Marlene França Movies

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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.

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...

Documentary about a group of children who live on the streets of São Paulo and come together to survive the harsh reality of hunger, violence...

A short film made for City Life (1990)

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