Montparnasse 19 is better known as Modigliani, which is also the name of its protagonist. In broad, melodramatic strokes,...
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Screenwriter
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1958
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Max Ophuls' final film (and his only movie in color) is a cinematic tour-de-force masquerading as a biography, in this case a...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1955
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1953
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The works of Guy de Maupassant have likely been adapted by more French filmmakers than those of any other author (with the...
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Director, Producer, Production Designer, Screenwriter
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1952
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An exercise in style, La Ronde was one of the few films of the 1950s to contain overtly sexual themes. The story is a series...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1950
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Vendetta began as a pet project of producer/director/writer Preston Sturges. Producer Howard R. Hughes was at first...
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Director
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1950
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A blend of melodrama and film noir, The Reckless Moment stars Joan Bennett as Lucia Harper, a suburban housewife whose...
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Director
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1949
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It doesn't take a nuclear scientist to figure out that Smith Ohrig, the character played by Robert Ryan in Caught, is a...
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Director
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1949
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Perhaps the finest American film from the famed European director Max Ophüls, the film stars Joan Fontaine as a young woman...
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Director
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1948
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Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is the title character, a young king exiled by evil conspirators. Forced to live far from his homeland,...
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Director
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1947
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Director Max Ophuls managed to get three productions before the cameras in 1940, the best of which was De Mayerling a...
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Director
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1940
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Director
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1939
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This "feature film" was actually comprised of eight musical short subjects, helmed by three of France's top filmmakers....
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Director
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1939
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Director
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1938
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This bit of elegant esoterica was Max Ophuls' only directorial effort for 1937. Japanese matinee idol Sessue Hayakawa made a...
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Director
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1937
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Screenwriter
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1936
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An early esoteric exercise from director Max Ophuls, La Tendre Ennemie (Tender Enemy) was adapted from a play by A. P....
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Director
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1936
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Director
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1935
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Max Ophuls' La Signora di Tutti can be regarded today as a dress rehearsal for his 1955 masterpiece Lola Montes, though it...
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Director
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1934
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A choice early example of esoterica from the great Max Ophuls, On a Vole un Homme (Man Stolen) is a bit more lighthearted...
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Director
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1933
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Liebelei is one of the earliest of the cinematic banquets directed by German filmmaker Max Ophuls. The film, set in imperial...
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Director
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1932
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Filmed in 1932, Die Verkaufte Braut is Max Ophuls' own unique spin on the Smetana opera The Bartered Bride. The film is a...
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Director
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1932
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Max Ophuls' second film directorial effort, Die Verliebte Firma (The Firm in Love) wasn't quite as lavishly esoteric as his...
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Director
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1932
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