Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

Wartime propaganda short in which a professor enlists the help of a dustman to explain the importance of saving paper, bones and metal to help the...

This expository film shows the mood of European society on the eve of the Second World War while promoting the values of international cooperation....

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...

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...

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

The administrator of an abandoned coffee farm and inveterate gambler saves money to buy the property, even knowing of the loving connections between...

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

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

Alberto Cavalcanti reviews his own prolific career as a filmmaker.

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

Wanting to hide in the countryside, a young couple finds all the friends they were fleeing from.

A nurse falls in love with her patient and secretly marries him. When treating another patient, he falls in love with her and, pretending to be in...