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- A writer who specializes in exposing fake witchcraft journeys to Brazil to investigate a voodoo cult.
- A letter summons American detective Steve Marshall to Sao Paulo, Brazil, in search of fugitive murderess Louise Dunning. Marshall contacts Louise and learns that she murdered her husband only in self-defense. In the meantime, Marshall is set up as a pawn in a counterfeiting ring (they were the ones who sent him the letter), and unwittingly helps the police capture the criminals. Louise decides to remain in Brazil.
- In Brazil, a diamond digger sets off in pursuit of a thief who robbed him after leaving him for dead. Along the way, he meets a former mistress of his adversary and tries to extract some information about the individual.
- Zenó (Mazzaropi) is a poor gardener at a traditional school in São Paulo who falls in love with a local girl who is much richer and younger than he is. Eager to win her, he decides to get rich, which gets him involved in various funny situations.
- Four deserters from Paraguay War hide in an old drunkard's country seat. The latter has two daughters who are unhappy with their recluse lives.
- A man's farm is attacked and his mother gets killed. Looking for revenge, he goes about chasing the men who killed her.
- The story of Passarinho, one of the most feared and dangerous Brazilian criminals. He and his gang terrorized São Paulo with their robberies for several years. Notorious for his acts of defiance against the authorities, Passarinho was the hottest news in town by a frantic media, and also managed to find love in the company of a hard working woman.
- Three singers, who call themselves "Trio Gerimum", arrive in Rio de Janeiro trying to succeed in their artistic career. They struggle with great difficulties and even sing on the streets. Chased by the police, they accidentally end up in a television studio, where they are mistaken for northeastern deputies. Settled the misunderstanding, they are hired by a TV commercial star to fake her kidnapping to promote her theatrical debut. Confusion escalates with the arrival of a crazy general, a group of bearded revolutionaries and an outlaw.
- Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, during the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas. Outlaw Tonio is involved in a conflict between strikers and the police. His mistress tries to keep him from his companions, but he steals her belongings to help the persecuted. Dissatisfied, she denounces him, compromising him politically.
- When a woman discovers her husband's infidelity, she decides to get divorced. But he still loves her, and learning that another guy has fallen for her, decides to change places with him. He would be the lover.
- Pedro Malazartes, upon arriving at his house on the farm, receives the news that his father had died. A humble and innocent countryman, Pedro is deceived by his brothers in sharing the inheritance.
- The sophisticated thief Mão Leve and his simple-minded accomplice Jonjoca take from the rich to give to the poor. Their new mission is raising funds in order Mão Leve's brother can study abroad. But great care must be taken lest the honest boy discovers the origin of the money.
- Don Juan is in for a lot of trouble when he shares his sweepstake ticket with four girls, assuming it was worthless.
- Ms. Violante Miranda is a bordello owner who raises a small girl as her own granddaughter. When she gets a little older, she is sent to study in Europe, and when she returns, she becomes a socialite, rejecting her previous milieu and her "grandmother".
- Catito, a clown, manages to flee a forced marriage, by hiding inside Dr. Cláudio's car trunk. In Rio de Janeiro, his host forces him to impersonate the famous painter Picanssô, to impress his girlfriend Sílvia's friends. She's a socialite whose main interest is her own social projection.
- Two naive jobbers from the port area of Rio de Janeiro become involved with a dangerous gang of smugglers.
- Only a miracle from Santo Antônio could save that poor family from starvation.
- An executive inherits a mining site and decides to visit him in the company of his wife, asking the help of an airplane pilot who knows the whole area. The group faces a conflict with the miners and everything becomes even more dangerous when it needs to make a forced landing in the forest.
- A group of scoundrels want to make it by planning hoaxes.
- A soldier is about to leave the army when his wife arrives from the Northeast of Brazil, bringing along the youngest brother. Since he had no place to accommodate them, he decides to take them to Army quarters.
- The story of a singer who falls in love with a ballerina.
- A domestic worker from a country town goes to work at the residence of decadent nobles in the capital of the country where her employers' creditor falls in love with her and proposes marriage to her.
- Dercy plays Ernestina, who pretends to be a millionaire and almost marries the self-serving Floriano, played by Ronaldo Lupo.
- A childless couple has to find a boy to pass for a son to obtain an inheritance from a rich uncle. They hire the services of a circus dwarf, but the uncle is forced to stay longer and the dwarf decides to take advantage of the fact.