Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

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.

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

An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his recurring nightmare. When they share their tales of...

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

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

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

A brisk GPO Film Unit promo for the Post Office Savings Bank: pub talk and daydream vignettes tout penny-by-penny thrift, peaking in a playful Norman...

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,...

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

A portrait of John Grierson, the first Canadian Government Film Commissioner and founder of the National Film Board in 1939. Interweaving archival...

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

1935 documentary about the hard working life of Welsh coal miners.

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

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...

A woman marries a gambler, thinking she could straighten him up, but he loses all their assets, even their own house, and tries to commit suicide....

Marina, a beautiful young woman with leprous parents, marries a shipyard owner to escape an institution. She moves to a coastal village, faces...

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.

After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.