Marlene França Movies

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...

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

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...

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

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

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.

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

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...

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...

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

A short film made for City Life (1990)