Marlene França

Acting

Marlene França

Born 1943-08-05 · Uauá, Bahia, Brazil

Marlene França (Uauá, August 5, 1943 — Itatiba, September 23, 2011) was a Brazilian actress, filmmaker, director, documentarian, presenter and announcer.

Acting credits

A Casa das Tentações poster
9.0

Saul and Mônica return to São Paulo after three years and find his family's colonial mansion abandoned, inhabited only by his old nanny, Bá, and his brother, Domício.

A Casa das Tentações

1977

O Cabeleira poster
7.0

Based on the novel by Franklin Távora, the film follows the adventures of a father and a son in 18th century Brazil.

O Cabeleira

1963

Três Cabras de Lampião poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Três Cabras de Lampião

1962

Chick Fowle, Faixa Preta de Cinema poster
5.0

About English photographer Chick Fowle. Statements by Anselmo Duarte, Leonardo Vilar, Marlene França, Vanja Orico. A film about directors, actors and teams that Chick Fowle worked and works with, also showing the possibility of renewal that Brazilian cinema can and must have.

Chick Fowle, Faixa Preta de Cinema

1981

A Noite do Desejo poster
3.0

Two factory workers decide to spend all of their pay on a Saturday night with two prostitutes, but things don't go as planned.

A Noite do Desejo

1973

Jeca Tatu poster
7.2

Jeca Tatu is a lazy, simple-minded guy who has his property threatened by the greed of a landowner.

Jeca Tatu

1959

Ana poster
10.0

A group of migrants from the drought areas of Northeastern of Brazil gets a truck "pau-de-arara" trying to move to São Paulo and have a better life. Along their travel, one of the women delivers a baby on the road. The driver, indeed, intends to carry them to the slave-work in the fields of a powerful "colonel", but the brave Ana faces the foreman of the farm and the driver, and the truck follows to the hired final destination.

Ana

1955

Sinal Vermelho - As Fêmeas poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sinal Vermelho - As Fêmeas

1972

Trindad... É Meu Nome poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Trindad... É Meu Nome

1974

Lampião, King of the Badlands poster
8.2

The story of how a quarrel between families set poor farmer Virgulino Ferreira da Silva on the path to become Lampião, the greatest leader of the cangaceiros - bandits who roamed the Northeast of Brazil until the late 1930s.

Lampião, King of the Badlands

1963

Codfish poster
3.9

A terrible monster threatens the beach season: the cod from Guinea. To catch the fish, local authorities count on the expertise of a Portuguese oceanographer, a fearless fisherman, and baits made with Amália Rodrigues's records.

Codfish

1976

O Último Vôo do Condor poster
10.0

35mm, Color, 95min42seg, 2.624m, 24q, Eastmancolor

O Último Vôo do Condor

1982

No artwork available
5.2

No synopsis available yet.

Janaína - A Virgem Proibida

1972

The Ripper of Women poster
9.0

Suspected of murdering his girlfriend, man is judged by public opinion and gets implicated in a serial killing case.

The Ripper of Women

1978

O Mulherengo poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

O Mulherengo

1976

Uma Nega Chamada Tereza poster
10.0

African couple Silvianus and Makeba arrive in Brazil, seeking to tourist around the country and take part in an International Music Festival

Uma Nega Chamada Tereza

1970

Se Meu Dólar Falasse... poster
6.0

Bums find $15,000 in trash, but the money belonged to criminals.

Se Meu Dólar Falasse...

1971

Night of the Female poster
7.0

On the eve of the premiere of a theatrical superproduction in the city of São Paulo, the assembly team performs the last dress rehearsal. But, mysteriously, the four leading actresses are poisoned. Now, the police will investigate each person related to the play to find out who caused the tragedy.

Night of the Female

1976

Cocky poster
5.2

Shy countryboy from Itu (a town in Brazil where everything is unusually big) is invited to work in the house of a rich woman, who ends up discovering the boy's hidden (and big) qualities...

Cocky

1978

The Wind Rose poster
6.0

An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world.

The Wind Rose

1957

Lua de Mel e Amendoim poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Lua de Mel e Amendoim

1971

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Guerra dos Farrapos

1985

O Pequeno Mundo de Marcos poster
10.0

Poor civil servant, separated from his wife, works hard and runs into debt in order to finance his paralytic daughter's medical treatment.

O Pequeno Mundo de Marcos

1968

Nasce uma Mulher poster
8.0

On Jo's birthday, her mother, and later, her father, discover that she is not a virgin anymore - she is taking pills. The birthday party turns into a complete mess, since Jo's mother can not hold herself and accuses her daughter in front of all guests of not being a child that everyone thought she still was. Jo rebels and leaves the house, and discovers that her boyfriend listened to everything and did not help her. She decides to leave him, and to start her life again. As a woman, now.

Nasce uma Mulher

1983

Behind the camera