Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

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...

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...

Paris 1883. Yvette is the daughter of a courtesan who serves men of wealth and status. She is unaware of how her mother makes money and why they are...

Shot circa 1926, these two screen tests are made up of various takes for two films by Alberto Cavalcanti and Jacques de Baroncelli.

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

Short GPO documentary, about mail that is sent out of the country to Switzerland.

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

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

A New York music-hall actress lives in a miserable loveless marriage. After a violent scene, the man leaves her, taking their baby and leaving it...

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

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...

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

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

It starts in the Indian tabas, goes through colonial architecture and arrives in the Brazilian capital. The film follows a script left by Alberto...

The production of King George V's Silver Jubilee (1910-1935) special postage stamp, and a brief dramatised history of the development of the penny...