Dira Paes Movies

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...

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

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 corrupt senator, Maria Pilar sees a great opportunity to win in the bidding process for the Brasil Brasileiro project. After contacting Minister...

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...

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...

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

"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.

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...

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

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

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...

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.

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,...

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