Mariana Nunes

Mariana Nunes

Born: November 23, 1980
in Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
Mariana de Sousa Nunes (Brasília, November 23, 1980) is a Brazilian actress. She graduated from Faculdade de Artes Dulcina de Moraes, FADM. For two years, she was part of the company "Coletivo Irmãos Guimarães" of brothers Adriano and Fernando Guimarães, traveling throughout Brazil and abroad, performing in the plays Luz Menos, Respiração Emboladae Cirandas, As Quatro Estações das Flores and studied acting for television and cinema at the Instituto del Cine in Madrid. She is known for Alemão: Both Sides of the Operation (2014), Second Call (2019) and All The Flowers (2022).

Movies for Mariana Nunes...

Title: Love Is for the Strong
Released: November 16, 2023
Type: TV
The story of two mothers in search for justice after a police invasion in their community led to a tragedy that changed the lives of these two families forever. On one hand, Rita deals with the death of her youngest son, Sushi. On the other, Edna, the mother of police officer Digão, faces the consequences of her son's actions during the operation.
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Amores Pandêmicos
Title: Amores Pandêmicos
Character: Antonia
Released: July 26, 2023
Type: Movie
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Title: All the Flowers
Character: Judite Xavier
Released: October 19, 2022
Type: TV
Maíra was raised by her father believing that her mother had died. This was a lie her father told her in order to protect her from the scorn of her mother, who rejected her when she learned that her daughter was born with a disability. Many years later, Maíra comes across a stranger on their doorstep. That’s Zoé, her mother. Without revealing her true intentions, Zoe reappears asking her daughter’s forgiveness for having abandoned her. As in a dream that turns into a nightmare, Maíra experiences the strongest emotions of her life and what would be a happy fresh start for Maíra with her family turns into a long and dangerous journey.
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Death Inhabits at Night
Title: Death Inhabits at Night
Character: Ligia
Released: August 1, 2022
Type: Movie
Greasy hair; grooved and unshaven face; emanating alcohol fumes. Raúl just doesn't care anymore. In the opening scene of Death Inhabits at Night, the unemployed writer pours himself another glass of cheap wine as an upstairs neighbour leaps to his death. His girlfriend is clearly more upset by the incident. A little later, she finds a letter by the door reminding them to pay the rent or be evicted. Raúl shrugs and suggests going back to bed. But all of this dismissiveness changes following a meeting with a troubled young girl.
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Um Dia Qualquer
Title: Um Dia Qualquer
Released: June 23, 2022
Type: Movie
Under the masks and fantasies of another day in Rio's suburbs, the intense reality of families and neighbors living in a neighborhood under the domain of the expansive militia is hidden.
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Pureza
Title: Pureza
Character: Elenice
Released: May 19, 2022
Type: Movie
"Pureza" tells a story of a mother, Pureza, who goes in search of her son, Abel, disappeared after leaving for the mining in the Amazon.
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Alemão 2
Title: Alemão 2
Character: Mariana
Released: March 31, 2022
Type: Movie
The Alemão community in Rio de Janeiro is known for its high crime rate. Once again, a team faces drug trafficking to try to carry out the proposals inside the complex.
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Title: A Life to Die For
Character: Joana Valadares
Released: November 22, 2021
Type: TV
Tells the story of the quartet formed by a friendly and bankrupt ex-football player, a rich and snobby surgeon, a powerful and arrogant executive and a scammer with a heart of stone. They are victims of a plane crash on the same day they met each other and end up dying. When they meet Death, they are told that their time to go has not yet come and that they must return to life to deal with their personal issues. However, Death warns that, in a year, one of them will actually die and the four decide to take this second chance to achieve their greatest goals in life.
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Dr. Gama
Title: Dr. Gama
Character: Claudina (adulta)
Released: July 29, 2021
Type: Movie
Based on the biography of Luiz Gama, one of the most important characters in Brazilian history, a black man who used the laws and courts to free more than 500 slaves. Born of a free womb, Gama was sold into slavery at the age of 10 to pay off his father's gambling debts. Even as a slave, he became literate, studied and earned his own freedom, becoming one of the most respected lawyers of his time. An abolitionist and republican who inspired an entire country.
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Falas Negras
Title: Falas Negras
Character: Lélia Gonzalez
Released: November 20, 2020
Type: Movie
The special features 22 real testimonials from people like Mandela, Martin Luther King and Marielle Franco, who fought racism and freedom in favor of justice.
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Title: Um Dia Qualquer
Character: Penha
Released: August 17, 2020
Type: TV
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M8 - When Death Rescues Life
Title: M8 - When Death Rescues Life
Character: Cida
Released: December 3, 2019
Type: Movie
When Maurício becomes a student at a top medical school, he becomes obsessed with a mystery linked to the dead bodies used for dissection.
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Title: Vítimas Digitais
Character: Tereza
Released: November 4, 2019
Type: TV
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Title: Second Call
Character: Gislaine Silva de Oliveira
Released: October 8, 2019
Type: TV
'Second Call' focuses on the resilience stories of teachers and students in a complex public education system. After some time off from teaching, Lúcia Helena returns to the classroom, now giving night classes to teenagers and adults. Along with other three teachers and the principal, she faces institutional adversities and the lack of appreciation without flinching. The conflicts involve both the faculty and the student body and, in this scenario, Education emerges as a hope, reminding everyone that it is never too late to have a second chance.
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Divine Love
Title: Divine Love
Character: Lígia
Released: June 27, 2019
Type: Movie
In 2027 Brazil, civil servant Joana mainly deals with divorce cases. As a member of a branch of evangelical Christians known as the Divino Amor group, she uses her position to offer a kind of physical therapy to couples who want to separate. Although Joana and her husband Danilo regularly consummate their marriage, neither her constant prayers nor any other methods of assistance seem to be able to fulfill their desire for a child.
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Zama
Title: Zama
Character: Malemba
Released: September 28, 2017
Type: Movie
In a remote South American colony in the late 18th century, officer Zama of the Spanish crown waits in vain for a transfer to a more prestigious location. He suffers small humiliations and petty politicking as he increasingly succumbs to lust and paranoia.
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Title: Carcereiros
Character: Janaína Macedo
Released: September 4, 2017
Type: TV
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Saint George
Title: Saint George
Character: Susana
Released: March 9, 2017
Type: Movie
In 2011 Portugal began the so-called "year of the Troika" (EU, IMF and ECB budget cuts and economic restructuring), with the level of debt among the Portuguese people reaching staggering amounts and a growing number of families and companies unable to repay their installment loans. Jorge is an unemployed boxer on the verge of losing his son and his wife, who has decided to return to Brazil. As a means of paying off his debt and persuading his wife to remain in Portugal, Jorge accepts a job with a debt-collection agency, which will drag him into a world of violence and crime.
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Amor ao Quadrado
Title: Amor ao Quadrado
Character: Sarah
Released: December 24, 2016
Type: Movie
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Maresia
Title: Maresia
Character: Maria
Released: November 17, 2016
Type: Movie
Where do you draw the line between fact and fiction in one man's life? That's the issue confronting an art expert delving into the biography of a painter who drowned 50 years ago, whose presence suddenly makes itself felt through the appearance of a contemporary friend.
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The Last Breath
Title: The Last Breath
Released: September 23, 2016
Type: Movie
The living call for revenge. The dead minerals and vegetables demand revenge. It is the hour of general protest. It's time for the destroying flights. It's time for the barricades, the shootings. Famines, desires, cravings, lost dreams, miseries of all countries, unite.
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Pelé: Birth of a Legend
Title: Pelé: Birth of a Legend
Character: Celeste Arantes
Released: May 6, 2016
Type: Movie
The life story of Brazilian football legend, Pele.
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Title: Merciless
Character: Dina
Released: September 19, 2014
Type: TV
Eduardo Borges is a young man above all suspicion: handsome, smart, and sensitive. However, his perfect man appearance is simply a mask that covers up his fearsome personality: a dangerous psychopath behind a number of crimes that have caught the police’s attention. A cold, conniving, and callous criminal; a serial killer who kills purely out of pleasure.
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The Other Side of Paradise
Title: The Other Side of Paradise
Character: Enide
Released: August 6, 2014
Type: Movie
Nando, a 12 year old boy, narrates the adventures of his father Antonio, during the 60s in Brazil, who leaves the inland of the state of Minas to go to Brasília, a recently inaugurated city, but still with construction works in progress.
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Alemão
Title: Alemão
Character: Mariana
Released: February 7, 2014
Type: Movie
Five undercover cops at Complexo do Alemão, one of Rio de Janeiro's most dangerous areas, have their covers blown by drug dealers. Arrested, they wait execution or to be rescued by police forces that would risk expose a larger operation.
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Trinta
Title: Trinta
Character: Isabel
Released: October 18, 2013
Type: Movie
Biopic about the late Joãozinho Trinta, a self-taught classical dancer who turned Rio's Carnival into an international phenomenon in the 1970s and '80s by directing parades for samba schools and putting focus on costumes and decor.
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All These Days When I'm Foreign
Title: All These Days When I'm Foreign
Character: Client
Released: January 1, 2013
Type: Movie
Two northeastern brothers live and work as waiters in Baixada Fluminense. The duo tries to balance themselves in an underworld permeated by financial difficulties, prostitution and urban violence. Antônio feels out of place.
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My Friend Nietzsche
Title: My Friend Nietzsche
Character: Aurora
Released: September 22, 2012
Type: Movie
11-year-old Lucas finds a philosophy book by Nietzsche in the city dump, discarded by its previous owner. This improbable meeting will be the beginning of a violent revolution in his mind, within his family and within society. In the end, Lucas will be no longer a boy -- He will be dynamite.
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Rat Fever
Title: Rat Fever
Character: Rosângela
Released: June 22, 2012
Type: Movie
Zizo, a radical and anarchist poet living in a marginal quarter of Recife in the north eastern state of Pernambuco, distributes his social angst-filled thoughts through a publication named Febre do Rato, and spews poetry to anyone who’d listen. Our character always revolves within the universe that he has created around himself. A very particular world, in which satisfying the unfortunate is a mixture of a kind of benefit with high dose of malice.
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O Homem Mau Dorme Bem
Title: O Homem Mau Dorme Bem
Released: November 19, 2009
Type: Movie
In a petrol station near the road, three characters meet: Rita, the station's owner, that keeps searching for a love that she thought she once had; Wésley, a seller of pirate DVD's and CD's that, after thrown into underemployment, is trying to rebuilt his life; and Caburé, that haven't slept in years waiting to redeem a past of life and death. Gathered by an apparent coincidence, they weave their fate until they discover what is common in their stories.