Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

The whimsical Riquet's has kidnapped and married a well-born young girl, Ralda. They travel around Spain performing their act in a circus but Ralda's...

A nurse falls in love with her patient and secretly marries him. When treating another patient, he falls in love with her and, pretending to be in...

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

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

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

Caiçara is a 1950 Brazilian drama film directed by and starring Adolfo Celi. It was nominated for the Grand Prize of the Festival at the 1951...

A woman marries a gambler, thinking she could straighten him up, but he loses all their assets, even their own house, and tries to commit suicide....

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

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...

How news of a general reduction in GPO charges was finally brought to parliament and the people, despite attempts by the country's enemies to prevent...

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

Using edited archive footage, mockery is made of Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini.

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

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,...

British war documentary