Max Ophüls – MRQE

Caught

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

It was Leonora Eames’ childhood dream come true. She had married Smith Ohlrig, a man worth millions. But her innocent dream became a nightmare once she realizes the truth about her husband – he is power mad and insane! Since he will not grant her a divorce, she leaves her life of luxury on Long Island and goes to work as a receptionist in an impoverished doctor’s office in NYC’s lower east side. After Smith deceives her into a temporary reconciliation, Leonora becomes pregnant. By the time she realizes she is expecting, she and one of the doctors, Larry Quinada (James Mason), have fallen in love. But she is again lured backed to her wealthy husband to give her child financial security. Her sadistic husband is hell-bent on keeping her and her child prisoner. What will happen to Leonora?

Le Plaisir

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women – pleasure and youth. Then comes the long tale of Mme Tellier taking her girls (whores) to the country for attending her niece’s communion – pleasure and purity. And lastly, Jean the painter falling in love with his model – pleasure and death.

Divine

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A country girl (Simone Berriau) finds work as a chorus girl in Paris, gets embroiled with a bad egg, and then finds true love with a good-looking milkman.

La Ronde

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does similarly with the young man of the house. The young man seduces a married woman. On and on, spinning on the gay carousel of life.

Madame de…

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In France of the late 19th century, the wife of a wealthy general, the Countess Louise, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off debts; she claims to have lost them. Her husband quickly learns of the deceit, which is the beginning of many tragic misunderstandings, all involving the earrings, the general, the countess, & her new lover, the Italian Baron Donati.

The Reckless Moment

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter’s lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.

Letter from an Unknown Woman

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember. As she tells the story of her lifelong love for him, he is forced to reinterpret his own past.

Sans lendemain

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Evelyne, a woman of bourgeois origin, now reduced to dancing in a sleazy nightclub, is reunited with her first love, who has become a successful doctor.

De Mayerling à Sarajevo

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An Austrian prince’s doomed love affair with a Czech countess sparks turmoil across Europe.

Komedie om geld

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 05:00:00 +0000

Respected banker Karel Brand is seen as a marketable emblem of probity. When he loses 350,000 guilders, his reputation is tarnished without the respect attached to it, he loses his job. Brand becomes unemployable, and his creditors suddenly start calling in their debts. His young daughter Willy suffers the same fate.