Luis Beristáin

Rosa blanca

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.

Teresa

Teresa is a beautiful and intelligent young woman, desperately seeking to leave the grinding poverty of the neighborhood where she lives.

A Woman's Pride

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...

The Intruder

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...

Tragic Weddings

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.

Crimen y castigo

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

La huella de unos labios

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

Meat in Prison

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.

Chicas casaderas

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

By the False Door

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.

Apartment house

Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.

El jinete

Farmhand and plantation-owner's daughter fall in love, but class differences and stuff.

Él

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

¡Acá las Tortas!

College students, ready to start entering adult society, are ashamed of their working-class backgrounds.

Encrucijada

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

Café Colón

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.

La loca de la casa

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

The Jungle of Fire

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

Un minuto de bondad

A young woman tries to stop the sale of a house that serves as a shelter for orphaned children and retired actors.

Los paquetes de Paquita

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

Sandunga para tres

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.

El marido de mi novia

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.

Vino el remolino y nos alevantó

Three generations of a stable, middle-class family in the capitol are scattered to the four winds by blowback from the Mexican Revolution.

Vanilla, Bronze and to Die

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.

Doña Diabla

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

Hipócrita..!

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.

The Exterminating Angel

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.

Las puertas del presidio

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

Las engañadas

Irresponsible playboy seduces a decent young lady with a fake wedding; he continues being a creep for the next 12 or 15 years.

Entre abogados te veas

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

La calle de los amores

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

Mi madre es Culpable

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

La niña de mis ojos

Classic movie of Mexican cinema.

Pobre huerfanita

Little girl with a cruel nanny and neglectful parents hears mumsy and popsy talking about divorce, and runs away from home.

Todos son mis hijos!...

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.

The Martyr of Calvary

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

Cárcel de Mujeres

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.

Médico de guardia

The director of a hospital deceives a poor couple in order to steal their newborn child and sell the baby to a wealthy couple.