Screenplay: Léo Lania

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Léo Lania. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


The Threepenny Opera (The 3 Penny Opera)

1931 · Movie · 112 min. · Germany

Direction Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Cast Rudolf Forster · Carola Neher · Reinhold Schünzel · Fritz Rasp

Plot In London at the turn of the century, the bandit Mack the Knife marries Polly without the knowledge of her father, Peachum, the 'king of the beggars'.

7.1

256 votes

7.1

256 votes

L'opéra de quat'sous

1931 · Movie · 98 min. · Germany

Direction Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Cast Albert Préjean · Florelle · Gaston Modot · Margo Lion

Plot Bilingual version of the film "Die Dreigroschenoper", shooted simultaneously with its predecessor for the French market.

6.5

34 votes

6.5

34 votes

Melody of Hate

1962 · Movie · 91 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

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Die Koffer des Herrn O.F.

1931 · Movie · 80 min. · Germany

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Ultimatum

1938 · Movie · 83 min. · France

Direction Robert Wiene · Robert Siodmak

Cast Erich von Stroheim · Abel Jacquin · Bernard Lancret · Dita Parlo

Plot About the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War. Focuses on the relationship between a Serbian officer and his Austrian-born wife and their involvement...

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Le drame de Shanghaï

1938 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Cast Raymond Rouleau · Louis Jouvet · Christl Mardayn · Elina Labourdette

Plot A Russian emigrant sings in a Shanghai nightclub under the assumed name of Kay Murphy. All she dreams of is a peaceful life with her daughter Vera. But this is...

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Crazy Affairs

1954 · Movie · 81 min. · Italy

Direction Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Cast Aldo Fabrizi · Carla del Poggio · Enrico Viarisio · Enzo Fiermonte

Plot Young Dalia Rossi is mistaken for a mad person and is committed to "Villa Felicità", a mental institution run by Professor Ruiz. When she is first examined she is found...

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Pasha's Wives

1939 · Movie · 98 min. · France

Direction Marc Sorkin · Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Cast Viviane Romance · John Lodge · Marcel Dalio · Sylvie

Plot Mireille, a Frenchwoman, has married a westernized Turkish diplomat. Thinking that she will live a dream life in an Arabian Nights setting, she accepts to follow Vedad Bey, her husband,...

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Hunger in Waldenburg

1929 · Documentary · 47 min. · Germany

Direction Phil Jutzi

Cast Holmes Zimmermann · Sybille Schloß

Plot Powerful semi-documentarian depiction of the miserable working and living conditions in the Silesian city of Waldenburg.

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