Luis Beristáin

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...

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

Upon her arrival to the village San Ignacio, Gabriela meets Raúl, owner of a residence that her grandfather administrates. He doesn't reveal...

Everything is very quiet and peaceful in the city of Taxco, until there arrives a man called Ramón Durán who exploits abandoned mines....

Romantic triangles, rural/hacienda setting.

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

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

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...

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

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...

Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.

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

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

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

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

Expensively-kept woman unexpectedly falls for a Zapatista general. She sells her jewels to help finance the revolution and ends up fighting on the...

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

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

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...

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....

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

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.

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Classic movie of Mexican cinema.

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

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...

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

Evangelina murders her lover Alberto. In prison she meets Dora, Alberto's girlfriend, who was deprived of her freedom for his illicit business. An...