Sadi Cabral

A beautiful and poor woman buys herself a rich husband after inheriting a great deal of money. (imdb)

Sinfonia Amazonica can be regarded as Brazil's answer to Walt Disney's animated feature Fantasia. The main difference: whereas Disney had a staff of hundreds at his disposal, Sinfonia Amazonica's director Anello Latin Filho did everything himself, even inking and coloring in the animation cels himself. (All Movie Guide)

In Salvador (Brazil), during the dictatorship of Vargas, Tonio fights against social and religious inequalities. His lover wants to keep him away from his colleagues, but he gets into a conflict between strikers and the police.

Glorinha, a middle-class 15 year old girl, always thought her mother Judite had killed herself, and that her father Gilberto has gone crazy as result. Her friend Nair takes her to a high-class bordello, where she wants to work. When uncle Raul, who raised her, discovers her prostitution, he decides to finally tell her all the truth about her parents' story. (imdb)

Bums find $15,000 in trash, but the money belonged to criminals.

70-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.

A young military man returns from the Paraguayan War and finds his betrothed married and also his secret passion equally committed to a widower who has a daughter. Things get complicated when he falls for the girl.

In São Sebastião, the fisherman João Baleia lives with a mute, dubbed Feiticeira, who was raped by three bandits and is feared by the native population. Baleia can avenge his wife, killing the attackers and blinding a soldier, but, in instead, appears mysteriously dead in the local church, dedicated to St. Sebastian, which is reputed to brave saint door.

Prisoners of Ilha Anchieta penitentiary rise up, dominate the guards and run away. One of them, who dreams of seeing his mother again, meets a prostitute, and tells her his story.