Aurélio Teixeira

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.).

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.

In a company trading maté, workers are treated as slaves. Some of them try to escape, but those who are caught suffer severe punishments.

An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world.

A group of scoundrels want to make it by planning hoaxes.

Two friends are looking for a quiet place where they can rest awhile. Soon they find the town they'd chosen to go is far from quiet. In fact, it's ruled by outlaws. And one of them is mistaken for the "Avenging Gunman", defender of the law.

On the day of Pedro Boiadeiro's wedding, a band of cangaceiros who survived the Angicos massacre invade his home, then proceed to beat him up, and abuse and murder his wife. Pedro sets out to get revenge on each one.

Somebody is selling songs for two recording companies, simultaneously. The owner of one of them hires a detective to find out the swindler's identity. But the private-eye is clumsy, and messes things up even more.

Intent on offering his fiancée a better life, countryman heads for Rio de Janeiro in search of a place in the sun...

A man who's memorized his town's telephone directory tries his luck on a TV Show. But a small group of people who control the bettings in town try to get advantage of his simple-mindedness.

César wants to be a singer and, with the help of his friends Maloca and Didi, seeks an opportunity on television talent shows. When he performs on Chacrinha's show, he wins all the night's prizes and wins the affection of a young woman from a wealthy family who is dating a con man who steals cars. Realizing the girl has a crush on the singer, the con man sets a trap to get César out of the game.

A group of migrants from the drought areas of Northeastern of Brazil gets a truck "pau-de-arara" trying to move to São Paulo and have a better life. Along their travel, one of the women delivers a baby on the road. The driver, indeed, intends to carry them to the slave-work in the fields of a powerful "colonel", but the brave Ana faces the foreman of the farm and the driver, and the truck follows to the hired final destination.

A mine boss hires a policeman to chase some runaways who stole a precious diamond.

Erotic comedy in 3 segments: "A B. de Ouro" (The Golden A..), "O Homem dos Quatro Chifres" (The Man with Four Horns) e "O Homem, a Mulher e o Etc. Numa Noite de Loucuras" (Man, Woman and Etc in a Crazy Night). All three stories are about single, married and divorced men, and their sexual adventures with women.

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A bride is kidnapped on the day of her wedding.

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Based on real-life Brazilian bandit "Mineirinho", the film follows the story of Zezé, a man falsely accused by sensasionalist press of being a high-caliber criminal who suddenly becomes one of the most wanted men of Rio de Janeiro.

The unfaithful wife Malena travels to Cabo Frio with the hustler Betinho, her virgin and naive daughter Soninha and her lesbian friend Nanan to spend the weekend. Nanan tries to seduce Soninha and Betinho decides to rape the girl.

Bruno is a physician whose license had been revoked, due to some ethical problems in the past. He gathers some criminals to kidnap the children of two powerful bankers. While the police faces contradictory evidence and clues, Bruno starts killing the other criminals, to keep the ransom for himself.