Ernst Lubitsch Movies

An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side.

In 18th-Century Russia, the Czar, Paul, is surrounded by murderous plots and trusts only Count Pahlen. Pahlen wishes to protect his friend, the mad...

A young prince falls in love with a beautiful barmaid while at university in old Heidelberg.

Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1919, when the Republic of Weimar is born, to 1933, when the Nazis come...

Catherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her.

This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors

While vacationing without her busy British diplomat husband, a married woman falls for another man.

Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.

The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries.

The misadventures of an effete young man who must get married in order to inherit a fortune. He opts to purchase a remarkably lifelike doll and marry...

A happily married woman sees a psychoanalyst and develops doubts about her husband.

A charismatic lieutenant newly assigned to a remote fort is captured by a group of mountain bandits, thus setting in motion a madcap farce that is...

An unhappily married couple moves to Vienna, where the wife’s married best friend lives, and soon, sparks fly between the wife and the best...

The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying

A pampered American oyster tycoon decides to buy a husband for his daughter, but things don’t go quite as planned. Along the way there are...

A teenage tomboy, tired of being bossed around by her strict guardian, impersonates a man so she can have more fun. She quickly discovers that being...

A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each...

Ed Sullivan shows night spots all over New York in this movie, joking and listening to stories the patrons tell.

Paul and Suzanne Giraud are happily married and living in a quiet neighborhood. When Suzanne notices that their new neighbors are expressive dancers...

In 1923, Ernst Lubitsch convinced Mary Pickford to let him make a film of the Faust story, a long-cherished project, but he only got as far as...