Cinematography: Theodor Sparkuhl

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


Star Spangled Rhythm

1942 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast Bing Crosby · Bob Hope · Fred MacMurray · Franchot Tone

Plot Pop Webster (Victor Moore) is a former silent movie star once known as "Bronco Billy" who now works as the guard on the main gate at Paramount Pictures. However, he's...

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Enter Madame

1935 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Elliott Nugent

Cast Elissa Landi · Cary Grant · Lynne Overman · Sharon Lynn

Plot Man marries opera singer, winds up taking back seat to her career.

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Grausige Nächte

1921 · Movie · 83 min. · Germany

Direction Lupu Pick

Cast Edith Posca · Alfred Abel · Arnold Korff · Adele Sandrock

Plot The young Evelyne lives with a man, her fiancee Frank, with whom she has a child. But her fiancee is a rundown drunk constantly hanging over the bottle. Evelyne wants...

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Johnny Come Lately

1943 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction William K. Howard

Cast James Cagney · Grace George · Marjorie Main · Marjorie Lord

Plot An ex-newspaper man is saved from a vagrancy rap by the elderly editor of a failing paper. The two band together to expose political corruption through the written word, disregarding...

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Dangerous to Know

1938 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Robert Florey

Cast Anna May Wong · Akim Tamiroff · Gail Patrick · Lloyd Nolan

Plot Racketeer Steve Recka, art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying, his beautiful Oriental friend and hostess (read: mistress), with an iron hand. He meets Margaret...

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Manon Lescaut

1926 · Movie · 99 min. · Germany

Direction Arthur Robison

Cast Lya De Putti · Vladimir Gajdarov · Eduard Rothauser · Fritz Greiner

Plot In the beginning, Manon Lescaut, a young mistress, is taken away from a convent by the French nobleman des Grieux, who is young as well, under the pretext he's her...

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Midnight Club

1933 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Hall · George Somnes

Cast Clive Brook · George Raft · Helen Vinson · Alison Skipworth

Plot Elegant Colin Grant and his associates are successful jewelry thieves, even unmasked to their victims, their perfect alibis making impossible for the Comissioner police to arrest them. Things are running...

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Rulers of the Sea

1939 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Frank Lloyd

Cast Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Margaret Lockwood · Will Fyffe · George Bancroft

Plot Story of the beginnings of the steam-powered engine and its use in the first steamship voyage across the Atlantic Ocean.

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The Big Broadcast of 1937

1936 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Jack Benny · George Burns · Gracie Allen · Bob Burns

Plot A cream-of-the-crop gathering of 1930's radio stars, who lend themselves to a storyline about a failing radio station which needs to put on a huge ratings winner to have any...

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Caravan

1934 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Erik Charell

Cast Charles Boyer · Loretta Young · Jean Parker · Phillips Holmes

Plot The young Countess Wilma is forced to wed by midnight or lose her inheritance. Wilma impulsively chooses gypsy vagabond Latzi, offering him a huge sum of money if he'll consent....

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Intoxication

1919 · Movie · min. · Germany

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Asta Nielsen · Alfred Abel · Pola Negri · Karl Meinhardt

Plot Gaston finally succeeds as a dramatist and decides to leave his wife and child for another woman. When the child dies, the finger is pointed at him and he winds...

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This Ancient Law

1923 · Movie · 128 min. · Germany

Direction Ewald André Dupont

Cast Henny Porten · Ruth Weyher · Hermann Vallentin · Abraham Morewski

Plot Baruch Mayr, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the family tradition and leave the shtetl to become an actor. Due to...

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Night Plane from Chungking

1943 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Ralph Murphy

Cast Robert Preston · Ellen Drew · Otto Kruger · Steven Geray

Plot Without lights and in a driving rain, a bus is lumbering along the muddy Assam Road en route from Chunking to the Indian border. Passengers include Albert Pasavy (Otto Kruger),...

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No More Women

1934 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Albert S. Rogell

Cast Edmund Lowe · Victor McLaglen · Sally Blane · Minna Gombell

Plot Two deep-sea divers, known only by their nicknames of "Three-Time" and "Forty-Fathoms," find that no place on earth is big enough for both of them at the same time, even...

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The Hard-Boiled Canary

1941 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

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The Informer

1929 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Arthur Robison

Cast Lya De Putti · Lars Hanson · Warwick Ward · Carl Harbord

Plot In Ireland, an IRA man betrays a killer to the police, thinking he is his mistress's lover.

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Dr. Broadway

1942 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

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Der lustige Ehemann

1919 · Movie · min. · Germany

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The Way of All Flesh

1940 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Louis King

Cast Akim Tamiroff · Gladys George · William Henry · Muriel Angelus

Plot Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York...

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Opened by Mistake

1940 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

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