Ernst Lubitsch Movies

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...

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.

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...

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

Miss Lo leaves finishing school and returns to her parents’ hotel “Zum Weißen Schwan”. One of the chambermaids eloped with...

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...

The members of the Lambert household do not get along with each other, so Margaret and her youngest daughter Mary leave their home. Margaret becomes...

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

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

The mother wants to prevent her daughter from marrying a man she doesn't like at all costs, even becoming engaged to her daughter's boyfriend....

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.

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...

A 1927 silent-era series of Hollywood studio tours, these short subjects go behind the scenes at major studios and showcase famous stars, directors,...

The favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a hunchback clown suffers unrequited love for a...

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...

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

After his first wife dies, the driver of a cart marries his ambitious and shrewish maid who brings him nothing but trouble.

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...

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 burlesque is about a man who calls himself Käsekönig Holländer and rises to become cheese emperor in the course of the film. A...