Movies: Luis Beristáin

A formal dinner party starts out normally enough, but after the bourgeois group retire to the host’s music room, they inexplicably find themselves unable to leave....

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

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

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 w...

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

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....

Hubby latches onto a series of side-pieces and wifey finds it increasingly hard to put up with his behavior....

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....

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

Unscrupulous boss frames an employee for a robbery so he can make time with the guy's sister....

Maid tries to smooth over the difficulties in her employers' marriage while juggling five or six potential boyfriends of her own....

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. T...

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

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

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....

Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house....

An 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....

Novice nun returns to her parent's home to save the family fortune by marrying a creditor....

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

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