
Acting
Miriam Pires
Born — Died
1927-04-20 — 2004-09-07
Place of birth
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Known for
Acting
Credits
52 titles
Known for
9.3The fight for freedom and against oppression is the central theme of this soap opera that tells the story of the Coragem brothers: João, Jerônimo and Duda, in the city of Coroado.
Irmãos Coragem
1970
7.8A story about people who succeed in life thanks to nothing but their own efforts. Maria do Carmo is the main character of the telenovela; a mother of five who struggle to be successful in life, but whose most important will be recovering the love of her daughter who was kidnapped when she was just months old.
Her Own Destiny
2004
8.2Inspired on Jorge Amado's romance "Tieta do Agreste", the plot is set on the fictional city of Santana do Agreste, at Brazil's northwest, and has as main theme Tieta's life turnarounds. Twenty-five years after being chased out of town by her father Zé Esteves, she returns to her home town seeking revenge against everyone who mistreated her and laugh at her face in the past.
Tieta
1989
7.5Andréa and Júlia are two estranged sisters. Until one of their lives changes when she discovers she is adopted and that her biological sister is living with her.
Desejos de Mulher
2002
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Большая засада
1995
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Mandacaru
1997
Film credits
2000s · 3 titles
8.2Moments before turning 90 years of age, Alberto remembers his life, lived in Copacabana, a neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. The film is a comedy about old age nowadays, with Copacabana as a background.
Copacabana
2001
6.6Free adaptation of Machado de Assis's short story "Pai Contra Mãe", having some of Nireu Cavalcanti's 18th Century chronicles as inspiration, the film traces parallels between life in during the slavery period and in modern Brazil.
What Is It Worth?
2005
6.0Cida is black, is 40 years old and works for Maria, an 80 year old woman, widow and childless, who is extremely racist. The mistress gloats about the maid, who puts up with being mistreated in silence, but finds a form of revenge in a game of chess.
O Xadrez das Cores
2004
1980s · 4 titles
5.0The youngest daughter of a rich man has been raped by five black men in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, and her father arranges her marriage to one of his employees in order to save the family’s honor.
Cute but Ordinary
1981
7.0The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his political beliefs. The other is Molina, a gay window-dresser who fills their lonely nights by spinning romantic fantasies drawn from memories of old movies.
Kiss of the Spider Woman
1985
6.4In this highly stylized Brazilian drama a sax player fondly remembers one wonderful night spent with his life's love and decides to find her again. He embarks upon a quest through the wild streets of Rio to find her. Along the way he meets an assortment of odd urban underworld characters.
Subway to the Stars
1987
6.0Rich girl travels with her fiancé (a cousin) to the family farm, where they're going to marry. But finds another cousin in love with her who does everything to hamper the wedding.
Brasa Adormecida
1986
1970s · 4 titles
5.0A German family moves to a small town in the interior of the state of Paraná, Brazil, and buys a hotel there, which soon becomes sort of a meeting point for Nazi sympathizers.
Hallelujah Gretchen
1976
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Essa Mulher é Minha... e dos Amigos
1976
7.0Carlos and Suely are a normal couple. He has some extramarital adventures and she's a standard housewife. During a Carnival, when he goes out wearing a vampire costume, Suely decides to follow a friend's advice and go for it. On Ash Wednesday, he finds her with an odalisk costume on and happier than usual.
The Vampire of Copacabana
1976
5.770-year-old widower living in a poor Rio de Janeiro suburb falls in love again when he finds a woman of approximately the same age.
Summer Showers
1978
Series credits
9.3The fight for freedom and against oppression is the central theme of this soap opera that tells the story of the Coragem brothers: João, Jerônimo and Duda, in the city of Coroado.
Irmãos Coragem
1970
7.8A story about people who succeed in life thanks to nothing but their own efforts. Maria do Carmo is the main character of the telenovela; a mother of five who struggle to be successful in life, but whose most important will be recovering the love of her daughter who was kidnapped when she was just months old.
Her Own Destiny
2004
8.2Inspired on Jorge Amado's romance "Tieta do Agreste", the plot is set on the fictional city of Santana do Agreste, at Brazil's northwest, and has as main theme Tieta's life turnarounds. Twenty-five years after being chased out of town by her father Zé Esteves, she returns to her home town seeking revenge against everyone who mistreated her and laugh at her face in the past.
Tieta
1989
7.5Andréa and Júlia are two estranged sisters. Until one of their lives changes when she discovers she is adopted and that her biological sister is living with her.
Desejos de Mulher
2002
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Большая засада
1995
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Mandacaru
1997
6.6To get revenge on her ex-fiancé Murilo Pontes, Pilar marries his rival, Jerônimo Batista. 25 years later, Pilar and Murilo deal with the passion between their children, Marina and Leonardo.
Pedra Sobre Pedra
1992
6.8Quinzinho and João Victor are identical twins separated at birth, unaware of each other's existence. The brothers eventually draw closer, guided by their instincts.
Dance with Me
1981
6.1João Medeiros is an internationally renowned photographer who suffers an attack in Prague, when he happens to photograph a Nazi leader who was in the middle of secret plans. In his last moments on Earth, his life is saved by the angel Rafael, sent by the highest heavenly bodies to offer him a new chance. The angel warns the photographer that he will only have six months to live to solve his problems with his family, neglected since he abandoned everything for the profession - including solving his situation with ex-wife Naná, who now lives with the profiteer Tarsus, and get along with his two daughters. Virginia has become a renowned stylist, but blames her father for the leg problem caused by an accident she suffered as a teenager and ended her ballet career. Duda, on the other hand, developed obsessive-compulsive disorder after her son Kiko disappeared years before, putting her marriage to Maurício in a long crisis.
Um Anjo Caiu do Céu
2001
7.9No synopsis available yet.
Xica da Silva
1996
7.4After losing custody of her daughter, Claudia tries to rebuild her life and meets the brothers Lucas, with whom she falls in love, and the villainous Jorge, who wants to win her over.
Golden Dream
1993
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Rosa Rebelde
1969
10.0No synopsis available yet.
O Homem Que Deve Morrer
1971
8.0No synopsis available yet.
O Semideus
1973
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Meus Filhos, Minha Vida
1984
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Carmem
1987
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Véu de Noiva
1969
8.5Carlão is a taxi driver who experiences a drama of conscience after fleeing bank robbers leave a suitcase with stolen money in his car: he doesn't know whether to hand it over to the police, running the risk of being accused of being an accomplice in the robbery, or whether to use the money to solve his problems.
Pecado Capital
1975
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Os Gigantes
1979
8.0César, a sugar mill owner in Pernambuco, lives in Rio de Janeiro with his wife Maria Luiza and daughters, Débora and Suzy. One day, tired of his life, he decides to fake his own death and assume another identity. César does this with the help of França, the financial director of the sugar mill – which also belongs to Alaor. César and França stage a car accident, plunging off Avenida Niemeyer in Rio and disappearing into the sea. César leaves Alaor on the verge of bankruptcy and Maria Luiza and the two girls in poverty, completely transforming their lives.
Final Feliz
1982
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Cavalo de Aço
1973
8.8Kiki Blanche is a former star dedicated to her family and her beauty salon, in the South Zone of Rio de Janeiro. In addition to Milena, her legitimate daughter, Kiki raises Fernanda, Paulo, Renata and Regina. The great conflict of the plot is Fernanda's passion for Fábio, a man also loved by Milena.
Locomotives
1977
6.7No synopsis available yet.
O Casarão
1976
7.8The story follows the experiences of Marina, a young country bumpkin who marries the mysterious and charismatic widower Roberto Stein, a fabulously wealthy businessman living in 1920s Rio de Janeiro. As Marina attempts to acclimate to her new marriage and responsibilities, she discovers that Stein's late wife, Alice, still seems to have a strong hold over the household. Despite her new husband's affection for her, Marina is nonetheless threatened by Alice's presence, which is made conspicuous through her old maid Juliana's obsessions and her intimidating portrait.
A Sucessora
1978
7.5No synopsis available yet.
Nina
1977
8.7No synopsis available yet.
Dona Beija
1986
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Bandeira 2
1971
9.0No synopsis available yet.
O Bofe
1972
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Sétimo Sentido
1982
6.0Gina attracts attention and envy. Years later, her life is shaken by the return of an old love and she discovers some schemes orchestrated by her best friend.
Gina
1978
10.0Sabrina is a wealthy young woman who hides her compulsion to steal from her parents – Hilda and Fred – and also conceals the fact that she rents a room at Lola's boarding house in the Rio de Janeiro suburbs, where she pretends to be a modest young woman looking for work. The parallel plots of the story unfold through these two distinct worlds in which Sabrina lives.
Te Contei?
1978
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Anastácia, a Mulher sem Destino
1967
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Olho por Olho
1988
8.0'Cuca Legal' tells the story of Mário Barroso, a single aviator involved with three women at the same time: Virgínia, Irene, and Fátima. Virgínia is a wealthy businesswoman obsessed with the direction of her late father's business; Irene is a middle-class young woman who gives private piano lessons; and Fátima is a poor widow. Mário can't decide which of them is the ideal woman to give him a child with a "cool head" (cuca legal). Things get even more complicated when Maria Joaquina, nicknamed Kinu, Virgínia's mother, also catches the aviator's attention. To escape the troubles he constantly gets into, Mário relies on the help of his mother, Dalva, and Jacaré, his great friend.
Cuca Legal
1975
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Eu Compro Essa Mulher
1966
7.0The central character of the story is Salomé, a woman ahead of her time. Bold and rebellious, the young woman scandalizes Parisian society by performing a veiled dance in which she is semi-nude. The news reaches Brazil, and her mother, Santa, and her stepfather, Antunes, worried about the girl's reputation, decide that she must leave Paris. Antunes travels to fetch Salomé, and she only agrees to return to her country of origin if her inseparable friends, Berta and Ruggero, go with her. Antunes agrees, and they all leave together. In Brazil, Salomé goes to live on the Pindorama farm in São Paulo, where her mother awaits her. There she meets Duda, with whom she falls in love. Duda owned the Pindorama farm, but his father, Colonel Venâncio, in debt, was forced to sell the property to Antunes. The pain of losing the farm led Venâncio to commit suicide. Some time later, Duda, unemployed, returned to the farm and began a secret romance with Santa.
Salomé
1991
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Tudo ou Nada
1986
8.0Aurélia Camargo was rejected by the ambitious Fernando. Upon inheriting a fortune, she decides that Fernando will feel the weight of his choice in a marriage forged out of revenge.
Senhora
1975
10.0No synopsis available yet.
A Sombra de Rebecca
1967
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Um Rosto de Mulher
1965

