The best Arturo Beristáin’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Arturo Beristáin’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Arturo Beristáin.
Poison for the Fairies
7.2/10
In 1965 Mexico City, Fabiola, a wealthy yet lonely schoolgirl, befriends Graciela, a young orphan girl who has an unhealthy fascination with witchcraft. Fabiola is convinced that she, herself, is a witch by Graciela, who then uses the fear that she's put into her new friend to get Fabiola to carry out her orders. As their games grow more serious, the two girls find themselves involved in murder.
Castle of Purity
7.5/10
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 human beings.
Memories of My Melancholy Whores
5.8/10
To celebrate his 90th birthday, an old single journalist, Sabio, who accustomed to intimacy with whores since childhood, decides to gift himself with an intense night of love with a virgin teenager. Rosa Cabarcas, his old friend as a brothel madam arranges him the ideal young woman, Delgadina, a factory worker, who sells her virginity to support her family, but when he sees her sleeping angelically, he loses interest in pure pleasure and falls in love with her. That love was not meant to be true, but fate changes, and that hope is born of an opportunity for unbridled love.
Cuartelazo
5.4/10
Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten, beginning when General Victoriano Huerta sent to kill President Francisco I. Madero, Vice President José María Pino Suárez and Senator Belisario Dominguez. The film recreates the moment of the execution at the hands of Huerta and his accomplices Bernardo Reyes, Félix Díaz and Manuel Mondragón.
El Atentado
6.1/10
Tells the story behind an assassination attempt perpetrated in 1897, by a dipsomaniac man, against the President of the Mexican Republic, General Porfirio Diaz.
Maria of My Hearth
7.7/10
Héctor and María meet again after eight years of not seeing each other. She works as a magician in cabarets and he robs houses. María convinces Héctor to become a magician and work together. Life seems to smile on them until one day, when Maria travels to another city, the couple's situation will be overshadowed by an unfortunate event.
El mar
5.7/10
Local artists mingle with tourists and each other at a Mexican resort. Mingle, mingle.
The Holy Office
7.2/10
The long arm of the Inquisition, or the "Holy Office," reached at least as far as 16th-century Mexico (known as New Spain at the time). Many Spanish Catholics of Moorish or Jewish origin found it expedient to flee to the New World to escape the suffocating attentions of the Inquisition. In Spain, simply being descended from these suspect peoples is sufficient to guarantee a gruesome death by immolation. In the New World, it took slightly more. This 1974 Mexican film deals with the suffering of one family of conversos who are secretly practicing Judaism and are betrayed to the Inquisition by a family member. Interestingly, a small family clan of such secret Jews was discovered in New Mexico as recently as the late 1980s. They managed to keep their faith a secret for nearly five hundred years.
I'm Not A Rebel
6.1/10
Mexico 1968: students are the public enemy. Mitch, a wealthy student of Monterrey, hijacks a plane to retrieve Beatrice, who has been kidnapped by the secret police six months ago. Armed with a gun, which he doesn't know how to use, and helped by his two friends as allies, Mitch will face the most bloodthirsty General and force him to release the love of his life.
Letters from Marusia
6.9/10
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 essential rights. A reflection of the historic union struggles in the northern Chile that ended with terrible repressive acts.
La chica de la piscina
4/10
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 help him...
Machete Language
5.8/10
Love and political passion shared between an activist and his punk singer girlfriend goes to extremes as violent repression pushes them over the edge.
The Other Virginity
6.7/10
Two young waitresses, Laura and Eva, become romantically involved with a movie distributor, Adrian, and his friend Luis.
Love Can't Wait
5.4/10
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 movie almost at closing time. While they look for the movie, an employee closes the Video Store thinking it's empty. Filmed in real time and in one single shot, both, Viri and Agustin, will realize that love always operates in unexpected ways, as in the movies.
The Overturning Of The Heart
5.9/10
1941, Jose Antelmo Cruz regrets his past while writing a novel and falling in love with a prostitute.
She Doesn't Want to Sleep Alone
6.5/10
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 actress who lives on her past glories. Up until now, Amanda has never had much of a relationship with her grandmother.
