Cinematography: H.E. Fowle

Direction Humphrey Jennings

Direction Anselmo Duarte

Cast Norma Bengell · Leonardo Villar · Glória Menezes · Dionísio Azevedo

Plot A poor man named Ze living in rural Brazilian values his donkey above all else. When it takes ill, Ze prays for its recovery and promises God that he will...

Direction Harry Watt · Basil Wright

Cast John Grierson · Stuart Legg

Plot Shows the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland overnight.

Direction Humphrey Jennings · Harry Watt

Cast Quentin Reynolds

Direction Humphrey Jennings

Cast Laurie Lee

Plot A look at how industry workers spend their time when they are not at work.

Direction Humphrey Jennings · Stewart McAllister

Plot A depiction of life in wartime England during the Second World War. Director Humphrey Jennings visits many aspects of civilian life and of the turmoil and privation caused by the...

Direction Lima Barreto

Cast Alberto Ruschel · Marisa Prado · Milton Ribeiro · Vanja Orico

Plot Brazilian movie inspired by American westerns (but losing none of its cultural integrity) about Cangaceiro (bandit) Teodoro who falls in love with a small town school teacher who his gang...

Direction Thornton Freeland

Cast Cecil Parker · Glynis Johns · Hermione Baddeley · Dirk Bogarde

Direction Walter George Durst · Cassiano Gabus Mendes

Cast Zulmira Aguiar · Dionísio Azevedo · Jorge Azevedo · Fernando Baleroni

Plot Based on Erico Verissimo's masterpiece, O Sobrado follows the Terra-Cambará family during the siege imposed to their house by enemies due to political differences. As the siege goes, the family...

Direction Jack Lee

Cast Jean Simmons · Ursula Jeans · Cecil Parker · Joan Miller

Plot Ursula Jeans is a opportunistic woman with two daughters, that to survive manipulates various society matrons and men to get money and status to make her way through society. The...

Direction Adolfo Celi

Cast Anselmo Duarte · Tônia Carrero · Marisa Prado · Marina Freire

Plot Fictionalized version of the life of Brazilian composer Zequinha de Abreu (1880-1935), who wrote the song "Tico-Tico no Fubá" that became an international hit in the 1940s.

Direction Harry Watt

Plot A dramatic reconstruction of the fishing trawler 'John Gillman' in trouble in a storm.

Direction Humphrey Jennings

Cast Marius Goring · Lucie Mannheim · Pat Hughes · Werner Aluensleba

Direction Jack Lee

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Bonar Colleano · Bill Owen · Renée Asherson

Plot Set in the 1930s, factory worker Bill Fox quits his job and becomes a speedway rider the Cobra Speedway. Thetrack owner, Rowton, puts Fox in a novice race that he...

Direction Humphrey Jennings

Cast Edward R. Murrow

Direction Ian Dalrymple · Peter Proud

Cast Kathleen Ryan · Dirk Bogarde · Cyril Cusack · Ivor Barnard

Plot Esther goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by the sweet talking groom William, who then takes off with his employer's daughter. Left alone to bring up...

Direction Humphrey Jennings

Cast James Adam Nimmo · Tom Stephenson

Direction Adolfo Celi

Cast Eliane Lage · Carlos Vergueiro · Mário Sérgio · Abilio Pereira de Almeida

Plot Marina is a beautiful and perfect young woman, daughter of leprous parents, living in an institution. She sees the chance to leave the place when the owner of a small...

Direction Lima Barreto

Cast Roberto Alrean · Dionísio Azevedo · Artur Barman · Felipe Barreto

Direction Rubem Biafora

Cast Carlos Alberto · Milton Amaral · Sandra Amaral · Hélio Ansaldo