Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

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...

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

Alberto Cavalcanti reviews his own prolific career as a filmmaker.

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

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

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...

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

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 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...

Ambitious documentary chronicling the cultural life and religious customs of the Sinhalese and the effects of advanced industrialism on such customs.

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.

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

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

Londoners prepare for war.

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...

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

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