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

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

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

6.4

41 votes

I Don't Want to Be a Man

1918 · Movie · 45 min. · Germany

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

6.1

207 votes

6.1

207 votes