New Bandits 2023
Creator
Eduardo Melo, Mariana Bardan
Synopsis
Adrift and desperately needing money to pay for his ailing adoptive father's care, Ubaldo, a bank clerk who's unable to remember his childhood, receives an inheritance that will change his destiny for good. He goes to Cratará, in the heart of the northwest desert, where he'll become the leader of a pack of ruthless bandits, fulfilling the legacy of his biological father - a mythical cangaceiro.
Episodes
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Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1: The Weight of the Inheritance
51 min
Ubaldo, an ex-military man who now works at a bank in São Paulo, heads northeast after inheriting land from the biological father he never knew: a famous cangaceiro. When Ubaldo is taken hostage during a bank robbery, he escapes death by offering information for a robbery. He is persuasive and the gang accepts his deal, as long as he can prove that he is telling the truth.