Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

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...

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 story of three children who find themselves with a friendly monster that grows at an alarming rate.

Correspondence between young lovers nearly ends in disaster through a mistake in postal district. Fortunately the GPO spots the error and all ends...

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

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...

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

Shot in mid-1939 as S.S. Ionian (also shown as Her Last Trip), Humphrey Jennings’s GPO short follows the Royal Mail steamer on a last peacetime...

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...

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

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

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

Short GPO documentary, about mail that is sent out of the country to Switzerland.

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...

Using edited archive footage, mockery is made of Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini.

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...

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

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

The picture shows the industrialization of England, and the measures taken to clean up afterwards: a lyrical counterpart of Men In Danger, and a...