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Paulina Gaitán has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Sin Nombre.
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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.
Dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga · With Paulina Gaitán, Edgar Flores, Kristyan Ferrer

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.
Dir. Marco Kreuzpaintner · With Kevin Kline, Cesar Ramos, Paulina Gaitán
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.
Dir. Rigoberto Castañeda · With Paulina Gaitán, Tony Dalton, Patricia Reyes Spíndola
After the death of a patriarch, a family must try to continue on with a disturbing, ritualistic tradition.
Dir. Jorge Michel Grau · With Paulina Gaitán, Francisco Barreiro, Alan Chávez
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.
Dir. Antonio Zavala Kugler · With Edith González, Christian Bach, Paola Nuñez

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.
Dir. Michael R. Perry, Oren Peli · With Bruce Greenwood, Joe Anderson, Leslie Hope