Marcélia Cartaxo
Birthday: 1963-10-27
Place of Birth: Cajazeiras, Paraíba, Brazil
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.
Movies
A Praia do Fim do Mundo
Young Alice lives with her mother Helena in Ciarema, in a house facing the sea. The residence suffer...
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Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affir...
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Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capit...
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Alexandre e Outros Heróis
Inspired by an novel by Graciliano Ramos, Alexandre e Outros Heróis is a beautiful way to celebrate ...
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Agreste
Drylands could be anywhere, just as Marcélia Cartaxo could be many women (including herself). The ac...
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Hour of the Star
Macabéa has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typ...
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Brasa Adormecida
Rich girl travels with her fiancé (a cousin) to the family farm, where they're going to marry. But f...
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Soul's Boundary
The story of two brothers who are trying to farm in the Brazilian Amazon....
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Cesium-137
In 1987, in Goiânia, two paper collectors find a radioactive capsule and sell it to the owner of a j...
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Madame Satã
In the favelas of Rio de Janeiro of the 1930s, João Francisco dos Santos is several things — son of ...
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Bog of Beasts
A man falls in love with a teenage girl, who is exploited by her own grandfather, who sometimes take...
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Baptism of Blood
In São Paulo, in the late 1960s, the convent of the Dominican friars became a trench of resistance t...
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Big Jet
The boy Francisco spent his days accompanying his father at work, or rather, on the roads. The man i...
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Love for Sale
In northern Brazil, Hermila patiently waits for her husband. However, he has abandoned her. Sexy, re...
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The History of Eternity
In a small village in the hinterland, three stories of love and desire are changing the emotional la...
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What Is It Worth?
Free adaptation of Machado de Assis's short story "Pai Contra Mãe", having some of Nireu Cavalcanti'...
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New Amsterdam
The arrival of the West Indian Companies to Natal in the XVII century is just the beginning of this ...
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Sonhei com Você
Milionário and José Rico are robbed of their money and their fans' enthusiasm. But a female truck dr...
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Sixteen-Oh-Sixty
Rich executive being threatened by a burglar who had been caught trying to steal his mansion hires a...
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For All - O Trampolim da Vitória
1943, World War II. The northeastern coast of Brazil is an strategic region for the Allies. Giancarl...
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Pacarrete
Russas, a small town in northeastern Brazil, is the home of Pacarrete, a grumpy retired dance teache...
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A Ética das Hienas
A fraud in a labor cause is discovered, but nothing like a good deal in Brazil. With Justice, with t...
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Coconut Sweet
Diana's family produces coconut sweets. João gathers the coconut and Diana and Lucia make the sweets...
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Familiar Environment
There are many ways to overcome the losses and drop-outs of childhood. Three boys reinvent the conce...
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Acqua Movie
A documentarist is convinced by her son to travel to Brazil's Northeast so she can throw his dad ash...
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Faixa de Gaza
In a housing complex on the outskirts, Mago heads a band of young people enticing and committing cri...
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Amélia
Fictional story based on Sarah Bernhard's visit to Brazil in 1905. The actress, experiencing a perso...
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Delicate Crime
Antônio Martins, respected theatrical critic, is a very rational man. But a chance meeting with youn...
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She Who Lives Upstairs
Luzia consumes all the sweets from the neighboring baker, Carmen. Friendship evolves into a platonic...
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Helen
Helen lives in a cortiço with her grandmother, Mrs. Graça, who supports the family with informal job...
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O Seu Amor de Volta (Mesmo que ele não queira)
The comic docu-drama that follows four characters who share their stories (real and imagined) about ...
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The Mother
A street vendor who lives in the outskirts of São Paulo returns home at night and does not find her ...
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The Patriot
Policarpo is a chauvinistic patriot, a major who tries to find solutions for Brazilian problems usin...
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Lispectorante
Glória Hartman, a mature woman going through an existential and financial crisis, returns to her hom...
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Nossos Caminhos
Based on real events and set in the Brazilian backlands, the script follows the journey of Carla and...
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Gravidade
In an ancient family mansion, mother Sydia and daughter Nina spend a tense night of isolation just a...
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O Caso Morel
A series of conversations between a detective and an imprisoned artist accused of murdering one of h...
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