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Ernst Lubitsch (January 29, 1892 – November 30, 1947) was a German film director, producer, writer, and actor. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as his prestige grew, his films were promoted as having "the Lubitsch touch".
Lubitsch is best known for screwball comedies and romantic comedies, such as Trouble in Paradise (1932), Ninotchka (1939), The Shop Around the Corner (1940) and To Be or Not to Be (1942). While being escapist, his films often offer social commentary on human relationships and society in a satirical way.
Andrew Sarris in his influential book of film criticism The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929–1968 included him in the "pantheon" of the 14 greatest film directors who had worked in the United States.
Most Popular Ernst Lubitsch Trailers
Total trailers found: 97
26 December 1925
A society woman believes her husband is having an affair, a misconception which may have dire personal consequences for all involved.
02 November 1934
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
29 October 1937
While vacationing without her busy British diplomat husband, a married woman falls for another man.
05 December 1919
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 it instead, not realizing that the doll is actually the puppet-maker’s flesh-and-blood daughter in disguise.
20 December 1918
The tragic story of Don Jose, a Spanish cavalryman, who falls under the spell of a gypsy girl, Carmen, who treats him with both love and contempt and leads him into temptation and thus damnation.
26 June 1919
A pampered American oyster tycoon decides to buy a husband for his daughter, but things don’t go quite as planned.
17 February 1930
The story takes place in medieval France. Poet-rogue Francois Villon, sentenced to hang by King Louis XI for writing derogatory verses about him, is offered a temporary reprieve.
30 November 1917
A neglected wife disguises herself in order to lure her wastrel husband into a compromising position.
02 June 1946
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.
14 April 1921
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 Lubitsch at his most unrestrained.
01 September 1928
In 18th-Century Russia, the Czar, Paul, is surrounded by murderous plots and trusts only Count Pahlen.
28 November 1940
A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of Jewish neighborhoods in recently-conquered Poland is combined with preexisting film clips and stills to defame the religion and advance Hitler's slurs that its adherents were plotting to undermine European civilization.
18 January 1930
The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.
01 October 1918
A teenage tomboy, tired of being bossed around by her strict guardian, impersonates a man so she can have more fun.
23 March 1932
Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist her advances.
08 March 1920
Somewhere in Southern Bavaria Xaver wants to marry Gretel, but her father Kohlhiesel wants his elder daughter Liesel to marry first.
29 December 1933
An independent woman can't choose between the two men she loves.
22 April 1930
This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, cres
25 February 1916
Because Ernst feels oppressed by his wife and her mother, he fakes his suicide and hires in his own household disguised as a servant.
09 June 1916
Sally Pinkus is an German-Jewish boy who takes a job as a shoe store clerk after being expelled from school for goofing around.
02 January 1914
Directed by Carl Wilhelm.
05 August 1943
Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is sure he deserves after living a life of profligacy.
12 January 1940
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
01 August 1931
An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side.
18 August 1924
A frivolous middle aged socialite is suddenly put upon to have her daughter live with her. Her conniving paramour dumps her for the daughter, leaving the young boyfriend crushed.
19 April 1946
For Miranda Wells, moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin, Nicholas, seems like a dream.
06 March 1942
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
20 April 1941
A happily married woman sees a psychoanalyst and develops doubts about her husband.
16 November 1917
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Lubitsch plays a book shop employee who falls in love with Jannings' daughter.
11 March 1920
The story of Romeo and Juliet, a tale as old as time-- Here, played as farcical lark: A goofy comedy of manners set in a snowy Bavarian village.
02 February 1923
In 19th century Paris a hedonistic woman marries an aristocrat but has trouble keeping faithful to him.
11 May 1929
In the Swiss Alps of the early 19th century, a couple forced into loveless marriages struggle to find happiness with one another.
05 October 1917
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
03 October 1918
Egyptians Radu and Ma milk British tourists out of their money by offering phony tours of a mummy's tomb-- Radu has the girl lend her eyes to the "mummy" from inside an empty sarcophagus.
24 June 1983
This short film is Godard’s message to the people of Lausanne, specifically journalist and critic Freddy Buache, addressing his reasons why he will not make a film about their town’s 500th anniversary.
30 April 1914
Der Stolz der Firma, meaning The Pride of the Business, is a classic German silent film from 1914. The film tells the story of a shrewd apprentice and is filmed in the comical style of director Lubitsch.
28 August 2017
The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime, the Adenauer era and the many and tumultuous events of contemporary Germany, and has always been the epicenter of the German film industry.
10 February 1924
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 friend’s husband.
03 December 1920
The story of the ill-fated second wife of the English king Henry VIII, whose marriage to the Henry led to momentous political and religious turmoil in England.
08 July 1977
A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of mass psychology and how the desperate crowd can be deceived and shepherded to the slaughterhouse.
21 January 1928
A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.
31 July 1926
Paul and Suzanne Giraud are happily married and living in a quiet neighborhood. When Suzanne notices that their new neighbors are expressive dancers in revealing outfits, she demands Paul speak to them about their lack of morality.
01 September 1920
The favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a hunchback clown suffers unrequited love for a traveling dancer who wants to join the harem.
30 January 1928
A young prince falls in love with a beautiful barmaid while at university in old Heidelberg.
24 January 1919
While making a movie in the Alps, the female star falls in love with a nobleman.
21 February 1922
The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries.
30 October 1932
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer.
23 November 1939
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
18 September 1919
The story of Madame du Barry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
16 December 1983
A bad Polish actor is just trying to make a living when Poland is invaded by the Germans in World War II.
02 September 1926
The members of the Lambert household do not get along with each other, so Margaret and her youngest daughter Mary leave their home.
19 September 1913
The bachelor Paul lives as the only man in a household with his mother, his aunts, sisters and cousins.
19 September 1918
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
02 November 1917
Sally Katz begins a new job as a supervisor in the workshop of a garment maker where the boss's nasty daughter makes him advances.
01 March 1918
A young woman is forced by her father to marry a man she doesn't love and flees before the marriage takes place.
11 April 1936
Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses American engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of France.
