Luis Beristáin
Biography: Luis Beristáin (1918–1962) was a Mexican film and television actor.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 20, 1918
Deathday: April 01, 1962
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Known For
The White Rose
1961-07-19
The White Rose
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-07-19
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El dinamitero
1965-12-17
El dinamitero
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-17
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El amor abrió los ojos
1947-07-24
El amor abrió los ojos
Overview:
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-07-24
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Vagabunda
1950-07-12
Vagabunda
Overview:
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-07-12
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Teresa
1961-02-02
Teresa
Overview: Teresa is a beautiful and intelligent young woman, desperately seeking to leave the grinding poverty of the neighborhood where she lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-02-02
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The Intruder
1954-07-21
The Intruder
Overview: 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...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-07-21
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A Woman's Pride
1956-08-08
A Woman's Pride
Overview: 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...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1956-08-08
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Los siete niños de Écija
1947-07-03
Los siete niños de Écija
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-07-03
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El secreto de Juan Palomo
1947-12-04
El secreto de Juan Palomo
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-12-04
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Tragic Weddings
1946-05-30
Tragic Weddings
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-05-30
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Crimen y castigo
1951-07-05
Crimen y castigo
Overview: Adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel about a student who plans a conceptual murder and then butts heads with a police detective.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-07-05
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The Monster of the Shadow
1955-03-10
The Monster of the Shadow
Overview:
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-03-10
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La huella de unos labios
1952-03-06
La huella de unos labios
Overview: Woman prostitutes herself to the man who murdered her fiance, to get evidence of his guilt and bring him to trial.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-03-06
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Meat in Prison
1952-07-02
Meat in Prison
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-07-02
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Chicas casaderas
1961-02-02
Chicas casaderas
Overview: Four young ladies, four fiances, nine crises. Then, the big day.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-02-02
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By the False Door
1950-11-16
By the False Door
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-11-16
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Apartment house
1951-02-08
Apartment house
Overview: Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-02-08
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El jinete
1954-08-20
El jinete
Overview: Farmhand and plantation-owner's daughter fall in love, but class differences and stuff.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-20
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Él
1953-07-09
Él
Overview: Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-07-09
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¡Acá las Tortas!
1951-10-12
¡Acá las Tortas!
Overview: College students, ready to start entering adult society, are ashamed of their working-class backgrounds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-10-12
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Encrucijada
1956-10-18
Encrucijada
Overview: Three men in a mining community end up competing for the same woman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-18
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Café Colón
1959-03-05
Café Colón
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-05
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La loca de la casa
1950-10-06
La loca de la casa
Overview: Novice nun returns to her parent's home to save the family fortune by marrying a creditor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-10-06
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The Jungle of Fire
1945-12-27
The Jungle of Fire
Overview: A beautiful woman awakens passions in the workers of a camp deep in the jungle.. Venice Film Festival 1947
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-12-27
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Un minuto de bondad
1954-02-25
Un minuto de bondad
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-02-25
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Los paquetes de Paquita
1955-02-04
Los paquetes de Paquita
Overview: Maid tries to smooth over the difficulties in her employers' marriage while juggling five or six potential boyfriends of her own.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-02-04
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Sandunga para tres
1953-07-28
Sandunga para tres
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-28
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El marido de mi novia
1951-09-30
El marido de mi novia
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-09-30
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Vino el remolino y nos alevantó
1950-03-01
Vino el remolino y nos alevantó
Overview: Three generations of a stable, middle-class family in the capitol are scattered to the four winds by blowback from the Mexican Revolution.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-03-01
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Vanilla, Bronze and to Die
1957-12-04
Vanilla, Bronze and to Die
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-12-04
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The Devil Is a Woman
1950-01-28
The Devil Is a Woman
Overview: A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-01-28
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Hipócrita..!
1949-10-11
Hipócrita..!
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-10-11
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The Exterminating Angel
1962-05-16
The Exterminating Angel
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-05-16
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Las puertas del presidio
1949-10-11
Las puertas del presidio
Overview: Unscrupulous boss frames an employee for a robbery so he can make time with the guy's sister.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-10-11
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Las engañadas
1955-08-10
Las engañadas
Overview: Irresponsible playboy seduces a decent young lady with a fake wedding; he continues being a creep for the next 12 or 15 years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-08-10
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Entre abogados te veas
1951-03-02
Entre abogados te veas
Overview: Crooked lawyer runs amok, making a mockery of the legal system.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-03-02
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La calle de los amores
1954-08-18
La calle de los amores
Overview: Hubby latches onto a series of side-pieces and wifey finds it increasingly hard to put up with his behavior.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-08-18
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Mi madre es Culpable
1960-09-26
Mi madre es Culpable
Overview: "Problem drama" examining the pros and cons of euthanasia.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1960-09-26
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La niña de mis ojos
1947-05-02
La niña de mis ojos
Overview: Classic movie of Mexican cinema.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-05-02
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Pobre huerfanita
1955-01-27
Pobre huerfanita
Overview: Little girl with a cruel nanny and neglectful parents hears mumsy and popsy talking about divorce, and runs away from home.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-01-27
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Todos son mis hijos!...
1951-03-23
Todos son mis hijos!...
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-03-23
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The Martyr of Calvary
1952-04-02
The Martyr of Calvary
Overview: The life of Jesus from the beginning of his ministry, his miracles, the Sermon on the Mount and his death on the cross.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-04-02
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Women's prison
1951-09-28
Women's prison
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-09-28
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