Luis Beristáin

Acting

Luis Beristáin

Born — Died

1918-06-20 — 1962-04-01

Place of birth

Mexico City, Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

46 titles

Luis Beristáin (1918–1962) was a Mexican film and television actor.

Known for

Film credits

1950s · 33 titles

Él poster
7.7

Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.

Él

1953

Pobre huerfanita poster
6.5

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

Pobre huerfanita

1955

Entre abogados te veas poster
6.2

Crooked lawyer runs amok, making a mockery of the legal system.

Entre abogados te veas

1951

Los paquetes de Paquita poster
6.0

Maid 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

Cárcel de mujeres poster
5.9

Evangelina 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

Las engañadas poster
5.6

Irresponsible 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

No artwork available
5.8

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

La calle de los amores poster
5.6

Hubby 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

The Martyr of Calvary poster
8.1

The life of Jesus from the beginning of his ministry, his miracles, the Sermon on the Mount and his death on the cross.

The Martyr of Calvary

1952

La loca de la casa poster
6.2

A nun reevaluates her life and decides to give up her vows to marry and help her father.

La loca de la casa

1950

No artwork available
7.0

Propagandistic documentary short film by the Mexican government about changes in the treatment of psychiatric patient.

Closed Doors

1957

Todos son mis hijos!... poster
6.4

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 neglect their aging parents, whose fortunes decline precipitously.

Todos son mis hijos!...

1951

By the False Door poster
6.6

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 virtues of man.

By the False Door

1950

El jinete poster
6.0

Farmhand and plantation-owner's daughter fall in love, but class differences and stuff.

El jinete

1954

Crimen y castigo poster
4.7

Adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel about a student who plans a conceptual murder and then butts heads with a police detective.

Crimen y castigo

1951

Ultraje al amor poster
6.7

Mexican feature film

Ultraje al amor

1956

La huella de unos labios poster
6.2

Woman prostitutes herself to the man who murdered her fiance, to get evidence of his guilt and bring him to trial.

La huella de unos labios

1952

Meat in Prison poster
6.2

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 his freedom to the one he shouldn't.

Meat in Prison

1952

Un minuto de bondad poster
6.4

A young woman tries to stop the sale of a house that serves as a shelter for orphaned children and retired actors.

Un minuto de bondad

1954

Sandunga para tres poster
6.0

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 yadda yadda.

Sandunga para tres

1953

Doña Diabla poster
7.1

A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.

Doña Diabla

1950

Apartment house poster
6.3

Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.

Apartment house

1951

Vanilla, Bronze and to Die poster
7.3

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.

Vanilla, Bronze and to Die

1957

The Intruder poster
6.0

Upon 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...

The Intruder

1954

Vino el remolino y nos alevantó poster
6.8

Three 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

El monstruo en la sombra poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

El monstruo en la sombra

1955

Médico de guardia poster
6.0

The 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

El marido de mi novia poster
6.0

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. Without any way to support her and her disabled husband, Raquel turns to a life of crime and partners with a petty thief named Paco who falls in love with her.

El marido de mi novia

1951

El dinamitero poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

El dinamitero

1958

A Woman's Pride poster
5.8

Everything is very quiet and peaceful in the city of Taxco, until there arrives a man called Ramón Durán who exploits abandoned mines. His presence in the community will initiate a lot of changes. Ada Montalvo is a beautiful young woman with a great heart, whose strong personality wakes up the admiration of a good looking millionaire Ramón. She is the woman he has always dreamed of. However, for Ada he is nothing more than an intruder who has arrived to ruin the calm life of Taxco with his money, and she does not hide the contempt she feels towards him, even though the circumstances force her to marry him...

A Woman's Pride

1956

Encrucijada poster
6.0

Three men in a mining community end up competing for the same woman.

Encrucijada

1956

¡Acá las Tortas! poster
8.0

College students, ready to start entering adult society, are ashamed of their working-class backgrounds.

¡Acá las Tortas!

1951

Vagabunda poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Vagabunda

1950

1940s · 8 titles