The best Paul Lukas’s romance movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Paul Lukas’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Paul Lukas.
Dodsworth
7.7/10
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.
Strange Cargo
6.9/10
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.
Fun in Acapulco
5.8/10
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.
Uncertain Glory
7.1/10
A French playboy gets serious when his country is threatened during World War II.
Captured!
6.5/10
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.
City Streets
7/10
A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.
By Candlelight
6.7/10
A beautiful woman mistakes a Prince's butler for the Prince.
Deadline at Dawn
6.8/10
A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.
Ladies In Love
6.3/10
Three young women in Budapest share living quarters while searching for romance.
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.
The Beloved Bachelor
8/10
Michael Morda, a young sculptor living in San Francisco, is madly in love with Elinor Hunter, and they plan to be married. When Elinor becomes jealous of Julie Stressman, an old friend of Michael's and one of his models, Michael reluctantly asks Julie not to visit him at his studio. They agree to meet only at the construction site where he is working on a sculpture for which Julie is modeling. When Elinor also shows up at the site, Julie leaves so as to avoid a confrontation, but she is killed by some falling materials. Julie's dying request is that Michael adopt her daughter Mitzi, whose father died years earlier. In order to prevent Mitzi from being taken to an orphanage, Michael lies and says he is her father. Elinor hears this, and without asking questions, leaves him and marries another man the same night.
Dinner at the Ritz
5.9/10
The daughter of a murdered financier works as a jewelry salesperson while she tracks her father's colleagues who plotted against him.
The Fountain
6.1/10
Set during the first World War in neutral, but pro-German, Holland, Lewis Allison, an interned British officer, is paroled to the castle of Baron Von Leyden and finds living there, but now married to German officer Rupert Von Narwitz, his childhood sweetheart Julie. Long discussions between Julie and Allison, centering on family conflicts that kept them apart, take place before the severely wounded Von Narwitz returns to the castle and more long discussions ensue.
Brief Ecstasy
6.2/10
A remarkable story of love lost and found, as a young couple are separated by circumstance, and plunged into emotional turmoil by a reunion...
The Devil's Holiday
5.9/10
Beautiful manicurist Hallie Hobart sets her sights on handsome David Stone, the son of wealthy wheat farmer Ezra Stone. Professing to hate men, Hallie is only interested in luring David in for a lucrative business deal. David easily falls in love, but older brother Mark brands Hallie a gold-digger. To get even with the straight-laced Stone family, Hallie accepts David's marriage proposal.
Age of Indiscretion
6.2/10
A book publisher finds his business floundering, which prompts his socially ambitious wife to desert him for a society millionaire, leaving him with their young son. The publisher's fortunes improve dramatically, however, when a best-selling romance novelist decides to publish her new book with his firm. In the meantime, his ex-wife has married the millionaire, and she and her new mother-in-law come up with a plan to sue her ex-husband for custody of the boy.
Half Way to Heaven
6.4/10
Odd little circus film about trapeze artists and obsessive love.
The Shopworn Angel
6.6/10
Shortly after the United States enters World War I in 1917, a Broadway actress agrees to let a naive soldier court her in order to impress his friends, but a real romance soon begins.
I Found Stella Parish
6.7/10
A blackmailer preys on an actress who is trying to protect her daughter from her past.
Loves of an Actress
Rachel becomes the leading actress in the Comédie Française through the patronage of three influential men: Baron Hartman, the wealthiest man in France; Count Vareski, a relative of Napoleon; and Dr. Durande. All three men are in love with her, but she throws them over when she falls in love with Raoul Duval....
