Marcélia Cartaxo Trailers
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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.
Most Popular Marcélia Cartaxo Trailers
Total trailers found: 49
20 May 2005
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.
18 August 1988
Milionário and José Rico are robbed of their money and their fans' enthusiasm. But a female truck driver is out to help them.
10 February 2026
As São Paulo erupts in an unprecedented wave of violence, a lawyer with underworld ties must strike a deal with the police to rescue her kidnapped niece.
03 October 1995
Rich executive being threatened by a burglar who had been caught trying to steal his mansion hires a hitman to kill him in prison.
01 January 1997
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema.
26 July 2014
In a small village in the hinterland, three stories of love and desire are changing the emotional landscape of its residents.
10 October 1990
In 1987, in Goiânia, two paper collectors find a radioactive capsule and sell it to the owner of a junkyard.
15 May 1998
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.
30 September 2005
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.
25 April 1986
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.
17 October 2019
A documentarist is convinced by her son to travel to Brazil's Northeast so she can throw his dad ashes at São Francisco river.
15 June 2019
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.
06 July 1988
The story of two brothers who are trying to farm in the Brazilian Amazon.
05 October 2017
Hermila and Leandro want to escape. Hermila and Leandro want to stay.
12 December 2006
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.
20 August 2019
A fraud in a labor cause is discovered, but nothing like a good deal in Brazil. With Justice, with the market, with everything.
07 July 2020
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.
14 April 2016
Mother and son are the last survivors of an tradicional family in Brazil northeast.
01 February 2019
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.
18 December 2013
Inspired by an novel by Graciliano Ramos, Alexandre e Outros Heróis is a beautiful way to celebrate his 60th year of death.
25 September 2019
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.
03 October 2002
In the favelas of Rio de Janeiro of the 1930s, João Francisco dos Santos is several things — son of slaves, ex-convict, thug, homosexual and adopted father for a number of pariahs.
17 November 2006
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.
08 May 2025
Glória Hartman, a mature woman going through an existential and financial crisis, returns to her hometown, which is undergoing a process of abandonment.
29 April 1998
Policarpo is a chauvinistic patriot, a major who tries to find solutions for Brazilian problems using only the resources of his own country.
20 April 2007
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.
25 August 2000
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.
22 October 2020
In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital.
19 September 2015
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.
23 July 2020
Helen lives in a cortiço with her grandmother, Mrs. Graça, who supports the family with informal jobs, such as selling skewers.
10 November 2022
A street vendor who lives in the outskirts of São Paulo returns home at night and does not find her teenager son.
16 December 2017
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.
15 August 1986
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.
01 December 2021
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.
01 September 2025
In an ancient family mansion, mother Sydia and daughter Nina spend a tense night of isolation just as a solar storm threatens to collapse the Earth’s gravity.
23 May 2010
Diana's family produces coconut sweets. João gathers the coconut and Diana and Lucia make the sweets.
26 September 2019
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.
01 January 2010
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.
01 January 2006
A series of conversations between a detective and an imprisoned artist accused of murdering one of his former mates.
