Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

The operation of a floating sea fort during WWII, and the lives of those who work on board.

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

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...

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

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

Wanting to hide in the countryside, a young couple finds all the friends they were fleeing from.

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...

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...

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...

Alberto Cavalcanti reviews his own prolific career as a filmmaker.

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

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

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

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."