Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

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...

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.

Documentary following an Edinburgh fishing trawler, the "Isabella Grieg".

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

British war documentary

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...

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

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,...

Documentary about the construction of tlephone lines.

A young couple goes through a plot unscathed in the welcoming salons of a large fashion house.

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

The story of a romance between the daughter of the Prince Regent and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg.

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

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

A one-eyed businessman wants to become rich and retrieve his lost eye at any cost. He tries many schemes, and eventually regains his eye with a...

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