Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

A brisk GPO Film Unit promo for the Post Office Savings Bank: pub talk and daydream vignettes tout penny-by-penny thrift, peaking in a playful Norman...

The whimsical Riquet's has kidnapped and married a well-born young girl, Ralda. They travel around Spain performing their act in a circus but Ralda's...

The film, made to advertise domestic telephone sets, is based around two very different families. The Petts are conventional, happy and have...

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...

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.

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 famous singer Claire Lescot, who lives on the outskirts of Paris, is courted by many men, including a maharajah, Djorah de Nopur, and a young...

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...

Le P'tite Lili is a short film directed by Alberto Cavalcanti in 1927. This is a visual illustration of a song, The Lady of gravel and Benech Lilie,...

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...

The author J.B. Priestley delivers a talk about cross-border trade and communications as a benign force, which he contrasts with the military...

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...

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...

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...

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

The administrator of an abandoned coffee farm and inveterate gambler saves money to buy the property, even knowing of the loving connections between...

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...

A British documentary