Paulina Gaitán

Acting

Paulina Gaitán

Born 1992-02-19 · Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Paulina Gaitán Ruíz (born 19 February 1992 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal) is a Mexican actress.

Acting credits

Deseo poster
6.5

Eight short stories of seduction and illicit encounters between lovers, filled with humor and eroticism, which use a circular structure located in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of a colonial city of Mexico.

Deseo

2013

Sin Nombre poster
7.6

Sayra, a Native Honduran teenager, hungers for a better life. Her chance for one comes when she is reunited with her long-estranged father, who intends to emigrate to Mexico and then enter the United States. Sayra's life collides with a pair of Indigenous Mexican and Mestizo-Mexican gangmembers who have boarded the same USA-bound train.

Sin Nombre

2009

Night Shift poster
6.4

A young nurse with a domestic abuse past starts working the night shift at a small hospital, where, during the night, the ghost of a nurse materializes.

Night Shift

2024

Innocent Voices poster
8.2

A young boy, attempting to have a normal childhood in 1980s El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life when he desperately tries to avoid the war that is raging all around him.

Innocent Voices

2005

Trade poster
7.0

A Texas cop, whose own daughter might have been forced into sexual slavery, joins forces with a Mexican youth to find the boy's sister, who was abducted and forced into prostitution. Meanwhile, a Polish woman who was promised a better life in America also becomes a victim.

Trade

2007

Crossing Point poster
5.1

A young American couple in love, Michael and Olivia vacation in Baja, but things take a frightening turn when Olivia is kidnapped by drug dealer, who demands that Michael smuggle a backpack full of cocaine-stolen from a rival cartel-over the border into the U.S. within twelve hours or else Olivia will be killed. A good Tijuana Cop is on the trail, as Michael navigates the treacherous underworld of Mexico, and he himself becomes a force to be reckoned with...

Crossing Point

2016

Las Aparicio poster
5.8

Three generations of women who share a strange family tradition: all widowed in extraordinary circumstances; all give birth only to girls. This is the film based on the television series.

Las Aparicio

2016

Souvenir poster
6.3

The enigmatic Isabel decides to rent her belly to give birth to the baby of Sara and Joaquin, a possessive couple obsessed with the idea of starting a family.

Souvenir

2021

4 Moons poster
7.2

Four interwoven stories about love and self-acceptance: An eleven year-old boy struggles to keep secret the attraction he feels towards his male cousin. Two former childhood friends reunite and start a relationship that gets complicated due to one of them’s fear of getting caught. A gay long lasting relationship is in jeopardy when a third man comes along. An old family man is obsessed with a young male prostitute and tries to raise the money to afford the experience.

4 Moons

2014

The Good Girls poster
6.5

Sofía, a well-to-do socialite and her husband must wrestle with the impact of Mexico's 1982 economic crisis.

The Good Girls

2019

City of Dreams poster
6.4

A Mexican teenager whose dreams of becoming a soccer star are disrupted when his mother dies. He's smuggled across the border with the promise of a better life but is instead sold to a sweatshop in downtown LA.

City of Dreams

2024

Days of Grace poster
6.6

Mexico City. 2002, 2006, 2010. A cop. A hostage. A wife. Corruption, violence, vengeance. Three destinies, during 30 days, during three Soccer World Cups. Three ways to fight in order to survive.

Days of Grace

2012

Cielo poster
5.0

Gabriel is a young man with a normal life until the tragic death of his mother. Constant fights with his sister and being abandoned by his brother lead him to run away. When everything seems lost, he meets a king young girl named Cielo. They both face hardships including her Brother, "Gato," who forces Gabriel into a life of crime. His life on the streets is much harder and more dangerous than he imagined.

Cielo

2007

Close Quarters poster
5.7

Manuel and Lupe want to have a baby. When Manuel discovers he is infertile, he starts to fall apart both physically and emotionally. After exploring several options, Manuel turns to Rubén, his new friend, to act as their donor.

Close Quarters

2019

Ruta Madre poster
4.8

After his first love breaks his heart, a young American singer reluctantly leaves his home in San Diego, California and embarks on an epic road trip through Baja with his uncle in order to reconnect with his Mexican roots and find himself.

Ruta Madre

2019

Tequila Re-Pasado poster
7.2

A workaholic must outwit his multiplying clones after a magical tequila travels him back in time – again and again – in order to make things right with his family.

Tequila Re-Pasado

2023

Insignificant Things poster
5.4

Esmeralda is a teenager with an unusual obsession: she collects lost, forgotten or discarded objects from people she doesn't know and keeps them in a box beneath her bed. This is the tale of three objects in the box and the people behind them, all in some way incapable of relating to the person they love most. It is also a tale of the box itself, and of how Esmeralda learns to open it, to feel and to hoard the most valuable thing of all: human relations.

Insignificant Things

2008

Son of Monarchs poster
5.5

A Mexican biologist living in New York returns to his hometown, nestled in the majestic butterfly forests of Michoacán. The journey forces him to confront past traumas and reflect on his hybrid identity, sparking a personal metamorphosis.

Son of Monarchs

2021

The Walls Talk poster
3.0

A tragic and epic love that transcends time and generations unites Maria and Javier forever. During important periods in Mexico (The War of Independence, the Revolution and current times) these souls play out their destiny facing political squabbles, social pressures, family hatred and historical battles, seeking to make a relationship flower which seems fated to die.

The Walls Talk

2012

We Are What We Are poster
6.0

After the death of a patriarch, a family must try to continue on with a disturbing, ritualistic tradition.

We Are What We Are

2010

The Zebra poster
5.2

During the Mexican Revolution, Leandro and Odón, two war vultures, find a zebra. They mistakenly believe this to be an American horse and thus begin a journey in search of General Obregón, who they assume, will appoint them as colonels given their peculiar beast of burden. They partake in several adventures during their journey.

The Zebra

2011

Los Kokainos poster
5.0

Tania wants to be a journalist and write about how bad people live under the current government. This is how she gets to know the hell of drugs and gangs.

Los Kokainos

2012

Animales en peligro poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Animales en peligro

2004

Half of the World poster
5.5

The story is about a young man suffering mental retardation and sexual awakening, poet is charismatic and has the ability to pay attention to those little insignificant details of everyday life. His new status as a lover will bring popularity and with it problems will expose prejudice and false morality of a blinded people to wash their sins charged with the death of the less guilty.

Half of the World

2011