Arturo Beristáin Movies

Mexican feature film

A woman survived the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, but she still lives with fear about a new earthquake.

In 1965 Mexico City, Flavia, a wealthy yet lonely schoolgirl, befriends Veronica, a young orphan girl who has a fascination with witchcraft. Veronica...

In a provincial town, a man who makes wooden saints goes bankrupt when it is discovered that he also carves erotic figures.

To celebrate his 90th birthday, an old single journalist, Sabio, wants something special from Rosa Cabarcas’s brothel: an intense night of love...

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...

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...

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...

Héctor and María meet again after eight years of not seeing each other. She works as a magician in cabarets and he robs houses....

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...

Mexico 1968: students are the public enemy. Mitch, a wealthy student of Monterrey, hijacks a plane to retrieve Beatrice, who has been kidnapped by...

Tells the story behind an assassination attempt perpetrated in 1897, by a dipsomaniac man, against the President of the Mexican Republic, General...

Local artists mingle with tourists and each other at a Mexican resort. Mingle, mingle.

The sexual misunderstandings caused by the real identity of a rich woman serve Hermosillo to satirize the moral and social hypocrisy of the...

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...

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...

1941, Jose Antelmo Cruz regrets his past while writing a novel and falling in love with a prostitute.

Love and political passion shared between an activist and his punk singer girlfriend goes to extremes as violent repression pushes them over the edge.

Two young waitresses, Laura and Eva, become romantically involved with a movie distributor, Adrian, and his friend Luis.