Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

Correspondence between young lovers nearly ends in disaster through a mistake in postal district. Fortunately the GPO spots the error and all ends...

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

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...

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

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

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

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...

Londoners prepare for war.

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

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...

This is 1929: the little red riding hood is still with us and her life is more complicated than ever. She still has to go through the forest and she...

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

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...

Documentary on savings