Débora Falabella

Acting

Débora Falabella

Born 1979-02-22 · Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Débora Lima Falabella (Belo Horizonte, February 22, 1979) is a Brazilian actress, director and producer. She has won several awards as an actress, including a Grande Otelo, an APCA Award, an ACIE Award, four Quality Brazil Awards and a Kikito from the Gramado Festival, in addition to being nominated for four Guarani Awards. She is known for The Clone (2001), Lisbela and the Prisoner (2003) and Brazil Avenue (2012)

Acting credits

Here the Whole Time poster
7.4

An insecure teenager's vacation plans are ruined by an unexpected visitor: his neighbor and school crush who will spend two weeks sleeping at his house. The days that promised peace, tranquility and epic series marathons end up bringing a whirlwind of feelings and unresolved issues.

Here the Whole Time

2026

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Cuidadora

No artwork available
4.2

A group of friends find themselves circling in time. Welcome to room 38. Within it's confines time becomes scattered and loops back on it's self, memory becomes useless, and survival carries an entirely different meaning.

Quarto 38

2008

5 Mentiras poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

5 Mentiras

2006

La Dolorosa poster
NR

The bride, the groom, the best man and a destructive passion. A wet dream turned into a nightmare. "La Dolorosa" is the second episode from "The Trilogy of Dream", an attempt by screenwriter/director Odilon Rocha to bring lyricism back to cinema.

La Dolorosa

2008

Françoise poster
8.5

A woman named Françoise meets a man who's waiting for his bus in a bus station.

Françoise

2001

Cacilda Becker em Cena Aberta poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Cacilda Becker em Cena Aberta

Primo Basílio poster
5.3

Luísa is a romantic, dreamy and delicate young woman married to Jorge, an engineer, a man of good habits and good economic conditions. They didn't know each other well, but got married and Luísa was a good wife, "she was clean and happy as a bird". Everything get changed when she meets a childhood love, her cousin Basílio. What seemed to be a great adventure will became a nightmare and Luísa will discover the price of her infidelity.

Primo Basílio

2007

Two Lost in a Dirty Night poster
7.0

In New York City, an illegal immigrant gets into trouble because of his relationship with a self-destructive prostitute.

Two Lost in a Dirty Night

2002

Welcome, Violeta! poster
7.3

Over the course of her stay at the remote residence, Ana becomes more and more familiar with Holden’s idiosyncratic methods that require the participating artists to abandon their own identities and live emotionally and psychologically as their characters. Captivated by her artistic investigation, Ana immerses herself wholly into the method and starts living as Violeta, until her fiction loses control.

Welcome, Violeta!

2023

Todo Clichê do Amor poster
5.8

A man who lost his taste and his blind wife; an almost deaf girl and her consumerist stepmother; an adult movie actor in love and his completely passionate woman; a sign language teacher and his dilemmas with dumb students. Characters full of love and full of inabilities to cope with their emotional side.

Todo Clichê do Amor

2018

O Filho Eterno poster
7.4

Roberto is in the edge to become a father for the first time. He was already dreaming of the years yet to come, wondering how his son would be. While trying to figure out how to act like a father he must also face and endure a tough reality - to be a Down syndrome child's dad. Insecure and ashamed of the situation he will have to confront and overcome it.

O Filho Eterno

2016

A Fábrica de Sonhos poster
8.5

Eleutério and Rafaela's marriage is tested when she wins a contest to meet Sydartha, a soap opera heartthrob. The romantic teacher confuses fiction and reality when she meets her idol.

A Fábrica de Sonhos

2025

Chuck Billy and The Marvelous Guava Tree poster
7.1

Chuck Billy has spent his life picking guavas from Jed’s guava tree. But now that Dr. Agripino is going to build a road that will take down the tree, Chuck and his friends are going to do everything they can to stop it.

Chuck Billy and The Marvelous Guava Tree

2025

Cazuza: Time Doesn't Stop poster
7.1

Inspired by the moving book “Só as Mães São Felizes”, by Lucinha Araújo, Cazuza's mother, the film covers a little more than 10 years of the singer’s crazy and brief life – from the beginning of his career in the Circo Voador venue, in 1981, to the huge success and the apotheosis of his shows with the Barão Vermelho band, his solo career, his relations with his parents, friends, lovers and passions, and the courage he had to face his final years, with HIV, until his death, in 1990.

Cazuza: Time Doesn't Stop

2004

No artwork available
NR

A reporter for a popular newspaper and a criminal lawyer have their destinies linked by a murder that shocked Brazil in the 1970s and marked the beginning of the debate on femicide.

The Rhino Skin

2026

Owner of the Story poster
6.4

A 50 year-old woman who analyses her past. She pictures herself when she was 20 years old and she re-creates the story of her life through a game of innumerous possibilities. What if she wouldn't have gone to that ball? What if... instead of meeting the man of her life, with whom she married and had kids, she would have called a girlfriend and they went to the theater? What would be her destiny? What would have happened? In the plot the present talks to the past. A young woman projects her future in a fascinating game between memories and desires.

Owner of the Story

2004

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Chico Bento 2: Sardade

Homens de Bem poster
5.5

Ciba (Rodrigo Santoro) is an independent investigator who works together with the police. A typical fallible hero who struggles with strong personal issues, while preventing crime and injustice. His partner, Deputy Ulisses (Luis Miranda), is a well-meaning professional who recognizes the difficulty in securing his function using only common artifacts, and Ciba's unofficial contact is of utmost importance for the progress of his investigations.

Homens de Bem

2011

The Asphalt Kiss poster
7.4

When witnessing a hit, Arandir, a newly married banker, tries to succor the victim, but the man, almost dead, has only time to make one last request: a kiss. Arandir kisses the man, but his act is spotted by his father-in-law Aprígio and photographed by Amado Ribeiro, a tabloid reporter.

The Asphalt Kiss

2018

My Country poster
5.8

A film about the reunion of a family broken by the pain and because of the pain can be reunited. An intense story, told in a soft and sensitive way, showing the search and dedication of a man rediscovering family and the love that unites the brothers, finally forming a real family.

My Country

2011

And They Say I Am the Crazy One poster
6.6

Young, intense and authentic, Dani just wants a normal life. However, since she was a child, she has been misaligned with her world.

And They Say I Am the Crazy One

2020

Doceamargo poster
NR

After a car accident, a couple wait for the rescue and see their love story shake. In 1968, what remains is love and hope for a better future for them and for the country as well.

Doceamargo

2009

Lisbela and the Prisoner poster
7.8

Lisbela is a young woman who loves going to the movies. Leléu is a con man, going from town to town selling all sort of things and performing as master of ceremonies for some cheesy numbers, such as the woman who gets transformed into a gorilla. He gets involved with Linaura, a sexy and beautiful woman who happens to be the wife of the most frightening hitman of the place. The hitman finds out his wife's affair and goes after Leléu, who has to leave in a hurry. In another town, he meets and falls instantly in love with Lisbela, who is engaged to Douglas, a hillbilly who tries hard to pass for a cosmopolitan Rio de Janeiro dweller.

Lisbela and the Prisoner

2003

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