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Ernst Lubitsch

Ernst Lubitsch


Filmography

Ernst Lubitsch - filmography


  • Cluny Brown (1946)
    Starring: Sara Allgood,  Peter Lawford,  Una O'Connor
    Director: Ernst Lubitsch
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The time is just prior to World War II. Lovely Cluny Brown (Jennifer Jones) is the niece of a London plumber; when her uncle is indisposed, Cluny rolls up her sleeves and takes a plumbing job at a society home, where she meets a handsome Czech author (Charles Boyer) - a refugee who has fled the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 112 members
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  • Heaven Can Wait on DVD (1943)
    Starring: Don Ameche,  Charles Coburn,  Gene Tierney
    Director: Ernst Lubitsch
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    On the day of his death in 1943, the spirit of Henry Van Cleave (Don Ameche) obligingly heads for the place where so many people had previously told him to go. The immaculately dressed septuagenarian arrives at the outer offices of Hades, where he is greeted by His Excellency (Laird Cregar), the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 597 members
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  • The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
    Starring: James Stewart,  Margaret Sullavan,  Frank Morgan
    Director: Ernst Lubitsch
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    This 1940 romantic comedy finds James Stewart working in a small shop in Budapest and longing for a girl to call his own. His coworker, Margaret Sullavan, feels the same, and soon they are both corresponding and falling in love with their respective pen pals. What they don't realise is that they ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 80% from 314 members
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  • Ninotchka (1939)
    Starring: Greta Garbo,  Melvyn Douglas
    Director: Ernst Lubitsch
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Garbo Talks! proclaimed ads when silent star Greta Garbo debuted in talkies. Nine years and 12 classic screen dramas later, the gifted movie legend was ready for another change. Garbo Laughs! cheered the publicity for her first comedy, a frothy tale of a dour Russian envoy sublimating her womanhood ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 302 members
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  • Angel on DVD (1937)
    Starring: Herbert Mundin,  Dennie Moore,  Edward Everett Horton
    Director: Ernst Lubitsch
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Classic comedy starring Marlene Dietrich. Maria (Dietrich) is married to Sir Frederick Barker (Herbert Marshall), a British diplomat who spends a lot of time travelling and pays little attention to his partner. Maria is starting to feel neglected by her husband and while she is visiting a friend in ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 135 members
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  • Desire on DVD (1936)
    Starring: Zeffie Tilbury,  John Halliday,  Alan Mowbray
    Director: Frank Borzage
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Classic romantic drama starring Marlene Dietrich as Madeleine de Beaupre (Dietrich), a crafty and calculating jewel thief. After smuggling some valuable pearls away from a Parisian jeweller, Madeleine attempts to leave the country, framing psychiatrist Dr. Pauquet (Alan Mowbray) in the process. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 59 members
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  • One Hour With You (1932)
    Starring: Maurice Chevalier,  Jeanette MacDonald,  Genevieve Tobin
    Director: Ernst Lubitsch
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A musical remake of The Marriage Circle (1924), One Hour with You stars Maurice Chevalier as a Parisian doctor and Jeanette MacDonald as his loving wife. Chevalier is scrupulously faithful, much to the chagrin of his lovely female patients. But when MacDonald's best friend Genevieve Tobin insists ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 5 members
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  • Greta Garbo Box Set (6 discs)
    Starring: Greta Garbo
    Director: George Fitzmaurice,  Ernst Lubitsch,  Rouben Mamou
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The Collection consists of six Garbo classics, all brand new to DVD including Mata Hari, Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, the four-time Academy Award-nominated Ninotchka, Queen Christina, Anna Christie and Camille.
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 442 members
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  • Lubitsch In Berlin - Fairy-tales, Melodr... (6 discs) on DVD
    Director: Ernst Lubitsch
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Six-volume set focusing on the pre-Hollywood, silent era of the great German director. Includes 'Ich Mochte Kein Mann Sein' (1918), 'Die Puppe' (1919), 'Die Austernprinzessin' (1919), 'Sumurun' (1920), 'Anna Boleyn' (1920) and 'Die Bergkatze' (1921).
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 54 members
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Ernst Lubitsch facts

5 most recent films

Cluny Brown - 3.5 stars
Heaven Can Wait - 3.0 stars
To Be Or Not To Be - 4.0 stars
The Shop Around the Corner - 4.0 stars
Ninotchka - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Shop Around the Corner - 4.0 stars
To Be Or Not To Be - 4.0 stars
Trouble In Paradise - 4.0 stars
Ninotchka - 3.5 stars
Greta Garbo Box Set - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

One Hour With You - 4.0 stars
Heaven Can Wait - 3.0 stars
Angel - 3.5 stars
Desire - 3.5 stars
Lubitsch In Berlin - Fairy-tales, Melodramas, And Sex Comedies - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

none - 7 times - show films
Ernest Cossart - 3 times - show films
Herbert Marshall - 3 times - show films
Marlene Dietrich - 3 times - show films
Melvyn Douglas - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Frank Borzage - 1 times - show films
George Fitzmaurice - 1 times - show films
Rouben Mamou - 1 times - show films