Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

Betty marries rich Allan out of interest and drives a wedge between him and his family.

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 British documentary

French Resistance propaganda film. Filmed in wartime London and distributed to the Free French troops in England and Canada. Germaine Sablon...

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

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

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

Captures the role played by the Royal Navy in the defence of Britain, and their role in convoy escort.

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

The laying of underground telephone cables.

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...

Documentary about the construction of tlephone lines.

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,...

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...

British war documentary

Paris 1883. Yvette is the daughter of a courtesan who serves men of wealth and status. She is unaware of how her mother makes money and why they are...

“Catching up with gossip, inspecting new ducklings, clambering over gates, walking across meadows - the life of a postman appears idyllic, but...