Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

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

“Musical performers Henry Hall and his Orchestra hog the limelight in this promotional film, ostensibly for Ascot gas water heaters.” -...

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

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

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

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

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...

In the drought areas of Northeastern of Brazil, groups of migrants move trying to find better place to live, at least with water. Some of them go to...

Documentary about the construction of tlephone lines.

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...

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...

A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the...

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

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

Correspondence between young lovers nearly ends in disaster through a mistake in postal district. Fortunately the GPO spots the error and all ends...

Documentary on savings

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...

Londoners prepare for war.

The administrator of an abandoned coffee farm and inveterate gambler saves money to buy the property, even knowing of the loving connections between...

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