Marlene França Movies

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

A short film made for City Life (1990)

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

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...