Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

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

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

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

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

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...

Londoners prepare for war.

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

Alberto Cavalcanti reviews his own prolific career as a filmmaker.

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...

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

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

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

The operation of a floating sea fort during WWII, and the lives of those who work on board.

A young man who loves his wife wants rid of his troublesome mistress. He dresses up as a wealthy Brazilian and seduces her in a jiffy. He hopes to...

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...