Top Results for “Ernst Lubitsch”
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Angel

Angel

Romance · Comedy Drama

Romantic comedy starring the great Marlene Dietrich as the unfaithful wife of a foreign diplomat.

Anna Boleyn

Anna Boleyn

Drama · Romance · Silent

The tragic story of the second wife of England's Henry VIII, whose marriage to the Henry led to momentous political and religious turmoil in England.

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife

Romance · Comedy

After learning her multi-millionaire fiancé has already been married seven times, the daughter of a destitute aristocrat decides to teach him a lesson.

Broken Lullaby

Broken Lullaby

Drama · Pre-Code

French violinist Paul Renard has returned from World War I triumphant, but is haunted by the death of a German soldier at his hands.

Carmen (1918)

Carmen (1918)

Drama · Silent

Carmen retells Prosper Merimée’s classic tale of a Romani woman who seduces a military officer and sends each of them on a trajectory of dramatic self-destruction.

The Doll (and I Don't Want to Be a Man)

The Doll (and I Don't Want to Be a Man)

Comedy

The Doll follows the misadventures of an effete young man who must wed in order to inherit a fortune. In I Don’t Want to Be a Man, 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 has …

If I Had a Million

If I Had a Million

Romantic Comedy · Pre-Code · Comedy Drama

To prevent his inheritance from going to his greedy family, a dying steel tycoon chooses eight random strangers and gives them each one million bucks.

Madame DuBarry

Madame DuBarry

Drama · Romance · Silent

Mesmerizing silent film icon Pola Negri stars as Jeanne Bécu, Countess of Barry, who rises from humble origins to become a plaything of the rich and powerful during the firestorm of the French Revolution.

The Oyster Princess (and Meyer From Berlin)

The Oyster Princess (and Meyer From Berlin)

Comedy

The Oyster Princess follows the efforts of a wealthy American tycoon to marry off his free-spirited daughter to an impoverished German prince.

Sumurun

Sumurun

Drama · Silent

A rebellious harem girl rejects the old sheikh and instead falls for a charming clothing merchant in this exotic spectacle that is one of the key early works of the celebrated director. The cast includes Pola Negri as a traveling dancer and Lubitsch himself as a hunchbacked clown.

Three Women

Three Women

Drama

Pauline Frederick and May McAvoy star as a mother and daughter who find themselves competing for the attention of George, a handsome opportist (Lew Cody) who yearns to lay hands on the women’s $3 million fortune.

The Wildcat

The Wildcat

World Cinema · Silent · Comedy

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.