Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

Ambitious documentary chronicling the cultural life and religious customs of the Sinhalese and the effects of advanced industrialism on such customs.

Alberto Cavalcanti reviews his own prolific career as a filmmaker.

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

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.

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...

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

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

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

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...

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...

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.

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

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...

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...