Ernst Lubitsch — Director (25)
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So This Is Paris (1926) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
So This Is Paris
director: Ernst Lubitsch actor: Monte Blue / Patsy Ruth Miller …
other title: La vita è un charleston / Les Surprises de la TSF …
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. Paul discovers that the woman is Georgette Lalle, an old flame.
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The Patriot (1928) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Patriot
director: Ernst Lubitsch actor: Emil Jannings / Florence Vidor …
other title: Lo zar folle / Le Patriote …
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 king, but because of the horror of the king's acts, he feels that he must remove him from the throne.
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The Eyes of the Mummy (1918) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Die Augen der Mumie Ma
director: Ernst Lubitsch actor: Pola Negri / Emil Jannings …
other title: Gli occhi della mummia / Die Augen der Mumie Ma …
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. When adventurer Wendland comes to visit the tomb, Ma is rescued and falls in love with him, leaving Radu in the dust. Needless to say, her former employer / captor follows them abroad in order to exact his revenge.
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The Wildcat (1921) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Die Bergkatze
director: Ernst Lubitsch actor: Pola Negri / Victor Janson …
other title: Lo scoiattolo / Die Bergkatze …
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. A wonderfully anarchic and playfully subversive satire of military life from one of the great comedy filmmakers.
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The Oyster Princess (1919) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Die Austernprinzessin
director: Ernst Lubitsch actor: Victor Janson / Ossi Oswalda …
other title: La principessa delle ostriche / Die Austernprinzessin …
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 mishaps, misunderstandings and a foxtrot sequence that must be seen to be believed.
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The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Smiling Lieutenant
director: Ernst Lubitsch actor: Maurice Chevalier / Claudette Colbert …
other title: L'allegro tenente / Der lächelnde Leutnant …
An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side.
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One Hour with You (1932) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
One Hour with You
director: Ernst Lubitsch actor: Maurice Chevalier / Jeanette MacDonald …
other title: Un'ora d'amore / Eine Stunde mit Dir …
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. But she is persistent, and very cute, and he succumbs. Mitzi's husband wants to divorce her, and has been having her tailed. Andre gets caught, and must confess to his wife. But Colette has had problems resisting the attentions of another man herself, and they forgive each other.
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Cluny Brown (1946) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Cluny Brown
director: Ernst Lubitsch actor: Charles Boyer / Jennifer Jones …
other title: Fra le tue braccia / O Pecado de Cluny Brown …
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.
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The Shop Around the Corner (1940) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb
The Shop Around the Corner
8.2 (10 ratings) director: Ernst Lubitsch actor: Margaret Sullavan / James Stewart …
other title: Scrivimi fermo posta / Den lille butik …
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.