Marcélia Cartaxo
Popularity:0.17
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1963-10-27
Place of Birth:Cajazeiras, Paraíba, Brazil
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Also Known As:Marcelia Cartaxo

A Praia do Fim do Mundo (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. The...

Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional (1997)
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."

Candango: Memoirs from a Festival (2020)
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...

Alexandre e Outros Heróis (2013)
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...

Agreste (2010)
Drylands could be anywhere, just as Marcélia Cartaxo could be many women (including herself). The actress is placed in a situation in which...

Cesium-137 (1990)
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...

Love for Sale (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...

The History of Eternity (2014)
In a small village in the hinterland, three stories of love and desire are changing the emotional landscape of its residents. Characters of a...

Brasa Adormecida (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...

Bog of Beasts (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...

Big Jet (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...

Hour of the Star (1985)
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...

Soul's Boundary (1988)
The story of two brothers who are trying to farm in the Brazilian Amazon.

Baptism of Blood (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...

Madame Satã (2002)
A story inspired by the life of one of the most remarkable figures in Brazilian popular culture, João Francisco dos Santos (1900-1976). In...

What Is It Worth? (2005)
Free adaptation of Machado de Assis's short story "Pai Contra Mãe", having some of Nireu Cavalcanti's 18th Century chronicles as inspiration,...

New Amsterdam (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...

Sonhei com Você (1988)
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 (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. But another man is...

For All - O Trampolim da Vitória (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...

Nova Iorque (2017)
Hermila and Leandro want to escape. Hermila and Leandro want to stay.

Pacarrete (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...

A Ética das Hienas (2019)
A fraud in a labor cause is discovered, but nothing like a good deal in Brazil. With Justice, with the market, with everything.

Doce de Coco (2010)
Diana's family produces coconut sweets. João gathers the coconut and Diana and Lucia make the sweets. Zacarias sells product in the city. One...

Familiar Environment (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.

Acqua Movie (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.

Faixa de Gaza (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...

Amélia (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...

Delicate Crime (2005)
Antônio Martins, respected theatrical critic, is a very rational man. But a chance meeting with young Inês, a nude painting model, is...

She Who Lives Upstairs (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...

Helen (2020)
Helen lives in a cortiço with her grandmother, Mrs. Graça, who supports the family with informal jobs, such as selling skewers. Still...

O Seu Amor de Volta (Mesmo que ele não queira) (2019)
The comic docu-drama that follows four characters who share their stories (real and imagined) about frustrated love, addressing the most diverse...

The Mother (2022)
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...

The Patriot (1998)
Policarpo is a chauvinistic patriot, a major who tries to find solutions for Brazilian problems using only the resources of his own country. His...

Lispectorante (2024)
Glória Hartman, a mature woman going through an existential and financial crisis, returns to her hometown, which is undergoing a process of...

World’s End (2016)
Vitória and her son, Cristiano come back to their hometown Desterro, running away from a troubled life in the city. She asks her brother...

New Bandits (2023)
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,...

O Canto da Sereia (2013)
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...