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Our story begins with Macunaima's miraculous birth to an old woman in a tiny jungle settlement. Born fully grown, he discovers his life's purpose which leads him and his family and followers on a journey to the Big City. More miracles occur on the way, but Macunaima still has the heart and mind of a child. In the Big City, terrorists enlist him in their revolutionary schemes. In the Big City he learns that nuts are not always food and other hilarious life lessons.

Clemente Celidônio, better known as Quelemente, takes care of a herd near his house in Pajeú das Flores, Brazil. When he gets home he discovers that tragedy has struck: his sister Marizolina was raped by a stranger. Craving revenge, Quelemente goes in search of a man with a facial scar and missing one finger, as Marizolina described. During his long journey on this mission, he falls in love with Maria do Carmo. She is pregnant by the time he finds his villain, In his fight with Cesídio, Quelemente kills a police officer and the police persecute him. Quelemente marches Cesídio and a Priest to his house and forces Cesídio to marry Marizolina. Soon after the marriage, Quelé initiates a fight of death with Cesídio, interrupted by the arrival of the police, who kill Cesídio--and Maria do Carmo. When Quelé's hopes for survival are few, he arrives at Gangue de Lampião, who shoots the cops, who flee. Quelemente enters the gang, being baptized by Lampião as Quelé do Pajeú.

A man gets locked outside of his apartment naked.

An allegory about Brazil's history and the struggle for power since the 1930 Revolution until the advent of the TV.

In a fictitious country, civil servant receives the greatest inheritance in history (ten trillion dollars) and is confined by authorities because he could break world economics. But he manages to escape.

Young woman and her lover involve a lawyer in their plan to kill her rich uncle and stay with his fortune.

Short documentary about Carmen Miranda, with some of her songs, rare footage of the "lost" film "Banana-da-Terra" and scenes of her funeral, in 1955.

After 16 years married, with two children and squandering a life full of luxury and wealth, Danilo Ribeiro (Mário Benvenutti) is tired of living in the shadow of his millionaire father-in-law and his wife Renata (Vera Barreto Leite). The former jurist begins to remember how dreamy and full of plans he was at age 16 and finds himself in a situation of existential conflict, having his lover Denise (Anna Christie) as the only way to ease his drama. While he doesn't even understand what he does in his work as a "genrocrat" and prefers to give up everything, he doesn't want to give up all his wealth and comfort.

A brief tribute to Brazilian painter Cândido Portinari relating to his humble beginnings as a citizen born in the town of Brodósqui, located on the countryside of São Paulo. Some of his paintings and poems are presented along with some archive images.

People who are there, who need to move, who should stay here, who can dream, who can only dream, who cannot even have a dream, who believe and who don't believe. And animals or their personalities. A little tale about several towns on a planet.

A presentation about the city Pilar de Goiás, a historical city formed in the 1700's during the gold cycle with its fourteen gold mines producing richness to the country. The churches, the houses, the prison chamber from the 18th century and still existing are shown along with decadence faced by the place in the following centuries, only surviving thanks to the agriculture.

This documentary focuses on the evolution of applied arts from Bauhaus to the early 1970's and discusses the social role of designers as well as the rather undesirable side effects of massive industrialization at large.

Documentary about the first years of Brazilian cinema, until the movement called Cinema Novo, in the 1960s, with photographs and scenes of rare films.

A brief anthology of poems written by modernist poet Cecília Meireles (1901-1964). Actress Isabel Ribeiro perform a couple of Cecilia's verses as images of places, nature and solitary people are destined to match with the poetic works of art.

A short documentary that presents the evolution and then present 1970's Brás region, which started as an immigrant's place that welcomed the Italian community and their factories and industries but with time and lack of some progress, the neighborhood became undervalued, receiving poor migrants from different Brazilian states, defining a new culture and hard underpaid labor.

A return to the poetic environment of the old Brazilian cities, immersing themselves in the climate of tenderness that they awaken in their characteristic houses, their music bands, their Holy Week celebrations, their revelry of the divine. A synthesis of the old town with its Baroque colonial heritage quite different from what is traditionally appreciated in Minas Gerais and Bahia. In Vila Boa de Goiás, a baroque sertanejo, half stripped, half refined, was formed, which by the roughness of the medium had a very peculiar feature.

The loss of creativity faced by the country people when they have to move to the big city.