Dira Paes Movies

The lives of a macho butcher, his wife, a lonely waitress, a sadist and a flophouse manager intersect in Recife, Brazil.

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

An arrogant young woman, the landowner's daughter, gets involved with the farm straw boss.

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

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...

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.

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...

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.

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