Glória Pires
Also Known As: გლორია პირესი
Biography: Glória Maria Cláudia Pires de Morais, better known as Glória Pires (Rio de Janeiro, August 23, 1963) is a Brazilian actress and businesswoman. Known for playing Maria de Fátima in the hugely successful Vale Tudo (1988) and the twins Ruth and Raquel in the phenomenon Mulheres de Areia (1993). With a respected career in the cinema and television drama industry, she is one of the highest paid actresses in Brazil and very famous throughout Latin America. She won several awards as an actress, most notably two Grande Otelo Awards, a Press Trophy, seven APCA Awards, two Guarani Awards, two Quality Brazil Awards, as well as a Kikito from the Gramado Festival.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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If I Were You 2
Overview: Claudio and Helena are on the verge of breaking up, until the couple experiences another strange phenomenon that looks to help them understand one another more.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-02-01
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Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional
Overview: "Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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If I Were You
Overview: The publicist Claudio and the housewife and choral teacher Helena have been married for many years, but they do not understand and respect the feelings and view point of the partner. Claudio sees Helena as a shopper and "little teacher of a choral" and Helena sees Claudio as an insensitive and rough man. On the night before the fiftieth anniversary of Claudio, they changed places with each other.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-01-06
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Gloria 50
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
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Lula, the Son of Brazil
Overview: The true story of a working class boy who moves to the nation's financial capital at a young age and becomes one the most influential politicians in Brazilian history.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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70 Anos Esta Noite
Overview: With the participation of great stars of television drama, the documentary promotes an emotional journey through the great moments of soap operas, celebrating its seven decades on Brazilian TV.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-12-21
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The Inheritance
Overview: Reunited for their mother’s funeral, four sisters – Selma, Regina, Laura and Lúcia – find themselves forced to divide much more than an apartment in Copacabana. While dividing the articles, the sisters compare options, destinies, lifestyles, and expectations. The turbulent sale of the apartment represents a turning point in their lives: they know they have never been so deeply involved as accomplices, or as sisters.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-06-08
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Primo Basílio
Overview: Luísa is a romantic, dreamy and delicate young woman married to Jorge, an engineer, a man of good habits and good economic conditions. They didn't know each other well, but got married and Luísa was a good wife, "she was clean and happy as a bird". Everything get changed when she meets a childhood love, her cousin Basílio. What seemed to be a great adventure will became a nightmare and Luísa will discover the price of her infidelity.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-08-10
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Overview: In São Paulo, Brazil, the lonely 40-something guitar teacher Baby lives a tedious life in a low middle-class apartment. She is addicted to her only companions: cigarettes. Baby has a constant conflict with her two sisters, over a couch she inherited from their deceased aunt. When Max, a restaurant musician, moves to the next door apartment, Baby has a crush on him and sees a chance to have a life again. Soon they start having a love affair, and Baby decides to quit smoking. However, her abstinence will be tough to deal with, when she notices Max still misses his ex-wife.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2009-12-04
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Vovó Ninja
Overview: Arlete, who lives as a recluse and has a Zen lifestyle, is preparing to welcome her three grandchildren into her home, after not seeing them for a long time. Arlete doesn't have much intimacy or manners with the children, who are dissatisfied with spending their holidays with their grandmother in a place without internet, full of rules and household chores. After an attempted robbery there, the youngest Davi discovers that his grandmother has unusual abilities and, together with his brothers, does everything to discover what Arlete's secret is.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-09-05
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Desapega!
Overview: Rita must learn to deal with her increased shopping compulsion after the news that her daughter wants to leave.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-02-09
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Memories of Prison
Overview: In the 1930s, novelist and politician Graciliano Ramos is accused of being a communist sympathizer. He is then arrested and sent to the Ilha Grande prison, where he experiences the disturbing treatment reserved for common prisoners.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1984-06-18
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Reaching for the Moon
Overview: In 1951, New York poet Elizabeth Bishop travels to Rio de Janeiro to visit Mary, a college friend. The shy Elizabeth is overwhelmed by Brazilian sensuality. She is the antithesis to Mary’s dashing partner, architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Mary is jealous, but unconventional Lota is determined to have both women at all costs. This eternal triangle plays out against the backdrop of the military coup of 1964. Bishop’s moving poems are at the core of a film which lushly illustrates a crucial phase in the life of this influential Pulitzer prize-winning poet.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-02-09
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Little Book of Love
Overview: Luiza is an architect who just got out of a ruinous relationship. Gabriel is a biologist and he has finished a long marriage with divorce. When they both meet, chances that they can do well together are not that big. But they will try to, even if their friends Barata (a convict bachelor totally skeptical when it comes to love) and Marta (a mathematic analyst who wishes that human relations were just as exact as numbers are) think otherwise.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1997-01-31
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Jorge, Um Brasileiro
Overview: After arguing with his ex-girlfriend, truck driver Jorge hits the road again, while remembering the past and questioning his friendship with his manipulative boss.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Índia, a Filha do Sol
Overview: A military man picks up a Native Brazilian woman and heads to a gold panning site where he has undisclosed business to attend to.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1982-07-04
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O Guarani
Overview: The forbidden love affair between Peri, an Indian, and the beautiful Ceci, a Portuguese white girl, in the 17th century Brazil.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1996-05-31
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Little Book of Love 2
Overview: Fifteen years after their split, a man and woman reconnect during a chance encounter and reconsider their new loves and lives.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-08-20
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Drop Dead Gorgeous
Overview: Paula, a famous plastic surgeon, applies an experimental formula to herself that promises to completely eliminate cellulite. However, she ends up dying shortly after the test. Now, with the help of a medium, the doctor returns to Earth to try to stop her greedy ex-partner from putting the harmful product on the market.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-08-20
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The Quartet
Overview: The story of two immigrant couples: Teresa and Angelo; Pierina and Massimo. While fighting for survival in the new world, the unexpected love of Massimo and Teresa appears. They react against family and cultural traditions and leave to a new destiny, leaving their partners. Quatrilho is the name of a card game in wich the player have to betray his partner in order to become the champion.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1995-10-20
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Nise: The Heart of Madness
Overview: After being released from prison, Dr. Nise da Silveira is back at work in a psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro where she refuses to employ the new and violent electroshock in the treatment of schizophrenics. Ridiculed by doctors, she is forced to take on the abandoned Sector for Occupational Therapy, where she would start a revolution through paintings, animals and love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-04-21
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Irmã Dulce
Overview: Biographical film of Sister Dulce, who, in life, was called the “Good Angel of Bahia”, also nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and canonized by the Catholic Church. Contemplating from the 1940s to the 1980s, the film shows how the Catholic nun faced an incurable respiratory disease, machismo, the indifference of politicians and even the dogmas of the Church to dedicate her life to the care of the miserable, leaving a legacy that continues today.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-11-13
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Besame Mucho
Overview: The story of two couples - Xico and Olga, Tuca and Dina - through 20 years of friendship, from adolescent dreams to maturity frustrations. They meet in a small town in the State of São Paulo, but one of the couples decides to try their luck in the big city. As background, the political events in the 60's and 70's, and how they affect their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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I, I, I José Lewgoy
Overview: Documentary discussing the life and work of José Lewgoy, one of the most important Brazilian actors of all times.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-11-25
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A Suspeita
Overview: Lúcia is a renowned police investigator. At age 50, has dedicated her entire life to her profession and is a respected name among her peers. Everything changes during an investigation, a writer that was writing the memoir of one of the drug trafficking lord, and had his phone tapped illegally by Lúcia, is assassinated and she is under investigation by her superiors. At the same time, she finds out she has Alzheimer.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-06-16
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Sexa
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Original Language: pt
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Uma Mulher do Outro Mundo
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Original Language: pt
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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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