Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

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

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

La P’tite Lili is a silent short drama depicting the fate of a young orphaned girl in the working-class districts of Paris. The film follows...

Wartime propaganda short in which a professor enlists the help of a dustman to explain the importance of saving paper, bones and metal to help the...

Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment.

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

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...

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...

In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to...

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

Documentary on the fresco paintings of Candido Portinari, who contributed to the development of a more realistic and modernist style in the art of...

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 young man who loves his wife wants rid of his troublesome mistress. He dresses up as a wealthy Brazilian and seduces her in a jiffy. He hopes to...

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

Shot circa 1926, these two screen tests are made up of various takes for two films by Alberto Cavalcanti and Jacques de Baroncelli.

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

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