Screenplay: Melchior Lengyel
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Melchior Lengyel. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
To Be or Not to Be
1942 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Ernst Lubitsch
Cast Carole Lombard · Jack Benny · Robert Stack · Stanley Ridges
Plot Joseph Tura and his wife Maria top the bill at a Warsaw theatre company. Young aviator Lieutenant Sobinski is madly in love with the girl and the two arrange to...
8.5
34K votes
8.5
34K votes
Ninotchka
1939 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction Ernst Lubitsch
Cast Greta Garbo · Melvyn Douglas · Bela Lugosi · Ina Claire
Plot Ninotchka is a stern, straightlaced Communist Party member sent to Paris to finish the sale of Grand Duchess Swana's jewels for the Soviet government. But, while studying the frivolous materialism...
8.0
15K votes
8.0
15K votes
Angel
1937 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Ernst Lubitsch
Cast Marlene Dietrich · Melvyn Douglas · Herbert Marshall · Edward Everett Horton
Plot Bored and neglected by her husband, the British nobleman Sir Frederick Barker, Maria angrily sets off to Paris without telling her husband. There she meets Anthony Halton, an American with...
7.7
2K votes
7.7
2K votes
A Royal Scandal
1945 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Otto Preminger · Ernst Lubitsch
Cast Tallulah Bankhead · Charles Coburn · Anne Baxter · William Eythe
Plot A Royal Scandal dwells upon a fictional incident in the life of Russia's Catherine the Great.
6.7
329 votes
6.7
329 votes
The Rise of Catherine the Great
1934 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Paul Czinner · Alexander Korda
Cast Elisabeth Bergner · Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Flora Robson · Gerald du Maurier
Plot A quick-witted and compelling dramatization of the troubled marriage of Catherine II (played by German actress Elisabeth Bergner, in her English-language debut) to Peter III (a randy Douglas Fairbanks Jr.)...
5.6
58 votes
5.6
58 votes
Polizeiakte 909
1933 · Movie · 81 min. · Germany
Direction Robert Wiene
Cast Liane Haid · Viktor de Kowa · Valery Inkijinoff · Veit Harlan
Plot About a group of Japenese living in Paris and planning a terrorist act against the French government. Liane Haid, a nightclub singer, falls in love with Inkijinov and leaves her...
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The Famous Woman
1927 · Movie · 102 min. · Germany
Direction Robert Wiene
Cast Lili Damita · Fred Solm · Warwick Ward · Lissy Arna
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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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