Alberto Cavalcanti Filmes

Londoners prepare for war.

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

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 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...

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...

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

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...

“Catching up with gossip, inspecting new ducklings, clambering over gates, walking across meadows - the life of a postman appears idyllic, but...

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

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...

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,...

Betty marries rich Allan out of interest and drives a wedge between him and his family.

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

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

Documentary about the construction of tlephone lines.

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