Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

Using edited archive footage, mockery is made of Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini.

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...

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

Londoners prepare for war.

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

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.

Marina, a beautiful young woman with leprous parents, marries a shipyard owner to escape an institution. She moves to a coastal village, faces...

A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the...

The story of three children who find themselves with a friendly monster that grows at an alarming rate.

British war documentary

Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment.

A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.

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

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...

An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his recurring nightmare. When they share their tales of...

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...

Rainbow Dance is a 1936 British animated film released by the GPO Film Unit. This is Lye's second film. It uses the Gasparcolor process.