Luis Miranda

Acting

Luis Miranda

Born

1969-12-15 (56)

Place of birth

Santo Antônio de Jesus, Bahia, Brazil

Known for

Acting

Credits

65 titles

Luís Miranda (born December 15, 1969) is a Brazilian actor, playwright, and comedian.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 21 titles

Noah's Ark poster
7.0

A pair of mice attempt to board Noah's Ark: Vini, a charismatic poet with terrible stage fright, and Tito, a talented and charming guitarist. When the rains come, only one male and one female of each species is allowed on Noah's Ark. With the help of an ingenious cockroach and fate's good luck, Vini and Tito sneak their way onto the Ark and together avert a showdown among the ships carnivores and plant eaters. All the while, the animals perform a series of classic songs inspired by world renowned poet, Vinicius de Moraes. Can these talented stowaways use music to break the tension and help these cooped up creatures survive the 40 days and 40 nights together?

Noah's Ark

2024

Great Sertão poster
7.1

In the concrete jungles of lawless futuristic Brazil, enemies spout slam poetry in duels as their movements remind us of parkour. The adrenaline rush breaks into three timelines: the past introduces teenager Riobaldo and handsome Diadorim, the present depicts a bloody clash and reveals sexual identities, and the future exposes Riobaldo’s deal with the devil.

Great Sertão

2024

Bem-Vinda a Quixeramobim poster
7.3

Aimée is a millionaire influencer who has all her family's assets blocked, except for a farm in the countryside of Ceará that she inherited from her grandfather. She leaves for the hinterland in an attempt to sell the property, but ashamed of the new reality, she invents that she will take a "sabbatical period" for a year. Thus, she will have to deal with her new life and sustain the lie on social media.

Bem-Vinda a Quixeramobim

2022

The Rogue's Trial poster
6.6

After 20 years missing, João Grilo returns to Taperoá to join his old friend Chicó and, after his story of resurrection spreads, he is disputed as an electoral candidate by the two most powerful politicians in the city.

The Rogue's Trial

2024

Macho Man poster
7.0

Carlão is a prejudiced man who works in a car dealership with Cadinho, Zeca and Antunes. In conversations between them, Carlão always boasts of being the greatest soccer and mechanics savvy, all amidst macho and homophobic jokes. When Evaristo is the target of such verbal assaults, he pursues him and locks him in a magic locker. From there comes Carlinhos, a homosexual alter ego that takes over Carlão's body when night comes.

Macho Man

2020

Falas Negras poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Falas Negras

2025

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

Voltei na Foto poster
9.0

Leonardo is a man frustrated with his life until, unexpectedly, he is transported back to 1986. In the past, he encounters his younger self and attempts to change his own future.

Voltei na Foto

2026

The Lost Plot poster
NR

Artur is a stand-up comedian who plans to turn his life around and write a book about the story of a female guerrilla fighter from the 1970s. He gets mugged and his computer containing his drafts is stolen, but an app takes photos of the people using the stolen computer and emails them to him.

The Lost Plot

2026

O Auto da Boa Mentira poster
5.6

In four stories inspired by humorous tales by Ariano Suassuna, each created based on phrases by the poet from Paraíba, we meet Helder, Fabiano, Pierce and Lorena, living different situations where, ironically, the lie is always the protagonist.

O Auto da Boa Mentira

2021

Ó Paí, Ó 2 poster
5.5

Experience Roque's routine years after the first movie. Joana's tenement is still full of parties, gossip and confusion. The neighborhood prepares for the Iemanjá party, while dealing with the controversies of the neighbors.

Ó Paí, Ó 2

2023

Slam poster
8.3

Samuca is only 17 years old and discovers that his girlfriend Alicia is pregnant. The news comes to light at a not very favorable moment in Samuca's life, just when he thought everything was going very well. For having committed the same "slam" as his mother Melina, having a son at the same age as she had him, Samuca feels pressured. Themes such as teenage pregnancy and questions about life gain visibility and are unfolded throughout the plot.

Slam

2023

Tributo: Léa Garcia poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tributo: Léa Garcia

2023

A Sogra Perfeita 2 poster
4.5

Sequel to A Sogra Perfeita (2020).

A Sogra Perfeita 2

2025

Amigos em Fuga poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Amigos em Fuga

2027

Tributo: Neusa Borges poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tributo: Neusa Borges

2025

Tributo: Zezé Motta poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tributo: Zezé Motta

2024

L.O.C.A. – Liga das Obsessivas Compulsivas por Amor poster
7.8

Manuela is journalist in her thirties who faces love and professional crises. In an unexpected incident, she gets to know Elena, who takes her to a support group for women who love too much or are excessively jealous: the League of those who are Obsessive-Compulsive for Affection (L.O.C.A., Brazilian slang for "crazy"). The therapist seems to be an extremely mature and structured psychologist. Manuela sees this group as a chance to write an incredible article about the current female roles and wishes.

L.O.C.A. – Liga das Obsessivas Compulsivas por Amor

2021

The Business Women’s Club poster
4.9

Jongo, a renowned photographer, and Candinho, a young and inexperienced journalist, arrive at a decaying country club of São Paulo's high society, run by women involved with the law.

The Business Women’s Club

2024

Dissonantes poster
6.0

A broke guitarist rents his studio to Loly, his musical pupil, and is confronted by his convictions.

Dissonantes

2022

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Redenção de Ogum

2022

2010s · 16 titles

The Second Mother poster
8.0

After leaving her daughter Jessica in a small town in Pernambuco to be raised by relatives, Val spends the next 13 years working as a nanny to Fabinho in São Paulo. She has financial stability but has to live with the guilt of having not raised Jessica herself. As Fabinho’s university entrance exams approach, Jessica reappears in her life and seems to want to give her mother a second chance. However, Jessica has not been raised to be a servant and her very existence will turn Val’s routine on its head. With precision and humour, the subtle and powerful forces that keep rigid class structures in place and how the youth may just be the ones to shake it all up.

The Second Mother

2015

The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell poster
6.9

Friends of the recently deceased Quincas take their pal's body on one last tour of his favorite spots in Brazil's Bahia.

The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell

2010

Muita Calma Nessa Hora poster
6.0

Three young friends, Tita, Mari and Aninha decide to change their situations and travel to a beach place for a weekend. On the road, they meet Estrella, a hippie that wants a hide to try to find her unknown father. Together, they will live hilarious, absurd and moving situations. More than a change the air, they change themselves.

Muita Calma Nessa Hora

2010

Crô em Família poster
4.7

Already famous, at the top of his career, owner of his own school of etiquette, Crô sees himself alone and without a family. Lonely and vulnerable, he ends up living at the whim of supposed family, Orlando, Marinalva, Luane and Nando, whose intentions are far from the best. With the inseparable Geni, Magda and Jurema by his side, Crô will embark on an adventure to find his true family while constantly avoiding the venom of the top columnist Carlota Valdez.

Crô em Família

2018

Head Over Heels 2 poster
6.3

Alice owns a network of sex shops and workaholic who, in trying to reconcile the harsh routine of work and family life, suffers nervous breakdown, she is forced by her husband to go to spa. Precisely at this time, appears unique opportunity to expand its business in New York. Using fun gimmicks, risks his health, leaves spa party there with family to ride, but actually in order to facilitate their professional interests. In trying to reconcile the agendas, engage in hilarious situations and mistakes that culminate in the possible separation of the couple.

Head Over Heels 2

2012

Lima Barreto ao Terceiro Dia poster
5.5

On the last days of his life, while succumbing to alcoholism in a hospital, famed writer Lima Barreto chronicles his trajectory story as a black, poor writer living in Brazilian society between monarchy's dying days and early years of republic with its countless social problems, which formed the basis of his many novels.

Lima Barreto ao Terceiro Dia

2019

Trap.com poster
5.1

Exposed by his girlfriend through a video on the Internet, Bruno tries to revive his reputation, but all he can do is get into a series of traps (Cilada, in Portuguese). Cilada.com is a comedy about love and betrayal that shows the power of the Internet to transform small intimacies and slips in fame and constraints globalized.

Trap.com

2011

Trap.com poster
5.1

Exposed by his girlfriend through a video on the Internet, Bruno tries to revive his reputation, but all he can do is get into a series of traps (Cilada, in Portuguese). Cilada.com is a comedy about love and betrayal that shows the power of the Internet to transform small intimacies and slips in fame and constraints globalized.

Trap.com

2011

O Diário de Tati poster
6.1

Tati is a typical teenager, unable to learn mathematics, but very intelligent when creating plans to escape the punishment of the mother. During the summer, she needs to hide that she has to do math classes to improve her grades, conquer Zeca, the most popular boy in school and also care for the heartache of her mother, who wants to try to find a new love.

O Diário de Tati

2012

Amanhã Nunca Mais poster
6.4

Walter is an absent father and husband who works in a hospital without time for his family. His redemption happens when his wife sends him to the birthday cake for her daughter, but she does not know is that during the return trip home, the impossible will happen so that everything goes wrong.

Amanhã Nunca Mais

2011

Aos Ventos que Virão poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Aos Ventos que Virão

2014

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

Onde Está a Felicidade? poster
5.5

Teodora discovers that her husband was having a virtual relationship and enters a crisis, which results in the loss of her job as a presenter of a culinary program. Disillusioned, she decides to hit the road and sets out on a journey of self-discovery, walking the Way of Santiago de Compostela, in Spain.

Onde Está a Felicidade?

2011

Screen poster
9.8

In a movie theater, a man wakes up and looks at the screen. "What's that?", he asks his girlfriend. "A movie", she replies. Is it?

Screen

2011

Entreturnos poster
4.7

Beto is a bus conductor married to Gilda, who longs to have a child. When Beto gets closer to Leia, owner of his favorite bar, he meets Valcir, a newcomer who completes the love triangle that results in pregnancy. Amid the difficulties in dealing with this situation, the characters run through the city and find out more about themselves as they learn to confront their personal conflicts.

Entreturnos

2014

Trampolim do Forte poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Trampolim do Forte

2013

2000s · 9 titles

Carandiru poster
7.6

When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo – Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian history.

Carandiru

2003

My Name Ain't Johnny poster
7.1

The true story of João Guilherme Estrella ("Johnny"), a young middle-class bon vivant who became a big-time cocaine dealer in Rio de Janeiro in the early 1990s.

My Name Ain't Johnny

2008

Brainstorm poster
7.9

Neto is a middle class teenager living a normal life. After his father finds a marijuana cigarette on his pocket, he is sent to a mental institution, where he gets to know a completely absurd and inhumane reality in which people are devoured by a corrupt and cruel system.

Brainstorm

2001

Jean Charles poster
6.4

The tragic true story of Jean Charles de Menezes, the innocent Brazilian shot dead by British police in 2005 at the height of the London terrorist alerts.

Jean Charles

2009

Maids poster
7.1

Five maids in São Paulo are observed in this episodic, impressionistic film. The women interact with each other, ride busses, work, and have longings: Rai for a husband, Créo for her lost daughter, Roxane for a career in modeling. Quitéria is naive, a gull for thieves. Cida has a husband and also a lover. While each woman gets what she wishes for (more or less), it doesn't always make things better.

Maids

2001

The Sign of the City poster
6.3

Teca, a late-night radio show host, uses her astrological skills to help listeners who call in for advice. But her own life feels empty and lonely. One day she makes the acquaintance of her handsome new neighbour, Gil, only to find out he is married.

The Sign of the City

2007

No artwork available
NR

Taxi driver Oswaldir (Stepan Nercessian) entertains his passengers with stories from his daily work. In the special, the taxi driver tells several cases to a passenger (Luiz Gustavo), such as the story of the manicurist Ivonete (Rita Guedes), a woman so stunning that she was called to be Miss Irajá and pose for the cover of a magazine. Despite all the praise she received, she didn't have a boyfriend. Until Haroldão (Ernesto Piccolo) appeared. He won her over with a beautiful line, but soon let her down.

Faça Sua História

2007

Insane Tuesday poster
NR

Insane Tuesday debuted in São Paulo in 2001. The project was dedicated to the study of Brazilian comedy, to the transformation of actors into authors of their own characters and texts, and to the promotion of original productions of contemporary adult humor.

Insane Tuesday

2004

O Amor do Palhaço poster
NR

The end. Grete, beach personality from Canoa Quebrada, is dead. His story goes back in time, moments in his life reveal his trajectory until the moment he makes the fateful decision to leave Circo Maximo and venture out alone. The beginning of the end.

O Amor do Palhaço

2005

Series credits

Que História é Essa, Porchat? poster
7.4

No synopsis available yet.

Que História é Essa, Porchat?

2019

The Best Side of Life! poster
5.3

Candinho and his faithful companion, Policarpo, are back for new adventures in the big city. However, the disappearance of his son brings new suffering to him, who continues to believe that "everything bad that happens in life is for the better!".

The Best Side of Life!

2025

Now Generation poster
2.8

The genius Jonas Marra (Murilo Benício, from Brazil Avenue) has attained what few others have — a rich and famous celebrity of the digital world in Silicon Valley and the owner of Marra International, a respected technology conglomerate. But behind his image of a successful businessman lies another person shrouded in conflict and mystery.

Now Generation

2014

Lady Night poster
8.3

Lady Night

2017

Sob Nova Direção poster
8.3

No synopsis available yet.

Sob Nova Direção

2004

Zorra poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Zorra

2015

The Cariocas poster
7.8

"The Cariocas", a series in ten stand-alone episodes, tells the story of ten modern-day women against the beautiful backdrop of Rio de Janeiro and its stunning urban landscapes. Our protagonists are uninhibited, adulterous, vindictive, suicidal, envious, brides, betrayed, deluded. Women with distinct beauty and quaint peculiarities, each one has a particular way of life.

The Cariocas

2010

Encantado's poster
8.0

By day, Olímpia runs the supermarket. By night, in the same space, Eraldo runs a samba school. With love and humor, they will go to great lengths to harmonize this unusual shared existence.

Encantado's

2022

Junto & Misturado poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Junto & Misturado

2010

Mister Brau poster
7.0

Follows the unconventional lives of a Brazilian pop artist who got out of the streets to reach stardom and his manager-wife-choreographer.

Mister Brau

2015

Dani-se poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Dani-se

2021

The Rogue's Trial (TV Series) poster
8.0

After 20 years missing, João Grilo returns to Taperoá to join his old friend Chicó and, after his story of resurrection spreads, he is disputed as an electoral candidate by the two most powerful politicians in the city. The four-chapter miniseries original version of O Auto da Compadecida 2.

The Rogue's Trial (TV Series)

2026

Passionais poster
NR

In each episode, a story unfolds about how a couple's passion turned sour, as love succumbed to jealousy, hate and even crime.

Passionais

2014

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Lá na Minha Terra

2026

Ó Paí, Ó: A Série poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ó Paí, Ó: A Série

2008

Batendo Ponto poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Batendo Ponto

2011

Grande Sertão poster
7.0

In the "Grande Sertão" community, Riobaldo turns to a life of crime out of love for Diadorim. The war between police and outlaws reveals conflicts of loyalty and betrayal, life and death.

Grande Sertão

2025