Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

Marina, a beautiful young woman with leprous parents, marries a shipyard owner to escape an institution. She moves to a coastal village, faces...

Shot circa 1926, these two screen tests are made up of various takes for two films by Alberto Cavalcanti and Jacques de Baroncelli.

An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world.

The life of a great city (Paris) from dawn until dusk, including the beautiful and the ragged, the rich and the poor.

Adaptation for TV of the play by Friedrich Durrenmatt. A very rich old lady arrives in her nearly bankrupt native village. She is ready to come to...

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

“Musical performers Henry Hall and his Orchestra hog the limelight in this promotional film, ostensibly for Ascot gas water heaters.” -...

There is a lot of excitement in the high society of Venice: An Arab prince, who always travels incognito, is said to be in the city. By chance, the...

When a Parisian bank clerk is tasked with transporting valuable stock certificates to Nice, his scheming rival steals the documents to ruin him and...

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

This expository film shows the mood of European society on the eve of the Second World War while promoting the values of international cooperation....

Shot in mid-1939 as S.S. Ionian (also shown as Her Last Trip), Humphrey Jennings’s GPO short follows the Royal Mail steamer on a last peacetime...

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

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

Short GPO documentary, about mail that is sent out of the country to Switzerland.

It starts in the Indian tabas, goes through colonial architecture and arrives in the Brazilian capital. The film follows a script left by Alberto...

A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the...

The ill-fated romance of a brow-beaten seaport slum café waitress and a young man with a possessive mother, who dreams of going out to sea.