
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
9.0Saul 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
7.0Based on the novel by Franklin Távora, the film follows the adventures of a father and a son in 18th century Brazil.
O Cabeleira
1963
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Três Cabras de Lampião
1962
5.0About 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
3.0Two 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
7.2Jeca Tatu is a lazy, simple-minded guy who has his property threatened by the greed of a landowner.
Jeca Tatu
1959
10.0A 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
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Sinal Vermelho - As Fêmeas
1972
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Trindad... É Meu Nome
1974
8.2The 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
3.9A 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
10.035mm, Color, 95min42seg, 2.624m, 24q, Eastmancolor
O Último Vôo do Condor
1982
No synopsis available yet.
Janaína - A Virgem Proibida
1972
9.0Suspected of murdering his girlfriend, man is judged by public opinion and gets implicated in a serial killing case.
The Ripper of Women
1978
9.0No synopsis available yet.
O Mulherengo
1976
10.0African 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
6.0Bums find $15,000 in trash, but the money belonged to criminals.
Se Meu Dólar Falasse...
1971
7.0On 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
5.2Shy 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
6.0An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world.
The Wind Rose
1957
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Lua de Mel e Amendoim
1971
No synopsis available yet.
A Guerra dos Farrapos
1985
10.0Poor 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
8.0On 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
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Frei Tito
1983
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Frei Tito
1983
NRDocumentary about a group of children who live on the streets of São Paulo and come together to survive the harsh reality of hunger, violence and oppression.
Street Kids
1988
No synopsis available yet.
Mulheres da Terra
1985