Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

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...

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

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...

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

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.

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,...

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

Wanting to hide in the countryside, a young couple finds all the friends they were fleeing from.

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

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...

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

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

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

Londoners prepare for war.

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