Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

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

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

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

The author J.B. Priestley delivers a talk about cross-border trade and communications as a benign force, which he contrasts with the military...

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

Documentary about the construction of tlephone lines.

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

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

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

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

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,...

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.

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...

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

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...

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