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...

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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

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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....

Not rated

Not rated