Ninotchka
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everyt...
Directing
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.
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A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everyt...
A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich...
A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of Jewish neig...
The favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a hunchback clown...
The misadventures of an effete young man who must get married in order to inherit a fortune. He opts to purchas...
Ed Sullivan shows night spots all over New York in this movie, joking and listening to stories the patrons tell.
The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar Republic,...
Der Stolz der Firma, meaning The Pride of the Business, is a classic German silent film from 1914. The film tel...
Because Ernst feels oppressed by his wife and her mother, he fakes his suicide and hires in his own household d...
Prince Sami comes from Nigeria and is an uncivilized "nature boy." He is sent to the highly civilized court of...
Sally Pinkus is an German-Jewish boy who takes a job as a shoe store clerk after being expelled from school for...
A young woman is forced by her father to marry a man she doesn't love and flees before the marriage takes place...
The young Anselmus Aselmeyer fulfilled a long cherished dream: He travels to Venice, the city of his dreams. On...
Sally Meyer, a young Berliner, persuades his Doctor to convince his wife that he is ill, so that he is able to...
Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1919, when the Republic of Weimar is b...
Based on the 1856 Gustav Räder play Robert and Bertram about the adventures of two wandering vagrants, which ha...
In The the film, Ernst Lubitsch plays Sally, the clever assistant to the detective Ceeps, who only succeeds in...
When a wayward nun, Megildis, deserts her convent with a knight, a statue of the Virgin Mary comes to life and...
A stylized fairy tale in which a farmer sells his soul to Satan in exchange for prosperity.
Fräulein Seifenschaum is a German silent film by Ernst Lubitsch from 1915. It is considered Lubitsch's first di...
Ernst is on the prowl and therefore seeks advice from a matchmaker. As he likes the athlete Anna Muskel, but sh...
The mother wants to prevent her daughter from marrying a man she doesn't like at all costs, even becoming engag...
The two best buddies Ernst and Albert are pursuing the same girl. The girl leads them onto the ice in the form...
Sally Katz begins a new job as a supervisor in the workshop of a garment maker where the boss's nasty daughter...
A skinny couch potato buys a tonic that gives him unexpected strength. Thanks to his new strength, he breaks op...
The burlesque is about a man who calls himself Käsekönig Holländer and rises to become cheese emperor in the co...
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Lubitsch plays a book shop employee who falls in love with Jannings' daughter.
The bachelor Paul lives as the only man in a household with his mother, his aunts, sisters and cousins. They ar...
A resourceful landlady rents the same room to two men: the commercial clerk Zimt, who is at work during the day...
Directed by Carl Wilhelm.
The main character is appointed conductor of a mixed women's choir. However, it soon becomes apparent that the...
On the occasion of her birthday, a young woman sends out invitations to her many admirers: she wants to marry t...
Dr. Schneider paces restlessly around his practice - hardly any patients come in. He is delighted when the lett...
Sally comes from a small town to Berlin, where he begins an apprenticeship with his uncle. He helps his uncle w...