Movies: 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 the boy's hidden (and big) qualities......

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

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

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

A short film made for City Life (1990)...

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 show off his manhood. In the other, three couples have fun in a different sort of New Year's eve party,...

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

...

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

...

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

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

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, actors and teams that Chick Fowle worked and works with, also showing the possibility of renewal that Brazilian...

...

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, mysteriously, the four leading actresses are poisoned. Now, the police will investigate each person related...

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

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 life, but falls in love with a woman who despises him, which drives him mad....

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