Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

In the drought areas of Northeastern of Brazil, groups of migrants move trying to find better place to live, at least with water. Some of them go to...

The author J.B. Priestley delivers a talk about cross-border trade and communications as a benign force, which he contrasts with the military...

Deals with the training of Fleet Air Arm pilots and crew during World War II.

Literary adaptation: A female musician in Asia's tropics escapes from harassers' advances to an island where a timid man has retreated. Later when 3...

Le P'tite Lili is a short film directed by Alberto Cavalcanti in 1927. This is a visual illustration of a song, The Lady of gravel and Benech Lilie,...

The film, made to advertise domestic telephone sets, is based around two very different families. The Petts are conventional, happy and have...

“Catching up with gossip, inspecting new ducklings, clambering over gates, walking across meadows - the life of a postman appears idyllic, but...

Alberto Cavalcanti reviews his own prolific career as a filmmaker.

The production of King George V's Silver Jubilee (1910-1935) special postage stamp, and a brief dramatised history of the development of the penny...

Betty marries rich Allan out of interest and drives a wedge between him and his family.

French Resistance propaganda film. Filmed in wartime London and distributed to the Free French troops in England and Canada. Germaine Sablon...

Paris 1883. Yvette is the daughter of a courtesan who serves men of wealth and status. She is unaware of how her mother makes money and why they are...

Drama-documentary, reconstructing a real incident in which a trawler got into difficulties in a North Sea storm. Released 7th March 1938.

A nobleman decides to join a traveling group of actors to be with a girl he admires, but ultimately must rescue her from bandits

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

This film is based on actual letters German soldiers sent home from the siege of Leningrad during World War II. The litany of trouble these poor...

British war documentary