Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

The laying of underground telephone cables.

Drama-documentary, reconstructing a real incident in which a trawler got into difficulties in a North Sea storm. Released 7th March 1938.

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

French Resistance propaganda film. Filmed in wartime London and distributed to the Free French troops in England and Canada. Germaine Sablon...

This expository film shows the mood of European society on the eve of the Second World War while promoting the values of international cooperation....

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,...

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

A British documentary

The first months of WWII as experienced by the new young recruits - the 'young Berts' - of the British Army.

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...

How news of a general reduction in GPO charges was finally brought to parliament and the people, despite attempts by the country's enemies to prevent...

Literary adaptation: A female musician in Asia's tropics escapes from harassers' advances to an island where a timid man has retreated. Later when 3...

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