
Marlene França
Acting
Biography
Marlene França (Uauá, August 5, 1943 — Itatiba, September 23, 2011) was a Brazilian actress, filmmaker, director, documentarian, presenter and announcer.
Known For
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Almas de Pedra
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Ciúme

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...
Cocky

Two factory workers decide to spend all of their pay on a Saturday night with two prostitutes, but things don't go as planned.
A Noite do Desejo
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Yoshico, um Poema de Amor

An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world.
The Wind Rose
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O Coração Não Envelhece

Poor civil servant, separated from his wife, works hard and runs into debt in order to finance his paralytic daughter's medical treatment.
O Pequeno Mundo de Marcos

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 the cangaceiros - bandits who roamed the Northeast of Brazil until the late 1930s.
Lampião, King of the Badlands

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

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 can pass all his fortune to him. Pablo goes to see his father in Brazil, expecting to inherit a large sum of money, but instead, he receives from his father a treasure map, with the promise that the map will make him rich. After the father dies, Pablo decides to go to an adventure and seek the treasure, aided by the men his father choose as companionship, and by one woman faith choose for him.
The Conquest of Paradise

Saul and Mônica return to São Paulo after three years and find his family's colonial mansion abandoned, inhabited only by his old nanny, Bá, and his brother, Domício.
A Casa das Tentações

Bums find $15,000 in trash, but the money belonged to criminals.
Se Meu Dólar Falasse...

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

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, but not according to their plans.
A Infidelidade ao Alcance de Todos

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

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 cinema can and must have.
Chick Fowle, Faixa Preta de Cinema

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 complete mess, since Jo's mother can not hold herself and accuses her daughter in front of all guests of not being a child that everyone thought she still was. Jo rebels and leaves the house, and discovers that her boyfriend listened to everything and did not help her. She decides to leave him, and to start her life again. As a woman, now.
Nasce uma Mulher

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

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 to the play to find out who caused the tragedy.