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Italian mondo featuring scenes of night life in North and South America, including Las Vegas, New Orleans, San Francisco, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro.

Tonico and Tião are two vaudevillian artists who travel across Brazil in search of fame and success. A crisis hits the duo when Tião gets tired of being a setup for Tonico's jokes in their numbers and leaves the troupe.

A man and a woman are laying on a chess-like patio. Both are trying to reach each other in the best way they can. However, for some odd reason they don't get on their feet, they don't talk to each other, and the only sounds heard are voices coming from a radio and strange sounds that seem to indicate something's about to happen.

Focusing on capoeira, Vadiação was previously storyboarded by artist Carybé. Its soundtrack preserves the typical chants and berimbau music which are part of that practice, as the film illustrates the evolution of capoeira, simultaneously a martial art and a dance.

Swindler in jail devises a scheme to blackmail the family of recently deceased people, threatening to tell supposedly incriminating facts about their dead relatives' lives.

Country girl arriving in a big town falls in love with her boss, without knowing who he was.

On a theater stage, the four seasons of the year are presented by Santista, one of the most traditional textile industries in Brazil. A stop-motion animated advertisement by Eugênio Marcus.

Rosario is a prostitute who lives in her married sister's house. When the latter wants to be a hooker too, she doesn't approve.

A novelist comes under the spell of a beautiful woman who is rumored to be a legendary Amazon who lures men to their doom.

Tired of royalty, the prince of Araquelândia switches identities with a popcorn maker look-alike so he can enjoy Rio de Janeiro's carnival alongside his butler. While the real prince falls into revelry, the false prince finds himself in trouble with the foreign country's political problems, including a corrupt ambassador and a terrorist.

It records the festivities that, at the time, took place in the heart of the city, at the meeting of Rua dos Andradas and Avenida Borges Medeiros.

A small town is invaded by bandits who kidnap a rich man's daughter and other young girls. A group of rescuers is assembled, but three of the town's most fearful residents decide to transform into the funniest three musketeers in cinematic history.

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

Documentary sponsored by ASCOFAM - World Association for the Fight Against Hunger, on the recommendation of Josué de Castro, former director of FAO. Filmed in the interior of the states of Bahia, Pernambuco, Ceará, Paraíba and Rio Grande do Norte.

While trying to break an "animal game" gambling scheme, Det. Bartolomeu hits his head, and the gamblers convince him that he is one of them. But everytime he hears a whistle, he changes between gambler and policeman.

A trip made by Gerson Tavares in 1949, when he was a painting student, accompanying the São Francisco River from the Northeast region to Southeast Brazil, showing the authentic and backward interior of the country.

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 his father's knowledge.

Barber likes to help everybody in town. Now, he's trying to help a young couple in love defeat the girl's tutor, who is against the romance.

The first images of the new capital of Brazil, Brasília!

A woman impressed by news reports about flying saucers, gets hit on the head by a vase, passes out and dreams that she is the 'Queen of Mars', from where she sends an expedition to Earth in order to bring back Rio's Carnaval to the planet.

Animations (only parts in nuclei in the film) and images, many of them archival and foreign, illustrate that the notion of time is associated with movement and its measurement is performed by the rotation of the Earth around its axis and the Sun. The angle of inclination of the Earth in this last movement also marks the climatic seasons. From the need for greater accuracy in measuring time, gnomons and solar quadrants arose, for whose reading the duodecimal numbering is used. Based on this numbering, time zones and mechanical measuring devices were established, illustrated by the clock mechanism with a church bell. The evolution of astronomy determines the creation of more accurate electronic devices for the evaluation of time, such as the meridian telescope, the Markowitz chamber, the electronic oscillators and the telescope, with which astronomers work at the National Observatory.

A poor sick woman, who raises her three small kids has to be hospitalized. The oldest son leaves his brothers with the neighbors so he can make company to his mom. When they come back neither the kids nor the neighbors are around.

Petrônio drives a bus and his friend Cabeleira is a ticket collector. When Petrônio's sister needs money to do a surgery they get involved with a film production company, where a psychopath is trying to be the protagonist of the movie.

Documentary about the the politician Magalhães Barata's death and mourning, in Belém Brazil.

The building of the first hidrelectric usine in Furnas, Brazil.

A compliment to the beauty and modernity of the city of Manaus. The richness of its waters, its houses on stilts, boats and the natural landscape that surrounds it are evoked in this enthusiastic portrait. The rubber culture, which put it on the map of the world economy, guarantees it the title of “pearl of the forest”.

The brazilian military campaign in Italy during the Second World War.

The miseries perpetrated by three tyrants who arrive in the city of Beauvais during the time of religious conflicts in France, and the consequent fear of the town's inhabitants, are depicted through the painting by the French painter Antoine Caron (1520-1598). The work is part of the Nitrates Project of the Brazilian Cinematheque.

Marking the fourth centenary of the city of São Paulo, this documentary provides a brief overview of the city's history, then dynamically captures the present-day metropolis and the skyscrapers that dominate the plateau in the 1950s.