Gregorio Walerstein

Production

Gregorio Walerstein

Born — Died

1913-02-22 — 2002-01-24

Place of birth

Mexico City, Mexico

Known for

Production

Credits

40 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Fever Mounts at El Pao poster
6.1

After Caribbean despot Mariano Vargas is murdered at the hands of his enraged populace, his secretary Ramón Vázquez takes not just control but also Vargas' widow Inés, with whom he's been having an affair. Special military unit leader Alejandro Gual arrives to overthrow Vázquez by turning the people and Inés against him.

Fever Mounts at El Pao

1959

The Sword and the Cross poster
5.4

Sold as slaves to a wealthy Roman, Lea and Esther, two Carthaginian sisters, are offered as gifts to the ambitious daughter of a proconsul and end up involved in spite of themselves in a dangerous game of power.

The Sword and the Cross

1956

Por Tu Maldito Amor poster
7.6

One man must decide two women: one is mature, confident, and an owner of land while the other is young, beautiful, and impetuous. But there’s a problem, they’re both sisters.

Por Tu Maldito Amor

1990

La Valentina poster
6.4

A smuggler, condemned to be shot, is pardoned in exchange for kidnapping "La Valentina."

La Valentina

1966

Gutierritos poster
6.6

Timid, browbeaten salaryman becomes famous author overnight.

Gutierritos

1959

Camelia poster
6.2

A sort of meta riff on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel The Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux Camélias or Camille) here in Mexican melodrama form involving the doomed love of a bullfighter and a beautiful but ailing actress/courtesan.

Camelia

1954

The Treasure of Moctezuma poster
5.7

Santo and Jorge Rivero team-up to stop an international syndicate from stealing Mexico's greatest treasure.

The Treasure of Moctezuma

1968

Los Hombres No Lloran poster
5.4

Man is manipulated into thinking his wife is unfaithful and abandons her, taking one of their two sons with him.

Los Hombres No Lloran

1973

Love & Sex (Sappho 1963) poster
5.5

Independently-wealthy woman tries to break free of repressive, conservative cultural constraints.

Love & Sex (Sappho 1963)

1964

A Place Close to Heaven poster
8.3

An honest man emigrates to the capital in search of a better life, but ends up mired in extreme poverty along with his family; forced to overcome tragedy and despair to find, even in misery, a glimmer of hope.

A Place Close to Heaven

1952

Nadie muere dos veces poster
5.6

Big-league criminal escapes from jail, tracks down his ex-wife at a seaside resort. She kills him in self-defense, and then a guy who looks exactly like him comes along. Massive complications!

Nadie muere dos veces

1953

Lo que el viento trajo poster
5.2

A 1941 film.

Lo que el viento trajo

1941

Si volvieras a mi poster
4.4

No synopsis available yet.

Si volvieras a mi

1954

My Son, the Hero poster
8.0

Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in them the need for revenge.

My Son, the Hero

1961

La mujer que engañamos poster
4.1

Woman chooses between two suitors. The lucky one is a cad and cheats on her, the one who was rejected hangs around in the background to set things right whenever she has a problem.

La mujer que engañamos

1945

El conde de Montecristo poster
5.6

Based on the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo tells the story of a man who is unjustly imprisoned alongside an old man, who before dying reveals the location of a buried treasure. When the man manages to escape from his miserable cell, he changes his identity, becoming the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo, an identity he uses to take revenge on those who betrayed him and sent him to prison.

El conde de Montecristo

1942

Justice is Twelve Years Old poster
5.4

A mischievous girl must deal with her idiotic parents and her libertine relatives during the holidays.

Justice is Twelve Years Old

1973

El sombrero de tres picos poster
6.0

The corregidor, or magistrate, of a small Spanish village tries to seduce the miller's wife, with rather humorous results.

El sombrero de tres picos

1944

On the dead the crowns poster
6.0

A family has their daughter marry a dying man in order to get an inheritance, but get into trouble when the man survives his illness.

On the dead the crowns

1961

Pecado poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Pecado

1951

El Albañil poster
7.3

Construction worker falls in love with a handicapped woman who aspires to a career as a singer.

El Albañil

1975

La diosa impura poster
5.0

After a series of doublecrosses involving stolen diamonds, a gangster's babe in Argentina flees to Mexico; she's kept by a druggy, decadent painter and then falls in love with his brother.

La diosa impura

1963

The Living Idol poster
5.2

An archaeologist believes a Mexican woman is the reincarnation of an Aztec princess.

The Living Idol

1957

El alazán y el rosillo poster
6.1

Two rival landowners: one is exploiting the local peasantry and dispossessing them of their land, and the other believes in fair play and justice for all.

El alazán y el rosillo

1966

The World's Oldest Profession poster
5.7

Having an example of piety and Christian devotion in their midst may help the girls in this whorehouse reform. Maybe.

The World's Oldest Profession

1970

Me traes de un ala poster
6.4

To conquer the beautiful vedette Rosita, journalist Tin Tan is subject to her whims. Fired along with his friend Narciso from the newspaper they worked, Tin Tan trying to sell a movie plot. A woman looking to buy it and Tin Tan will visit her in a gloomy mansion where a mess is unleashed.

Me traes de un ala

1953

A Stranger on the Stairs poster
6.2

Based on Ladislas Fodor's "Stranger on the Stairs". A loved triangle composed by a cynical entrepreneur, a loan manager, and a seductive secretary will lead to a criminal plot in Cuba.

A Stranger on the Stairs

1955

El enmascarado de plata poster
5.7

This cult-classic was Director Rene Cardona's attempt to capitalize on the popularity of professional wrestling and on of its biggest stars of the 1950's, known as "El Santo". However it is not about wrestling. It chronicles the adventures of a crime-fighting duo known as El Enmascadero de la Plata ( The Silver Mask), and his adolescent sidekick Pecas (Freckles), as they take on a murderous Mad Doctor and an evil gang-leader called El Lobo

El enmascarado de plata

1954

The Three Perfect Wives poster
4.7

Three married couples gather to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of their marriage mourning the absence of a friend who was best man at all three weddings.

The Three Perfect Wives

1953

El ladrón poster
6.7

Bank employee is tempted to make use of banknotes scheduled for destruction.

El ladrón

1947

End of the Party poster
5.4

A motorcycle gang goes to a mansion where a party is being held and joy turns into tragedy.

End of the Party

1972

Mi campeón poster
5.5

Catita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to help her out of his humble. But she opposes to him being boxer, therefore constantly fighting with her husband.

Mi campeón

1952

May God Forgive Me poster
6.3

Lena, a beautiful and mysteriously sinister refugee haunted by her past, is chased into the arms of a rich, unsuspecting industrialist not for love, but for information.

May God Forgive Me

1948

Nunca es tarde para amar poster
6.0

A widowed doctor with a sick child marries a famous singer unpremeditatedly, running at first everything fine until she begins to long for his former life and scenic successes representing the only reason for existence.

Nunca es tarde para amar

1953

La estatua de carne poster
5.4

Sculptor becomes infatuated with model. Everyone suffers.

La estatua de carne

1951

Paradise poster
6.3

Problems arise between the divers Román and Lauro when the former falls in love with a prostitute on the beaches of Acapulco.

Paradise

1970

Operation 67 poster
6.4

The silver masked Santo tries to stop a gang of counterfeiters who conspire to ruin the economy.

Operation 67

1967

El misterio del carro express poster
5.8

Police detective and his plucky girl-reporter fiancée go after the gang that committed a train robbery.

El misterio del carro express

1953

Black Is My Color poster
6.0

Negro Es Mi Color (literally translates to "Black Is My Color"), the 1951 Tito Davison Mexican racial musical melodrama (about a light-skinned Mexican woman with dark-skinned parents who passes as "white"; a Mexican version of "Imitation of Life")

Black Is My Color

1951

A 16 Year Old Young-Woman poster
6.8

Papa hires a "boyfriend" to indulge her in her fantasies of old-fashioned romance.

A 16 Year Old Young-Woman

1963