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Le Plaisir ( Pleasure ) (1952)
7.8/10
Director: Max Ophuls
Starring: Mila Parely, Madeleine Renaud, Ginette Leclerc, Gaby Morlay, Claude Dauphin
Adapted from three short stories by Guy de Maupassant, each segment revels in the ecstasy of pleasure: an old man regains his youth with the aid of a... Read more
Madame de... ( Earrings of Madame de... ) (1953)
8/10
Director: Max Ophuls
Starring: Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica
Aka "The Earrings of Madame De...". Max Ophuls' lavish costume drama traces an 18th-century French countess's doomed affair with a handsome diplomat.... Read more
La Ronde (1950)
7.7/10
Director: Max Ophuls
Starring: Anton Walbrook, Serge Reggiani, Simone Simon, Danielle Darrieux
Simone Signoret, Anton Walbrook, and Simone Simon lead a roundelay of French stars in Max Ophuls's delightful, acerbic adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler... Read more
Letter From An Unknown Woman (1948)
8/10
Director: Max Ophuls
Starring: Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians
Joan Fontaine stars in this classic tearjerker playing a lonely woman who is seduced and abandoned by pianist Louis Jourdan. She marries another, but... Read more
Lola Montes (1955)
7.4/10
Director: Max Ophuls
Starring: Peter Ustinov, Martine Carol, Anton Walbrook, Oskar Werner
A lush romantic drama that was filmmaker Max Ophuls' last work and his only film in colour. Martine Carol is mesmerizing as the famous adventurer and... Read more
The Reckless Moment (1949)
7.2/10
Director: Max Ophuls
Starring: James Mason, Joan Bennett, Geraldine Brooks, Henry O'Neill, Shepperd Strudwick
A noir-soaked drama based on a story, 'The Blank Wall', by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding. Joan Bennett stars as a mother who finds the body of her daughte... Read more
Le Plaisir ( Pleasure ) (Blu-ray) (1952)
7.7/10
Director: Max Ophuls
Starring: Mila Parely, Madeleine Renaud, Ginette Leclerc, Gaby Morlay, Claude Dauphin
Adapted from three short stories by Guy de Maupassant, each segment revels in the ecstasy of pleasure: an old man regains his youth with the aid of a... Read more