Movies: Alberto Cavalcanti

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

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

This first film adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s play about class distinctions was made in 1955 in the Vienna Rosenhügel studios, but it was only premiered five years later. Curt Bois plays the rich capitalist Puntila who only becomes somewhat agreeabl...

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....

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC....

1935 documentary about the hard working life of Welsh coal miners....

Documentary about the construction of tlephone lines....

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

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 vengeance: the power of invisibility. He becomes multi millionaire in the meat market and after entering p...

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

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

The film, made to advertise domestic telephone sets, is based around two very different families. The Petts are conventional, happy and have children; the Potts are unconventional and unhappy, without children....

Wanting to hide in the countryside, a young couple finds all the friends they were fleeing from....

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, with music for the audio version of 1930 by Darius Milhaud. Only one original copy of this tragic sto...

British war documentary...

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 agony, asks for one last wish: to marry him, and she accepts....

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 once again comes up against a wolf. This time around the big bad wolf has become a lecherous tramp wh...

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