Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

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...

Caiçara is a 1950 Brazilian drama film directed by and starring Adolfo Celi. It was nominated for the Grand Prize of the Festival at the 1951...

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

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

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

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...

A British documentary

How news of a general reduction in GPO charges was finally brought to parliament and the people, despite attempts by the country's enemies to prevent...

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

The laying of underground telephone cables.

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

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...

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