Tag Archives: Max Ophüls

Bohemia in the 19th century, stage-coach driver Hans, loves the mayor’s daughter Marie Read More »

The story of a once-respectable woman who re-encounters her first love, now a successful doctor. Read More »

A young salesman may inherit a wine-estate on one condition: he can’t drink a drop of alcohol for at least a month. Read More »

Late nineteenth century. Young Kohana is sent to Yoshiwara, a suburb of Tokyo where exercise the profession of geisha. Read More »

Vienna in the beginning of the twentieth century. Cavalry Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer is about to end his affair Read More »

In the charming community of Balboa 50 miles from Los Angeles, middle-class housewife Lucia Harper Read More »

In the Paris of the late 19th century, Louise, wife of a general, sells the earrings her husband gave her as a wedding gift: she needs money to cover her debts. Read More »

When bank messenger Brand realises that 50,000 pounds sterling have gone missing in Amsterdam, it is a catastrophe for him. Read More »

The film tells the tragic story of Lola Montès, a great adventurer who becomes the main attraction Read More »

An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. Read More »

It was Leonora Eames’ childhood dream come true. She had married Smith Ohlrig, a man worth millions. Read More »

Ludivine Jarisse is a young woman who lives a contented but unexciting life in the country. Read More »

Two ghosts attend an engagement party, unseen by the other guests. One ghost, Dupont, is the father of the bride-to-be. Read More »

Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women – pleasure and youth. Read More »

Maria Montez was accorded top billing in this film by contractual agreement, although she is in the picture only long enough to take a bath in a tricky 17th century Read More »