Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

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...

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....

Alberto Cavalcanti reviews his own prolific career as a filmmaker.

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

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...

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...

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...

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

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

The laying of underground telephone cables.

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

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

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

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...

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