Marlene França
Acting
Biography
Marlene França (Uauá, August 5, 1943 — Itatiba, September 23, 2011) was a Brazilian actress, filmmaker, director, documentarian, presenter and announcer.
Born: August 5, 1943
Place of Birth: Uauá, Bahia, Brazil
Known For
Mulher Desejada
Lampião, King of the Badlands
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.
Jeca Tatu
Jeca Tatu is a lazy, simple-minded guy who has his property threatened by the greed of a landowner.
Uma Verdadeira História de Amor
Paulo, an engineer, adopts shoe-shining teenage boy Darci, and slowly realizes he has more than just paternal feelings for him. Many twists follow, regarding Darci's true identity.
Deadly Cruelty
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 life, but falls in love with a woman who despises him, which drives him mad.
The Conquest of Paradise
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 Wind Rose
An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world.
Se Meu Dólar Falasse...
Bums find $15,000 in trash, but the money belonged to criminals.
Chick Fowle, Faixa Preta de Cinema
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.
Cocky
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...
Filmography
as mother
as Telma
as Neifa
as Arlete
as Suzete
as Mecenas
as Marcela
as Amiga de Marcinha
as Marlene
as Retirante (Brazilian Segment) (archive footage)