has to be the best in court and the man that everyone knows at the wild Marbella parties, where the numerous criminal groups that do business do business. They operate on the Costa del Sol. César is very clear that, in order not to have problems in life, you have to be friends with everyone and never cross certain lines. But when he least expects it, he discovers that he is in the eye of the hurricane and who needs a lawyer to save him is precisely him.
Release Date2024-05-02
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count6
Vote Count18
Querer
Miren goes to the police station with her lawyer and denounces her husband for continuous rape during a marriage, perfect for everyone who knows them, which has lasted more than 30 years. Her husband claims not to have done anything wrong and feels a victim, outraged and wronged. Their eldest son decides to support his father because he himself is afraid of having crossed that line. Their youngest son decides to support his mother because he has also felt that invisible violence.
Release Date2024-10-17
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count4
Vote Count32
Between Two Waters
Isra and Cheito are two brothers who have taken very different paths in life. When Isra gets released from prison and Cheito comes home after a long tour with the Marines, they both return to the island of San Fernando. The reunion of the two brothers will bring with it the memory of the violent death their father suffered when they were just boys; the need to get back on track with their lives and finally come to terms with what happened will bring them together again.
Release Date2018-11-30
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count24
The Beloved
The acclaimed film director Esteban Martínez is a legend both for his films and for his past marked by violence and excess. For his new project, he offers his daughter Emilia a role under the pretext of helping her with her stalled acting career. Living together on set will foster a closeness they haven’t shared for years, but it will also reopen old wounds that never healed.
Release Date2026-05-16
DepartmentProduction
JobAssociate Producer
Vote Count38
The Messiah
The viral video of a Christian pop group made up of several sisters has an enormous effect on the life of Enric, a man tormented by a childhood marked by religious fanaticism and the yoke of a mother with messianic delirium.
Release Date2023-10-11
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count7
Vote Count54
Yakarta
José Ramón Garrido is a former Olympic badminton player who makes a living teaching physical education at a public high school in Vallecas. Divorced and without prospects, Joserra has been drifting for years, but he keeps himself afloat with a daily purpose. Joserra believes he has discovered the diamond that will turn his life around at a school tournament: Mar, a teenage player who could be his ticket to fulfilling his dream of competing in Jakarta, the city where former players like him are respected as stars. Joserra and Mar will have to learn to put up with each other on a journey full of dingy guesthouses, run-down sports centers, and gas stations that takes them through Totana, Ponferrada, Torrelavega, and Tardajos before they reach the Indonesian capital. That is, if they ever get there.
Release Date2025-11-06
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count6
Vote Count12
The Other Side
Nacho Nieto, a journalist specialising in paranormal activity, is at a professional and personal low. After a failed suicide attempt he comes back to life accompanied by the ghost of his mentor, doctor Estrada, iconic communicator of mystery, who died more than 20 years ago.
Release Date2023-11-23
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count12
Vote Count23
Fácil
Release Date2022-12-01
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count5
Vote Count6
The Anatomy of a Moment
Madrid, Spain, February 23, 1981. A group of Civil Guards storm into the Congress of Deputies and terrorize those present by firing shots into the air. Only three men remain unmoved: Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez; Vice President Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado; and Santiago Carrillo, leader of the Communist Party.
Release Date2025-11-20
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count4
Vote Count27
Until My Voice Breaks
With the chasms that doing so entails, Leiva personally paints a raw and unpretentious portrait of the frenetic spiral of his existence today, giving us an unwonted glimpse of his life at the height of his career. An irreversible vocal cord issue constantly challenges the present and future of a Leiva incapable of conceiving any option other than to keep going. Until his voice gives out.
Release Date2025-10-17
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
Equilibrio
On the day of the blackout, Alicia prepares for the inevitable as she heads to her parents' country house. When the power goes out, she discovers she is not alone: some farmhands are stranded on the estate. Forced to live together, the group learns to organize themselves in order to survive.
Release Date2022-09-30
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count2
Me Sometimes Always
A pregnant woman navigates life as a single mom in Barcelona, facing ups and downs as she raises her toddler son in the vibrant Spanish city.
Release Date2026-04-23
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count6
Vote Count3
Flight 8714: Take Off to Disaster
A dramatic re-creation of a 2008 airplane crash in Madrid that killed 154 people.
Release Date2010-09-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count2
Todo lo necesario
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count3
One Year, One Night
Ramón and Céline are a young couple that attended a concert at the Bataclan theatre in Paris on the fateful night of November 13, 2015. They survive the attack, but when they leave the theatre, they are no longer the same. That night leaves a deep scar on both their lives and each tries to cope.
Release Date2022-10-21
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count49
Hassan's Way
The first work by Fran Araujo and Ernesto de Nova describes the odyssey of Hassan, a Moroccan immigrant who can no longer find work in Spain after thirteen years in the country and decides to go home. He puts all his savings into a second-hand tractor to secure a living in Morocco and sets out to drive it back. When he came to Spain he had nothing, now he's returning with his only belonging: el Rayo.
Release Date2014-03-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Ardora
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count5
Safe Passage
In the present, in Spain, Miguel's mind, affected by a brain disease, seems cloistered in the past, in Argentina, in the seventies, when he risked his life for his ideals. He is obsessed with finding a woman named Diana. Mario, his son, who has been away from Miguel for a long time, now feels compelled to unravel the mystery of a name that, like a curse, pursues his father.
Release Date2015-04-08
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count14
Five Minutes More
An on-the-rocks couple retreat to a secluded countryside home for the weekend in an effort to repair their marriage. They're greeted by the singular head of the real estate agency who shows them around the place and hands over the keys. Just before he leaves, however, the entire world slips into a time loop, and the last five minutes begin to repeat endlessly.
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Confrontación
After a blackout paralyzes the country, the residents of a small town manage to organize themselves in order to survive. However, their fragile peace is threatened by a group of feral children. For the teenagers, who have been locked up with their parents for some time, their presence is a problem.
Release Date2022-09-30
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count2
Emergencia
A few weeks after the blackout, hospital staff face a dramatic reality: without equipment and with few medicines, doctors struggle to save as many lives as possible. When supplies run out, Eva, the director, realizes that the blackout will last for months and that the hospital will have to adapt to survive, facing tough decisions.
Release Date2022-09-29
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count2
Negación
While managing a train accident, Madrid's Civil Protection team is warned of a possible solar storm. Ernesto, a mid-level manager, is the only one convinced that immediate action is needed. When the storm hits, the consequences are devastating and arrive sooner than expected.
Release Date2022-09-30
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count2