Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

British war documentary

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

“The rolling hills and wide valleys of the Chilterns are given centre stage in this travelogue aimed at boosting tourism … The Chilterns...

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

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.

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

Betty marries rich Allan out of interest and drives a wedge between him and his family.

The production of King George V's Silver Jubilee (1910-1935) special postage stamp, and a brief dramatised history of the development of the penny...

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...

Documentary about the construction of tlephone lines.

A one-eyed businessman wants to become rich and retrieve his lost eye at any cost. He tries many schemes, and eventually regains his eye with a...

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

Alberto Cavalcanti reviews his own prolific career as a filmmaker.

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

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...