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Dira Paes has 5 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s.
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L'amore è eterno finché dura
2004
Comedy

Little Miss Sunshine
2006
Comedy · Drama

28 Days
2000
Comedy · Drama

Billu
2009
Comedy · Drama

Funny People
2009
Comedy · Drama

The Banger Sisters
2002
Comedy · Drama

Caterina in the Big City
2003
Comedy · Drama

Podium
2004
Comedy · Music

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.
Dir. John Boorman · With Powers Boothe, Charley Boorman, Meg Foster

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.
Dir. Monique Gardenberg · With Lázaro Ramos, Dira Paes, Wagner Moura

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.
Dir. Breno Silveira · With Ângelo Antônio, Dira Paes, Dablio Moreira

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.
Dir. Jorge Furtado · With Darlan Cunha, Sophia Reis, Lázaro Ramos
Three male friends navigate different stages of romantic relationships: One is starting to date; another fears infidelity; the third is divorcing.
Dir. Felipe Joffily · With Bruno Mazzeo, Marcos Palmeira, Emílio Orciollo Netto