Marisa Sistach

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Marisa Sistach

Born September 10, 1952 · Ciudad de México, México (age 74)

Marisa Sistach (né Marysa Sistach Peret, born September 10, 1952) is a Mexican film director. Her films address themes of femininity and women's issues. She attended and graduated from el Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica in Mexico City, a film school founded by Mexico's National Council for Culture and Arts. According to Elissa Rashkin, Sistach was among a movement in the late 1980s of inno…

Known For

Violet Perfume: Nobody Hears YouViolet Perfume: Nobody Hears You · 2001
Violet Perfume: Nobody Hears You
★ 7.92001
MovieDrama
Yessica is a rebellious girl who forms an unlikely friendship with quiet schoolmate Miriam. Yessica's home life is ruled by her brutal stepfather and her amoral stepbrother, Jorge, while Miriam shares a calm, loving household with her mother. The girls' friendship is shattered after Jorge arranges to have one of his friends rape Yessica.
Dreaming About YouDreaming About You · 1992
Dreaming About You
★ 7.21992
MovieComedyRomance
Two teenage friends spend their summer break preparing for the sexual conquests they hope to experience. That is, until one of the boys is visited by his older, more sexually aggressive cousin, Azucena. Ushering her naïve cousin into the world of sex could take more work than Azucena realized.
El CometaEl Cometa · 1999
El Cometa
★ 5.91999
MovieMusicAdventure
After witnessing the arrest of her father for publishing "subversive" material against the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, Valentina escapes taking a sack of gold coins with her in order to hand it over to rebel Francisco I. Madero, who is in San Antonio, Texas. That is how Valentina begins a long journey as a member of a traveling circus, where she finds love next to Victor, who, fascinated by the cinematographer, films everything that occurs before his eyes, in times of great political turbulence.
El brassier de EmmaEl brassier de Emma · 2007
El brassier de Emma
★ 5.82007
MovieDramaComedy
It was the year of 1962 when I turned 12 and my breasts began to grow. Cecilia, my sister, went to study in Paris, I was left alone with my parents and their problems. I discovered that the breasts made men and women crazy, while mine began to draw the attention of my friends without adults realizing that I needed a bra.
Nadie te ve: La niña en la piedraNadie te ve: La niña en la piedra · 2007
Nadie te ve: La niña en la piedra
★ 7.82007
MovieDrama
Gabino, a very dedicated and hardworking young high school student, he is infatuated with Maty and tries to make her fall in love with him. After an incident in the school, where Gabino and his two friends are suspended for harassing Maty, she rejects him for the last time causing Gabino to plan a revenge against Maty.
Los pasos de AnaLos pasos de Ana · 1993
Los pasos de Ana
★ 5.01993
Movie
A divorced mother decides to do in life what she always wanted: To become a movie director. So she sets out to film every single thing that occurs in her everyday life
Doctor Funes FormulaDoctor Funes Formula · 2013
Doctor Funes Formula
★ 5.72013
Movie
Martin, a child of the 21st century, through his telescope discovers Doctor Funes, the inventor of a formula to become young again and the envy of Doctor Moebius, who also wants to regain his youth. Martin goes to visit old Funes, but instead finds twelve year old Pablo, whom he shelters in his house without telling his parents what is going on. Pablo turns the biology teacher into a baby girl with a pacifier, and a group of the elderly into children. Martin dreams of a world of only children, but Doctor Moebius steals the formula, not knowing that its effects are unpredictable.
Nadie te habla: Manos libresNadie te habla: Manos libres · 2005
Nadie te habla: Manos libres
★ 7.52005
MovieThrillerDrama
Two students at a Mexico City university are desperate to attend an Acapulco rave — so desperate that they’ll kidnap a girl to raise the funds to get there.

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