A large protest march of escaped slaves is an episode in the history of Chico Bondade and Boaventura, who had already become legendary for their difficult and daring missions.

The Bandit is a movie set in Brazil, where a schoolteacher is pursued by an outlaw gang. The story involves murder, kidnapping, and a small village held at gunpoint. The Bandit and his gang engage in marauding, looting, arson, and double-crossing as they create chaos in the region. The schoolteacher becomes a damsel-in-distress and must find a way to escape and seek justice.

Meant principally for a sympathetic audience, whether Catholic or not, this routine story about a priest's receiving the call to the cloth may be a bit slow and theatrical for some viewers. Directed by Lima Barreto, the tale is told in a series of flashbacks as the priest remembers how he was transformed as a child into a person willing to give his life in service of the church and his God. Barreto also scripted the story, which in the end, may be too filled with religious platitudes and preachy overtones to effectively convey its message.

The young Jimena searches for her identity. The film follows the life of the young woman with her mother and grandmother, white middle-class women, and the exchange of letters with her father, a foreign and black man, whom the young woman resembles. Seeking to free herself from the feeling of inadequacy, Jimena rewrites her family relationships and creates other ways of experiencing love, friendship and work ties. Through her eyes, the film considers questions about class, family, tradition, race and gender.

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