Luis Beristáin
Actor · 1918 – 1962 · Mexico City, Mexico
Luis Beristáin (1918–1962) was a Mexican film and television actor.
Movies24
Movie7.9ComedyDramaAfter 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.
Movie5.6DramaIrresponsible playboy seduces a decent young lady with a fake wedding; he continues being a creep for the next 12 or 15 years.
Las engañadas
1955 · 5 votes
Movie6.1CrimeDramaA 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.
Hipócrita..!
1949 · 8 votes
- Movie5.8
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.
Café Colón
1959 · 4 votes
Movie7.7DramaThrillerGloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.
Él
1953 · 166 votes
Movie6.0Farmhand and plantation-owner's daughter fall in love, but class differences and stuff.
El jinete
1954 · 5 votes
Movie6.0"Problem drama" examining the pros and cons of euthanasia.
Mi madre es Culpable
1960 · 6 votes
Movie6.5Little girl with a cruel nanny and neglectful parents hears mumsy and popsy talking about divorce, and runs away from home.
Pobre huerfanita
1955 · 4 votes
Movie6.2DramaCrooked lawyer runs amok, making a mockery of the legal system.
Entre abogados te veas
1951 · 6 votes
Movie8.1HistoryDramaThe life of Jesus from the beginning of his ministry, his miracles, the Sermon on the Mount and his death on the cross.
Movie5.9DramaCrimeEvangelina 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.
Cárcel de mujeres
1951 · 14 votes
Movie6.0DramaThe director of a hospital deceives a poor couple in order to steal their newborn child and sell the baby to a wealthy couple.
Médico de guardia
1950 · 3 votes
Movie5.3DramaAdventureA beautiful woman awakens passions in the workers of a camp deep in the jungle.. Venice Film Festival 1947
Movie6.0Three 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.
Sandunga para tres
1953 · 5 votes
Movie6.6DramaBernardo 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.
Movie7.3DramaRomanceA 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.
- Movie6.0
Four young ladies, four fiances, nine crises. Then, the big day.
Chicas casaderas
1961 · 5 votes
Movie7.3DramaAn 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.
Movie6.0DramaUpon 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 separate them by simulating a car accident from which Gabriela temporarily becomes paralized. Aware that they will marry, Tania makes the girl believe that Raúl is marrying her out of compassion, causing Gabriela to disappear from the residence...
Movie6.0ComedyMaid tries to smooth over the difficulties in her employers' marriage while juggling five or six potential boyfriends of her own.
Los paquetes de Paquita
1955 · 5 votes
Movie4.7DramaCrimeAdaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel about a student who plans a conceptual murder and then butts heads with a police detective.
Crimen y castigo
1951 · 7 votes
Movie5.6Hubby latches onto a series of side-pieces and wifey finds it increasingly hard to put up with his behavior.
La calle de los amores
1954 · 5 votes
Movie7.1DramaA woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.
Doña Diabla
1950 · 21 votes
Movie6.8DramaWarThree generations of a stable, middle-class family in the capitol are scattered to the four winds by blowback from the Mexican Revolution.
Vino el remolino y nos alevantó
1950 · 5 votes