Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

A young man who loves his wife wants rid of his troublesome mistress. He dresses up as a wealthy Brazilian and seduces her in a jiffy. He hopes to...

Where he goes, he doesn't need luggage... A very talkative traveler settles in the only wagon occupied by a man with a strange diction. The train is...

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

Alberto Cavalcanti reviews his own prolific career as a filmmaker.

This is 1929: the little red riding hood is still with us and her life is more complicated than ever. She still has to go through the forest and she...

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

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.

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

The first months of WWII as experienced by the new young recruits - the 'young Berts' - of the British Army.

This first film adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s play about class distinctions was made in 1955 in the Vienna Rosenhügel studios, but it was...

Correspondence between young lovers nearly ends in disaster through a mistake in postal district. Fortunately the GPO spots the error and all ends...

The laying of underground telephone cables.

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

A British documentary

Captures the role played by the Royal Navy in the defence of Britain, and their role in convoy escort.