Marlene França

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...

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.

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

Erotic comedy in two segments: in the first, a candidate running for mayor of a small town pays a visit to the most coveted woman in town, just to...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

Based on a book by Machado de Assis (1839-1908) and adapted to the present time. After the death of the philosopher Quincas Borba, his friend and...

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...

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,...

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

A sculptor, protected by a millionaire woman, becomes suspect of her murder. He flees to the country, where a violent pursuit takes place.

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...

"Jaws" spoof. The title means "Cod". A terrible monster threatens the beach season: the cod from Guinea. To catch the fish, local authorities count...

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

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

About English photographer Chick Fowle. Statements by Anselmo Duarte, Leonardo Vilar, Marlene França, Vanja Orico. A film about directors,...

A short film made for City Life (1990)