Ernst Lubitsch
Popularity:2.1934
Known For:Directing
Birthday:1892-01-28
Place of Birth:Berlin, Germany
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Also Known As:Эрнст Любич, 에른스트 루비치

The Pride of the Firm (1914)
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...

From Caligari to Hitler (2015)
Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1919, when the Republic of Weimar is born, to 1933, when the Nazis come...

Mr. Broadway (1933)
Ed Sullivan shows night spots all over New York in this movie, joking and listening to stories the patrons tell.

Sumurun (1920)
The favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a hunchback clown suffers unrequited love for a...

Robert and Bertram (1915)
Based on the 1856 Gustav Räder play Robert and Bertram about the adventures of two wandering vagrants, which has been turned into films on...

Where Is My Treasure? (1916)
Because Ernst feels oppressed by his wife and her mother, he fakes his suicide and hires in his own household disguised as a servant.

The Miracle (1912)
When a wayward nun, Megildis, deserts her convent with a knight, a statue of the Virgin Mary comes to life and takes place of Megildis, who makes her...

Miss Bellboy (1915)
Miss Lo leaves finishing school and returns to her parents’ hotel “Zum Weißen Schwan”. One of the chambermaids eloped with...

Hitler: A Career (1977)
A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of...

The Firm Gets Married (1914)
Directed by Carl Wilhelm.

Der Blusenkönig (1917)
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...

When Four Do the Same (1917)
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Lubitsch plays a book shop employee who falls in love with Jannings' daughter.

Pinkus's Shoe Palace (1916)
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...

Hans Trutz in the Land of Milk and Honey (1917)
A stylized fairy tale in which a farmer sells his soul to Satan in exchange for prosperity.

The Rosentopf Case (1918)
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch.

Ninotchka (1939)
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

The Eternal Jew (1940)
A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of Jewish neighborhoods in recently-conquered Poland...

A Venetian Night (1914)
The young Anselmus Aselmeyer fulfilled a long cherished dream: He travels to Venice, the city of his dreams. Once there, the porter Pipistrello...

A Trip on the Ice (1915)
The two best buddies Ernst and Albert are pursuing the same girl. The girl leads them onto the ice in the form of an ice rink, where the two act...

Miss Soapsuds (1915)
Fräulein Seifenschaum is a German silent film by Ernst Lubitsch from 1915. It is considered Lubitsch's first directorial work and is one of the...

The Mixed Ladies Chorus (1916)
The main character is appointed conductor of a mixed women's choir. However, it soon becomes apparent that the singers are no longer interested in...

The Bodybuilder (1915)
A skinny couch potato buys a tonic that gives him unexpected strength. Thanks to his new strength, he breaks open the floor of his room, falls to the...

Sugar and Cinnamon (1915)
A resourceful landlady rents the same room to two men: the commercial clerk Zimt, who is at work during the day, and the conductor of a café...

Blind Cow (1915)
The mother wants to prevent her daughter from marrying a man she doesn't like at all costs, even becoming engaged to her daughter's boyfriend....

The Last Suit (1915)
This time, Lubitsch plays a tailor's assistant who exploits his striking resemblance to a customer to appear as a gentleman for once. To do so, he...

The Tenor, Inc. (1916)
Sally comes from a small town to Berlin, where he begins an apprenticeship with his uncle. He helps his uncle with the bread production and dreams of...

His Only Patient (1915)
Dr. Schneider paces restlessly around his practice - hardly any patients come in. He is delighted when the letter carrier finally rings, but he is in...

The New Nose (1916)
Ernst is on the prowl and therefore seeks advice from a matchmaker. As he likes the athlete Anna Muskel, but she only wants a man with a so-called...

The Most Beautiful Gift (1916)
On the occasion of her birthday, a young woman sends out invitations to her many admirers: she wants to marry the one of them who gives her the best...

Prinz Sami (1918)
Prince Sami comes from Nigeria and is an uncivilized "nature boy." He is sent to the highly civilized court of Duchess Maria of Arragon, where he...

The Toboggan Cavalier (1918)
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...

Meyer from Berlin (1919)
Sally Meyer, a young Berliner, persuades his Doctor to convince his wife that he is ill, so that he is able to take a holiday in the Austrian Alps in...

Käsekönig Holländer (1919)
The burlesque is about a man who calls himself Käsekönig Holländer and rises to become cheese emperor in the course of the film. A...

The Ideal Wife (1913)
The bachelor Paul lives as the only man in a household with his mother, his aunts, sisters and cousins. They are annoyed by his teasing.

100 Years of the UFA (2017)
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...

Das Mirakel (1912)
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 Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1928)
