Luis Beristáin

Acting

Luis Beristáin

Born 1918-06-20 · Mexico City, Mexico

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

Acting credits

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

Hipócrita..! poster
6.1

A 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

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

The Exterminating Angel poster
7.9

After 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

Mi madre es Culpable poster
6.0

"Problem drama" examining the pros and cons of euthanasia.

Mi madre es Culpable

1960

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

No artwork available
6.0

Four young ladies, four fiances, nine crises. Then, the big day.

Chicas casaderas

1961

Él poster
7.7

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

Él

1953

Entre abogados te veas poster
6.2

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

Entre abogados te veas

1951

Apartment house poster
6.3

Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.

Apartment house

1951

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ultraje al amor poster
6.7

Mexican feature film

Ultraje al amor

1956

No artwork available
7.0

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

Closed Doors

1957

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

Tragic Weddings poster
5.7

Jalisco, 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

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

The Jungle of Fire poster
5.3

A beautiful woman awakens passions in the workers of a camp deep in the jungle.. Venice Film Festival 1947

The Jungle of Fire

1945