Alberto Cavalcanti

Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare....

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The quiet village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops posing as Royal Engineers. Their task is to disrupt England's radar network in...

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After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.

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Rainbow Dance is a 1936 British animated film released by the GPO Film Unit. This is Lye's second film. It uses the Gasparcolor process.

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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.

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A famous singer Claire Lescot, who lives on the outskirts of Paris, is courted by many men, including a maharajah, Djorah de Nopur, and a young...

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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...

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A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.

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A woman marries a gambler, thinking she could straighten him up, but he loses all their assets, even their own house, and tries to commit suicide....

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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...

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Documentary following an Edinburgh fishing trawler, the "Isabella Grieg".

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

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

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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...

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

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Le P'tite Lili is a short film directed by Alberto Cavalcanti in 1927. This is a visual illustration of a song, The Lady of gravel and Benech Lilie,...

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The film, made to advertise domestic telephone sets, is based around two very different families. The Petts are conventional, happy and have...

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

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

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

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In the drought areas of Northeastern of Brazil, groups of migrants move trying to find better place to live, at least with water. Some of them go to...

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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.

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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...

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

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