Mario Fortuna

A vagabond receives a large fortune as an inheritance and summons his peers to decide what to do with it.

An italian man is unfairly imprisoned and his wife must work to maintain the family.

This relentlessly realistic Argentine production was released in the U.S. as The Marked Man. The title character is a poverty-stricken janitor who suddenly wins an enormous sum in the National lottery. Spending money before he actually collects it, the janitor is appalled to discover that his wife has inadvertently sold the winning ticket to a door-to-door peddler. The ticket was hidden in the band of an old straw hat, which passes through several hands as the janitor frantically searches for the precious headgear. What might have been handled as a farce by another director is transformed into a stark, utterly credible urban tragedy by director Francis Laurie.

Disenfranchised working-class woman leaves a bad man and finds a good one. Twenty years later...

A trolley falls from a bridge to the Riachuelo, killing almost all its passengers. The families of the victims receive compensation, they improve their lifestyles and look down on the worker who didn't take the trolley that mortal day.

Three stories about love and animals.

A humble and good-natured man is disappointed when the young woman he loves becomes involved with a millionaire.

A television network infiltrates an inept employee (Porcel) in the competition and he begins to ruin all the programs but, instead of subtracting audience, he only managed to improve it.