Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

Mathias Pascal, only son of a once-rich family, marries beautiful Romalinda, who has a terrible mother-in-law. She controls her daughter, and soon...

Old Zé Cristino, riding his donkey, goes to Congonhas do Campo to fulfill a promise to São Bom Jesus do Matozinho. In front of the...

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...

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...

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

There is a lot of excitement in the high society of Venice: An Arab prince, who always travels incognito, is said to be in the city. By chance, the...

In Granada in Spain, Sibilla works as a dancer in a squalid cabaret called El Dorado, struggling to earn enough to care for her sick child. The boy's...

When a Parisian bank clerk is tasked with transporting valuable stock certificates to Nice, his scheming rival steals the documents to ruin him and...

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

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

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...

After the death of her mother, Germaine moves in with her father in a small town near the Rhône river. She falls in love with a young man,...

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

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

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.

This expository film shows the mood of European society on the eve of the Second World War while promoting the values of international cooperation....