Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

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

After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.

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...

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...

La P’tite Lili is a silent short drama depicting the fate of a young orphaned girl in the working-class districts of Paris. The film follows...

A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.

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...

In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to...

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...

Shot in mid-1939 as S.S. Ionian (also shown as Her Last Trip), Humphrey Jennings’s GPO short follows the Royal Mail steamer on a last peacetime...

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...

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

“Catching up with gossip, inspecting new ducklings, clambering over gates, walking across meadows - the life of a postman appears idyllic, but...

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 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...

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...

A young man who loves his wife wants rid of his troublesome mistress. He dresses up as a wealthy Brazilian and seduces her in a jiffy. He hopes to...

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