Cinematography: Theodor Sparkuhl
The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Theodor Sparkuhl. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.
Till We Meet Again
1944 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Frank Borzage
Cast Ray Milland · Barbara Britton · Walter Slezak · Lucile Watson
7.5
91 votes
7.5
91 votes
Beau Geste
1939 · Movie · 114 min. · United States
Direction William A. Wellman
Cast Gary Cooper · Ray Milland · Robert Preston · Brian Donlevy
Plot BEAU GESTE begins with a framed scene of a mounted column approaching Fort Zinderneuf in the desert of French Morocco. No one answers Colonel de Beaujolais's signal. Someone fires shots...
7.5
4K votes
7.5
4K votes
The Bitch
1931 · Movie · 91 min. · France
Direction Jean Renoir
Cast Michel Simon · Janie Marèse · Georges Flamant · Roger Gaillard
Plot Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, "Lulu", and make her his mistress. He thinks he finally met love, but Lulu is nothing...
7.3
878 votes
7.3
878 votes
The Doll
1919 · Movie · 66 min. · Germany
Direction Ernst Lubitsch
Cast Ossi Oswalda · Hermann Thimig · Victor Janson · Gerhard Ritterband
Plot Presaging such playful sex comedies as Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise and Design for Living, THE DOLL follows the misadventures of an effete young man who must get married in order...
7.2
423 votes
7.2
423 votes
My Lady Margarine
1919 · Movie · 60 min. · Germany
Direction Ernst Lubitsch
Cast Victor Janson · Ossi Oswalda · Harry Liedtke · Julius Falkenstein
Plot Ossi, daughter of oyster-king Quaker wants to marry a real prince, after the daughter of a shoe-polish manufacturer has married a count. The marriage arranger finds prince Nucki, who sends...
6.9
493 votes
6.9
493 votes
The Devious Path
1928 · Movie · 107 min. · Germany
Direction Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Cast Gustav Diessl · Brigitte Helm · Hertha von Walther · Jack Trevor
6.9
70 votes
6.9
70 votes
Passion
1919 · Movie · 120 min. · Germany
Direction Ernst Lubitsch
Cast Pola Negri · Emil Jannings · Harry Liedtke · Eduard von Winterstein
Plot The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
6.7
215 votes
6.7
215 votes
The Wildcat
1921 · Movie · 84 min. · Germany
Direction Ernst Lubitsch
Cast Pola Negri · Victor Janson · Paul Heidemann · Wilhelm Diegelmann
Plot The daughter of the leader of a gang of mountain bandits falls in love with the head of the military outfit in charge of arresting her father. Lubitsch proceeds to...
6.6
310 votes
6.6
310 votes
Anne Boleyn
1920 · Movie · 124 min. · Germany
Direction Ernst Lubitsch
Cast Emil Jannings · Hedwig Pauly-Winterstein · Hilde Müller · Ludwig Hartau
Plot Sumptuous historical recreation qualified as 'the greatest film of all times'. A robust, brutal and cruel Henry VIII played by Emil Jannings contrasts with the innocence of Henny Porten's Anne...
6.6
268 votes
6.6
268 votes
The Light That Failed
1939 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction William A. Wellman
Cast Ronald Colman · Walter Huston · Muriel Angelus · Ida Lupino
Plot Dick Heldar, a London artist, is gradually losing his sight. He struggles to complete his masterpiece, the portrait of Bessie Broke, a cockney girl, before his eyesight fails him.
6.6
53 votes
6.6
53 votes
Kohlhiesel's Daughters
1920 · Movie · 50 min. · Germany
Direction Ernst Lubitsch
Cast Jakob Tiedtke · Henny Porten · Emil Jannings · Gustav von Wangenheim
Plot Somewhere in Southern Bavaria Xaver wants to marry Gretel, but her father Kohlhiesel wants his elder daughter Liesel to marry first. The problem is, nobody wants to marry her, because...
6.5
145 votes
6.5
145 votes
The Glass Key
1942 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Stuart Heisler
Cast Brian Donlevy · Veronica Lake · Alan Ladd · Bonita Granville
Plot Dashiel Hammett's The Glass Key, a tale of big-city political corruption, was first filmed in 1935, with Edward Arnold as a duplicitous political boss and George Raft as his loyal...
6.4
618 votes
6.4
618 votes
If I Were King
1938 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Frank Lloyd
Cast Ronald Colman · Basil Rathbone · Frances Dee · Ellen Drew
Plot In 1463, Paris is besieged by the Duke of Burgundy, arch-rival of the king, who is content to sit tight while the poor starve. But there are traitors in Paris,...
6.4
110 votes
6.4
110 votes
Pharoah's Wife
1922 · Movie · 110 min. · Germany
Direction Ernst Lubitsch
Cast Emil Jannings · Paul Biensfeldt · Friedrich Kühne · Albert Basserman
Plot Devotion to a beautiful sclave causes war between Pharoah Menes and the King of Ethiopia. But the girl loves Ramphis. This was the most spectacular film produced till then in...
6.4
84 votes
6.4
84 votes
Romeo and Juliet in the Snow
1920 · Movie · 45 min. · Germany
Direction Ernst Lubitsch
Cast Lotte Neumann · Gustav von Wangenheim · Jakob Tiedtke · Ernst Rückert
6.4
41 votes
6.4
41 votes
I Don't Want to Be a Man
1918 · Movie · 45 min. · Germany
Direction Ernst Lubitsch
Cast Ossi Oswalda · Curt Goetz · Ferry Sikla · Margarete Kupfer
6.4
320 votes
6.4
320 votes
Four Hours to Kill!
1935 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Richard Barthelmess · Joe Morrison · Gertrude Michael · Helen Mack
Plot A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a musical is playing.
6.3
45 votes
6.3
45 votes
Internes Can't Take Money
1937 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Alfred Santell
Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Joel McCrea · Lloyd Nolan · Stanley Ridges
Plot In a fantastically art-deco hospital, young Dr. Kildare treats and falls for impoverished Janet Healy, widow of a bank robber, who's been in prison and can't find her baby. Later...
6.3
38 votes
6.3
38 votes
Sumurun
1920 · Movie · 103 min. · Germany
Direction Ernst Lubitsch
Cast Pola Negri · Jenny Hasselqvist · Aud Egede Nissen · Margarete Kupfer
Plot Yeggar, a hunchbacked clown and travelling carnival manager, falls in love with one of his dancers. Although she gives in to his desires, she is also unfaithful to him. Based...
6.1
171 votes
6.1
171 votes
On purge Bébé
1931 · Movie · 62 min. · France
Direction Jean Renoir
Cast Michel Simon · Jacques Louvigny · Marguerite Pierry · Fernandel
6.1
207 votes
6.1
207 votes