Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

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...

Rainbow Dance is a 1936 British animated film released by the GPO Film Unit. This is Lye's second film. It uses the Gasparcolor process.

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

A re-creation of a bombing raid on Hanover, with the objective of promoting war savings bonds.

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...

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

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...

The author J.B. Priestley delivers a talk about cross-border trade and communications as a benign force, which he contrasts with the military...

British war documentary

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...