Marcel Ophüls Movies

Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after having been the lover of various important men.

Love at Twenty unites five directors from five different countries to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20....

Two scoundrels cheat a millionaire out of a huge bankroll on the French Riviera.

The daughter of a notorious smuggler is raised as a boy by her foster mother.

New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.

This exceptional, disturbing, and thought-provoking two-part documentary compares the atrocities committed by the Nazis as revealed during the...

In 1912, in Austria, the painter Egon Schiele is sent to jail accused of pornography with the nymphet Tatjana in his erotic paints. His mate, the...

A segment of “Love at Twenty” is a story of an unwed mother who contrives to trap the father of her baby.

Shot over six weeks in December 1971, and January 1972, the film consisted of interviews with Protestants, Catholics, politicians, and some soldiers,...

In 2009, in a small theater in Geneva, Switzerland, the film directors Marcel Ophuls and Jean-Luc Godard met for an unusual, surprisngly intimate and...

Liberty Belle tells the story of a group of student's involvement with a group who oppose the French Algerian war. The film premiered at the 1983...

Filmmaker Marcel Ophuls investigates the massacre of My Lai by U.S. soldiers.

18 years after his last film, (The Troubles We've Seen), Marcel Ophuls emerges from retirement as one of our last masters, the most corrosive, the...

German adaptation of The Dock Brief

September 28, 1938, war is about to break out. Tension was mounting, as Chamberlain and Daladier on one side, and Hitler and Mussolini on the other,...

Marcel Ophuls' riveting film details the heinous legacy of the Gestapo head dubbed "The Butcher of Lyon." Responsible for over 4,000 deaths in...

Marcel Ophüls interviews various important Eastern European figures for their thoughts on the reunification of Germany and the fall of Communism.

Twenty-six people - including two daughters, an ex-wife, his last lover, actors, fellow directors and writers, a neighbor, and boyhood friends - talk...

The story of the documentary The Sorrow and the Pity (1971), directed by Marcel Ophüls, which caused a scandal in a France still traumatized by...