A jewel thief who goes so far as to steal his own wife's jewels. During his escape, he goes through a series of adventures and incidents, leading to the exhibition of landscapes of São Paulo, Alto de Santana and Rio de Janeiro.
While his uncle is traveling, an irresponsible young man spends a fortune on sprees with friends and lady sweethearts, but when the creditors start pressuring for cash, he pretends to lose his memory, although not fooling his fiancée.
A horse tamer is the father of a beautiful girl who is coveted by his neighbor, a rich farmer. The farmer seduces and kidnaps the poor girl. The man, desperate, goes after him. In the end, when he tries to hit the man, he ends up hitting his beloved daughter. Not knowing what to do, he starts a...
The French girl Nanette Lubin came to Rio looking for her aunt and ended up finding the son of a baroness, Ricardo de Toneleiros. Not finding her aunt, Nanette became a manicurist for a baroness and later the lover of the lady's nephew. The film ends with the death of Nanette, who had been located...
Álvaro Ramos, an incorrigible bohemian, thrown out of the boarding house where he lived for lack of payment, finds fifty thousand réis on the street. He buys a lottery ticket number 013 and wins a big prize.
In a séance, Menezes' great-great-grandfather is brought back to life in present day (1936), over a century after his death at age 26. A free-spirited womanizer, he starts causing all sorts of trouble for the wealthy, respectable family of his descendants.
A hillbilly and an Italian leave the countryside, go to São Paulo and are scammed by a crook. They end up being chased by a police officer, and without a penny in their pockets, they end up returning to the countryside. It's considered a lost film, but a reconstituted version was made by...
A retrospective of Luiz de Barros's life in cinema, illustrated with photos of his first films, still silent. He talks about the creation of synchronization, a process he created to make films sound. Then, through a sequence, some scenes from his most famous films are presented, such as "E O CIRCO...
Seeing a black knight, the young man Álvaro runs after him. During the race, the knight falls and he discovers that it is a girl. The two end up falling in love.
A farmer from the countryside goes to Rio de Janeiro with his family in search of his daughter's fiancé, who was in the Federal Capital gambling, going to cabarets and dating a ballerina. The farmer also gets involved in many adventures. In the end, he and Gouveia, the fiancé, regret their...
A girl sings very well, but no one believes her; a country hillbilly in love with her pays a cabaret owner to let her sing. She is a success, but the country hillbilly has to settle for being just her friend.
Lucy is a woman from Rio's upper middle class who, after seeing her husband leave home to live with his lover, starts a relationship with another man, even though she is still officially a married woman.