Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

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

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

Adaptation for TV of the play by Friedrich Durrenmatt. A very rich old lady arrives in her nearly bankrupt native village. She is ready to come to...

In Granada in Spain, Sibilla works as a dancer in a squalid cabaret called El Dorado, struggling to earn enough to care for her sick child. The boy's...

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

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 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...

Ambitious documentary chronicling the cultural life and religious customs of the Sinhalese and the effects of advanced industrialism on such customs.

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...

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

Documentary on savings

Alberto Cavalcanti reviews his own prolific career as a filmmaker.

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

The ill-fated romance of a brow-beaten seaport slum café waitress and a young man with a possessive mother, who dreams of going out to sea.

Londoners prepare for war.

British war documentary

Documentary following an Edinburgh fishing trawler, the "Isabella Grieg".

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