Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

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

Wartime propaganda short in which a professor enlists the help of a dustman to explain the importance of saving paper, bones and metal to help the...

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

Alberto Cavalcanti reviews his own prolific career as a filmmaker.

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

A British documentary

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

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.

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...

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

The whimsical Riquet's has kidnapped and married a well-born young girl, Ralda. They travel around Spain performing their act in a circus but Ralda's...

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...

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

The operation of a floating sea fort during WWII, and the lives of those who work on board.

Caiçara is a 1950 Brazilian drama film directed by and starring Adolfo Celi. It was nominated for the Grand Prize of the Festival at the 1951...

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

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

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