Marcélia Cartaxo
Also Known As: Marcelia Cartaxo
Biography: 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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cajazeiras, Paraíba, Brazil
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Birthday: October 27, 1963
Age: 61 years old
Gender: Female
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A Praia do Fim do Mundo
Overview: Young Alice lives with her mother Helena in Ciarema, in a house facing the sea. The residence suffers from the advance of the sea levels. The daughter, an environmentalist, plans to move elsewhere, but the mother wants to stay in town. They need to find a solution together.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-12-01
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Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
Overview: "Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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O Sonho de Inacim
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-06-14
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Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-10-22
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Alexandre e Outros Heróis
Overview: Inspired by an novel by Graciliano Ramos, Alexandre e Outros Heróis is a beautiful way to celebrate his 60th year of death. The story of a man, his life and his death in the Brazil's backwoods.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-18
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Agreste
Overview: Drylands could be anywhere, just as Marcélia Cartaxo could be many women (including herself). The actress is placed in a situation in which she encounters nature and other female figures, in some instances, her doubles. Out of these encounters spring other possibilities that operate in the world of representation, which, in the film originate from the same imaginary power as children's games in empty lots.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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Batalha de Flores
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-08-22
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Moído
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-07-24
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Umbilina e Sua Grande Rival
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Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-08-30
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Soul's Boundary
Overview: The story of two brothers who are trying to farm in the Brazilian Amazon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-07-06
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Trampolim do Forte
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-12-20
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Cesium-137
Overview: 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 accident in the history of Brazil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-10-10
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Hour of the Star
Overview: 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 ride the metro. Then she meets Olímpico, a northeasterner like herself, who has dreams of becoming a congressman.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1985-04-25
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Madame Satã
Overview: 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 Santos – better known as Madame Satã – was also a notorious gay performer who pushed social boundaries in a volatile time.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-10-03
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Love for Sale
Overview: 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 scarred woman, but it also celebrates her courage to live according to her own rules.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-11-17
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Baptism of Blood
Overview: 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 group Ação Libertadora Nacional, commanded by Carlos Marighella.
Genres: Thriller Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-04-20
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Brasa Adormecida
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1986-08-15
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Bog of Beasts
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-12-12
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Big Jet
Overview: 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 ideas of his uncle, a libertarian and anarchist artist. As he discovers his first love, Chico realizes the vocation to become a poet.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-09-19
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The History of Eternity
Overview: 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 by a blind and fatalist fate.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-07-26
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What Is It Worth?
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-05-20
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New Amsterdam
Overview: The arrival of the West Indian Companies to Natal in the XVII century is just the beginning of this violent story that pushes Bernarda and her family to run away from the city and from the invasion. In the Potengi Mill she meets the foreman's son Rafael and they immediately discover a passionate love. It will give them the force to try to survive during those violent years triggered by Jacob Rabbí, a German assigned by Prince John Maurice of Nassau to command the conquest.
Genres: History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-12-16
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The Invisible Friend
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Genres: Family
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Sonhei com Você
Overview: Milionário and José Rico are robbed of their money and their fans' enthusiasm. But a female truck driver is out to help them.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-08-18
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Sixteen-Oh-Sixty
Overview: Rich executive being threatened by a burglar who had been caught trying to steal his mansion hires a hitman to kill him in prison. But another man is killed instead, leaving a widow and three kids. Full of remorse, he tries to help the family, taking everyone home. Soon, conflicts arise from the impossible coexistence of such contrasting families under the same roof.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1995-10-03
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For All - O Trampolim da Vitória
Overview: 1943, World War II. The northeastern coast of Brazil is an strategic region for the Allies. Giancarlo, an Italian immigrant married to a Brazilian woman, lives nearby the Parnamirin Field, the largest military base built by the USA outside of their territory. In this new base, Brazilian recruits who speak English suddenly find themselves reaching privileged positions.
Genres: Comedy Romance War
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-05-15
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Nova Iorque
Overview: Hermila and Leandro want to escape. Hermila and Leandro want to stay.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-10-05
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Pacarrete
Overview: 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 overcoming a few impediments along the way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-06-15
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A Ética das Hienas
Overview: A fraud in a labor cause is discovered, but nothing like a good deal in Brazil. With Justice, with the market, with everything.
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-08-20
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Wrath Time
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Coconut Sweet
Overview: Diana's family produces coconut sweets. João gathers the coconut and Diana and Lucia make the sweets. Zacarias sells product in the city. One day, Diana goes to the river with her mother and her aunt Maria.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-05-23
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Familiar Environment
Overview: There are many ways to overcome the losses and drop-outs of childhood. Three boys reinvent the concept of family to face the traumas of their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-09-26
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Acqua Movie
Overview: A documentarist is convinced by her son to travel to Brazil's Northeast so she can throw his dad ashes at São Francisco river.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-10-17
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Faixa de Gaza
Overview: In a housing complex on the outskirts, Mago heads a band of young people enticing and committing crimes amid a war of factions reported by the radio waves. Nazaré and Naldin are faced with the violence of this conflict, as both are in the wrong place: the gaza strip.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-02-01
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Amélia
Overview: 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, she is forced to stand the company of Amélia's exotic sisters.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-08-25
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Delicate Crime
Overview: 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 over her. Antônio gets jealous, and the three become characters of a drama saturated with desire and danger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-09-30
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She Who Lives Upstairs
Overview: Luzia consumes all the sweets from the neighboring baker, Carmen. Friendship evolves into a platonic passion, which brings a new flavor to Luzia's bitter days.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-07-07
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Helen
Overview: Helen lives in a cortiço with her grandmother, Mrs. Graça, who supports the family with informal jobs, such as selling skewers. Still very naive, her biggest concern is buying her grandmother a birthday present: a makeup kit. The girl is going to bend over backwards to get the money and her search will reveal the daily life of those living in tenements, outlining a collective story from the network of relations that the girl establishes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-07-23
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O Seu Amor de Volta (Mesmo que ele não queira)
Overview: 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 accounts, fortune tellers, pais de santo, mums-de-santo, and seers are consulted to predict futures, give advice, and explain why people are obsessed with loving and being loved.
Genres: Fantasy Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-09-25
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The Mother
Overview: A street vendor who lives in the outskirts of São Paulo returns home at night and does not find her teenager son. After a nonstop search, she finds out the boy was killed by the police and his body is missing. This is the beginning of this woman’s vertiginous fight for the right to bury her son, a fight that will not only unveil the excessive violence of one of most lethal police forces of the world, but also how structural is racism in Brazilian society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-11-10
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The Patriot
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-04-29
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Dente Por Dente
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Lispectorante
Overview: 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 see fantastic scenes that will change her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2025-05-08
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A Árvore de Marcação
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1994-10-15
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