Luis Beristáin

Luis Beristáin

Born: June 20, 1918
Died: April 1, 1962
in Mexico City, Mexico
Luis Beristáin (1918–1962) was a Mexican film and television actor.

Movies for Luis Beristáin...

El dinamitero
Title: El dinamitero
Released: December 17, 1965
Type: Movie
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The Exterminating Angel
Title: The Exterminating Angel
Character: Cristián Ugalde
Released: May 16, 1962
Type: Movie
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.
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The White Rose
Title: The White Rose
Character: Lic. Pérez
Released: July 19, 1961
Type: Movie
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.
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Chicas casaderas
Title: Chicas casaderas
Released: February 2, 1961
Type: Movie
Four young ladies, four fiances, nine crises. Then, the big day.
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Teresa
Title: Teresa
Character: José Antonio Meyer
Released: February 2, 1961
Type: Movie
Teresa is a beautiful and intelligent young woman, desperately seeking to leave the grinding poverty of the neighborhood where she lives.
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Mi madre es Culpable
Title: Mi madre es Culpable
Released: September 26, 1960
Type: Movie
"Problem drama" examining the pros and cons of euthanasia.
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Café Colón
Title: Café Colón
Released: March 5, 1959
Type: Movie
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.
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Vanilla, Bronze and to Die
Title: Vanilla, Bronze and to Die
Character: Manuel
Released: December 4, 1957
Type: Movie
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.
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Encrucijada
Title: Encrucijada
Released: October 18, 1956
Type: Movie
Three men in a mining community end up competing for the same woman.
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A Woman's Pride
Title: A Woman's Pride
Character: Miguel Salcedo
Released: August 8, 1956
Type: Movie
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...
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Las engañadas
Title: Las engañadas
Character: Felipe Torres Arjona
Released: August 10, 1955
Type: Movie
Irresponsible playboy seduces a decent young lady with a fake wedding; he continues being a creep for the next 12 or 15 years.
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The Monster of the Shadow
Title: The Monster of the Shadow
Released: March 10, 1955
Type: Movie
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Los paquetes de Paquita
Title: Los paquetes de Paquita
Released: February 4, 1955
Type: Movie
Maid tries to smooth over the difficulties in her employers' marriage while juggling five or six potential boyfriends of her own.
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Pobre huerfanita
Title: Pobre huerfanita
Released: January 27, 1955
Type: Movie
Little girl with a cruel nanny and neglectful parents hears mumsy and popsy talking about divorce, and runs away from home.
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El jinete
Title: El jinete
Released: August 20, 1954
Type: Movie
Farmhand and plantation-owner's daughter fall in love, but class differences and stuff.
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La calle de los amores
Title: La calle de los amores
Released: August 18, 1954
Type: Movie
Hubby latches onto a series of side-pieces and wifey finds it increasingly hard to put up with his behavior.
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The Intruder
Title: The Intruder
Character: Francisco Salvatierra
Released: July 21, 1954
Type: Movie
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...
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Un minuto de bondad
Title: Un minuto de bondad
Released: February 25, 1954
Type: Movie
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Sandunga para tres
Title: Sandunga para tres
Released: July 28, 1953
Type: Movie
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.
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Él
Title: Él
Character: Raúl Conde
Released: July 9, 1953
Type: Movie
Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.
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Meat in Prison
Title: Meat in Prison
Character: José - el estudiante
Released: July 2, 1952
Type: Movie
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.
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The Martyr of Calvary
Title: The Martyr of Calvary
Character: Jefe Sinagoga
Released: April 2, 1952
Type: Movie
The life of Jesus from the beginning of his ministry, his miracles, the Sermon on the Mount and his death on the cross.
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La huella de unos labios
Title: La huella de unos labios
Character: Manuel Andrade
Released: March 6, 1952
Type: Movie
Woman prostitutes herself to the man who murdered her fiance, to get evidence of his guilt and bring him to trial.
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Sandwiches Here!
Title: Sandwiches Here!
Character: Vicente
Released: October 12, 1951
Type: Movie
College students, ready to start entering adult society, are ashamed of their working-class backgrounds.
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El marido de mi novia
Title: El marido de mi novia
Character: Gustavo
Released: September 30, 1951
Type: Movie
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.
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Women's prison
Title: Women's prison
Character: Júlio
Released: September 28, 1951
Type: Movie
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.
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Crimen y castigo
Title: Crimen y castigo
Character: Carlos
Released: July 5, 1951
Type: Movie
Adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel about a student who plans a conceptual murder and then butts heads with a police detective.
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Todos son mis hijos!...
Title: Todos son mis hijos!...
Released: March 23, 1951
Type: Movie
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.
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Entre abogados te veas
Title: Entre abogados te veas
Released: March 2, 1951
Type: Movie
Crooked lawyer runs amok, making a mockery of the legal system.
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Apartment house
Title: Apartment house
Released: February 8, 1951
Type: Movie
Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.
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By the False Door
Title: By the False Door
Character: Santitos
Released: November 16, 1950
Type: Movie
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.
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La loca de la casa
Title: La loca de la casa
Character: Daniel
Released: October 6, 1950
Type: Movie
Novice nun returns to her parent's home to save the family fortune by marrying a creditor.
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Vagabunda
Title: Vagabunda
Character: Padre Miguel: Carlos
Released: July 12, 1950
Type: Movie
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Vino el remolino y nos alevantó
Title: Vino el remolino y nos alevantó
Character: Alejandro Ramírez
Released: March 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Three generations of a stable, middle-class family in the capitol are scattered to the four winds by blowback from the Mexican Revolution.
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The Devil Is a Woman
Title: The Devil Is a Woman
Character: Cura
Released: January 28, 1950
Type: Movie
A woman, after committing a murder, flees into a church, confessing her life story to a priest.
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Hipócrita..!
Title: Hipócrita..!
Character: Gerardo
Released: October 11, 1949
Type: Movie
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.
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Las puertas del presidio
Title: Las puertas del presidio
Character: Rafael
Released: October 11, 1949
Type: Movie
Unscrupulous boss frames an employee for a robbery so he can make time with the guy's sister.
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El secreto de Juan Palomo
Title: El secreto de Juan Palomo
Released: December 4, 1947
Type: Movie
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El amor abrió los ojos
Title: El amor abrió los ojos
Released: July 24, 1947
Type: Movie
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Los siete niños de Écija
Title: Los siete niños de Écija
Released: July 3, 1947
Type: Movie
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La niña de mis ojos
Title: La niña de mis ojos
Released: May 2, 1947
Type: Movie
Classic movie of Mexican cinema.
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Tragic Weddings
Title: Tragic Weddings
Released: May 30, 1946
Type: Movie
Romantic triangles, rural/hacienda setting.
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The Jungle of Fire
Title: The Jungle of Fire
Character: Mike
Released: December 27, 1945
Type: Movie
A beautiful woman awakens passions in the workers of a camp deep in the jungle.. Venice Film Festival 1947