Acting
Dolores Beristáin
Born 1926-05-10 · Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Acting credits
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
5.0A street kid's wish to run away to Tijuana is hampered by lies and betrayal
Hasta Morir
1994
6.3Family from a farming community move to the capital and lose their moral compass.
Espejismo de la ciudad
1976
6.7A man on a supermarket encounters a woman who tells him he reminds her of her late son.
Goodbye Mom
1997
6.5Héctor 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
4.4The 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
7.7The 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
A 1979 short by Rosario Hernández.
The Enemy Sister
1979
5.6"Faith-healer" develops a cult-like following in 1920s Jalisco.
Nest of Virgins
1972
7.7In 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
7.4The way three different generations of women view virginity and the mystery that a love story hides.
Romelia's Secret
1988
5.2Compilation tape of Hora Marcada episodes.
With Fear in the Veins
1990
6.3Popstar dies by accident, and Heaven's bureaucrats send her back to earth to inhabit a different body.
Bésame en la boca
1995
6.8Rodrigo Zaracho, once a promising boxer, is in decline. While fleeing from a gang that is chasing him, he remembers his past.
Knock Out
1984
5.6A gang of bikers wrecks havoc.
Mil caminos tiene la muerte
1977
6.1Rogelio’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
4.4Minerva, 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
5.4Young 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
6.0An unhappy marriage is complicated when hubby starts an affair with his sister-in-law. Darkest before the dawn...
Life Changes
1976