Acting

Alexandre Pires

Born 1976-01-08 · Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Acting credits

A poor family, lives in a city near Salvador. The father is cleaner and, mother and daughter help making small services. Until they decide to try the luck in the big city and the father, João, get a job near Pelourinho, next to a dance academy. The daughter, Carla, in contacting music, discovers her true vocation and becomes a very successful dancer. But she does not let himself take away from fame and back to his origins, meets with poor children and teaches them to dance.

Cinderella Baiana

1998

8.6

The documentary retraces the band's meteoric rise, as they became the biggest phenomenon in Brazilian music in 1995 — and one of the most remarkable in the country's history.

Mamonas: Eu Te Ai Lóve Iú

2026

No artwork available

7.3

Composer Gilberto Gil accompanies filmmaker Andrucha Waddington to the Northeast of Brazil. Among the rural communities in the region, Gil and Waddignton participate in the Catholic celebration of Saint John's Day with music and dance. Waddington also analyzes the suffering of the population trying to survive through agriculture in difficult terrain.

Viva São João!

2002

7.8

No synopsis available yet.

Show 60 Anos

2025

Xuxa Só Para Baixinhos 12: É Pra Dançar poster

10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Xuxa Só Para Baixinhos 12: É Pra Dançar

2012

Chitãozinho & Xororó 40 Anos Sinfônico poster

4.2

No synopsis available yet.

Chitãozinho & Xororó 40 Anos Sinfônico

2011

Gigantes do Samba - Ao Vivo em SP poster

2.5

No synopsis available yet.

Gigantes do Samba - Ao Vivo em SP

2014

No synopsis available yet.

Alcione - Boleros

2017

To mark the network's 60th anniversary, TV Globo, in partnership with the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra, celebrates the soundtracks of TV Globo's telenovelas.