
Acting
Luis Beristáin
Born 1918-06-20 · Mexico City, Mexico
Luis Beristáin (1918–1962) was a Mexican film and television actor.
Acting credits
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
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
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
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
6.0"Problem drama" examining the pros and cons of euthanasia.
Mi madre es Culpable
1960
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
7.7Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.
Él
1953
6.2Crooked lawyer runs amok, making a mockery of the legal system.
Entre abogados te veas
1951
6.3Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.
Apartment house
1951
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
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
6.0Maid 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
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
6.8Three 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
6.0The 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
6.7Mexican feature film
Ultraje al amor
1956
Propagandistic documentary short film by the Mexican government about changes in the treatment of psychiatric patient.
Closed Doors
1957
7.1A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.
Doña Diabla
1950
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
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
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