Movies: Marcélia Cartaxo

  • 2007
    Baptism of Blood

    Baptism of Blood (2007)

    Baptism of Blood

    7.42007HD

    In São Paulo, in the late 1960s, the convent of the Dominican friars became a trench of resistance to the military dictatorship that governs Brazil. Moved by Christian ideals, frets Betto, Oswaldo, Fernando, Ivo and Tito came to support the guerrilla...

    Baptism of Blood
  • 1985
    Hour of the Star

    Hour of the Star (1985)

    Hour of the Star

    7.31985HD

    Macabéa has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time, she listens to a radio station called Time; on Sundays, she likes to ri...

    Hour of the Star
  • 2006
    Bog of Beasts

    Bog of Beasts (2006)

    Bog of Beasts

    5.72006HD

    A man falls in love with a teenage girl, who is exploited by her own grandfather, who sometimes takes her to a gas station to show her naked to whomever pays him some money....

    Bog of Beasts
  • 2006
    Love for Sale

    Love for Sale (2006)

    Love for Sale

    7.42006HD

    In northern Brazil, Hermila patiently waits for her husband. However, he has abandoned her. Sexy, restless and resolute, she raffles off "a night in paradise" with herself. This beautifully-shot portrait doesn't shy away from the burdens of a young s...

    Love for Sale
  • 2002
    Madame Satã

    Madame Satã (2002)

    Madame Satã

    6.92002HD

    A story inspired by the life of one of the most remarkable figures in Brazilian popular culture, João Francisco dos Santos (1900-1976). In turn, bandit, transvestite, street fighter, brothel cook, convict and father to seven adopted children, dos San...

    Madame Satã
  • 2005
    What Is It Worth?

    What Is It Worth? (2005)

    What Is It Worth?

    6.52005HD

    Free adaptation of Machado de Assis's short story "Pai Contra Mãe", having some of Nireu Cavalcanti's 18th Century chronicles as inspiration, the film traces parallels between life in during the slavery period and in modern Brazil....

    What Is It Worth?
  • 1997
    Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional

    Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional (1997)

    Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional

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    "Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."...

    Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
  • 2005
    Delicate Crime

    Delicate Crime (2005)

    Delicate Crime

    5.42005HD

    Antônio Martins, respected theatrical critic, is a very rational man. But a chance meeting with young Inês, a nude painting model, is going to rock him. Inês keeps a relationship with painter José Torres Campana, an older man with a deep influence ov...

    Delicate Crime
  • 1990
    Cesium-137

    Cesium-137 (1990)

    Cesium-137

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    In 1987, in Goiânia, two paper collectors find a radioactive capsule and sell it to the owner of a junkyard. Once the capsule is opened, more than 250 people end up contaminated by the substance called Cesium 137, being the biggest radiological accid...

    Cesium-137
  • 2020
    Candango: Memoirs from a Festival

    Candango: Memoirs from a Festival (2020)

    Candango: Memoirs from a Festival

    52020HD

    In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself....

    Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
  • 2000
    Amélia

    Amélia (2000)

    Amélia

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    Fictional story based on Sarah Bernhard's visit to Brazil in 1905. The actress, experiencing a personal and professional crisis at the time, is induced by her personal Brazilian maid, Amélia, to make a performance in Rio de Janeiro. After arriving, s...

    Amélia
  • 2019
    Pacarrete

    Pacarrete (2019)

    Pacarrete

    7.82019HD

    Russas, a small town in northeastern Brazil, is the home of Pacarrete, a grumpy retired dance teacher who dreams of getting a big shot and starring at a dance spectacle for the whole town to see. She's close to fulfilling that dream, but not without ...

    Pacarrete
  • 2015
    Big Jet

    Big Jet (2015)

    Big Jet

    52015HD

    The boy Francisco spent his days accompanying his father at work, or rather, on the roads. The man is a driver of the imposing Big Jet, a pickup truck used to clean the city's cesspools without basic sanitation. But the boy is more interested in the ...

    Big Jet
  • 1998
    The Patriot

    The Patriot (1998)

    The Patriot

    4.21998HD

    Policarpo is a chauvinistic patriot, a major who tries to find solutions for Brazilian problems using only the resources of his own country. His visionary and idealistic temperament is behind his strange ideas about how to build a great nation....

    The Patriot
  • 2019
    Acqua Movie

    Acqua Movie (2019)

    Acqua Movie

    4.82019HD

    A documentarist is convinced by her son to travel to Brazil's Northeast so she can throw his dad ashes at São Francisco river....

    Acqua Movie
  • 2003
    Wrath Time

    Wrath Time (2003)

    Wrath Time

    6.52003HD

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    Wrath Time
  • 1986
    Brasa Adormecida

    Brasa Adormecida (1986)

    Brasa Adormecida

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    Rich girl travels with her fiancé (a cousin) to the family farm, where they're going to marry. But finds another cousin in love with her who does everything to hamper the wedding....

    Brasa Adormecida
  • 2014
    The History of Eternity

    The History of Eternity (2014)

    The History of Eternity

    7.72014HD

    In a small village in the hinterland, three stories of love and desire are changing the emotional landscape of its residents. Characters of a romanesque world in which their conceptions of life are limited on one side by human instincts, on the other...

    The History of Eternity
  • 2024
    Lispectorante

    Lispectorante (2024)

    Lispectorante

    02024HD

    Glória Hartman, a mature woman going through an existential and financial crisis, returns to her hometown, which is undergoing a process of abandonment. Through a crack in the ruins of where the writer Clarice Lispector once lived, Glória begins to s...

    Lispectorante
  • 2019
    O Seu Amor de Volta (Mesmo que ele não queira)

    O Seu Amor de Volta (Mesmo que ele não queira) (2019)

    O Seu Amor de Volta (Mesmo que ele não queira)

    52019HD

    The comic docu-drama that follows four characters who share their stories (real and imagined) about frustrated love, addressing the most diverse superstitions and rituals performed in search of success in love. To delve into the nature of the account...

    O Seu Amor de Volta (Mesmo que ele não queira)