Ernst Lubitsch Movies

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

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.

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

Because Ernst feels oppressed by his wife and her mother, he fakes his suicide and hires in his own household disguised as a servant.

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...

An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side.

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

With the outbreak of World War I, all the men, including the barbers , are drafted. As a result, the women have to take over their work, and so...

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 the ill-fated second wife of the English king Henry VIII, whose marriage to the Henry led to momentous political and religious turmoil...

The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.