Marlene França Movies

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

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...

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

Pablo (Arturo Puig) receives the news that his father, who abandoned him and his family a long time ago and was thought dead, wants to see him so he...

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...

A terrible monster threatens the beach season: the cod from Guinea. To catch the fish, local authorities count on the expertise of a Portuguese...

Western spoof. Depicts the conflict between the leader of a gang of country bandits and his former protégé, now a police officer.

Tenement women from the Bexiga neighborhood become prostitutes, induced by a mulatto woman and a crook.

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...

A short film made for City Life (1990)

Man leaves his family behind and moves to Nova Iguaçu, a poor and violent city in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. He tries to rebuild his...

In a desolate area of Brazilian mountainside, cut off from civilization, an old miner discovers a king-size diamond that he puts in his pocket rather...

Three men who never met each other are hired by a mysterious client to carry out a daring bank robbery.

Paulo, an engineer, adopts shoe-shining teenage boy Darci, and slowly realizes he has more than just paternal feelings for him. Many twists follow,...