Ernst Lubitsch

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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 Lo leaves finishing school and returns to her parents’ hotel “Zum Weißen Schwan”. One of the chambermaids eloped with the bellboy and now...

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...

Directed by Carl Wilhelm.

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...

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Lubitsch plays a book shop employee who falls in love with Jannings' daughter.

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...

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

In The the film, Ernst Lubitsch plays Sally, the clever assistant to the detective Ceeps, who only succeeds in solving the Rosentopf case after some...

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

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

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

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...

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....

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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

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.

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...

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 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...

A documentary about the life and career of film director Ernst Lubitsch

A 1927 silent-era series of Hollywood studio tours, these short subjects go behind the scenes at major studios and showcase famous stars, directors,...