Cinematography: Franz Planer
The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Franz Planer. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.
Titles found: 94
Letter from an Unknown Woman
1948 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Max Ophüls
Cast Joan Fontaine · Louis Jourdan · Mady Christians · Marcel Journet
Plot In Vienna, about 1900, a dashing man arrives at his flat, instructing his manservant that he will leave before morning: the man is Stefan Brand, formerly a concert pianist, planning...
8.0
8K votes
8.0
8K votes
The Big Country
1958 · Movie · 159 min. · United States
Direction William Wyler
Cast Gregory Peck · Jean Simmons · Charlton Heston · Burl Ives
Plot In a dry, parched canyon located in the southwest, a rich rancher battles it out with a poor counterpart for water rights. Yet in fact, neither man has control of...
8.0
12K votes
8.0
12K votes
Roman Holiday
1953 · Movie · 118 min. · United States
Direction William Wyler
Cast Gregory Peck · Audrey Hepburn · Eddie Albert · Hartley Power
Plot On a diplomatic visit to Rome, Anne (Audrey Hepburn) escapes her royal retainers and scampers incognito through the Eternal City. She happens to meet American journalist Joe Bradley (Gregory Peck),...
7.9
33K votes
7.9
33K votes
The Children's Hour
1961 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction William Wyler
Cast Audrey Hepburn · Shirley MacLaine · James Garner · Miriam Hopkins
Plot Karen (Hepburn) and Martha (MacLaine) are the headmistresses of an exclusive school for girls. When they discipline a malicious little girl, the vindictive child twists an overheard comment into slander...
7.8
7K votes
7.8
7K votes
Breakfast at Tiffany's
1961 · Movie · 115 min. · United States
Direction Blake Edwards
Cast Audrey Hepburn · George Peppard · Patricia Neal · Buddy Ebsen
Plot Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) is New York call girl, whose allure captivates her upstairs neighbour Paul Varjak (George Peppard), a writer who pays the rent with the help of his...
7.7
68K votes
7.7
68K votes
Criss Cross
1949 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Robert Siodmak
Cast Burt Lancaster · Yvonne De Carlo · Dan Duryea · Stephen McNally
Plot While driving an armored car in a lonely road, Steve Thompson recalls his life, after divorcing his beloved wife Anna and working in many places in the United States of...
7.5
3K votes
7.5
3K votes
Holiday
1938 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Cary Grant · Katharine Hepburn · Lew Ayres · Doris Dolan
Plot Free-thinking Johnny Case finds himself betrothed to a millionaire's daughter. When her family, with the exception of black-sheep Linda and drunken Ned, want Johnny to settle down to big business,...
7.5
3K votes
7.5
3K votes
Champion
1949 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Mark Robson
Cast Kirk Douglas · Marilyn Maxwell · Arthur Kennedy · Paul Stewart
Plot An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up. One of the all-time great boxing movies....
7.3
2K votes
7.3
2K votes
Liebelei
1933 · Movie · 88 min. · Germany
Direction Max Ophüls
Cast Paul Hörbiger · Magda Schneider · Luise Ullrich · Gustaf Gründgens
Plot The film, set in imperial Vienna, concerns the romance between a young girl and a lieutenant. A powerful baron misreads the lieutenant's ardor, assuming that it is being directed towards...
7.3
286 votes
7.3
286 votes
Cyrano de Bergerac
1950 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction Michael Gordon
Cast José Ferrer · Mala Powers · William Prince · Morris Carnovsky
Plot France, 1640: Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxane; she, in turn, confesses to Cyrano her love for the handsome but tongue-tied Christian. The...
7.2
2K votes
7.2
2K votes
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1954 · Movie · 127 min. · United States
Direction Richard Fleischer
Cast Kirk Douglas · James Mason · Paul Lukas · Peter Lorre
Plot It is the 1860s and the seas are being terrorized by reports of a monster that is destroying shipping. The US government dispatches marine-life specialist Pierre Arronax to investigate aboard...
7.1
23K votes
7.1
23K votes
The Caine Mutiny
1954 · Movie · 124 min. · United States
Direction Edward Dmytryk
Cast Humphrey Bogart · José Ferrer · Van Johnson · Fred MacMurray
Plot During the Second World War, onboard a small insignificant ship in the U.S. Pacific Fleet, an event occurs unlike any that the United States Navy has ever experianced. A Ship's...
7.1
3K votes
7.1
3K votes
99 River Street
1953 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Phil Karlson
Cast John Payne · Evelyn Keyes · Brad Dexter · Frank Faylen
Plot Having lost his heavyweight championship match, boxer Ernie Driscoll now drives a taxi for a living and earns the scorn of his nagging wife, Pauline, who blames him for her...
7.1
426 votes
7.1
426 votes
The Nun's Story
1959 · Movie · 149 min. · United States
Direction Fred Zinnemann
Cast Audrey Hepburn · Peter Finch · Edith Evans · Peggy Ashcroft
Plot Audrey Hepburn stars in The Nun's Story as Sister Luke, postulant of a Belgian order of nuns. Though frequently disillusioned in her efforts to spread good will -- at one...
7.0
3K votes
7.0
3K votes
Masquerade in Vienna
1934 · Movie · 90 min. · Austria
Direction Willi Forst
Cast Paula Wessely · Anton Walbrook · Peter Petersen · Walter Janssen
Plot Vienna 1905: After a carnival party the famous painter Heidenick draws his otherwise engaged girlfriend Anita Helfer with very few clothes on, only blurs her face. The image makes it...
7.0
57 votes
7.0
57 votes
The Unforgiven
1960 · Movie · 125 min. · United States
Direction John Huston
Cast Burt Lancaster · Audrey Hepburn · Audie Murphy · John Saxon
Plot The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their adopted daughter was stolen from the local Kiowa tribe.
7.0
3K votes
7.0
3K votes
The Face Behind the Mask
1941 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction Robert Florey
Cast Peter Lorre · Evelyn Keyes · Don Beddoe · George E. Stone
Plot A disfigured watchmaker with a grudge against society embarks on a life of crime.
6.9
116 votes
6.9
116 votes
Decision Before Dawn
1951 · Movie · 119 min. · United States
Direction Anatole Litvak
Cast Richard Basehart · Gary Merrill · Oskar Werner · Hildegard Knef
Plot WWII is entering its last phase: Germany is in ruins, but does not yield. The US army lacks crucial knowledge about the German units operating on the opposite side of...
6.7
190 votes
6.7
190 votes
711 Ocean Drive
1950 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Joseph M. Newman
Cast Edmond O'Brien · Joanne Dru · Otto Kruger · Barry Kelley
Plot A telephone repairman in Los Angeles uses his knowledge of electronics to help a bookie set up a betting operation. When the bookie is murdered, the greedy technician takes over...
6.6
109 votes
6.6
109 votes
Death of a Salesman
1951 · Movie · 115 min. · United States
Direction Laslo Benedek
Cast Fredric March · Mildred Dunnock · Kevin McCarthy · Cameron Mitchell
Plot Willy Loman has led a life consisting of sixty years of failure. Loman's wife supports him, but he soon begins to lose his grip on reality and slips between the...
6.6
120 votes
6.6
120 votes