Cinematography: Otto Heller

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Otto Heller. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


The High Command

1937 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Thorold Dickinson

Cast Lionel Atwill · Lucie Mannheim · Steven Geray · James Mason

Plot A general of the old school, who believes strongly in his own honour and sense of duty, must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier, during the...

5.6

21 votes

5.6

21 votes

The Man Who Watched Trains Go By

1952 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Harold French

Cast Claude Rains · Marius Goring · Märta Torén · Ferdy Mayne

Plot Meak head clerk Kees Popinga realises at the same time as the police that owner De Koster has stripped his Dutch company clean because of his infatuation with Parisian girl...

5.5

52 votes

5.5

52 votes

Ferry to Hong Kong

1959 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Curd Jürgens · Orson Welles · Sylvia Syms · Jeremy Spenser

Plot Mark Conrad, a habitual drunk and troublemaker with a shady past, is expelled by Hong Kong police after one too many bar fights. He's sent to Macao on the Fa...

5.5

27 votes

5.5

27 votes

The Naked Runner

1967 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Sidney J. Furie

Cast Frank Sinatra · Peter Vaughan · Nadia Gray · Edward Fox

Plot Frank Sinatra stars as an American businessman who gets involved in an assassination plot while on a business trip to Germany. Set during a time in our history ridden with...

5.4

107 votes

5.4

107 votes

The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss

1936 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alfred Zeisler

Cast Cary Grant · Mary Brian · Peter Gawthorne · Henry Kendall

Plot Ernest Bliss is a rich young man with too little to do. Not realizing the depression he's in is due to boredom, Ernest consults a doctor. Sir James Aldroyd gives...

5.4

163 votes

5.4

163 votes

The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb

1964 · Movie · 77 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Carreras

Cast Terence Morgan · Ronald Howard · Fred Clark · Jeanne Roland

Plot When European Egyptologists Dubois, Giles and Bray discover the tomb of the Egyptian prince Ra, American entrepreneur and investor Alexander King insists on shipping the treasures and sarcophagus back to...

5.2

221 votes

5.2

221 votes

Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River

1967 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jerry Paris

Cast Jerry Lewis · Terry-Thomas · Jacqueline Pearce · Bernard Cribbins

Plot George Lester is a man who is chasing rainbows, looking for the pot of gold at the end. When his wife, Pamela grows tired of being dragged all over the...

5.0

115 votes

5.0

115 votes

Masquerade

1965 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast Cliff Robertson · Jack Hawkins · Marisa Mell · Michel Piccoli

Plot The British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince.

4.6

64 votes

4.6

64 votes

The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw

1958 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Kenneth More · Jayne Mansfield · Henry Hull · Bruce Cabot

Plot Jonathan Tibbs reckons that a good way to improve the fortunes of his uncle's London gun company is to sell their products in the Wild West, so he sets off...

4.6

141 votes

4.6

141 votes

Písen zivota (S)

1924 · Movie · 21 min. · Czechoslovakia

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Golden Arrow

1949 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gordon Parry

Cast Burgess Meredith · Jean-Pierre Aumont · Paula Valenska · Kathleen Harrison

Plot On a journey from Paris to London, a Briton, a Frenchman and an American bond with each other and indulge in a romantic fantasy about a girl they see.

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Bond Street

1948 · Movie · 109 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gordon Parry

Cast Jean Kent · Roland Young · Kathleen Harrison · Derek Farr

Plot A young British woman is getting married, and as she goes through her trousseau we see the stories behind four of the items that were bought on Bond Street in...

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St. Wenceslas

1930 · Movie · 104 min. · Czechoslovakia

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The Woman with No Name

1950 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ladislao Vajda

Cast Phyllis Calvert · Edward Underdown · Helen Cherry · Richard Burton

Plot A young woman with amnesia finds herself in London during the second world war. She falls in love and marries a Polish man in the R.A.F. He gets killed and...

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Lásky Kacenky Strnadové

1926 · Movie · 98 min. · Czechoslovakia

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Manuela

1957 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

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Business in Distress

1931 · Movie · 89 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Martin Fric · Karel Lamac

Cast Vlasta Burian · Meda Valentová · Otto Rubík · Marie Grossová

Plot Finnicky efficiency expert is sent to straighten out business management problems at a jazz club, finds self being drawn into the swingin' scene.

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A Dog of Flanders

1960 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction James B. Clark

Cast David Ladd · Donald Crisp · Theodore Bikel · Max Croiset

Plot The emotional story of a boy, his grandfather, and his dog. The boy's dream of becoming a great classical painter appears shattered when a family loss happens.

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The Big Show

1961 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction James B. Clark

Cast Esther Williams · Cliff Robertson · Nehemiah Persoff · Robert Vaughn

Plot The favorite son of a domineering circus family goes to prison for his father's negligence and upon release discovers his brother's plan to murder him.

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Daughters of Eve

1928 · Movie · 90 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Karel Lamac

Cast Anny Ondra · Wolfgang Zilzer · Steffie Vida · Theodor Pistek

Plot An unmarried showgirl takes a handsome companion with her on a vacation, to the distress of others.

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