Cinematography: Franz Planer

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


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