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1. Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, Romance
A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember, who may hold the key to his downfall.
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians, Marcel Journet
Votes: 13,673
2. Lola (1961)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance
A bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her.
Director: Jacques Demy | Stars: Anouk Aimée, Marc Michel, Jacques Harden, Alan Scott
Votes: 7,559
3. The Reckless Moment (1949)
Not Rated | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: James Mason, Joan Bennett, Geraldine Brooks, Henry O'Neill
Votes: 5,681
4. The Earrings of Madame De... (1953)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, Romance
When an aristocratic woman known only as "Madame de . . ." sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband in order to pay some debts, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in despair.
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica, Jean Debucourt
Votes: 11,137
5. Caught (1949)
Approved | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An ambitious young LA department store model gets her wish of marrying a millionaire but she eventually discovers that rich life isn't always a happy one.
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: James Mason, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Ryan, Frank Ferguson
Votes: 4,369
6. La Ronde (1950)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Romance
Soldiers, chambermaids, poets, prostitutes, aristocrats-all are on equal footing in this multi-character merry-go-round of love and infidelity.
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Anton Walbrook, Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Simone Simon
Votes: 5,977
7. Lola Montès (1955)
Not Rated | 116 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
When she is reduced to appearing in a circus, a notorious beauty thinks back on her past loves.
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook, Henri Guisol
Votes: 6,063 | Gross: $0.11M
8. Montparnasse 19 (1958)
Not Rated | 108 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
About the last years of the life of the great artist Modigliani. A poor Italian artist suffering from alcoholism and opium addiction falls in love with Jeanne, a girl from a wealthy family whose parents are categorically against it.
Director: Jacques Becker | Stars: Gérard Philipe, Lilli Palmer, Anouk Aimée, Lila Kedrova
Votes: 1,682
9. Le Plaisir (1952)
Not Rated | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Three separate stories about the same thing: le plaisir (pleasure).
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Jean Gabin, Danielle Darrieux, Simone Simon, Claude Dauphin
Votes: 5,399
10. There's No Tomorrow (1939)
82 min | Drama
After an unhappy marriage, a woman of the world is forced to become a dancer in a cabaret in order to raise her young son.
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Edwige Feuillère, Jorge Rigaud, Daniel Lecourtois, Mady Berry
Votes: 478
11. The Exile (1947)
Approved | 95 min | Adventure, Romance
Charles II, the King of England, finds himself in exile in Holland, where he falls in love with a beautiful farm-girl.
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Maria Montez, Paula Corday, Henry Daniell
Votes: 562
12. Vendetta (1950)
Approved | 83 min | Crime, Drama
The daughter of a slain man pushes her brother toward vengeance in 19th-century Corsica.
Directors: Mel Ferrer, Stuart Heisler, Max Ophüls, Preston Sturges, Paul Weatherwax | Stars: Faith Domergue, George Dolenz, Donald Buka, Joseph Calleia
Votes: 131
13. Playing at Love (1933)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, Romance
Vienna in the beginning of the twentieth century. Cavalry Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer is about to end his affair with Baroness Eggerdorff when he meets the young Christine, the daughter of ... See full summary »
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Wolfgang Liebeneiner, Carl Esmond, Magda Schneider, Luise Ullrich
Votes: 1,546
14. Yoshiwara (1937)
102 min | Drama, Romance
The film is set in Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, in the nineteenth century. It depicts a love triangle between a high-class prostitute, a Russian naval officer and a rickshaw man.
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Pierre Richard-Willm, Sessue Hayakawa, Michiko Tanaka, Roland Toutain
Votes: 199
15. Everybody's Woman (1934)
89 min | Drama
Gaby is expelled from school after a married teacher commits suicide after telling her he can't live without her. Though she has done nothing, she is punished for his act.
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Isa Miranda, Memo Benassi, Tatyana Pavlova, Friedrich Benfer
Votes: 1,008
16. Laughing Heirs (1933)
76 min | Comedy, Romance
A young salesman may inherit a wine-estate on one condition: he can't drink a drop of alcohol for at least a month.
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Lien Deyers, Heinz Rühmann, Ida Wüst, Max Adalbert
Votes: 257
17. De Mayerling à Sarajevo (1940)
89 min | Drama
In the late 1800's, Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire, falls for Sophie Chotek, a Czech countess. He's already a problem to the Crown because of his political ideas; this... See full summary »
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Edwige Feuillère, John Lodge, Aimé Clariond, Jean Worms
Votes: 303 | Gross: $0.01M
18. Nie wieder Liebe! (1931)
TV-PG | 88 min | Comedy, Musical
An American millionaire, who had always bad luck with women, bets that he can live without them for five years. But after four and a half years travling around on his yacht, he rescues a ... See full summary »
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Lilian Harvey, Harry Liedtke, Felix Bressart, Margo Lion
Votes: 46
19. The Novel of Werther (1938)
85 min | Drama, Romance
Herr Werther, a new magistrate to the Grand Duchy of Walheim who is a violinist and poet, seems to have fate on his side as he meets and pursues a beautiful local woman, Charlotte. But as ... See full summary »
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Pierre Richard-Willm, Annie Vernay, Jean Galland, Jean Périer
Votes: 267
20. La tendre ennemie (1936)
Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Two ghosts attend an engagement party, unseen by the other guests. One ghost, Dupont, is the father of the bride-to-be. He looks back on his marriage to her mother. His wife Annette was ... See full summary »
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Simone Berriau, Catherine Fonteney, Laure Diana, Jacqueline Daix
Votes: 273
21. Divine (1935)
82 min | Comedy, Drama
A country girl starts to work as a chorus girl in Paris and then finds true love with a good-looking milkman.
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Simone Berriau, Jorge Rigaud, Gina Manès, Philippe Hériat
Votes: 177
22. The Trouble with Money (1936)
89 min | Comedy, Drama
When bank messenger Brand realizes that 50,000 pounds sterling have gone missing in Amsterdam, it is a catastrophe for him. Imagine his surprise, then, when he is suddenly re-hired as the bank's director.
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Herman Bouber, Rini Otte, Matthieu van Eysden, Cor Ruys
Votes: 189
23. Die verliebte Firma (1932)
73 min | Comedy
Die verliebte Firma was Max Ophüls' first feature film. The story follows a movie crew who is filming a musical in a small and idyllic alpine village. After their temperamental leading lady... See full summary »
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Gustav Fröhlich, Anny Ahlers, Lien Deyers, Ernö Verebes
Votes: 148
24. Une histoire d'amour (1933)
82 min | Drama, Romance
A young German officer's (Wolfgang Liebeneiner) life is turned upside when he tries to end his affair with a married baroness (Olga Tschechowa) after falling for an innocent young singer (... See full synopsis »
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Abel Tarride, Magda Schneider, Simone Héliard, Gustaf Gründgens
Votes: 61
25. Die verkaufte Braut (1932)
77 min | Comedy, Music
Bohemia in the 19th century, stage-coach driver Hans, loves the mayor's daughter Marie, but she is promised Wenzel, the son of another wealthy farmer. Marie refuses to marry Wenzel because ... See full summary »
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Max Nadler, Jarmila Novotna, Otto Wernicke, Hermann Kner
Votes: 200
26. The King of Paris (1995)
97 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Director: Dominique Maillet | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Veronika Varga, Jacques Roman, Manuel Blanc
Votes: 66
27. On a volé un homme (1934)
60 min | Drama
A businessman about to ruin his competitors is whisked away to a villa to keep him out of trouble, where a young woman watches over him. The two soon fall in love and work on making an escape.
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Lili Damita, Charles Fallot, Lucien Callamand, Fernand Fabre
Votes: 21
28. L'école des femmes (1940)
Abandoned
A man's clumsy attempts to marry his young naive ward. Ophuls' idea was: show the Louis Jouvet theater troupe, which had decamped to Geneva, playing for an audience and show things like the actors getting made up, and going behind stage.
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Louis Jouvet, Madeleine Ozeray, Romain Bouquet, Raymone Cendrars-Sauser
29. Calais-Douvres (1931)
87 min | Comedy, Drama
Disgusted with love, a man bets 500,000 that he can live 5 years without a woman, joins a band of fellow women-haters, and manages to make it through 4 until he meets a troublesome young lady.
Directors: Jean Boyer, Anatole Litvak | Stars: Lilian Harvey, André Roanne, Armand Bernard, Rina Marsa
Votes: 21
30. Frau Berta Garlan (1989 TV Movie)
98 min | Drama
An Austrian widow, who has been living in a small town, re-encounters her youthful love, a violin virtuoso, in Vienna.She hopes that their reunion will help her overcome the stifling narrowness of her previous provincial existence.
Director: Peter Patzak | Stars: Birgit Doll, Kitty Speiser, Hans-Michael Rehberg, Riccardo De Torrebruna
Votes: 13
31. Dann schon lieber Lebertran (1931)
24 min | Comedy, Short
Each evening, before saying their prayers, some children swallow their cod liver oil. One evening, the youngest child makes a daring request in his prayer. "Why must it always be children ... See full summary »
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Käthe Haack, Max Gülstorff, Alfred Braun, Paul Kemp
Votes: 16
32. Valse brillante de Chopin (1936)
6 min | Documentary, Short, Music
One of two mid 1930s musical shorts made in France by Ophuls, part of a planned series called Music and Cinema.
Director: Max Ophüls | Star: Alexander Brailowsky
Votes: 87
33. Ave Maria (II) (1936)
5 min | Short
One of two music shorts Ophuls made in France in the mid 1930s, for a planned series called Music and Cinema.
Director: Max Ophüls | Star: Elisabeth Schümann
Votes: 25
34. Der tolle Tag (I) (1962 TV Movie)
Comedy
Male and female servant couple foils a plot by their philandering aristocratic employer the Count to seduce the woman, they get married instead and teach him a lesson in fidelity.
Director: Ulrich Erfurth | Stars: Heinz Reincke, Nicole Heesters, Peter Schütte, Volker Spahr
Votes: 22