Dira Paes
Also Known As: Ecleidira Maria Fonseca Paes
Biography: Ecleidira Maria Fonseca Paes (Abaetetuba, June 30, 1969), better known as Dira Paes, is a Brazilian actress and presenter. Known for her versatility, she has won several awards, including a notable twelve Grande Otelo nominations, winning as best actress in 2013, three Guarani Awards, two APCA Awards, two Brazil Quality Awards, an Extra Award, as well as three Kikitos from the Gramado and five Candangos from the Brasília Festival.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Abaetetuba, Pará, Brazil
Adult: No
Birthday: June 30, 1969
Age: 55 years old
Gender: Female
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The Dead Girl's Feast
Overview: "The Dead Girl's Feast" narrates the story of Santinho, a young man who has been exalted to the position of a saint in a remote riverine community of the upper Amazonas state, after performing a “miracle” upon the suicide of his own mother. The film seeks to be an intimate picture of the ones who are involved in this sect and of the infinite human capacity of “fabricating” faith and seeking for some sense in the horrifying experience of death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-06-12
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Ó Paí, Ó: Look at This
Overview: During the Carnival in the historical site of Pelourinho, Salvador da Bahia, we follow the lives of the tenants of a falling-to-pieces tenement house who try to get by using creativity, irony, humor, and music.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-03-30
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Bog of Beasts
Overview: 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 whomever pays him some money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-12-12
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Ó Paí, Ó 2
Overview: Experience Roque's routine years after the first movie. Joana's tenement is still full of parties, gossip and confusion. The neighborhood prepares for the Iemanjá party, while dealing with the controversies of the neighbors.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-11-23
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Mango Yellow
Overview: The lives of a macho butcher, his wife, a lonely waitress, a sadist and a flophouse manager intersect in Recife, Brazil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-08-14
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We're Together
Overview: A sensitive drama located in São Paulo, Brazil, about a young doctor who gets involved with two men and a homeless community at the same time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-06-03
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A Grande Família: O Filme
Overview: For forty years, the public functionary and family man Lineu and his beloved wife Nenê celebrate their first date going to the same ball where Lineu borrowed the jacket his competitor Carlinhos. In the present days, Lineu feels uncomfortable when his colleague Pacheco dies and goes to the doctor for health examination. When the result of his tomography arrives, his doctor says that he had seen some blur in his lungs and with that report he would give the correct diagnosis. Lineu steals the document afraid of having a tumor, but he believes he will die sooner. Meanwhile, Nenê meets Carlinhos in the supermarket where he is the manager and invites him to have dinner with her family. Lineu hides his concerns to Nenê, and his attitudes in the dinner misguide Nenê, and she believes Lineu has a lover and does not love him anymore
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-01-26
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My Uncle Killed a Guy
Overview: Éder is arrested after confessing the murder of a man. Duca, his nephew, is sure that his uncle confessed the crime to protect his girlfriend, Soraya, ex-wife of the deceased, so he enlists two of his friends to help prove his theory.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2004-12-12
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Hey, Did You Score?
Overview: Three male friends navigate different stages of romantic relationships: One is starting to date; another fears infidelity; the third is divorcing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-06-22
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Ribeirinhos do Asfalto
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-01-09
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Os Amigos
Overview: A lonely architect attends the funeral of his childhood best friend and embarks on a personal journey of reminiscence and self-reflection.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-08-21
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Até a Vista
Overview: Young filmmaker is looking for a story for his first feature film. In an attempt to obtain the copyright for a novel, the young man accepts the author's unusual proposal and together they set off in search of an old love of the writer.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-05-01
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Along the Way
Overview: To escape past traumas, a truck driver João decides to leave his hometown behind and travel cross the country. Alone and lonely he drives all over Brazil until João discovers hiding in his truck a motherless boy looking for his father. Reluctantly, João agrees to take the boy to the nearest town and, during the trip, he finally finds the courage to face his past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-08-10
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Rat Fever
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-06-22
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Louise's Wedding
Overview: 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 luncheon where the tastes of both women coincide and clash, while in the presence of two desirable men?
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-06-08
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Corisco & Dadá
Overview: Cruel and brave Brazilian outlaw called Corisco, living in the backcountry in the Northeast, an arid region, rapes 12-year-old Dadá, who becomes his woman, following him and his gang. Although they were supposed to fight against social injustice, they terrorized the small villages along their way.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1996-09-02
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Land
Overview: The Amazonian jungle, Brazil, 1987. Ruthless landowners are evicting peasants from their land. The peasants look to the priest for help, and are contemplating taking up arms. A stranger arrives who provides an answer to their plight.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-07-22
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Castro Alves - Retrato Falado do Poeta
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Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Mulheres no Poder
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-05-12
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Mulheres do Brasil
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-03-10
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Southwest
Overview: In a Brazilian coastal village where everything seems motionless, Clarice grasps her life in a single day, unlike those she meets and who are living this day like any other. She tries to understand her obscure reality and the destiny of the people around her in a circular time that haunts and disorients.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-10-13
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Chronically Unfeasible
Overview: Filmed over a five-year period, Chronically Unfeasible dissects Brazilian problems, using six people who meet in a restaurant in São Paulo as models to illustrate political, sociological and economic disparities between Brazil's upper and lower classes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-08-10
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Two Sons of Francisco
Overview: The story of Francisco, a very simple and poor man whose dream was to see his children become country music stars, and who made all the efforts to make it happen.
Genres: Drama History Music
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-08-19
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O Segredo dos Diamantes
Overview: 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 a priest who, 200 years earlier, would have hidden a handful of diamonds.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-12-18
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Tributo: Laura Cardoso
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Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-03-08
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Corpo em Delito
Overview: During the Brazilian military dictatorship, a doctor forged autopsy reports to hide the victims of the regime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1990-02-06
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Celeste e Estrela
Overview: While waiting for her at the airport, a film critic recounts to a receptionist how he met his great love, Celeste.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-02-17
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Pasárgada
Overview: Irene is a lonely 50-year-old ornithologist who, during secret research in the rainforest, immerses herself in a sensory journey to rescue her desires, facing her dilemmas that confront the illegal trafficking of wild birds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-09-26
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The Dolphin
Overview: According to an Amazonian legend, every month, during the full moon, a Brazilian fishing village receives a mysterious guest: the Boto, who transforms into a human to seduce and be loved by women and hated by men. One of her conquests is the daughter of a fisherman, who has a son with the Boto. He constantly reappears to seduce her, and even when she marries, he continues to look for her. This provokes the ire of the husband, who wants to kill him anyway.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-06-19
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Whirlpool
Overview: Luzimar cycles each day to and from work at the local cotton mill in his hometown of Cataguases, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He is a hard-working man, trying to make the most of what he has. One day, his childhood friend Gildo reappears, driving a fancy car and boasting of his successful life in São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo. As the two sit down for a beer, memories, regrets and old resentments slowly resurface.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-02-09
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Anahy de las Misiones
Overview: Told by gauchos from Brazil, Argentina and Uruguai, the legend says that Anahy de las Missiones wandered around the Plata Basin during the time of Cisplatina War (1825-1828), stealing the dead.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-11-25
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The Emerald Forest
Overview: For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from the edge of the Brazilian rainforest. Miraculously, he finds the boy living among the reclusive Amazon tribe who adopted him. And that's when Bill's adventure truly begins. For his son is now a grown tribesman who moves skillfully through this beautiful-but-dangerous terrain, fearful only of those who would exploit it. And as Bill attempts to "rescue" him from the savagery of the untamed jungle, Tommy challenges Bill's idea of true civilization and his notions about who needs rescuing.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-22
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Lino
Overview: Lino works as an entertainer at children's parties, but he can't stand the way children treat him, making fun of him because he works in a cat's costume. Determined to change his life, he visits a wizard, but the magic doesn't work in the right way, and he wakes up as a big cat.
Genres: Animation Family Adventure
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-09-07
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Matinta
Overview: A little fisher village in Brazilian Amazon. Without aparent reason, the dweller start falling ill. Would it be a witchcraft? Felício looks desperatelly for the cure to save the life of his wife.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-12-07
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Clara Estrela
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-10-17
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Encantados
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-12-07
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Lua Cambará - Nas Escadarias do Palácio
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2002-11-20
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Venice
Overview: 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 blind and very sick, she insists on fulfilling her last wish: to go to Venice to apologize to the lover she abandoned decades ago. To take her to the Italian city, Tonho, Rita and the other girls who work for Gringa come up with a fantastic plan with help from a circus troupe.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-06-17
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Noite de São João
Overview: An arrogant young woman, the landowner's daughter, gets involved with the farm straw boss.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2003-06-10
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Orphans of Eldorado
Overview: A man returns to his hometown and resumes a dangerous old affair...
Genres: Romance Drama Mystery
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-10-11
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O Afeto Que Se Encerra Em Nosso Peito Juvenil
Overview: Personal records of characters of the student movement, of the youth's cultural activity, song. poetry, and theatrical plays made by militants in the past.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-11-09
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Incuráveis
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2005-07-14
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Esse Homem vai Morrer - Um Faroeste Caboclo
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-08-30
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Chico e Amigos
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-12-29
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Vida e Obra de Ramiro Miguez
Overview: 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 newspaper and, from then on, he becomes a national sensation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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The Age of Water
Overview: The film warns us about the world's water crisis and the international greed for the Amazon Forest, the largest fresh water reservoir on the planet. In addition to concentrating 20% of the world's drinking water, the Amazon is the region with the greatest chance of maintaining its water sources in the next decades, thanks to the humidity of its forest.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-07-19
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O Filme da Minha Vida
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Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-09-04
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Pureza
Overview: "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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-05-19
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Dona Flor and Her 2 Husbands
Overview: The 20 episode miniseries edited into a 141 minute TV film. The beautiful Flor marries Vadinho and soon finds out he's spending all their money on gambles and has mistresses all over the city. Vadinho suddenly dies while partying during Carnival, and Flor, left helpless and full of debts, ends up marrying Teodoro, who's the exact opposite of her late husband.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-08-31
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Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
Overview: 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 cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-10-22
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Divine Love
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-06-27
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Manas
Overview: Thirteen-year-old Marcielle lives on Marajó Island in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. To break a terrible cycle that imprisons the women around her in an isolated region, she must do the impossible to liberate herself and her younger sister from a dark abyss of silence held by her own family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2025-03-26
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Mada e Bia
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-04-15
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Special Agents
Overview: A comedy, but pushing gender diversity as Tony and Jeff, go undercover to prove their worth as Rio law enforcement officers, dismantling a mysterious gang which is terrorizing the city. Events climax at a big fashion event.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2025-09-04
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Falas da Terra
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Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2025-04-21
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A Cabana
Overview: A woman and a man live their life together in a vague manner, absent and mechanical in the cloud that surrounds them. A couple who cannot see each other. Till when?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-10-05
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Show 60 Anos
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Genres: Documentary Music TV Movie
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2025-04-28
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Sedução
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Original Language: pt
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