The best Paul Lukas’s movies

Paul Lukas

Paul Lukas

26/05/1894- 15/08/1971
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Dodsworth

Dodsworth
7.7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 23/09/1936
  • Character: Arnold Iselin
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.

Lord Jim

Lord Jim
6.7/10
  • Genre: Adventure
  • Release: 15/02/1965
  • Character: Mr. Stein
After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman (Peter O'Toole) lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Based on Joseph Conrad's novel written in 1900.

The Lady Vanishes

The Lady Vanishes
7.7/10
On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befriends elderly Miss Froy. When the train resumes, Iris suffers a bout of unconsciousness and wakes to find the old woman has disappeared. The other passengers ominously deny Miss Froy ever existed, so Iris begins to investigate with another traveler and, as the pair sleuth, romantic sparks fly.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
7.2/10
A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.

Little Women

Little Women
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaFamily
  • Release: 24/11/1933
  • Character: Prof. Bhaer
Little Women is a coming-of-age drama tracing the lives of four sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. During the American Civil War, the girls father is away serving as a minister to the troops. The family, headed by their beloved Marmee, must struggle to make ends meet, with the help of their kind and wealthy neighbor, Mr. Laurence, and his high spirited grandson Laurie.

55 Days at Peking

55 Days at Peking
6.7/10
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.

Complicated Women

Complicated Women
7.7/10
A look at actresses who starred in films with thought-provoking subjects made between 1930 and July 1934, before the Hollywood Production Code —the infamous Hays Code— was enforced.

Strange Cargo

Strange Cargo
6.9/10
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.

Rockabye

Rockabye
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/11/1932
  • Character: Antonie 'Tony' de Sola
A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.

Fun in Acapulco

Fun in Acapulco
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/01/1963
  • Character: Maximillian Dauphin
Mike works on a boat in Acapulco. When the bratty daughter of the boat owner gets him fired, Mike must find new work. Little boy Rauol helps him get a job as a lifeguard and singer at a local hotel. Clashes abound when Mike runs into the rival lifeguard, who is the champion diver of Mexico.

The Ghost Breakers

The Ghost Breakers
7/10
After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located on Black Island near the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning her to stay away from the castle. Undaunted, Mary sets sail for Cuba with a stowaway in her trunk—wise-cracking Larry Lawrence, a radio announcer who helps Mary get to the bottom of the voodoo magic, zombies and ghosts that supposedly curse the spooky estate.

Downstairs

Downstairs
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/08/1932
  • Character: Albert
In the Austrian manor of Baron and Baroness von Burgen, the relationship between the upstairs aristocracy and the downstairs staff is quite positive. The servants seem to enjoy their time together, and some even fall in love, as head butler Albert and maid Anna have done. But when lecherous new chauffeur Karl Schneider enters the house, affairs and blackmail follow, and the harmony of the home is slowly destroyed.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/02/1962
  • Character: Karl von Hartrott
Karl from Germany and Marcelo from France emigrated to Argentina and became brothers-in-law. Karl soon returned to Germany to serve in the army. Marcelo and his children Julio and Chichi became Argentinean citizens but later returned to Paris. Karl became a general with a son (Heinrich) in the SS and in WWII he got a high job within the occupation administration in France.

Kim

Kim
6.5/10
During the British Raj, the orphan of a British soldier poses as a Hindu and is torn between his loyalty to a Buddhist mystic and aiding the English secret service.

Experiment Perilous

Experiment Perilous
6.3/10
In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey meets a friendly older lady during a train trip. She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his lovely young wife Allida. Once in New York, Bailey hears that his train companion suddenly died. Shortly afterward, he meets the strange couple and gets suspicious of Nick's treatment of his wife.

Captain Fury

Captain Fury
6.1/10
An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.

Berlin Express

Berlin Express
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 01/05/1948
  • Character: Dr. Bernhardt
Robert Ryan leads a group of Allied agents fighting an underground Nazi group in post-war Europe.

The Roots of Heaven

The Roots of Heaven
6.3/10
In Fort Lamy, French Equitorial Africa, idealist Morel launches a one-man campaign to preserve the African elephant from extinction, which he sees as the last remaining "roots of Heaven." At first, he finds only support from Minna, hostess of the town's only night club, who is in love with him, and a derelict ex-British Army Major, Forsythe. His crusade gains momentum and he is soon surrounded by an odd assortment of characters: Cy Sedgewick, an American TV commentator who becomes impressed and rallies world-wide support; a U.S. photographer, Abe Fields, who is sent to do a picture story on Morel and stays on to follow his ideals; Saint Denis, a government aide ordered to stop Morel; Orsini, a professional ivory hunter whose vested interests aren't the same as Morel's; and Waitari, leader of a Pan-African movement who follows Morel only for the personal good it will do his own campaign.

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

Confessions of a Nazi Spy
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 06/05/1939
  • Character: Dr. Kassell
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.

Captured!

Captured!
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomanceWar
  • Release: 19/08/1933
  • Character: Colonel Carl Ehrlich
While waiting out World War I in a German POW camp, Captain Fred Allison discovers that his oldest and dearest friend Digby has also been captured and put into the same camp with him. Fred longs for news of his wife, Monica, but Digby speaks little of her. Digby knows a secret about Monica, a secret he must keep from his friend, and it wears at his conscience so much that he attempts a reckless escape.

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