Black Ermine

Family-owned ski resort is failing, and they've pinned all their hopes on seeing the property purchased by the Gonzalez Brothers.

A student secretly goes back to school after getting married to one of her teachers.

The happiness of a child is marred by the harsh attitude of the captain of a boat.

A young engineer on holiday gets involved with a boy who has a strange relationship with the wind. Their close friendship arouses suspicion in the small town. When the boy disappears, the engineer is accused of murdering him.

Maos Sangrentas translates to Bloody Hands in English, and that's just what this gruesome Brazilian melodrama delivers. The story begins when a gang of dangerous convicts escape from a penal colony. With the police in hot pursuit, the escapees cut a gory swath through the countryside. As his comrades are killed off one by one, the leader of the group descends into gibbering madness. In contrast to this, a subplot develops involving the least dangerous of the escapees, who murdered his wife in a peak of self-righteous rage and is now seriously in doubt about the wisdom of his deed. Principal scenes reworked in 1962 to make the film The Violent and the Damned (q.v.).

For reasons that will be revealed in the end, a woman mysteriously returns to her parents' home on her wedding night.

A man tries to avenge the death of his sister, a gambling addict. Another man, an ex-convict who whistles when he commits a crime, is reunited with his blind mother.

The story of Pelé, from his birth to his rise as one of the most prominent players in both Brazilian and worldwide soccer.

A six-time widowed man lives with his six mothers-in-law and is looking for a new wife.

A hotel becomes very popular when rumors begin to circulate about a ghost wandering its corridors.

While playing a prank, a young boy accidentally discovers the identity of a criminal lurking in the neighborhood.

The vicissitudes of the members of a Buenos Aires family facing their economic bankruptcy and the attitude of each one of them in the emergency.

A sculptor lends money to a bankrupt man, who agrees to allow his daughter pose for the sculptor's next work. The film caused a scandal in Argentina for the depiction of then 17-year-old Olga Zubarry's naked back. Adaptated from the novel "Fräulein Else" by Arthur Schnitzler.

A country girl falls in love with an English professor who's in the country studying fossils, but must return to his land.

A married man takes advantage of his friendship with another man, making him pretend to be the father of the children he has out of wedlock.