Alberto Cavalcanti Filmes

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

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...

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...

The first behind-the-scenes documentary in the film industry, from the making of a camera (Debrie) to studio shooting and directing, including...

A behind-the-scenes GPO Film Unit documentary (directed by Stuart Legg) that races from studio rehearsals and newsrooms to control rooms and...

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

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

A French-language Free French propaganda short made in wartime London: Germaine Sablon performs three resistance songs—most notably the first...

Alberto Cavalcanti reviews his own prolific career as a filmmaker.

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

British war documentary

A British documentary

It starts in the Indian tabas, goes through colonial architecture and arrives in the Brazilian capital. The film follows a script left by Alberto...

“Musical performers Henry Hall and his Orchestra hog the limelight in this promotional film, ostensibly for Ascot gas water heaters.” -...