Mariana Nunes

Acting

Mariana Nunes

Born 1980-11-23 · Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil

Mariana de Sousa Nunes (Brasília, November 23, 1980) is a Brazilian actress. She graduated from Faculdade de Artes Dulcina de Moraes, FADM. For two years, she was part of the company "Coletivo Irmãos Guimarães" of brothers Adriano and Fernando Guimarães, traveling throughout Brazil and abroad, performing in the plays Luz Menos, Respiração Emboladae Cirandas, As Quatro Estações das Flores and studied acting for television and cinema at the Instituto del Cine in Madrid. She is known for Alemão: Both Sides of the Operation (2014), Second Call (2019) and All The Flowers (2022).

Acting credits

Pelé: Birth of a Legend poster
7.3

The life story of Brazilian football legend, Pele.

Pelé: Birth of a Legend

2016

Great Sertão poster
7.1

In the concrete jungles of lawless futuristic Brazil, enemies spout slam poetry in duels as their movements remind us of parkour. The adrenaline rush breaks into three timelines: the past introduces teenager Riobaldo and handsome Diadorim, the present depicts a bloody clash and reveals sexual identities, and the future exposes Riobaldo’s deal with the devil.

Great Sertão

2024

Quem Tem com Que Me Pague, Não Me Deve Nada poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Quem Tem com Que Me Pague, Não Me Deve Nada

2026

All These Days When I'm Foreign poster
4.0

Two northeastern brothers live and work as waiters in Baixada Fluminense. The duo tries to balance themselves in an underworld permeated by financial difficulties, prostitution and urban violence. Antônio feels out of place.

All These Days When I'm Foreign

2013

Zama poster
6.6

In a remote South American colony in the late 18th century, officer Zama of the Spanish crown waits in vain for a transfer to a more prestigious location. He suffers small humiliations and petty politicking as he increasingly succumbs to lust and paranoia.

Zama

2017

Dr. Gama poster
8.0

Based on the biography of Luiz Gama, one of the most important characters in Brazilian history, a black man who used the laws and courts to free more than 500 slaves. Born of a free womb, Gama was sold into slavery at the age of 10 to pay off his father's gambling debts. Even as a slave, he became literate, studied and earned his own freedom, becoming one of the most respected lawyers of his time. An abolitionist and republican who inspired an entire country.

Dr. Gama

2021

The Other Side of Paradise poster
7.6

Nando, a 12 year old boy, narrates the adventures of his father Antonio, during the 60s in Brazil, who leaves the inland of the state of Minas to go to Brasília, a recently inaugurated city, but still with construction works in progress.

The Other Side of Paradise

2014

Amores Pandêmicos poster
9.3

The film “Amores Pandêmicos” portrays the story of three couples who experience different phases of love during quarantine. As the pandemic continues, the characters are forced to seek new ways to create, love and maintain healthy mental health, which is somewhat impossible.

Amores Pandêmicos

2023

Divine Love poster
5.9

In 2027 Brazil, civil servant Joana mainly deals with divorce cases. As a member of a branch of evangelical Christians known as the Divino Amor group, she uses her position to offer a kind of physical therapy to couples who want to separate. Although Joana and her husband Danilo regularly consummate their marriage, neither her constant prayers nor any other methods of assistance seem to be able to fulfill their desire for a child.

Divine Love

2019

Death Inhabits at Night poster
7.0

Greasy hair; grooved and unshaven face; emanating alcohol fumes. Raúl just doesn't care anymore. In the opening scene of Death Inhabits at Night, the unemployed writer pours himself another glass of cheap wine as an upstairs neighbour leaps to his death. His girlfriend is clearly more upset by the incident. A little later, she finds a letter by the door reminding them to pay the rent or be evicted. Raúl shrugs and suggests going back to bed. But all of this dismissiveness changes following a meeting with a troubled young girl.

Death Inhabits at Night

2022

Pureza poster
7.3

"Pureza" tells a story of a mother, Pureza, who goes in search of her son, Abel, disappeared after leaving for the mining in the Amazon.

Pureza

2022

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

MC Estrela

2027

Alemão 2 poster
5.9

The Alemão community in Rio de Janeiro is known for its high crime rate. Once again, a team faces drug trafficking to try to carry out the proposals inside the complex.

Alemão 2

2022

The Last Breath poster
3.0

The living call for revenge. The dead minerals and vegetables demand revenge. It is the hour of general protest. It's time for the destroying flights. It's time for the barricades, the shootings. Famines, desires, cravings, lost dreams, miseries of all countries, unite.

The Last Breath

2016

Amor ao Quadrado poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Amor ao Quadrado

2016

Saint George poster
6.5

In 2011 Portugal began the so-called "year of the Troika" (EU, IMF and ECB budget cuts and economic restructuring), with the level of debt among the Portuguese people reaching staggering amounts and a growing number of families and companies unable to repay their installment loans. Jorge is an unemployed boxer on the verge of losing his son and his wife, who has decided to return to Brazil. As a means of paying off his debt and persuading his wife to remain in Portugal, Jorge accepts a job with a debt-collection agency, which will drag him into a world of violence and crime.

Saint George

2017

Trinta poster
6.7

Biopic about the late Joãozinho Trinta, a self-taught classical dancer who turned Rio's Carnival into an international phenomenon in the 1970s and '80s by directing parades for samba schools and putting focus on costumes and decor.

Trinta

2013

M8 - When Death Rescues Life poster
7.2

When Maurício becomes a student at a top medical school, he becomes obsessed with a mystery linked to the dead bodies used for dissection.

M8 - When Death Rescues Life

2019

Alemão poster
6.2

Five undercover cops at Complexo do Alemão, one of Rio de Janeiro's most dangerous areas, have their covers blown by drug dealers. Arrested, they wait execution or to be rescued by police forces that would risk expose a larger operation.

Alemão

2014

Rat Fever poster
6.2

Zizo, a radical and anarchist poet living in a marginal quarter of Recife in the north eastern state of Pernambuco, distributes his social angst-filled thoughts through a publication named Febre do Rato, and spews poetry to anyone who’d listen. Our character always revolves within the universe that he has created around himself. A very particular world, in which satisfying the unfortunate is a mixture of a kind of benefit with high dose of malice.

Rat Fever

2012

My Friend Nietzsche poster
7.6

11-year-old Lucas finds a philosophy book by Nietzsche in the city dump, discarded by its previous owner. This improbable meeting will be the beginning of a violent revolution in his mind, within his family and within society. In the end, Lucas will be no longer a boy -- He will be dynamite.

My Friend Nietzsche

2012

Um Dia Qualquer poster
NR

Under the masks and fantasies of another day in Rio's suburbs, the intense reality of families and neighbors living in a neighborhood under the domain of the expansive militia is hidden.

Um Dia Qualquer

2022

Falas Negras poster
9.8

The special features 22 real testimonials from people like Mandela, Martin Luther King and Marielle Franco, who fought racism and freedom in favor of justice.

Falas Negras

2020

Maresia poster
5.3

Where do you draw the line between fact and fiction in one man's life? That's the issue confronting an art expert delving into the biography of a painter who drowned 50 years ago, whose presence suddenly makes itself felt through the appearance of a contemporary friend.

Maresia

2016

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