List of the best Ivan Desny movies: Daniella by Night(1962), The Marriage of Maria Braun(1978), The Hunted(1974), Madeleine(1950), The Lady Without Camelias(1953), End of Desire(1962), Song Without End(1960), Paper Tiger(1975), The Wrong Move(1975), Mayerling(1968), Bon Voyage!(1962), Anastasia(1956) ... ...
Drama
France|West Germany
1962
83 Minutes
Elke Sommer Ivan Desny Danik Patisson Claire Maurier Helmut Schmid René Dary
Daniella, a fashion model, goes to Rome to replace a model who's been murdered. Once there, she meets two men, Count Castellani, whose clothes she'll model, and Karl Bauer, a reporter in ... See full summary »
Drama
West Germany
1978
120 Minutes
Karl Oswald
Hanna Schygulla Klaus Löwitsch Ivan Desny Gisela Uhlen Elisabeth Trissenaar Gottfried John Hark Bohm George Byrd Claus Holm Gunter Lamprecht Anton Schiersner
woman soldier husband industrialist intense sad somber emotional engaging germany bar train station war love devotion struggle sacrifice fall love 1940s
Maria marries Hermann Braun in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. Alone, Maria puts to use her beauty and ambition in order to find prosperity during Germany's "economic miracle" of the 1950s.
Mystery & Thriller
Canada
1974
84 Minutes
Mailet
Lee Remick Michael Hinz Ivan Desny José María Caffarel Ingrid Garbo Danièle Delorme Jan White Gustavo Re
TV Reporter and Cameraman Cliff Reynolds(Pinsent), while filming Municipal Beach(Montreal)during a Four-Day Heatwave in the Summer of '74, coincidentally photographs Escaped Convict, Jerry ... See full synopsis »
Drama
1950
101 Minutes
Emile L'Anglier
Ann Todd Norman Wooland Ivan Desny Leslie Banks Edward Chapman Barbara Everest Andre Morell
suspect lover father wealthy man lawyer judge melodramatic gripping family home courtroom scotland trial murder class distinctions scandal forbidden love mystery 1850s
Upper-class Madeleine Smith (Ann Todd) stands trial for killing her French lover (Ivan Desny) in Victorian Scotland.
Drama
Italy
1953
115 Minutes
Nardo Rusconi
Lucía Bosé Gino Cervi Andrea Checchi Ivan Desny Alain Cuny Monica Clay Oscar Andriani Anna Carena Del Fabbro Enrico Glori Elio Steiner
A new starlet is discovered and has ups and downs in Italian films.
Drama
1962
86 Minutes
De Fourcheville
Maria Schell Christian Marquand Pascale Petit Ivan Desny Antonella Lualdi Marie-Hélène Dasté
Based on Guy de Maupassant's tale of a woman who learns that her husband married her for money and is wooing their maid.
Biography
USA
1960
145 Minutes
Prince Nicholas
Charles Vidor Dirk Bogarde Capucine Genevieve Page Patricia Morison Ivan Desny Martita Hunt Lou Jacobi Albert Rueprecht Marcel Dalio Lyndon Brook
pianist wife princess prince manager duchess emotional melodramatic rousing passionate switzerland paris concert hall vienna kiev, ukraine rome franz liszt divorce new love classical music
The romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt (Sir Dirk Bogarde), whose scandalous love affair forced him to abandon his adoring audiences.
Adventure
UK
1975
99 Minutes
Foreign Minister
David Niven Toshirô Mifune Ando Hardy Kruger Ivan Desny Ronald Fraser
tutor japanese man ambassador son kidnapper intense brooding profound melodramatic incredible suspenseful united kingdom kidnapping military truth military secrets heroes rise fall adventure
A somewhat prim and proper Englishman is hired as the tutor to the son of the Japanese ambassador. His life changes when he and the boy are kidnapped by terrorists for political purposes.
Drama
1975
95 Minutes
Industrieller, The Industrialist
Rudiger Vogler Hanna Schygulla Hans Christian Blech Peter Kern Nastassja Kinski Ivan Desny Marianne Hoppe Elisabeth Kreuzer Adolf Hansen Gustav Leonhardt
young man actress teen girl poet boyfriend wealthy man brooding offbeat germany forest train aspirations traveling friendship secrets self-discovery discovery 1970s
A young German (Rudiger Vogler) and his companions (Hanna Schygulla, Hans Christian Blech) discuss dreams, poetry and politics.
Romance
UK|France
1968
140 Minutes
Count Hoyos
Omar Sharif Catherine Deneuve James Mason Ava Gardner James Robertson Justice Genevieve Page Ivan Desny Andréa Parisy Fabienne Dali Maurice Teynac
Based on real life events that led to tragic deaths of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his lover Baroness Mary Vetsera.
Comedy
USA
1962
133 Minutes
Rudolph Hunschak
Fred MacMurray Jane Wyman Deborah Walley Michael Callan Tommy Kirk Kevin Corcoran Ivan Desny
plumber mother son daughter playboy father amusing campy playful tender ship indiana paris sewer france french riviera family dysfunction vacation romance young love
The Willards from Terre Haute, Indiana, travel abroad for a once-in-a-lifetime vacation in Paris, France. Harry Willard believes that the greatest problem will be avoiding tap water, but ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1956
105 Minutes
Prince Paul
Ingrid Bergman Yul Brynner Helen Hayes Akim Tamiroff Martita Hunt Felix Aylmer Sacha Pitoeff Ivan Desny Natalie Schafer
refugee military officer prince empress czar nicholas ii emotional melodramatic royal court paris copenhagen, denmark royalty amnesia fortune missing persons quest rise 1920s
An opportunistic businessman tries to pass off a mysterious impostor as the Grand Duchess Anastasia, and she is so convincing that even the biggest skeptics believe her.
Adventure
UK|Switzerland
1970
91 Minutes
Gen. Lassalle
Peter McEnery Claudia Cardinale Eli Wallach Jack Hawkins John Neville Mark Burns Norman Rossington Paolo Stoppa Ivan Desny
Based on satirical short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard, a French brigadier serving during the Napoleonic Wars. He thinks he's the best soldier and lover that ever lived and intends to prove it.
Sci-Fi
1973
93 Minutes
General Sturmer
Elliott Gould Jack Gold Trevor Howard Joseph Bova Edward Grover James Noble John Lehne Kaym Tornborg Lyndon Brook Joy Garrett Ivan Desny
Agents (Elliott Gould, Trevor Howard) from each side watch a U.S. scientist (Joseph Bova) sent back as a cyborg by the Soviets after an accident.