Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

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

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...

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...

After the death of her mother, Germaine moves in with her father in a small town near the Rhône river. She falls in love with a young man,...

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

Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment.

The story of three children who find themselves with a friendly monster that grows at an alarming rate.

La P’tite Lili is a silent short drama depicting the fate of a young orphaned girl in the working-class districts of Paris. The film follows...

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

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

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...

This documentary short examines the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland on the...

A woman marries a gambler, thinking she could straighten him up, but he loses all their assets, even their own house, and tries to commit suicide....

Shot circa 1926, these two screen tests are made up of various takes for two films by Alberto Cavalcanti and Jacques de Baroncelli.

Documentary about the construction of telephone lines.

The production of King George V's Silver Jubilee (1910-1935) special postage stamp, and a brief dramatised history of the development of the penny...

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...

Alberto Cavalcanti reviews his own prolific career as a filmmaker.