影片讲述了两男一女在一条救生船上漂流求生的故事,是一部艺术性极高带有实验性电影语言的超现实主义作品。导演皮索托用精湛的摄影,剪辑和蒙太奇把戏剧化情节和人物内心思想的矛盾和斗争表现得淋漓尽致,苏联电影大师谢尔盖·爱森斯坦在看过后大为惊叹,并称它是“电影纯语言”的典范之作。
Successful businessman, Paulo Chupadinha send his wife to a convent every year to really enjoy Brazil’s carnival. He meets a cabaret woman that wants to make a show in his little nd peaceful village. For that, however, she will have to seduce every important man of the city: the police chief, the priest and the mayor.
Two authors go look for a business to finance their dream musical.
A good-hearted man, betrayed by his wife and friends, fakes his death and takes up a new identity, as a nameless, wandering drunkard.
The love misadventures of a teacher, a woman who gives up living in a big city in order to teach country children how to read and write.
A parody of the story The Three Musketeers.
A man kills his wife on their wedding night, after discovering she had been unfaithful. After being acquitted, he moves to the country, where he becomes part of a love triangle.
Lelita, a rich young lady, is courted by Paulo, her cousin, but she has reason to believe he is also having na affair with Lelita's sister, which causes jealousy trouble, until all becomes clear and true love prevails.
Carmen, a poor and beautiful woman, lives in a shantytown in Rio de Janeiro. All men desire her, including her stepfather, but she only has eyes for her boyfriend, Milton. After being expelled from home, she finds out her lover is married. Unhappy with her life, she finds a place in a boarding house and tries to find a job, with no success. Tired and starving, she ends up passing out in the street, being helped by a passer-by, who leaves her at writer Flávio Martins's house, a man torn between the proposal of an arranged marriage, an old flame, and the new guest.