Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

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

There is a lot of excitement in the high society of Venice: An Arab prince, who always travels incognito, is said to be in the city. By chance, the...

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 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...

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,...

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

In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to...

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

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

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

Adaptation for TV of the play by Friedrich Durrenmatt. A very rich old lady arrives in her nearly bankrupt native village. She is ready to come to...

Documentary on savings

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...

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

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

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...

British war documentary

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

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...