Arturo Beristáin

Noise (2022)

Julia is a mother, or rather, one of many mothers, sisters, daughters, colleagues, who have had their lives torn apart by the widespread violence in a country waging a war against its women. Julia is searching for Ger, her daughter. And in her search, she ...

Al Morir el Sol (2021)

Love Can't Wait (2019)

Viri owns "Amores", one of the last video stores in Mexico City. She's sad because nobody remembered her birthday. Augustin comes to rent an old movie almost at closing time. While they look for the movie, an employee closes the Video Store thinking it's e ...

I'm Not A Rebel (2017)

Mexico 1968: students are the public enemy. Mitch, a wealthy student of Monterrey, hijacks a plane to retrieve Beatrice, who has been kidnapped by the secret police six months ago. Armed with a gun, which he doesn't know how to use, and helped by his two f ...

Las Armas (2013)

A group of peasants and teachers of education, tired of abuse, take up arms and decide to attack the Madera military barracks; most of them lose their lives. ...

No quiero dormir sola (2012)

Amanda is 33 years old. Her dull life is suddenly altered when she is forced to take care of her old alcoholic grandmother, Dolores, a retired actress who lives on her past glories. Up until now, Amanda has never had much of a relationship with her grandmo ...

Machete Language (2012)

Love and political passion shared between an activist and his punk singer girlfriend goes to extremes as violent repression pushes them over the edge. ...

Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2011)

To celebrate his 90th birthday, an old single journalist, Sabio, wants something special from Rosa Cabarcas's brothel: an intense night of love with a virgin teenager. The madam finds him the ideal young woman, Delgadina, a factory worker, who is selling h ...

File of Attempted Murder (2010)

Tells the story behind an assassination attempt perpetrated in 1897, by a dipsomaniac man, against the President of the Mexican Republic, General Porfirio Diaz. ...

La purísima (2008)

In a provincial town, a man who makes wooden saints goes bankrupt when it is discovered that he also carves erotic figures. ...

La operación pesada (1998)

The Overturning Of The Heart (1996)

1941, Jose Antelmo Cruz regrets his past while writing a novel and falling in love with a prostitute. ...

Íntimo terror (1992)

A woman survived the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, but she still lives with fear about a new earthquake. ...

La chica de la piscina (1987)

A famous television showman is suffering a mental and spiritual crisis. But fortunately three friends who once have all been lovers of his try to help him... ...

Poison for the Fairies (1986)

In 1965 Mexico City, Flavia, a wealthy yet lonely schoolgirl, befriends Veronica, a young orphan girl who has a fascination with witchcraft. Veronica convinces Flavia that she is a real witch and forces her to be her assistant. The children's games gradual ...

Deceitful Appearances (1983)

The sexual misunderstandings caused by the real identity of a rich woman serve Hermosillo to satirize the moral and social hypocrisy of the provincial that every Mexican carries inside. ...

Maria of My Heart (1979)

Héctor and María meet again after eight years of not seeing each other. She works as a magician in cabarets and he robs houses. María convinces Héctor to become a magician and work together. Life seems to smile on them until one day, when Maria travels ...

Crónica íntima (1979)

Mexican feature film ...

El mar (1977)

Local artists mingle with tourists and each other at a Mexican resort. Mingle, mingle. ...

Cuartelazo (1977)

Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten, beginning when General Victoriano Huerta sent to kill President Francisco I. Madero, Vice President José María Pino Suárez and Senator Belisario Dominguez. The f ...

Life Changes (1976)

An unhappy marriage is complicated when hubby starts an affair with his sister-in-law. Darkest before the dawn... ...

Letters from Marusia (1975)

Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most essential rights. A reflection of the historic union struggles in the northern Chile that ended with terrible ...

The Other Virginity (1975)

Two young waitresses, Laura and Eva, become romantically involved with a movie distributor, Adrian, and his friend Luis. ...

The Holy Inquisition (1974)

A plague is spreading through 16th century Mexico, and the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church is rooting out Jews, for they are believed to be its cause. At his father's funeral, a monk observes his family practicing Jewish burial rite, and he report ...

Castle of Purity (1973)

A disciplined and sexually driven man forces his family to stay isolated in their home in order to protect them from the "evil nature" of human beings. ...

The Days of Love (1972)

In the 1920s, Mexico was still in a state of near-chaos. Rebellions and revolutions had followed one after the other for decades. Though things were beginning to settle down some, it was still a time when one had the feeling that anything could happen. ...