Cangaço Novo (2023)
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.
First Air Date: 2023-08-17
Last Air Date: 2026-04-24
Number of Seasons: 2
Number of Episodes: 15
Created By: Eduardo Melo, Mariana Bardan
Networks: Prime Video
Top Cast
- Allan Souza Lima as Ubaldo
- Alice Carvalho as Dinorah
- Thainá Duarte as Dilvânia
- Marcélia Cartaxo as Zeza (Syzélia)
- Hermila Guedes as Leinneane
- Bruno Bellarmino as Gastão
- Ricardo Blat as Ernesto
- Enio Cavalcante as Jeremias
- Adélio Lima as Sabiá
- Pedro Lamin as Lino
Seasons
Season 1 (2023)
No overview available for this season.
Episodes:
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Ep. 1: The Weight of the Inheritance
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.
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Ep. 2: A Promise is a Promise
With Jeremías injured, the gang improvises an escape and seeks refuge in a farmer's house. Dinorah fights off one of the bandits after he attacks the farmer's teenage daughter. To save Dinorah's life, Sabiá sends her to help Ubaldo fulfill her promise, after which she can exact her revenge. Ubaldo will have to fight his own sister if he wants to survive.
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Ep. 3: My Name is Ubaldo Vaqueiro
The gang prepares for the next heist. Ubaldo is reunited with a childhood friend, Leinneane, whose husband is running for mayor. Tensions rise between the bandits when a robbery nearly costs them their lives. Ubaldo rebels against the gang's incompetence and wins a fight against Ameaço. If they want to make real money now, they'll have to do it their way: no deaths.
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Ep. 4: The Price of Inheritance
While Ubaldo works to turn the gang into professionals, Dinorah makes an offer of 1 million reais to prevent the bank from auctioning off her properties. They won, but now they need more money and prepare for the next heist. Dilvania welcomes the families who lost their houses at auction to live on their land, creating a commune and inspiring political hatred.
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Ep. 5: Living is Dangerous
After a successful heist, Ubaldo brings his recently recovered father Ernesto from São Paulo to Cratará. Meanwhile, Dinorah plans to take revenge on Mayor Gastão for having raped her when she was a child. Her boyfriend Lino hers helps her attack Gastão, leaving him disfigured. However, fleeing the scene of the crime, Lino is shot.
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Ep. 6: Politics is Everything
Leinneane's husband and his family, political opponents of Gastão, are accused of crimes against him. Worried about his son's dangerous new lifestyle, Ernesto tries to talk him out of it, but when an assassination attempt is made on him and Leinneane, Ubaldo realizes he has to steal whatever it takes for her to defeat the men. Maleiro in the elections.
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Ep. 7: My Way
Ubaldo and Dinorah rob only half a bank to support Paulino Leite's campaign. To save his son from a life of crime, Ernesto blows up Ubaldo's warehouses, destroying his weapons in the process. Ubaldo and Leinneane suspect Gastão, and the aspiring first lady uses her own campaign money to finance the robbery that will bring her political victory.
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Ep. 8: Crime Never Pays
Ubaldo's gang is surprised by Ameaço and his followers, leading to a shootout that kills men on both sides. Gastão's fanatics set out to destroy the brotherhood and burned down the building with Ernesto in it. A new and holy Ubaldo rises from the ashes of this tragedy, a full-blooded cancageiro capable of murder.
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