The movies of Ernst Lubitsch

by Marlene_ | created - 10 Mar 2021 | updated - 03 Jun 2021 | Public

Just a note. Most of his movies were also in large part written by him, but due to the way studios liked to keep the jobs of directors and writers separated, Lubitsch rarely was properly credited for his contributions in writing.

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1. That Lady in Ermine (1948)

Approved | 89 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical

That Lady in Ermine tells two parallel stories, both taking place in the small Mittel-European duchy of Bergamo, with one set in the 19th century and the other in the 16th.

Directors: Ernst Lubitsch, Otto Preminger | Stars: Betty Grable, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Cesar Romero, Walter Abel

Votes: 923 | Gross: $1.41M

Directed, produced by

2. Cluny Brown (1946)

Passed | 100 min | Comedy, Romance, War

A free-spirited parlor maid and a Czech refugee surprise an English village with their unconventional ways.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Charles Boyer, Jennifer Jones, Peter Lawford, Helen Walker

Votes: 4,108

Directed, produced by

3. Dragonwyck (1946)

Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson Valley mansion.

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Vincent Price, Glenn Langan

Votes: 5,397

Produced by

4. Here Is Germany (1945)

52 min | Documentary, War

Frank Capra directed this film in the vein of his Why We Fight series. It was intended to be shown to American troops participating in the invasion and occupation of Germany. But by the ... See full summary »

Director: Frank Capra | Star: Anthony Veiller

Votes: 154

Written, produced by

5. A Royal Scandal (1945)

Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, History

In 18th century Russia, the naive and idealistic lieutenant Chernov meets Empress Catherine the Great who becomes infatuated with him and appoints him Chief of the Imperial Guard.

Directors: Otto Preminger, Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Tallulah Bankhead, Charles Coburn, Anne Baxter, William Eythe

Votes: 1,213

Directed, produced by

6. The Meanest Man in the World (1943)

Approved | 57 min | Comedy

A compassionate lawyer pretends to be heartless in order to boost his clientele, but it jeopardizes his romantic life.

Directors: Sidney Lanfield, Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Jack Benny, Priscilla Lane, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Edmund Gwenn

Votes: 352

Directed by

7. Heaven Can Wait (1943)

Passed | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

An old roué arrives in Hades to review his life with Satan, who will rule on his eligibility to enter the Underworld.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Gene Tierney, Don Ameche, Charles Coburn, Marjorie Main

Votes: 12,369

Directed, produced by

8. To Be or Not to Be (1942)

Passed | 99 min | Comedy, Romance, War

86 Metascore

During the German occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Felix Bressart

Votes: 43,019

Directed, written, produced by

9. That Uncertain Feeling (1941)

Passed | 84 min | Comedy

A psychoanalyst causes a woman to doubt her happy marriage.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Merle Oberon, Melvyn Douglas, Burgess Meredith, Alan Mowbray

Votes: 2,988

Directed, produced by

10. The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

96 Metascore

Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand each other, without realizing that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan, Joseph Schildkraut

Votes: 38,487 | Gross: $0.20M

Directed, produced by

11. Ninotchka (1939)

Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy, Romance

A stern Soviet woman sent to Paris to supervise the sale of jewels seized from Russian nobles finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Bela Lugosi

Votes: 22,890 | Gross: $1.19M

Directed, produced by

12. Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)

Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Romance

After learning her multi-millionaire fiancé has already been married seven times, the daughter of a penniless marquis decides to tame him.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, Edward Everett Horton, David Niven

Votes: 4,543

Directed, produced by

13. Angel (1937)

Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A woman and her husband take separate vacations, and she falls in love with another man.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Melvyn Douglas, Edward Everett Horton

Votes: 3,209

Directed, produced by

14. Desire (1936)

Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

86 Metascore

An automotive engineer bound for a holiday in Spain meets a sultry jewel thief.

Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, John Halliday, William Frawley

Votes: 2,807

fill-in director

15. The Merry Widow (1934)

Passed | 99 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

When a small kingdom's main taxpayer leaves for Paris, its king dispatches a dashing count to win back her allegiance.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Edward Everett Horton, Marcel Vallée

Votes: 3,257

Directed, written, produced by

16. Design for Living (1933)

Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance

A woman cannot decide between two men who love her, and the trio agree to try living together in a platonic friendly relationship.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins, Edward Everett Horton

Votes: 7,762

Directed, produced by

17. Trouble in Paradise (1932)

Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

A gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket join forces to con a beautiful perfume company owner. Romantic entanglements and jealousies confuse the scheme.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall, Charles Ruggles

Votes: 16,186 | Gross: $1.04M

Directed, produced by

18. One Hour with You (1932)

Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

An unhappily married couple try to come between a happy one.

Directors: George Cukor, Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Genevieve Tobin, Lili Damita

Votes: 2,913

Directed, produced by

19. If I Had a Million (1932)

Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Drama

A dying tycoon gives million-dollar windfalls to eight people picked from the city directory.

Directors: James Cruze, H. Bruce Humberstone, Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Z. McLeod, Stephen Roberts, William A. Seiter, Norman Taurog, Lothar Mendes | Stars: Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, W.C. Fields, George Raft

Votes: 2,298

Directed, written by

20. Broken Lullaby (1932)

Approved | 76 min | Drama

French soldier travels to Germany to find a family of a man he killed during World War I.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Nancy Carroll, Phillips Holmes, Louise Carter

Votes: 1,530 | Gross: $1.78M

Directed, produced by

21. The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)

Passed | 93 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

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

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins, Charles Ruggles

Votes: 4,116

Directed, written, produced by

22. The Vagabond King (1930)

104 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

The story takes place in medieval France. Poet-rogue Francois Villon, sentenced to hang by King Louis XI for writing derogatory verses about him, is offered a temporary reprieve. His ... See full summary »

Directors: Ludwig Berger, Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Dennis King, Jeanette MacDonald, O.P. Heggie, Lillian Roth

Votes: 230

Directed by

23. Monte Carlo (1930)

Passed | 90 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A countess flees to Monte Carlo on the day of her wedding, where she is courted by a count posing as a hairdresser.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Jack Buchanan, Claud Allister, Zasu Pitts

Votes: 1,428

Directed, produced by

24. The Love Parade (1929)

Passed | 107 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

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

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Lupino Lane, Lillian Roth

Votes: 2,618

Directed by

25. Eternal Love (1929)

Passed | 71 min | Drama, Romance

In the Swiss Alps of the early 19th century, a couple forced into loveless marriages struggle to find happiness with one another.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: John Barrymore, Camilla Horn, Victor Varconi, Hobart Bosworth

Votes: 572

Directed by

26. The Patriot (1928)

113 min | Drama, History, Thriller

Paul I, the Emperor of All Russia, becomes the target of a deadly conspiracy.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Emil Jannings, Lewis Stone, Florence Vidor, Vera Voronina

Directed, produced, edited by

27. The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927)

Passed | 106 min | Drama, Romance

A cloistered, overprotected Austrian prince falls in love with a down-to-earth barmaid in this "Viennese fairy tale."

Directors: Ernst Lubitsch, John M. Stahl | Stars: Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer, Jean Hersholt, Gustav von Seyffertitz

Votes: 1,667

Directed, produced by

28. So This Is Paris (1926)

Passed | 60 min | Comedy

Georgette lives in Paris with her unexciting, effeminate husband, an actor and interpretive dancer. Meanwhile, Suzanne lives across the street and reads romance novels while dreaming of ... See full summary »

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Monte Blue, Patsy Ruth Miller, Lilyan Tashman, George Beranger

Votes: 755 | Gross: $0.11M

Directed by

29. Lady Windermere's Fan (1925)

Approved | 120 min | Comedy

A society woman believes her husband is having an affair, a misconception which may have dire personal consequences for all involved.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Irene Rich, May McAvoy, Bert Lytell, Ronald Colman

Votes: 1,360

Directed, produced, edited by

30. Kiss Me Again (1925)

80 min | Comedy

Gaston Fleury's (Monte Blue) wife, Loulou (Marie Prevost), takes a perfunctory interest in music but a deeper one in a musician named Maurice (John Roche). Although Gaston has no intention ... See full summary »

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Marie Prevost, Monte Blue, John Roche, Clara Bow

Votes: 91

Directed by

31. Forbidden Paradise (1924)

76 min | Comedy

Alexei saves the Czarina from conspirators and is rewarded with her love. He deserts his sweetheart Anna, but discovers that his Queen is unfaithful too. Enraged, Alexei becomes a leader in the ongoing revolution against the royals.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Pola Negri, Adolphe Menjou, Rod La Rocque, Pauline Starke

Votes: 223 | Gross: $0.25M

Directed by

32. Three Women (1924)

83 min | Drama

A frivolous middle-aged socialite is suddenly put upon to have her daughter live with her. Her conniving paramour dumps her for her daughter, leaving her young boyfriend crushed.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Pauline Frederick, May McAvoy, Marie Prevost, Lew Cody

Votes: 242 | Gross: $0.75M

Directed, written by

33. The Marriage Circle (1924)

Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy

Professor Stock and his wife Mizzi are always bickering. Mizzi tries to seduce Dr. Franz Braun, the new husband of her good friend Charlotte.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Florence Vidor, Monte Blue, Marie Prevost, Creighton Hale

Votes: 1,503 | Gross: $0.81M

Directed, produced by

34. Rosita (1923)

Passed | 90 min | Romance, Comedy

Rosita, a peasant singer in Seville, captures the attention of the King.

Directors: Ernst Lubitsch, Raoul Walsh | Stars: Mary Pickford, Holbrook Blinn, Irene Rich, George Walsh

Votes: 475

Directed by

35. The Flame (1923)

43 min | Short, Drama

In 19th century Paris a hedonistic woman marries an aristocrat but has trouble keeping faithful to him.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Pola Negri, Hermann Thimig, Alfred Abel, Hilde Woerner

Votes: 55

Directed

36. The Loves of Pharaoh (1922)

100 min | Drama, History

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

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Emil Jannings, Harry Liedtke, Paul Biensfeldt, Friedrich Kühne

Votes: 662

Directed by

37. The Wildcat (1921)

Not Rated | 79 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

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.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Pola Negri, Victor Janson, Paul Heidemann, Wilhelm Diegelmann

Votes: 1,313

Directed, written by

38. Deception (1920)

Not Rated | 133 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

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 in England.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Henny Porten, Emil Jannings, Paul Hartmann, Ludwig Hartau

Votes: 788

Directed by

39. Sumurun (1920)

Not Rated | 85 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

The favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a hunchback clown suffers unrequited love for a traveling dancer who wants to join the harem.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Ernst Lubitsch, Pola Negri, Paul Wegener, Jenny Hasselqvist

Votes: 822

Directed, written by; actor

40. Romeo and Juliet in the Snow (1920)

45 min | Comedy

Comical variation on the Shakespeare play, featuring two feuding farmers families.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Lotte Neumann, Julius Falkenstein, Gustav von Wangenheim, Jakob Tiedtke

Votes: 235

Directed, written by

41. Kohlhiesel's Daughters (1920)

64 min | Comedy, Romance

In Southern Bavaria, Xaver wants to marry Gretel, but her father Kohlhiesel insists his elder daughter Liesel marry first. Liesel is shunned as too brutal. Seppel suggests marrying Liesel first, ridding her, then wedding Gretel.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Henny Porten, Emil Jannings, Jakob Tiedtke, Gustav von Wangenheim

Votes: 403

Directed, written by

42. The Doll (1919)

Not Rated | 66 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Forced into marriage by his uncle, a man decides to fool him by marrying a life-like mechanical doll instead.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Ossi Oswalda, Hermann Thimig, Victor Janson, Max Kronert

Votes: 2,362

Directed, written by; actor

43. Intoxication (1919)

60 min | Drama

Gaston finally succeeds as a dramatist and decides to leave his wife and child for another woman. When the child dies, the finger is pointed at him and he winds up as a destitute before all is revealed.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Asta Nielsen, Alfred Abel, Grete Diercks, Rudolf Klein-Rhoden

Votes: 24

Directed by

44. Passion (1919)

Not Rated | 113 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

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

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Pola Negri, Emil Jannings, Harry Liedtke, Eduard von Winterstein

Votes: 1,004

Directed by

45. The Oyster Princess (1919)

Not Rated | 60 min | Comedy

An American heiress seeks the hand of an impoverished German prince.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Victor Janson, Ossi Oswalda, Harry Liedtke, Julius Falkenstein

Votes: 2,162

Directed, written by

47. My Wife, the Movie Star (1918)

50 min | Comedy

While making a movie in the Alps, the female star falls in love with a nobleman.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Ossi Oswalda, Paul Biensfeldt, Julius Dewald, Victor Janson

Votes: 19

Directed, written by

49. Meyer from Berlin (1919)

58 min | Comedy

A bumbling, self-indulgent husband goes on a vacation away from his wife. There he meets a popular, attractive young woman also on a vacation. Both go on a mountain climb which is going to be far from an ideal adventure.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Ernst Lubitsch, Ossi Oswalda, Ethel Orff, Heinz Landsmann

Votes: 244

Directed by; actor

50. Fuhrmann Henschel (1918)

Drama

Adaptation of the naturalistic tragedy by Hauptmann: After his first wife dies, the driver of a cart marries his ambitious and shrewish maid who brings him nothing but trouble.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Star: Emil Jannings

Votes: 17

Directed by

51. Carmen (1918)

80 min | Drama

The tragic story of Don Jose, a Spanish cavalryman, who falls under the spell of a gypsy girl, Carmen, who treats him with both love and contempt and leads him into temptation and thus ... See full summary »

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Pola Negri, Harry Liedtke, Sophie Pagay, Grete Diercks

Votes: 405

Directed by

52. Fuhrmann Henschel (1918)

Drama

Adaptation of the naturalistic tragedy by Hauptmann: After his first wife dies, the driver of a cart marries his ambitious and shrewish maid who brings him nothing but trouble.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Star: Emil Jannings

Votes: 17

Directed

53. The Eyes of the Mummy (1918)

Approved | 63 min | Drama, Horror

A girl is kidnapped and held captive in an ancient Egyptian temple. She is rescued and flees to England, but soon finds that her mysterious captor is still haunting her.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Pola Negri, Harry Liedtke, Emil Jannings, Max Laurence

Votes: 735

Directed by

54. I Don't Want to Be a Man (1918)

Not Rated | 45 min | Comedy, Romance

A teenaged tomboy, tired of being bossed around by her strict guardian, impersonates a man so she can have more fun, but discovers that being the opposite sex isn't as easy as she had hoped.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Ossi Oswalda, Curt Goetz, Ferry Sikla, Margarete Kupfer

Votes: 1,638

Directed, written by

55. The Ballet Girl (1918)

30 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

The new director at the Hoftheater is popular with the ladies. A new ballerina arrives and causes a lot of attention.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Ossi Oswalda, Harry Liedtke, Margarete Kupfer, Ferry Sikla

Votes: 22

Directed by

Directed, written by; actor

57. The Toboggan Cavalier (1918)

30 min | Short, Comedy

A young woman is forced by her father to marry a man she doesn't love and flees before the marriage takes place. In a small village she falls in love with a young man, but her father disapproves of the match.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Ossi Oswalda, Harry Liedtke, Ernst Lubitsch, Ferry Sikla

Votes: 15

Directed; actor

58. Prince Sami (1917)

Short, Comedy

The unruly Prinz Sami is sent to the civilized court of a duchess to learn some manners, but he causes nothing but trouble. Nevertheless he manages to marry the duchess.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Ernst Lubitsch, Ossi Oswalda, Wilhelm Diegelmann, Margarete Kupfer

Votes: 8

Directed; actor

59. The Merry Jail (1917)

48 min | Comedy

A neglected wife disguises herself in order to lure her wastrel husband into a compromising position.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Harry Liedtke, Emil Jannings, Paul Biensfeldt, Erich Schönfelder

Votes: 633

Directed, written by; actor

60. Hans Trutz im Schlaraffenland (1917)

40 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy

A stylized fairy tale in which a farmer sells his soul to Satan in exchange for prosperity.

Director: Paul Wegener | Stars: Paul Wegener, Lyda Salmonova, Ernst Lubitsch, Wilhelm Diegelmann

Votes: 10

Actor

Directed, written by; actor

62. The Blouse King (1917)

12 min | Short

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 father forbids him to flirt back.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Ernst Lubitsch, Käthe Dorsch, Max Zilzer, Guido Herzfeld

Votes: 11

Directed by; actor

63. When Four Do the Same (1917)

29 min | Short, Comedy

A young woman leaves the convent to go home and live with her father. Then she falls in love with a librarian, but her father doesn't approve.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Ossi Oswalda, Emil Jannings, Margarete Kupfer, Fritz Schulz

Votes: 20

Directed; actor

69. Shoe Palace Pinkus (1916)

45 min | Comedy

Sally Pinkus is an German-Jewish boy who takes a job as a shoe store clerk after being expelled from school for goofing around. Soon fired for trying to court the owner's daughter, Pinkus ... See full summary »

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Ernst Lubitsch, Else Kentner, Guido Herzfeld, Ossi Oswalda

Votes: 296

Directed

70. Where is My Treasure? (1916)

35 min | Short, Comedy

Husband is hounded by his nagging mother-in-law who lives with him and his wife. After coming home drunk one night he is kicked out by the mother-in-law. He disguises himself as a servant and gets a job at his own house.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Ernst Lubitsch, Louise Schenrich, Helene Voß, Julius Falkenstein

Votes: 390

Directed

Directed

Directed

76. Miss Soapsuds (1914)

10 min | Short

In WWI, women have taken over as barbers while the men are fighting. A young man, Ernst, played by the director, falls for the daughter of one of these female barbers.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Star: Ernst Lubitsch

Votes: 21

Directed



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