Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

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

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...

A nobleman decides to join a traveling group of actors to be with a girl he admires, but ultimately must rescue her from bandits

Drama-documentary, reconstructing a real incident in which a trawler got into difficulties in a North Sea storm. Released 7th March 1938.

In Granada in Spain, Sibilla works as a dancer in a squalid cabaret called El Dorado, struggling to earn enough to care for her sick child. The boy's...

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

This expository film shows the mood of European society on the eve of the Second World War while promoting the values of international cooperation....

An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world.

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

Adaptation for TV of the play by Friedrich Durrenmatt. A very rich old lady arrives in her nearly bankrupt native village. She is ready to come to...

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

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...

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...

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.

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

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...

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

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

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