Marcélia Cartaxo
Birthday: Born in 1963-10-27 in Cajazeiras, Paraíba, Brazil
Deathday: Alive
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.
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A Pedra do Reino
Character: Tia Filipa
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Fim do Mundo
Character: Mazé
Vitória and her son, Cristiano come back to their hometown Desterro, running away from a troubled life in the city. She asks her brother Balbino for shelter. The arrival of mother and son brings the town’s secrets and forgotten stories back to light, in strange, mysterious ways. Cristiano’s journey of self-discovery through the town’s ghostly entrails sets him in a collision course with the most powerful man in town: his uncle....
Cangaço Novo
Character: Zeza (Syzélia)
Adrift and desperately needing money to pay for his ailing adoptive father's care, Ubaldo, a bank clerk who's unable to remember his childhood, receives an inheritance that will change his destiny for good. He goes to Cratará, in the heart of the northwest desert, where he'll become the leader of a pack of ruthless bandits, fulfilling the legacy of his biological father - a mythical cangaceiro....
O Canto da Sereia
Character: Salete
Meet Sereia, a young and beautiful singer whose world of fame and fortune is interlaced with envy and hate. Her murder in the midst of carnival shocks the entire country and the hunt for her killer reveals a new suspect with each new day of investigation. Holding the status of a big-budget thriller, the miniseries brings about mysticism, sensuality and suspense that hooks the viewer until the astonishing end....
Velho Chico
Character: Josefa (Zefa)
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A Praia do Fim do Mundo
Character: Helena
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....
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
Character: Self
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."...
O Sonho de Inacim
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Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
Character: Self (archive footage)
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....
Agreste
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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....
Batalha de Flores
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Moído
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Umbilina e Sua Grande Rival
Character: Umbilina
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Cesium-137
Character: Mulher de Vavá
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....
Love for Sale
Character: Marcelia
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....
The History of Eternity
Character: Quercia
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....
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....
Bog of Beasts
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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....
Big Jet
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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....
Hour of the Star
Character: Macabéa
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....
Baptism of Blood
Character: Nildes
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....
Trampolim do Forte
Character: Dona do Céu
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Madame Satã
Character: Laurita
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....
What Is It Worth?
Character: Adélia
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....
New Amsterdam
Character: Francisco Coelho's Wife
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....
Sonhei com Você
Character: Marcela
Milionário and José Rico are robbed of their money and their fans' enthusiasm. But a female truck driver is out to help them....
Sixteen-Oh-Sixty
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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....
For All - O Trampolim da Vitória
Character: Miloca
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....
Nova Iorque
Character: Madrasta
Hermila and Leandro want to escape. Hermila and Leandro want to stay....
Pacarrete
Character: Pacarrete
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....
A Ética das Hienas
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A fraud in a labor cause is discovered, but nothing like a good deal in Brazil. With Justice, with the market, with everything....
Wrath Time
Character: Cícera
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Doce de Coco
Character: Maria
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....
Familiar Environment
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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....
Acqua Movie
Character: Katia
A documentarist is convinced by her son to travel to Brazil's Northeast so she can throw his dad ashes at São Francisco river....
Faixa de Gaza
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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....
Amélia
Character: Dona Abadia
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....
Delicate Crime
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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....
She Who Lives Upstairs
Character: Luzia
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....
Helen
Character: Dona Graça
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....
O Seu Amor de Volta (Mesmo que ele não queira)
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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....
The Mother
Character: Maria
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....
The Patriot
Character: Sinhá Chica
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....
Dente Por Dente
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Lispectorante
Character: Glória Hartman
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....