Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

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.

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

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...

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...

Mathias Pascal, only son of a once-rich family, marries beautiful Romalinda, who has a terrible mother-in-law. She controls her daughter, and soon...

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...

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

British war documentary

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...

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

“Musical performers Henry Hall and his Orchestra hog the limelight in this promotional film, ostensibly for Ascot gas water heaters.” -...

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.

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

1935 documentary about the hard working life of Welsh coal miners.

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

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

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

Alberto Cavalcanti reviews his own prolific career as a filmmaker.

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...