Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

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

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...

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...

The first behind-the-scenes documentary in the film industry, from the making of a camera (Debrie) to studio shooting and directing, including...

Documentary on savings

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

Documentary about the construction of tlephone lines.

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...

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

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....

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

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

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...

Alberto Cavalcanti reviews his own prolific career as a filmmaker.

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

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

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...

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...

A young couple goes through a plot unscathed in the welcoming salons of a large fashion house.