Ernst Lubitsch Movies

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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. But the girl's...

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

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 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...

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.

A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of Jewish neighborhoods in recently-conquered Poland...

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

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...

Film version of Max Reinhardt's play, presented in London in 1911. According to medieval legend, a nun leaves her convent to follow a knight. While...

This short film is Godard’s message to the people of Lausanne, specifically journalist and critic Freddy Buache, addressing his reasons why he...

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 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.