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Directed by Max Ophuls

Born Maximillian Oppenheimer in Saarbrucken, Germany in 1902, Max Ophuls (as he later styled himself, a pseudonym adopted to avoid embarrassing his garment-manufacturer father) made films – classic films, films with a marked tendency to appear on lists of the best films ever with alarming frequency, films like Letter from an Unknown Woman and La... show more >

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1948, Max Ophuls, DVD

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Letter From An Unknown Woman

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1950, Max Ophuls, DVD

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La Ronde

Anton Walbrook is the enigmatic, omnipotent master of ceremonies guiding us through a series of amorous encou...

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1951, Max Ophuls, DVD

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Le Plaisir

Adapted by Ophuls from three short stories by Guy de Maupassant, each relates a tale about pleasure. A favour...

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Letter From An Unknown Woman

1948, Max Ophuls, DVD

Joan Fontaine gives the greatest performance of her career as the tragic heroine in this masterpiece set in turn of the century Vienna. Ophuls' celebrated flowing camera style is much in evidence, music is always playing in Vienna and his camera ...

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Le Plaisir

1951, Max Ophuls, DVD

Adapted by Ophuls from three short stories by Guy de Maupassant, each relates a tale about pleasure. A favourite of both Godard and Kubrick, the latter commenting that "The staging of these great camera moves appeared more like a beautifully chore...

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Madame de...

1953, Max Ophuls, DVD

Ophuls' penultimate film and arguably his masterpiece, this supremely elegant meditation on doomed, obsessive romantic love paints a completely intoxicating, visually resplendent portrait of fin de siecle Paris. A gliding camera exposes the vaniti...

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La Ronde

1950, Max Ophuls, DVD

Anton Walbrook is the enigmatic, omnipotent master of ceremonies guiding us through a series of amorous encounters in the Vienna of 1900. One fleeting moment links to the next, partners change and the dance goes on, turning like the waltz and the ...

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The Reckless Moment

1949, Max Ophuls, DVD

Classic film noir starring Joan Bennett as a woman who discovers the body of her daughter's lover, and disposes of the corpse, assuming her child is guilty of the murder. However, the mother is then blackmailed by a criminal (Mason, brilliant), wh...

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Caught

1948, Max Ophuls, DVD

Ophuls' penultimate Hollywood film is a film noir classic in which a young girl's dream turns into a nightmare. Intent on marrying a millionaire, Leonora discovers her man to be power crazed and paranoid. She finds comfort in the arms of another, ...

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Lola Montes (The Restored Edition)

1955, Max Ophuls, DVD

The story of the legendary courtesan is told in flashback as Lola spends her last years performing in a circus presided over by a domineering ringmaster. We see the end of her affair with Liszt, her seduction of the King of Bavaria before the fina...

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