Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

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

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

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...

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...

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

Londoners prepare for war.

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...

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

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

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...

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

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

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

A young man who loves his wife wants rid of his troublesome mistress. He dresses up as a wealthy Brazilian and seduces her in a jiffy. He hopes to...

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

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