Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

Literary adaptation: A female musician in Asia's tropics escapes from harassers' advances to an island where a timid man has retreated. Later when 3...

A re-creation of a bombing raid on Hanover, with the objective of promoting war savings bonds.

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...

The author J.B. Priestley delivers a talk about cross-border trade and communications as a benign force, which he contrasts with the military...

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...

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

A British documentary

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

French Resistance propaganda film. Filmed in wartime London and distributed to the Free French troops in England and Canada. Germaine Sablon...

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...

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

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

Captures the role played by the Royal Navy in the defence of Britain, and their role in convoy escort.