Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

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

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

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...

Using edited archive footage, mockery is made of Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini.

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...

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

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,...

A British documentary

The first behind-the-scenes documentary in the film industry, from the making of a camera (Debrie) to studio shooting and directing, including...

How news of a general reduction in GPO charges was finally brought to parliament and the people, despite attempts by the country's enemies to prevent...

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

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

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

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 re-creation of a bombing raid on Hanover, with the objective of promoting war savings bonds.