Went the Day Well? (1942)

This unique WWII Ealing production shows women taking on the disguised vanguard of a German invasion with a variety of weapons (most memorably a hatchet!). Graham Greene’s short story, co-adapted by Ealing’s only female resident writer, Diana Morgan, is almost supernatural in its telling – Cavalcanti, well known as a documentary filmmaker, was also schooled as a surrealist in Paris. It’s a gripping tale that feels groundbreaking even today.