Luis Beristáin
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1918-06-20
Place of Birth:Mexico City, Mexico
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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...

Teresa (1961)
Teresa is a beautiful and intelligent young woman, desperately seeking to leave the grinding poverty of the neighborhood where she lives.

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....

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...

Tragic Weddings (1946)
Jalisco, 19th century. Diego, a wealthy landowner, secretly marries Amparo, defying her father Juan Manuel, who fiercely opposes the union. Juan...

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.

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.

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...

Chicas casaderas (1961)
Four young ladies, four fiances, nine crises. Then, the big day.

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...

Apartment house (1951)
Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.

El jinete (1954)
Farmhand and plantation-owner's daughter fall in love, but class differences and stuff.

Él (1953)
Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.

¡Acá las Tortas! (1951)
College students, ready to start entering adult society, are ashamed of their working-class backgrounds.

Encrucijada (1956)
Three men in a mining community end up competing for the same woman.

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...

La loca de la casa (1950)
Novice nun returns to her parent's home to save the family fortune by marrying a creditor.

The Jungle of Fire (1945)
A beautiful woman awakens passions in the workers of a camp deep in the jungle.. Venice Film Festival 1947

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.

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...

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....

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.

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.

The Devil Is a Woman (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...

The Exterminating Angel (1962)
A formal dinner party starts out normally enough, but after the bourgeois group retire to the host’s music room, they inexplicably find...

Las puertas del presidio (1949)
Unscrupulous boss frames an employee for a robbery so he can make time with the guy's sister.

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.

Entre abogados te veas (1951)
Crooked lawyer runs amok, making a mockery of the legal system.

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.

Mi madre es Culpable (1960)
"Problem drama" examining the pros and cons of euthanasia.

La niña de mis ojos (1947)
Classic movie of Mexican cinema.

Pobre huerfanita (1955)
Little girl with a cruel nanny and neglectful parents hears mumsy and popsy talking about divorce, and runs away from home.

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...

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.

Women's prison (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...