Luis Beristáin

The Exterminating Angel (1962)

After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses and façades deteriorate as they are reduced to living like animals. ...

The White Rose (1961)

An international oil company comes into conflict with a Mexican ranch owner who refuses to sell his land, resorting to a devious scheme to try to take over the property. ...

Teresa (1961)

Teresa is a beautiful and intelligent young woman, desperately seeking to leave the grinding poverty of the neighborhood where she lives. ...

Chicas casaderas (1961)

Four young ladies, four fiances, nine crises. Then, the big day. ...

Mi madre es Culpable (1960)

"Problem drama" examining the pros and cons of euthanasia. ...

Café Colón (1959)

Expensively-kept woman unexpectedly falls for a Zapatista general. She sells her jewels to help finance the revolution and ends up fighting on the front lines. Yeah, right. ...

El dinamitero (1958)

Vanilla, Bronze and to Die (1957)

A beautiful woman, fatally ill of the heart, is torn between the love of a poor sculptor and a forced marriage with the sadistic son of a millionaire. ...

Encrucijada (1956)

Three men in a mining community end up competing for the same woman. ...

A Woman's Pride (1956)

Everything is very quiet and peaceful in the city of Taxco, until there arrives a man called Ramón Durán who exploits abandoned mines. His presence in the community will initiate a lot of changes. Ada Montalvo is a beautiful young woman with a great hear ...

Ultraje al amor (1956)

Mexican feature film ...

Las engañadas (1955)

Irresponsible playboy seduces a decent young lady with a fake wedding; he continues being a creep for the next 12 or 15 years. ...

El monstruo en la sombra (1955)

Los paquetes de Paquita (1955)

Maid tries to smooth over the difficulties in her employers' marriage while juggling five or six potential boyfriends of her own. ...

Pobre huerfanita (1955)

Little girl with a cruel nanny and neglectful parents hears mumsy and popsy talking about divorce, and runs away from home. ...

El jinete (1954)

Farmhand and plantation-owner's daughter fall in love, but class differences and stuff. ...

La calle de los amores (1954)

Hubby latches onto a series of side-pieces and wifey finds it increasingly hard to put up with his behavior. ...

The Intruder (1954)

Upon her arrival to the village San Ignacio, Gabriela meets Raúl, owner of a residence that her grandfather administrates. He doesn't reveal his real identity and they fall madly in love. Tania, Raúl's sister-in-law, secretly loves him and she decides to ...

Un minuto de bondad (1954)

A young woman tries to stop the sale of a house that serves as a shelter for orphaned children and retired actors. ...

Sandunga para tres (1953)

Three boys and three girls. First all the boys are fighting over one of the girls, then all the boys are fighting over another of the girls and yadda yadda yadda. ...

Él (1953)

Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath. ...

Meat in Prison (1952)

Pedro is found guilty of murder after accidentally killing a friend's husband. His own family will face difficult times, as will he when he entrusts his freedom to the one he shouldn't. ...

The Martyr of Calvary (1952)

The life of Jesus from the beginning of his ministry, his miracles, the Sermon on the Mount and his death on the cross. ...

La huella de unos labios (1952)

Woman prostitutes herself to the man who murdered her fiance, to get evidence of his guilt and bring him to trial. ...

¡Acá las Tortas! (1951)

College students, ready to start entering adult society, are ashamed of their working-class backgrounds. ...

El marido de mi novia (1951)

Raquel's life is turned upside down when a terrible accident results in the death of her child and the confinement of her husband to a wheelchair. Without any way to support her and her disabled husband, Raquel turns to a life of crime and partners with a ...

Cárcel de mujeres (1951)

Evangelina murders her lover Alberto. In prison she meets Dora, Alberto's girlfriend, who was deprived of her freedom for his illicit business. An interesting story is about to be woven. ...

Crimen y castigo (1951)

Adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel about a student who plans a conceptual murder and then butts heads with a police detective. ...

Todos son mis hijos!... (1951)

Good son takes the blame for father's peculations and goes off to work in the rain forest to pay off Pops' debt. Meanwhile, daughter and bad son neglect their aging parents, whose fortunes decline precipitously. ...

Entre abogados te veas (1951)

Crooked lawyer runs amok, making a mockery of the legal system. ...

Apartment house (1951)

Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house. ...

By the False Door (1950)

Bernardo is in love with Adela and although she does not belong, he has always helped her family although they only care about money and not the virtues of man. ...

La loca de la casa (1950)

A nun reevaluates her life and decides to give up her vows to marry and help her father. ...

Médico de guardia (1950)

The director of a hospital deceives a poor couple in order to steal their newborn child and sell the baby to a wealthy couple. ...

Vagabunda (1950)

Vino el remolino y nos alevantó (1950)

Three generations of a stable, middle-class family in the capitol are scattered to the four winds by blowback from the Mexican Revolution. ...

Doña Diabla (1950)

A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest. ...

Hipócrita..! (1949)

A disfigured woman is helped by a talented composer to recover her face with plastic surgery. Then he discovers that she's a beautiful woman and a talented singer. ...

Las puertas del presidio (1949)

Unscrupulous boss frames an employee for a robbery so he can make time with the guy's sister. ...

El secreto de Juan Palomo (1947)

El amor abrió los ojos (1947)

Los siete niños de Écija (1947)

La niña de mis ojos (1947)

Classic movie of Mexican cinema. ...

Tragic Weddings (1946)

Jalisco, 19th century. Diego, a wealthy landowner, secretly marries Amparo, defying her father Juan Manuel, who fiercely opposes the union. Juan Manuel still holds a grudge against Diego, having once been his employer when Diego was just a laborer. Their s ...

The Jungle of Fire (1945)

A beautiful woman awakens passions in the workers of a camp deep in the jungle.. ...