Paulina Gaitán

Acting

Paulina Gaitán

Born

1992-02-19 (34)

Place of birth

Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

53 titles

Paulina Gaitán Ruíz (born 19 February 1992 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal) is an Indigenous Latina American actress. She is of Native Mexican descent.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 9 titles

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

City of Dreams poster
6.6

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

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

Me casé con un idiota poster
7.4

A woman falls in love with a man in a set and eventually gets married, however she realizes she fell in love of the character and wants to leave him, when the man realizes about it, he does everything he can to get her back.

Me casé con un idiota

2022

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

Making It Up poster
7.2

Ana and Rita are flat broke. So when unpredictable Alex offers them a job, they kind of have to say yes -- to the gig and to a big ol' mess.

Making It Up

2023

Donde Corre el Agua poster
NR

Teenage orphan Luca leaves his hometown Chipilo for Mexico City, seeking fortune. There, he meets 24 year old trapeze artist Paulina, who teaches him love and life in the circus.

Donde Corre el Agua

2024

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

La Guadalupana poster
NR

Pray for us sinners...

La Guadalupana

2021

2010s · 19 titles

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

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

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

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

4 Moons poster
7.3

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

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

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

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

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

Te Presento a Laura poster
6.8

This is the story of 23-year-old Laura who lives in the largest city in the world and yet feels alone. She also knows the exact date in which she'll die: April 30. What Laura doesn't know is what she'll do from now till then, and thus she enrolls in a group of optimists, which she finds pathetic but fun. In that group she writes a list of 10 things she wants to do before she dies, some that mean a lot and some that are a lot of fun. The first thing on her list is to save a life.

Te Presento a Laura

2010

Eddie Reynolds and The Iron Angels poster
5.6

They are not wild and crazy anymore, or at least they think so. Now, thanks to an offer nobody can't refuse, they will try to recapture that old rock and roll magic and give themselves a second chance.

Eddie Reynolds and The Iron Angels

2014

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

Close Quarters poster
5.8

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

Las hijas del narco poster
4.2

A middle-class family goes into a crisis after the father’s death. After mourning their father, the family now realizes that life is not easy, especially when they discover what their father real job was.

Las hijas del narco

2016

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

Nowhere poster
NR

Ximena, Gaby and María are stranded on a deserted beach trying to get rid of a mysterious package that they stole the night before. Haunted by their own fear, they go looking for help. Richie, a local boatman, becomes their accomplice. During their journey, their fears and their friendship will be exposed, because they are about to embark on a trip that will take them inside themselves.

Nowhere

2013

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

No artwork available
7.0

In the vicious slums of Colombia, where prosperity is dictated by brutality, a conflicted kid seeks membership in a brutal gang, with the hope of one day having the power to determine his own destiny.

En tus manos

2010

Hermanas poster
NR

Two sisters have been evicted from their home. Older sister Lupe takes responsibility for the move while younger sister Luz is under the spell of her boyfriend.

Hermanas

2013

2000s · 9 titles

Sin Nombre poster
7.6

Sayra, an Indigenous Latina American teenage girl from Honduras, Central America, 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 Latino American gang members from Mexico, North America who have boarded the same USA-bound train.

Sin Nombre

2009

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

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

Never on a Sunday poster
5.8

A middle-class Mexican family is forced to hire the services of a funeral home with a dubious reputation, without imagining the danger that the owner of the business will put them through.

Never on a Sunday

2006

When Things Happen poster
4.2

Sebastian, a renowned orchestra conductor, loses his son in a motorcycle accident for which his wife blames him, leading to the family's disintegration. With the intention to recover his daughter's affection, he takes her to Guanajuato, where he has a presentation. However, the unexpected encounter with a mortally wounded old man, who asks him for help to fulfill his last wish, will involve them in that mysterious murder, starting at that point a battle against their conscience and their own survival... a dangerous race against the clock. A touching story of drama and action, which shows us how a common family can be, when they less expect it, the main players in a surprising and dangerous adventure, for in life anything can change... when things happen.

When Things Happen

2007

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

More Than Anything in the World poster
6.4

Disoriented after moving to a new apartment and left to herself when her mother starts bringing men home, Alicia takes refuge in dreams that soon become nightmares, especially after she begins to fear that her mom has become possessed by the vampirish man next door.

More Than Anything in the World

2007

Animales en peligro poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Animales en peligro

2004

Series credits

Narcos poster
8.1

A gritty chronicle of the war against Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels.

Narcos

2015

The Dead Girls poster
7.4

The story of the Baladro sisters, known as “Las Poquianchis”, who built a brothel empire and became merciless killers in 1960s Mexico.

The Dead Girls

2025

El Presidente poster
7.2

Sergio Jadue, a lowly director of a small-town soccer club in Chile, unexpectedly finds himself at the head of the Chilean soccer association. Drunk with power, he becomes the protégé of soccer godfather Julio Grondona, as well as the FBI’s key to undoing the largest corruption scheme in the world of soccer.

El Presidente

2020

Diablo Guardián poster
6.1

The story of Violetta, a young woman who flees her native Mexico to start anew in New York City. But instead of a living a dream, Violetta is awoken to a harsh reality when she runs out of money, sending her into the arms of the villainous Nefastófeles.

Diablo Guardián

2018

Cóyotl, Hero and Beast poster
7.6

In a small town in northern Mexico, where two drug cartels rule, the young man Lupe embraces his dangerous fate. He transforms into Coyotl, a mythical creature that is half man and half beast. With this transformation, Lupe wants to become the protector his people so desperately need.

Cóyotl, Hero and Beast

2025

Capadocia poster
8.1

Capadocia is a Mexican HBO Latin America television series. It started on March 2, 2008 and its second season was planned for 2010.

Capadocia

2008

The River poster
6.5

Wildlife expert and TV personality Emmet Cole sets course around the world with his wife, Tess, and son, Lincoln, while filming what would become one of the most popular shows in television. After he goes missing deep in the Amazon, his family, friends and crew set out on a mysterious and deadly journey to find him.

The River

2012

El Mochaorejas poster
8.1

The story of Daniel Arizmendi's rise, the corruption and fear that allowed his gang to terrorize Mexico in the 1990s, where he became known as "el mochaorejas" for his shady crimes

El Mochaorejas

2026

F#Ck1Ng Social Media poster
7.8

Amanda, a declining children's content YouTuber, has just turned 30, making her an elder of the internet. After realizing she is not good at anything else, and that attention from strangers is the closest thing she has to love, she will go to great lengths to regain relevance on social media, no matter the cost, and taking down whoever is in her way.

F#Ck1Ng Social Media

2023

Miss Dynamite poster
6.9

The story centers on Valentina Cárdenas, a young woman from high society who, forced by circumstances, will transform into a brave and dangerous woman who learns to defend herself and fight in order to avenge the death of her father, Octavio Cárdenas. In her quest, she will take unexpected risks, all while maintaining a relationship with an attractive businessman, the enigmatic Miguel, who has his own ties to the criminal underworld.

Miss Dynamite

2015

Belascoaran, PI poster
8.0

Héctor Belascoarán leaves his corporate job and dull marriage to become an independent detective and tackle shocking criminal cases in 1970s Mexico City.

Belascoaran, PI

2022

Before I Forget poster
8.6

Pascual León, a retired 65-year-old man, finds out how to give meaning to his last days after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's: to avenge a past crime before his memory loss erases everything that he is.

Before I Forget

2021

The Band poster
NR

Victor confides his intentions to leave the company to Rafael and dies suddenly. Andy, his son, claims the inheritance. Andy is determined to sell the factory. Rafael and Marcela are forced to create a gang to recover the company.

The Band

2026

El Rey del Valle poster
NR

By Gangatv Tv Show

El Rey del Valle

2018

Código implacable poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Código implacable

2022