Britos
Two robbers flee to Brazil with a cabaret singer after robbing a bank.
Maos Sangrentas translates to Bloody Hands in English, and that's just what this gruesome Brazilian melodrama delivers. The story begins when a gang of dangerous convicts escape from a penal colony. With the police in hot pursuit, the escapees cut a gory swath through the countryside. As his comrades are killed off one by one, the leader of the group descends into gibbering madness. In contrast to this, a subplot develops involving the least dangerous of the escapees, who murdered his wife in a peak of self-righteous rage and is now seriously in doubt about the wisdom of his deed. Principal scenes reworked in 1962 to make the film The Violent and the Damned (q.v.).
The story of the confusion experienced by Aparicio Boamorte who works in the Zoo and has a giraffe as a confidante to vent the scolding he takes of all the people with whom he relates.
Taxi driver gets in a jam when he receives a lot of money as inheritance from a distant family member when in fact, the money came from a bank robbery.
Raposo
Hillbilly avoids a train disaster, becoming a hero. A dishonest politician tries to take advantage of the fact, to promote himself.
Белым громадам ультрасовременных домов и фешенебельным дворцам противопоставлены развалившиеся хибары, сколоченные из фанеры и жести, грязь и нищета. Это фавеллы - трущобы Рио-де-Жанейро. Здесь живет простой и веселый трудовой народ города. О жизни этих людей, о социальных контрастах города рассказывает фильм.