Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

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

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

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

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

Ambitious documentary chronicling the cultural life and religious customs of the Sinhalese and the effects of advanced industrialism on such customs.

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.

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...

The laying of underground telephone cables.

The picture shows the industrialization of England, and the measures taken to clean up afterwards: a lyrical counterpart of Men In Danger, and a...

Documentary on the fresco paintings of Candido Portinari, who contributed to the development of a more realistic and modernist style in the art of...

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...

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

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

There is a lot of excitement in the high society of Venice: An Arab prince, who always travels incognito, is said to be in the city. By chance, the...

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

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

A behind-the-scenes GPO Film Unit documentary (directed by Stuart Legg) that races from studio rehearsals and newsrooms to control rooms and...

When a Parisian bank clerk is tasked with transporting valuable stock certificates to Nice, his scheming rival steals the documents to ruin him and...