Marcélia Cartaxo
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.3375 |
| Birthday | 1963-10-27 |
| Place of Birth | Cajazeiras, Paraíba, Brazil |
| Also Known As | Marcelia Cartaxo, |
2021
A Praia do Fim do Mundo
10/1
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...
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A Praia do Fim do Mundo
1997
Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
0/0
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."
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Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
2009
O Sonho de Inacim
0/0
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O Sonho de Inacim
2020
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
5/1
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 cult...
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Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
2013
Alexandre e Outros Heróis
0/0
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 man, his li...
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Alexandre e Outros Heróis
2010
Agreste
6/1
Drylands could be anywhere, just as Marcélia Cartaxo could be many women (including herself). The actress is placed in a situation in which she encoun...
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Agreste
2024
Batalha de Flores
0/0
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Batalha de Flores
2015
Moído
0/0
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Moído
2024
Umbilina e Sua Grande Rival
0/0
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Umbilina e Sua Grande Rival
1988
Soul's Boundary
6/2
The story of two brothers who are trying to farm in the Brazilian Amazon.
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Soul's Boundary
2013
Trampolim do Forte
6/1
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Trampolim do Forte
1990
Cesium-137
5.889/9
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...
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Cesium-137
1986
Hour of the Star
7.229/83
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 oth...
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Hour of the Star
2002
Madame Satã
6.835/82
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 f...
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Madame Satã
2006
Love for Sale
7.3/66
In northern Brazil, Hermila patiently waits for her husband. However, he has abandoned her. Sexy, restless and resolute, she raffles off "a night in p...
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Love for Sale
2007
Baptism of Blood
7.405/37
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. M...
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Baptism of Blood
1986
Brasa Adormecida
6/5
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 ever...
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Brasa Adormecida
2006
Bog of Beasts
6/46
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 whomev...
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Bog of Beasts
2015
Big Jet
4.7/12
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...
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Big Jet
2014
The History of Eternity
7.725/20
In a small village in the hinterland, three stories of love and desire are changing the emotional landscape of its residents. Characters of a romanesq...
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The History of Eternity
2005
What Is It Worth?
6.571/21
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...
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What Is It Worth?
2017
New Amsterdam
9.5/4
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...
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New Amsterdam
2006
The Invisible Friend
0/0
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The Invisible Friend
1988
Sonhei com Você
9/1
Milionário and José Rico are robbed of their money and their fans' enthusiasm. But a female truck driver is out to help them.
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Sonhei com Você
1995
Sixteen-Oh-Sixty
6.3/5
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...
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Sixteen-Oh-Sixty
1998
For All - O Trampolim da Vitória
5.6/5
1943, World War II. The northeastern coast of Brazil is an strategic region for the Allies. Giancarlo, an Italian immigrant married to a Brazilian wom...
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For All - O Trampolim da Vitória
2017
Nova Iorque
0/0
Hermila and Leandro want to escape. Hermila and Leandro want to stay.
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Nova Iorque
2019
Pacarrete
7.8/24
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...
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Pacarrete
2019
A Ética das Hienas
0/0
A fraud in a labor cause is discovered, but nothing like a good deal in Brazil. With Justice, with the market, with everything.
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A Ética das Hienas
2003
Wrath Time
7.667/3
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Wrath Time
2010
Coconut Sweet
5.5/2
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, Dia...
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Coconut Sweet
2019
Familiar Environment
0/0
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.
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Familiar Environment
2019
Acqua Movie
5.9/4
A documentarist is convinced by her son to travel to Brazil's Northeast so she can throw his dad ashes at São Francisco river.
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Acqua Movie
2019
Faixa de Gaza
0/0
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 w...
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Faixa de Gaza
2000
Amélia
8.556/9
Fictional story based on Sarah Bernhard's visit to Brazil in 1905. The actress, experiencing a personal and professional crisis at the time, is induce...
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Amélia
2005
Delicate Crime
5.412/17
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 hi...
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Delicate Crime
2020
She Who Lives Upstairs
6/1
Luzia consumes all the sweets from the neighboring baker, Carmen. Friendship evolves into a platonic passion, which brings a new flavor to Luzia's bit...
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She Who Lives Upstairs
2020
Helen
9.5/2
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...
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Helen
2019
O Seu Amor de Volta (Mesmo que ele não queira)
5/1
The comic docu-drama that follows four characters who share their stories (real and imagined) about frustrated love, addressing the most diverse super...
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O Seu Amor de Volta (Mesmo que ele não queira)
2022
The Mother
8.2/2
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 ou...
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The Mother
1998
The Patriot
4.833/6
Policarpo is a chauvinistic patriot, a major who tries to find solutions for Brazilian problems using only the resources of his own country. His visio...
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The Patriot
1994
Dente Por Dente
4/2
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Dente Por Dente
2025
Lispectorante
8.5/3
Glória Hartman, a mature woman going through an existential and financial crisis, returns to her hometown, which is undergoing a process of abandonmen...
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Lispectorante
1994
A Árvore de Marcação
10/1
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Nossos Caminhos
0/0
Based on real events and set in the Brazilian backlands, the script follows the journey of Carla and Luzinete, two sisters marked by a childhood of ab...
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Nossos Caminhos
2025
Gravidade
0/0
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...
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Gravidade
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Marcélia
2006
O Caso Morel
0/0
A series of conversations between a detective and an imprisoned artist accused of murdering one of his former mates.
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O Caso Morel
1987
Salvar o Brasil
0/0
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Salvar o Brasil
2026
State of Fear
5.701/67
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 nie...
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