Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

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...

An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his recurring nightmare. When they share their tales of...

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...

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

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,...

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...

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

Marina, a beautiful young woman with leprous parents, marries a shipyard owner to escape an institution. She moves to a coastal village, faces...

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...

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

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...

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....

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...

This film is based on actual letters German soldiers sent home from the siege of Leningrad during World War II. The litany of trouble these poor...

The story of a romance between the daughter of the Prince Regent and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg.

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

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...

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...