Alberto Cavalcanti Filmes

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,...

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

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...

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...

Documentary on savings

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...

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

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

The story of a romance between the daughter of the Prince Regent and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg.

British war documentary

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...

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

Documentary about the construction of tlephone lines.

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

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

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