Arturo Beristáin
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Poison for the Fairies (1986)
In 1965 Mexico City, Flavia, a wealthy yet lonely schoolgirl, befriends Veronica, a young orphan girl who has a fascination with witchcraft. Veronica...
Deceitful Appearances (1983)
The sexual misunderstandings caused by the real identity of a rich woman serve Hermosillo to satirize the moral and social hypocrisy of the...
Castle of Purity (1973)
A disciplined and sexually driven man forces his family to stay isolated in their home in order to protect them from the “evil nature” of...
La chica de la piscina (1987)
A famous television showman is suffering a mental and spiritual crisis. But fortunately three friends who once have all been lovers of his try to...
She Doesn't Want to Sleep Alone (2012)
Amanda is 33 years old. Her dull life is suddenly altered when she is forced to take care of her old alcoholic grandmother, Dolores, a retired...
File of Attempted Murder (2010)
Tells the story behind an assassination attempt perpetrated in 1897, by a dipsomaniac man, against the President of the Mexican Republic, General...
Las Armas (2013)
A group of peasants and teachers of education, tired of abuse, take up arms and decide to attack the Madera military barracks; most of them lose...
Íntimo terror (1992)
A woman survived the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, but she still lives with fear about a new earthquake.
Machete Language (2012)
Love and political passion shared between an activist and his punk singer girlfriend goes to extremes as violent repression pushes them over the edge.
Noise (2022)
Julia is a mother, or rather, one of many mothers, sisters, daughters, colleagues, who have had their lives torn apart by the widespread violence in...
The Days of Love (1972)
In the 1920s, Mexico was still in a state of near-chaos. Rebellions and revolutions had followed one after the other for decades. Though things were...
Cuartelazo (1977)
Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten, beginning when General Victoriano Huerta sent to kill...
El mar (1977)
Local artists mingle with tourists and each other at a Mexican resort. Mingle, mingle.
The Holy Inquisition (1974)
A plague is spreading through 16th century Mexico, and the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church is rooting out Jews, for they are believed to be...
I'm Not A Rebel (2017)
Mexico 1968: students are the public enemy. Mitch, a wealthy student of Monterrey, hijacks a plane to retrieve Beatrice, who has been kidnapped by...
Life Changes (1976)
An unhappy marriage is complicated when hubby starts an affair with his sister-in-law. Darkest before the dawn...
Maria of My Heart (1979)
Héctor and María meet again after eight years of not seeing each other. She works as a magician in cabarets and he robs houses....
The Overturning Of The Heart (1996)
1941, Jose Antelmo Cruz regrets his past while writing a novel and falling in love with a prostitute.
Love Can't Wait (2019)
Viri owns "Amores", one of the last video stores in Mexico City. She's sad because nobody remembered her birthday. Augustin comes to rent an old...
Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2011)
To celebrate his 90th birthday, an old single journalist, Sabio, wants something special from Rosa Cabarcas’s brothel: an intense night of love...
The Other Virginity (1975)
Two young waitresses, Laura and Eva, become romantically involved with a movie distributor, Adrian, and his friend Luis.
Letters from Marusia (1975)
Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most...
La purísima (2008)
In a provincial town, a man who makes wooden saints goes bankrupt when it is discovered that he also carves erotic figures.