Chanchada Movies

During the inauguration of Brasília, Brazil's brand new capital city, singer and ballerina Gilda hides in a working-class night club to escape...

Two friends are looking for a quiet place where they can rest awhile. Soon they find the town they'd chosen to go is far from quiet. In fact, it's...

A precious necklace is stolen during a convention at Quitandinha Palace, a hotel in which a wives conference is deciding whether or not unfaithful...

Bums find $15,000 in trash, but the money belonged to criminals.

Young man participates in TV contests to help the girl he loves using the money he expects to win.

Western spoof. Depicts the conflict between the leader of a gang of country bandits and his former protégé, now a police officer.

In the Rio de Janeiro Central Station, the infamous pickpocket Mão Leve meets Ernestina—a Northeastern girl looking for a job—with...

Quartet from Northeast Brazil arrive in Rio de Janeiro, to try their luck in the big city.

A cleaner accidentely stills a secret formula and get mistaken for the heir prince of an old kingdom.

The film narrates the adventures of the trickster Juca Moleza in the carnival while he has to deal with the consequences of the scams he applied to...