Luis Beristáin

After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves mysteriously unable to leave the room.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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.

Francisco is rich, rather strict on principles, and still a bachelor. After meeting Gloria by accident, he is suddenly intent on her becoming his wife and courts her until she agrees to marry him. Francisco is a dedicated husband, but little by little his passion starts to exhibit disturbing traits. Nevertheless, Gloria meets with scepticism as she expresses her worries to their acquaintances.

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.

The Martyr of Calvary (Spanish: El Mártir del Calvario) is a 1952 Mexican drama film directed by Miguel Morayta about the life of Christ. It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Classic movie of Mexican cinema.

Romantic triangles, rural/hacienda setting.

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