Movies: Marlene França

"Jaws" spoof. The title means "Cod". A terrible monster threatens the beach season: the cod from Guinea. To catch the fish, local authorities count on the expertise of a Portuguese oceanographer, a fearless fisherman and baits made with Amália Rodrig...

An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world....

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Based on the novel by Franklin Távora, the film follows the adventures of a father and a son in 18th century Brazil....

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......

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On Jo's birthday, her mother, and later, her father, discover that she is not a virgin anymore - she is taking pills. The birthday party turns into a complete mess, since Jo's mother can not hold herself and accuses her daughter in front of all guest...

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...

Tenement women from the Bexiga neighborhood become prostitutes, induced by a mulatto woman and a crook....

Based on a book by Machado de Assis (1839-1908) and adapted to the present time. After the death of the philosopher Quincas Borba, his friend and disciple Rubiao inherits all he possessed: his fortune, his dog, his philosophy and the germ of his madn...

Documentary about a group of children who live on the streets of São Paulo and come together to survive the harsh reality of hunger, violence and oppression....

Suspected of murdering his girlfriend, man is judged by public opinion and gets implicated in a serial killing case....

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In a desolate area of Brazilian mountainside, cut off from civilization, an old miner discovers a king-size diamond that he puts in his pocket rather than turn over to the thugs he works for....

A sculptor, protected by a millionaire woman, becomes suspect of her murder. He flees to the country, where a violent pursuit takes place....

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