Nem Sansão Nem Dalila

Treze Cadeiras

1957

Tererê Não Resolve

Three couples, two already living in Rio; and the third, with 'the one who hates carnival', coming to visit an aunt. One of the women bets that all hu

1938

Três Vagabundos

A scientist swaps the mind of banker and an idiot by accident.

1952

Mujeres de fuego

1958

Banana-da-Terra

A man in charge of a publicity campaign for bananas decides to kidnap the Queen of 'Bananaland', a tropical island paradise, and take her to Rio, wher

1939

Two Stories

Cacareco is a clumsy worker at a dry cleaners who constantly causes losses for his boss, the Portuguese Rebuçado. One day, he receives a package from

1960

Vamos com Calma

1956

Está Tudo Aí!

An elderly head of the family, unlike his family—wife, daughters, future son-in-law, and servants—horrifies Carnaval, forming a humorous contrast. But

1939

Os Apavorados

1963

A Grande Vedete

Madame Janete is an aging music hall star who insists on doing roles far beneath her real age, and whose secretary keeps her fans in a payroll. One da

1958

Depois Eu Conto

Zé da Bomba dreams of being rich, and his neighbour dreams of being an artist and having an affair with him.

1956

Rio Fantasia

Quartet from Northeast Brazil arrive in Rio de Janeiro, to try their luck in the big city.

1956

Maria 38

Maria is a young woman who becomes a well-known crook in the bohemian district of Lapa, in Rio de Janeiro. She earns her living with little scams and

1959

Aviso aos Navegantes

In Buenos Aires, Frederico hides in a ship going to Rio de Janeiro to travel for free. But Azulão, the cook, finds him and blackmails him into working

1950

Carnaval Atlântida

Movie producer Cecílio B. de Milho is intent on filming an epic about Helen of Troy, while some of the crew would rather turn it into a musical comedy

1952

Matar ou Correr

"High Noon" spoof. Kid Bolha and Ciscocada, two clumsy swindlers, arrive at a violent Old West town called Citydown where, by mistake, one of them is

1954

De Vento em Popa

Industrialist's son returns from the USA, where he'd been supposedly studying Nuclear Physics, when in fact he'd devoted himself to pop music, without

1957

The Man of The Sputnik

An UFO that could be the Russian satellite Sputnik falls on a hillbilly's hencoop.

1959

Mulheres, Cheguei!

1959

O Batedor de Carteiras

In the Rio de Janeiro Central Station, the infamous pickpocket Mão Leve meets Honorina—a Northeastern girl looking for a job—with whom he falls in lov

1958