Dira Paes Movies

Zizo, a radical and anarchist poet living in a marginal quarter of Recife in the north eastern state of Pernambuco, distributes his social...

In the mid-19th century, Colonel Pedro Cambará rapes his slave, who gives birth to a girl on a full moon night. Named Lua (Moon), she has to...

A man returns to his hometown and resumes a dangerous old affair...

Reencountering the only man she ever loved is Gringa’s dream. She is the owner of a brothel in the interior of Brazil and even though she is...

Two women, from opposite worlds, Louise and her maid Luzia, both share a passion for music and finding the perfect man. What can happen during a...

"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.

Experience Roque's routine years after the first movie. Joana's tenement is still full of parties, gossip and confusion. The neighborhood prepares...

A painter is found dead with a gun in his hand, in his shabby studio in Lapa, a bohemian district in Rio de Janeiro. A brief note is published on a...

Ângelo arrives at his grandmother's house in Minas Gerais. There, a small chest full of coins and an enigma were discovered, supposedly left by...

Personal records of characters of the student movement, of the youth's cultural activity, song. poetry, and theatrical plays made by militants in the...

The real-life story of Zeneida, a girl who moves to a farm with her mother and finds herself having an unusual connection with a forest spirit.

Young Deisy (Ana Letícia) dreams of moving to bustling Belém, but instead she lives on Combu Island, across the river, cut off from the...

A little fisher village in Brazilian Amazon. Without aparent reason, the dweller start falling ill. Would it be a witchcraft? Felício looks...

During the Brazilian military dictatorship, a doctor forged autopsy reports to hide the victims of the regime.

Filmed over a five-year period, Chronically Unfeasible dissects Brazilian problems, using six people who meet in a restaurant in São Paulo as...

While waiting for her at the airport, a film critic recounts to a receptionist how he met his great love, Celeste.

A young doctor has a promising career in São Paulo, but the diagnosis of a serious illness profoundly changes her relationship with the world...