Marcélia Cartaxo
Marcélia de Souza Cartaxo (Cajazeiras, October 27, 1963) is a Brazilian actress and director, who gained notoriety in the film A Hora da Estrela, based on the novel by Clarice Lispector. She has won several awards in her career, including two Grande Otelo awards, three Guarani Awards, a Kikito from the Gramado Festival, four Candango Trophies from the Brasília Festival, as well as the Silver Bear for best actress at the Berlin Film Festival.
Hour of the Star
as MacabéaMacabéa has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a...
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Bog of Beasts
as uncreditedA man falls in love with a teenage girl, who is exploited by her own grandfather, who sometimes...
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Madame Satã
as LauritaA story inspired by the life of one of the most remarkable figures in Brazilian popular culture,...
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Baptism of Blood
as NildesIn São Paulo, in the late 1960s, the convent of the Dominican friars became a trench of...
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Love for Sale
as MarceliaIn northern Brazil, Hermila patiently waits for her husband. However, he has abandoned her....
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The History of Eternity
as QuerciaIn a small village in the hinterland, three stories of love and desire are changing the...
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Cesium-137
as Mulher de VaváIn 1987, in Goiânia, two paper collectors find a radioactive capsule and sell it to the owner of...
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Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
as Self"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that...
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What Is It Worth?
as AdéliaFree adaptation of Machado de Assis's short story "Pai Contra Mãe", having some of Nireu...
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Pacarrete
as PacarreteRussas, a small town in northeastern Brazil, is the home of Pacarrete, a grumpy retired dance...
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Acqua Movie
as KatiaA documentarist is convinced by her son to travel to Brazil's Northeast so she can throw his dad...
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Big Jet
as uncreditedThe boy Francisco spent his days accompanying his father at work, or rather, on the roads. The...
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Lispectorante
as Glória HartmanGlória Hartman, a mature woman going through an existential and financial crisis, returns to her...
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Delicate Crime
as uncreditedAntônio Martins, respected theatrical critic, is a very rational man. But a chance meeting with...
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Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
as Self (archive footage)In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's...
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A Ética das Hienas
as uncreditedA fraud in a labor cause is discovered, but nothing like a good deal in Brazil. With Justice,...
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Brasa Adormecida
as uncreditedRich girl travels with her fiancé (a cousin) to the family farm, where they're going to marry....
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The Patriot
as Sinhá ChicaPolicarpo is a chauvinistic patriot, a major who tries to find solutions for Brazilian problems...
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For All - O Trampolim da Vitória
as Miloca1943, World War II. The northeastern coast of Brazil is an strategic region for the Allies....
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Faixa de Gaza
as uncreditedIn a housing complex on the outskirts, Mago heads a band of young people enticing and committing...
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O Seu Amor de Volta (Mesmo que ele não queira)
as uncreditedThe comic docu-drama that follows four characters who share their stories (real and imagined)...
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Doce de Coco
as MariaDiana's family produces coconut sweets. João gathers the coconut and Diana and Lucia make the...
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Sixteen-Oh-Sixty
as uncreditedRich executive being threatened by a burglar who had been caught trying to steal his mansion...
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Amélia
as Dona AbadiaFictional story based on Sarah Bernhard's visit to Brazil in 1905. The actress, experiencing a...
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Helen
as Dona GraçaHelen lives in a cortiço with her grandmother, Mrs. Graça, who supports the family with informal...
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New Amsterdam
as Francisco Coelho's WifeThe arrival of the West Indian Companies to Natal in the XVII century is just the beginning of...
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Agreste
as uncreditedDrylands could be anywhere, just as Marcélia Cartaxo could be many women (including herself)....
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The Mother
as MariaA street vendor who lives in the outskirts of São Paulo returns home at night and does not find...
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She Who Lives Upstairs
as LuziaLuzia consumes all the sweets from the neighboring baker, Carmen. Friendship evolves into a...
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A Praia do Fim do Mundo
as HelenaYoung Alice lives with her mother Helena in Ciarema, in a house facing the sea. The residence...
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Sonhei com Você
as MarcelaMilionário and José Rico are robbed of their money and their fans' enthusiasm. But a female...
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Familiar Environment
as uncreditedThere are many ways to overcome the losses and drop-outs of childhood. Three boys reinvent the...
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Nova Iorque
as MadrastaHermila and Leandro want to escape. Hermila and Leandro want to stay.
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New Bandits
as uncreditedAdrift and desperately needing money to pay for his ailing adoptive father's care, Ubaldo, a...
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O Canto da Sereia
as SaleteMeet Sereia, a young and beautiful singer whose world of fame and fortune is interlaced with...
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World’s End
as MazéVitória and her son, Cristiano come back to their hometown Desterro, running away from a...
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