Hugo Catalán

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Mar 22, 1982 (43 years old)

Hugo Catalán

Known For

El amor no tiene receta
0h 50m
TV Show 2024

El amor no tiene receta

Paz Roble, a kind, hard-working and honest woman from whom her husband, Fermín, takes her newborn daughter. Fermín has a large debt with some lenders and to pay it he decides to sell his daughter to Mauro Nicoliti. This plagiarism is orchestrated by Geneva, Mauro's adoptive sister. She lost her first-born daughter in childbirth and does everything to replace her dead daughter and keep her husband's fortune. On the other hand, Esteban Villa de Cortés loses his wife and becomes a widower with his three children. Elvira Moncada, Esteban's mother-in-law, holds him responsible for the death of her daughter. After a series of unexpected events, Esteban and Paz meet in the neighborhood where she lives with her family. The chemistry and great understanding that exists between them makes it inevitable that they will fall in love.

F#Ck1Ng Social Media
0h 38m
TV Show 2023

F#Ck1Ng Social Media

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.

Morenitas: Hannia
1h 32m
Movie 2023

Morenitas: Hannia

A contemporary documentary that highlights and supports the beauty of young Mexican women with indigenous features who face limited opportunities in a country where the dark-skinned majority struggles against the privileges of the white minority. The film explores themes of racism, classism, machismo, discrimination, and cultural heritage, reflecting on Mexico's rich traditions and historical wounds.

The Trace of Your Lips
1h 21m
Movie 2023

The Trace of Your Lips

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.

Tell Me About Yourself
1h 40m
Movie 2022

Tell Me About Yourself

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.

Penélope
1h 26m
Movie 2020

Penélope

Penélope an eleven-year-old girl the daughter of a drug-trafficking mother and a violent stepfather is taken to live with Martin (Hugo Catálan), her biological father, after her mother is sentenced to eight years in prison, Martín who has never seen her before agrees to take custody, at first the relationship is difficult but in a short time Martín and Pénelope establish a bond, but when a gang of criminals kidnaps her father Pénelope launches in search of her father with the help of a 9 mm pistol and Nacho an Uber driver.

The Day Began Yesterday
0h 31m
Movie 2020

The Day Began Yesterday

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.

Fractal
1h 17m
Movie 2020

Fractal

On a gloomy Sunday in Mexico City, three friends in their twenties look for a female friend that disappears at an after-party. As they believe the worse could be happening, and while confronting characters and situations that represent a fraction of the problems of contemporary Mexico, their dreams, concerns and fears come to light.

One Small Problem
1h 35m
Movie 2020

One Small Problem

The love of his life hates kids. So when his 9-year-old daughter suggests she pretend to be his sister... what could go wrong?

Biography

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).