Hugo Catalán

Acting

Hugo Catalán

Born 1982-03-22 · Mexico City, Mexico

Hugo Catalán was born on March 22, 1982 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico as Hugo Emilio Catalán Beltrán. He is an actor and director, known for Lady of Steel (2014), Pusilánime (2018) and Tattoo of Revenge (2018).

Acting credits

The Trace of Your Lips poster
4.7

Román is an actor who works in B-movies and who’s isolated in his apartment as a pandemic keeps the world on edge. Aldo, an indigenous young man, is an essential worker who’s allowed by the authorities to come and go. They live across from each other in an apartment complex. They meet online, and they can talk and even see each other in videocalls, but they can’t meet in person. Eventually, the temptation to break out of their lockdown comes up.

The Trace of Your Lips

2023

The Biggest Fan poster
6.4

Canceled in Hollywood, star Lana Cruz heads to her hometown for a comeback. Enter Polly, her fan-turned-frenemy. Can Lana dodge drama and reclaim her fame?

The Biggest Fan

2025

What We May Become poster
6.0

A male student begins a torrid affair with his female teacher, but she soon realizes that the relationship won't get them anywhere.

What We May Become

2018

Dear Sobriety: You're Killing Me poster
5.3

Raffi, nearly forty and defiant of the system, has cycled through rehab countless times. After being kicked out of the clinic in his fifth attempt to get clean, he is forced to return to the person he despises most: his mother. Two days later, she kicks him out, and Raffi turns to Trino, his last remaining friend, for refuge. When he learns that his high school crush, Inés, is newly divorced, Raffi vows to win her over, even if it means getting a regular job, growing up, and finally taking his recovery seriously.

Dear Sobriety: You're Killing Me

2026

Sex, Shame and Tears 2 poster
6.7

Twenty years have passed since those two apartments in the heart of Mexico City were the battlefield of a war of the sexes between Ana, Carlos, Andrea, Miguel, Tomás and María. All that is left of those apartments are memories and the image of Tomás' dead body at the bottom of the elevator shaft. Their lives have changed, their families have grown and new and unexpected characters have come to unsettle their daily lives and trigger a chain of events that will make them realize that modesty has been replaced by public disclosure; sex is only an app away; but love...love is still something elusive that everyone in today's banal and chaotic world is seeking.

Sex, Shame and Tears 2

2022

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

Fire Within poster
4.2

A lonely and repentant man hides in a lost town until his younger brother finds him to bring him news of his beloved Marta.

Fire Within

2020

I Am Happiness on Earth poster
4.7

Emiliano looks at his life with the eyes of a film director, mixing the objective reality with the processes of the artistic creation. The story he is filming flounders with his daily life, until his world is trapped in the lens of his camera. Confused, always alone and in front of a screen, now become a transfigured reality, but at the same time a measurable, controllable and manipulable one, he listens in loop to a song: one of those songs you sing or repeat as a prayer and forcing you to remember, believe and convince yourself.

I Am Happiness on Earth

2014

Subterránea poster
NR

A lonely trans woman gains popularity in her town due to her clairvoyant powers. These gifts become relevant when their coastal city is besieged by disappearances and mass graves. She must decide in favor of whom to use these powers.

Subterránea

2022

Sincronía poster
5.8

When Arturo is offered a job in another country, he is forced reevaluate his feelings towards Sandra. They'll both have to make a decision between love and their careers.

Sincronía

2009

Colores verdaderos poster
5.0

After spending seven years in jail, Carlos tries to start a quiet new life. However, fate leads him to return to his old occupation: counterfeiting money.

Colores verdaderos

2018

Tattoo of Revenge poster
4.9

After suffering a violent incident, a woman decides to become a vigilante, defending every woman who has suffered from physical or psychological abuse.

Tattoo of Revenge

2018

Velociraptor poster
5.4

During the end of the world, two best friends walk around their city, talking about their sex lives, and one of them reveals they are still a virgin.

Velociraptor

2014

Anyone But Her poster
7.2

A tight-knit group of friends can't live without each other, that is until one of them announces their marriage. In the midst of dealing with this change, they stumble upon the perfect chance to throw a wrench into the wedding preparations.

Anyone But Her

2024

On the Edge poster
5.5

Three flatmates in Mexico City face uncertainties: Lucía who has a great job as an art director for TV commercials is abusing alcohol and cocaine. She risks losing her job, going to prison for assault, and she's woefully in love with a bullfighter who may be two-timing her. Carmen, an artist without income, can be manic - snorting lots of cocaine and hanging out with a gay man and a transvestite. What's her future? Hanna contemplates divorce from Abraham, a wealthy momma's boy, and she's disoriented by feelings of attraction to Sandra, a customer at her jewelry store. Can any of these poor little rich girls sort things out in a world of excess?

On the Edge

2006

You Live for Me poster
4.5

A tale about the fragile lives of four characters during a month of their lives. One of them, Ana, is waiting for a kidney donor.

You Live for Me

2017

Clandestinos poster
5.1

Xabi, a troubled boy, meets Iñaki, a member of the terrorist gang ETA who becomes his mentor and ideological inspiration. Some time later, Xabi is arrested for throwing a Molotov cocktail and confined in a juvenile detention center, where he meets Joel, a Mexican, and Driss, a Moroccan, with whom he manages to flee and reach Madrid with the purpose of finding Iñaki and joining the gang.

Clandestinos

2008

The Day Began Yesterday poster
5.7

Orlando and Saul meet by accident. The first one is a self-confident young man, university gymnast who avoids that his HIV-positive status defines him; while Saul, on the opposite, is insecure and barely understands what having an active sexual life means. The meeting will result in a new way of seeing life, one without fear where sex is an encounter and not a way of getting away from others.

The Day Began Yesterday

2020

Come Into My Life poster
7.5

After a series of romantic and professional disappointments, Eugenia decides to become an influencer in order to put a new spin on her life

Come Into My Life

2024

Spicy Will poster
NR

Will “Partyforever” Harris' wild lifestyle comes to a sudden stop when his millionaire father dies, leaving him with nothing but a 100-year-old Mexican salsa recipe. Broke and desperate, Will has no choice but to change his ways and get a real job. With the help of his former sous chef Eugenio and Eugenio’s beautiful cousin Salma, Will embarks on a delirious adventure. He faces off against the Mexican Hot Sauce Mafia and discovers along the way that the recipe may be the key to truly finding himself.

Spicy Will

The House of Flowers Presents: The Funeral poster
7.0

The de la Mora siblings publicly mourn the death of their mother amid multiple surprises and mishaps at Virginia's funeral.

The House of Flowers Presents: The Funeral

2019

The Hotel poster
4.0

A single mother named Maria unexpectedly inherits an hotel from her deceased father, where she will find the truth about her past while she tries get the business going.

The Hotel

2016

Tell Me About Yourself poster
7.7

Chava, a 17-year-old boy who has a secret admirer, feels more attracted to boys. When leaving his school in a rainy day, Carlos offers him a ride, and so their adventure begins.

Tell Me About Yourself

2022

Sáquenme de aquí poster
NR

Laura, a young woman weary of her mundane routine, persuades her husband, Roberto, to embark on a spontaneous getaway to a picturesque flower town. There, she meets Nacho, a charming flower grower, and forms a bond with him as she begins to uncover the truth behind Roberto’s hidden secrets.

Sáquenme de aquí

2022

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