Marco Dutra

Directing

Marco Dutra

Born 1980-03-17 · São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Marco Dutra graduated in São Paulo University's Film School. He wrote and directed several short films with his university friend Juliana Rojas. "O Lençol Branco" and "Um Ramo" were part of the Festival de Cannes selection and won awards around the world. His first feature, "Trabalhar Cansa", also premiered in Cannes at the Un Certain Regard selection. "Quando Eu Era Vivo" is his second feature film. Marco also works as a writer, editor and composer. He is part of the production group Filmes do Caixote.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Good Manners poster
6.5

Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but soon Clara discovers a terrifying secret about the child.

Good Manners

2018

Good Manners poster
6.5

Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but soon Clara discovers a terrifying secret about the child.

Good Manners

2018

Three Shots, Nine Shots poster
NR

Buying a book in 3 shots, buying a book in 9 shots. Or: a man finds the right book.

Three Shots, Nine Shots

1999

Futuro Beach poster
6.5

Donato fails in his attempt to save a drowning man, and meets one of the man's friends. He decides to start his life over, but pieces of his past keep coming after him.

Futuro Beach

2014

Bury Your Dead poster
5.5

Edgar Wilson, a roadkill collector in rural Brazil, dreams of escaping his small-town existence with Nete, the love of his life. When Nete decides to join her family in an apocalyptic cult, Edgar finds himself at a crossroads. With the world on the brink of destruction, Edgar and his unlikely companion Tomás – a disgraced and excommunicated priest – embark on a dangerous road trip through a landscape plagued by chaos and despair.

Bury Your Dead

2025

Bury Your Dead poster
5.5

Edgar Wilson, a roadkill collector in rural Brazil, dreams of escaping his small-town existence with Nete, the love of his life. When Nete decides to join her family in an apocalyptic cult, Edgar finds himself at a crossroads. With the world on the brink of destruction, Edgar and his unlikely companion Tomás – a disgraced and excommunicated priest – embark on a dangerous road trip through a landscape plagued by chaos and despair.

Bury Your Dead

2025

The Silence of the Sky poster
6.4

After being a victim of rape within their own home, Diana chooses to keep the trauma secret. Mario, her husband, also has something to hide. The silence takes the couple's account over the day turns gradually into a peculiar form of violence.

The Silence of the Sky

2016

No artwork available
8.5

Rafael sleeps. Rafael waits. Rafael hugs. Rafael lies down. Rafael cries.

The Open Diary of R.

2003

Espera poster
NR

A brief occurrence at the hospital waiting room.

Espera

2003

Espera poster
NR

A brief occurrence at the hospital waiting room.

Espera

2003

Eye of the Storm poster
9.0

The story of a burglary and its tragic aftereffects.

Eye of the Storm

2009

Concert Number Three poster
NR

A son and father must tell the mother the sad news.

Concert Number Three

2004

Concert Number Three poster
NR

A son and father must tell the mother the sad news.

Concert Number Three

2004

No artwork available
NR

A short documentary by Marco Dutra.

Sunday

2015

No artwork available
NR

A short documentary by Marco Dutra.

Sunday

2015

Hard Labor poster
6.4

After her husband loses his job, Helena opens her own grocery store. Soon, increasingly strange events begin to plague her store, making her question her sanity.

Hard Labor

2011

Hard Labor poster
6.4

After her husband loses his job, Helena opens her own grocery store. Soon, increasingly strange events begin to plague her store, making her question her sanity.

Hard Labor

2011

All the Dead Ones poster
4.6

The story of the decline of the Soares family in the final months of the 19th century. Isabel is the dying mother, and her daughters are Maria and Ana. The three women try hard to forget about their pasts in the coffee farm and face the industrial times that start to take over Brazil.

All the Dead Ones

2020

All the Dead Ones poster
4.6

The story of the decline of the Soares family in the final months of the 19th century. Isabel is the dying mother, and her daughters are Maria and Ana. The three women try hard to forget about their pasts in the coffee farm and face the industrial times that start to take over Brazil.

All the Dead Ones

2020

No artwork available
6.0

An experimental collective film lasting little more than an hour, compiled from 10 episodes by a total of 14 different young Brazilian filmmakers. The project was an initiative of the directing duo Felipe Bragança and Marina Meliande, who sent a ‘letter of concern’ to inspire the participants. In it, a 16-year-old girl wrote about her dreams, which have been translated by the directors into films about love, youth and the possibilities of cinema.

Neverquiet (Film of Wonders)

2011

The White Sheet poster
6.5

A young mother has to face the death of her newborn son.

The White Sheet

2004

The White Sheet poster
6.5

A young mother has to face the death of her newborn son.

The White Sheet

2004

Quietness poster
6.7

The passing of the years is merciless for everyone. In the film, seven seemingly ordinary characters lead their lives seeking, each one, what they believe brings personal satisfaction. But, even with different and distant lives, they come closer by the way they guide their existence based on worldly concerns.

Quietness

2018

My Country poster
5.8

A film about the reunion of a family broken by the pain and because of the pain can be reunited. An intense story, told in a soft and sensitive way, showing the search and dedication of a man rediscovering family and the love that unites the brothers, finally forming a real family.

My Country

2011