Acting

Dolores Beristáin

Born 1926-05-10 · Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Acting credits

No artwork available
5.5

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

A Christmas Carol

1989

Hasta Morir poster
5.0

A street kid's wish to run away to Tijuana is hampered by lies and betrayal

Hasta Morir

1994

Espejismo de la ciudad poster
6.3

Family from a farming community move to the capital and lose their moral compass.

Espejismo de la ciudad

1976

Goodbye Mom poster
6.7

A man on a supermarket encounters a woman who tells him he reminds her of her late son.

Goodbye Mom

1997

Maria of My Heart poster
6.5

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 to another city, the couple's situation will be overshadowed by an unfortunate event.

Maria of My Heart

1979

They Call Him Marcado poster
4.4

The Kid is a vicious psychopath given to laughing a lot, an actor manqué who leads a gang of looters and rapists, and is incestuous with his father to boot. The town’s resident Mater Dolorosa, madam of the brothel, hires her lover Marcado to kill the Kid, who is of course her son.

They Call Him Marcado

1971

The Beginning and the End poster
7.7

The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who chooses to sacrifice the destiny of her three older children, in order to protect Gabriel (Laguardia) the youngest one. She believes Gabriel will climb the social structure and bring back the lost fortune to the family. But destiny has other plans for the Boteros and tragedy will overcome eventually. Based on the novel of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.

The Beginning and the End

1994

No artwork available
9.0

A 1979 short by Rosario Hernández.

The Enemy Sister

1979

Nest of Virgins poster
5.6

"Faith-healer" develops a cult-like following in 1920s Jalisco.

Nest of Virgins

1972

El moro de Cumpas poster
7.7

In the city of Aguaprieta, two horses are part of the largest event in the region. The unbeatable horse Moro from the city of Cumpas faces the imposing Zaino de Aguaprieta. Two in a decided race in just 450 rods.

El moro de Cumpas

1977

Romelia's Secret poster
7.4

The way three different generations of women view virginity and the mystery that a love story hides.

Romelia's Secret

1988

With Fear in the Veins poster
5.2

Compilation tape of Hora Marcada episodes.

With Fear in the Veins

1990

Bésame en la boca poster
6.3

Popstar dies by accident, and Heaven's bureaucrats send her back to earth to inhabit a different body.

Bésame en la boca

1995

Knock Out poster
6.8

Rodrigo Zaracho, once a promising boxer, is in decline. While fleeing from a gang that is chasing him, he remembers his past.

Knock Out

1984

Mil caminos tiene la muerte poster
5.6

A gang of bikers wrecks havoc.

Mil caminos tiene la muerte

1977

Chin Chin el teporocho poster
6.1

Rogelio’s story, a young man of humble origin in the neighborhood of Tepito, who falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy grocer, Michelle, but his marriage to her will be a failure and he will end up as a one more drunk.

Chin Chin el teporocho

1976

The Magic Hour poster
4.4

Minerva, a middle age writer, decides to break the uncertainty that prevents her from creating the novel that for years she has nested in her mind. Unintentionally, she returns to the port where she was born and she encounters a past full of ghosts and chimeras. Paradoxically, she founds herself because of this journey back home, so she begins writing the story of her life, of her own childhood, with its magical past and tragedy.

The Magic Hour

2000

Secreto de confesión poster
5.4

Young woman falls in love with a cub reporter who's investigating the illegal activities of her father. Then there's secret marriages and secret murders and secret babies and... family melodrama in full flower.

Secreto de confesión

1971

Life Changes poster
6.0

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

Life Changes

1976