Marlene França Movies

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

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

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

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

During the rehearsals of a play four actresses are poisoned.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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)

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

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

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

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...