Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

In the drought areas of Northeastern of Brazil, groups of migrants move trying to find better place to live, at least with water. Some of them go to...

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

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 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...

The picture shows the industrialization of England, and the measures taken to clean up afterwards: a lyrical counterpart of Men In Danger, and a...

A New York music-hall actress lives in a miserable loveless marriage. After a violent scene, the man leaves her, taking their baby and leaving it...

Shot in mid-1939 as S.S. Ionian (also shown as Her Last Trip), Humphrey Jennings’s GPO short follows the Royal Mail steamer on a last peacetime...

A re-creation of a bombing raid on Hanover, with the objective of promoting war savings bonds.

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...

Shot circa 1926, these two screen tests are made up of various takes for two films by Alberto Cavalcanti and Jacques de Baroncelli.

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.

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

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

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

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...

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

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