Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare....

After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.

The quiet village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops posing as Royal Engineers. Their task is to disrupt England's radar network in...

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.

It starts in the Indian tabas, goes through colonial architecture and arrives in the Brazilian capital. The film follows a script left by Alberto...

Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment.

The story of three children who find themselves with a friendly monster that grows at an alarming rate.

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

A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the...

A famous singer Claire Lescot, who lives on the outskirts of Paris, is courted by many men, including a maharajah, Djorah de Nopur, and a young...

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...

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

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

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

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

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

Documentary on savings

In Granada in Spain, Sibilla works as a dancer in a squalid cabaret called El Dorado, struggling to earn enough to care for her sick child. The boy's...

A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.