
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
7.9After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses and façades deteriorate as they are reduced to living like animals.
The Exterminating Angel
1962
7.7Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.
Él
1953
5.3A beautiful woman awakens passions in the workers of a camp deep in the jungle.. Venice Film Festival 1947
The Jungle of Fire
1945
6.5Little girl with a cruel nanny and neglectful parents hears mumsy and popsy talking about divorce, and runs away from home.
Pobre huerfanita
1955
Four young ladies, four fiances, nine crises. Then, the big day.
Chicas casaderas
1961
6.2Crooked lawyer runs amok, making a mockery of the legal system.
Entre abogados te veas
1951
Film credits
1960s · 5 titles
7.9After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves unable to depart... and, over the next few days, all of their elaborate societal pretenses and façades deteriorate as they are reduced to living like animals.
The Exterminating Angel
1962
Four young ladies, four fiances, nine crises. Then, the big day.
Chicas casaderas
1961
6.0"Problem drama" examining the pros and cons of euthanasia.
Mi madre es Culpable
1960
7.3An 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 take over the property.
The White Rose
1961
7.2Teresa is a beautiful and intelligent young woman, desperately seeking to leave the grinding poverty of the neighborhood where she lives.
Teresa
1961
1950s · 33 titles
7.7Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.
Él
1953
6.5Little girl with a cruel nanny and neglectful parents hears mumsy and popsy talking about divorce, and runs away from home.
Pobre huerfanita
1955
6.2Crooked lawyer runs amok, making a mockery of the legal system.
Entre abogados te veas
1951
6.0Maid 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
5.9Evangelina 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
5.6Irresponsible 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
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
5.6Hubby 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
8.1The 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
6.2A nun reevaluates her life and decides to give up her vows to marry and help her father.
La loca de la casa
1950
Propagandistic documentary short film by the Mexican government about changes in the treatment of psychiatric patient.
Closed Doors
1957
6.4Good 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
6.6Bernardo 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
6.0Farmhand and plantation-owner's daughter fall in love, but class differences and stuff.
El jinete
1954
4.7Adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel about a student who plans a conceptual murder and then butts heads with a police detective.
Crimen y castigo
1951
6.7Mexican feature film
Ultraje al amor
1956
6.2Woman 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
6.2Pedro 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
6.4A 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
6.0Three 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
7.1A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.
Doña Diabla
1950
6.3Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.
Apartment house
1951
7.3A 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
6.0Upon 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
6.8Three 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
6.0No synopsis available yet.
El monstruo en la sombra
1955
6.0The 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
6.0Raquel'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
6.3No synopsis available yet.
El dinamitero
1958
5.8Everything 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
6.0Three men in a mining community end up competing for the same woman.
Encrucijada
1956
8.0College students, ready to start entering adult society, are ashamed of their working-class backgrounds.
¡Acá las Tortas!
1951
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Vagabunda
1950
1940s · 8 titles
5.3A beautiful woman awakens passions in the workers of a camp deep in the jungle.. Venice Film Festival 1947
The Jungle of Fire
1945
6.1A 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 talented singer.
Hipócrita..!
1949
6.8No synopsis available yet.
El secreto de Juan Palomo
1947
6.2Unscrupulous boss frames an employee for a robbery so he can make time with the guy's sister.
Las puertas del presidio
1949
6.2Classic movie of Mexican cinema.
La niña de mis ojos
1947
6.0No synopsis available yet.
El amor abrió los ojos
1947
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Los siete niños de Écija
1947
5.7Jalisco, 19th century. Diego, a wealthy landowner, secretly marries Amparo, defying her father Juan Manuel, who fiercely opposes the union. Juan Manuel still holds a grudge against Diego, having once been his employer when Diego was just a laborer. Their secret marriage stirs jealousy and resentment, particularly in Octavio, Diego’s servant, and his wife Laura, who harbors unspoken feelings for him. As Diego departs for a military mission in Guadalajara, Juan Manuel, unaware of the marriage, attempts to arrange a match between Amparo and the Spaniard José Luis.
Tragic Weddings
1946
