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To Be or Not to Be (1942)
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Melchior Lengyel, Edwin Justus Mayer, Ernst Lubitsch
Cast Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack
Plot During the German occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
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The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Samson Raphaelson, Miklas La¡szla, Ben Hecht
Cast Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan
Plot 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.
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Ninotchka (1939)
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Walter Reisch
Cast Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire
Plot 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.
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Trouble in Paradise (1932)
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Samson Raphaelson, Grover Jones, Alada¡r La¡szla
Cast Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall
Plot A gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket join forces to con a beautiful perfume company owner. Romantic entanglements and jealousies confuse the scheme.
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Die Puppe aka The Doll (1919)
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer E.T.A. Hoffmann, Hanns Kra¤ly, Ernst Lubitsch
Cast Ossi Oswalda, Hermann Thimig, Victor Janson
Plot Forced into marriage by his uncle, a man decides to fool him by marrying a life-like mechanical doll instead.
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Heaven Can Wait (1943)
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Samson Raphaelson, Leslie Bush-Fekete
Cast Gene Tierney, Don Ameche, Charles Coburn
Plot An old roué arrives in Hades to review his life with Satan, who will rule on his eligibility to enter the Underworld.
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Die Austernprinzessin aka The Oyster Princess (1919)
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Hanns Kra¤ly, Ernst Lubitsch
Cast Victor Janson, Ossi Oswalda, Harry Liedtke
Plot An American heiress seeks the hand of an impoverished German prince.
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Design for Living (1933)
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Noel Coward, Ben Hecht, Samuel Hoffenstein
Cast Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins
Plot A woman cannot decide between two men who love her, and the trio agree to try living together in a platonic friendly relationship.
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Ich mochte kein Mann sein aka I Don't Want to Be a Man (1918)
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Hanns Kra¤ly, Ernst Lubitsch
Cast Ossi Oswalda, Curt Goetz, Ferry Sikla
Plot 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.
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Die Bergkatze aka The Wildcat (1921)
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Hanns Kra¤ly, Ernst Lubitsch
Cast Pola Negri, Victor Janson, Paul Heidemann
Plot 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.
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Cluny Brown (1946)
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Samuel Hoffenstein, Elizabeth Reinhardt, Margery Sharp
Cast Charles Boyer, Jennifer Jones, Peter Lawford
Plot A free-spirited parlor maid and a Czech refugee surprise an English village with their unconventional ways.
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Madame DuBarry aka Passion (1919)
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Norbert Falk, Hanns Kra¤ly
Cast Pola Negri, Emil Jannings, Harry Liedtke
Plot The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
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Angel (1937)
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Melchior Lengyel, Guy Bolton, Russell G. Medcraft
Cast Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Melvyn Douglas
Plot A woman and her husband take separate vacations, and she falls in love with another man.
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Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Alfred Savoir
Cast Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, Edward Everett Horton
Plot After learning her multi-millionaire fiancé has already been married seven times, the daughter of a penniless marquis decides to tame him.
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The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Ernest Vajda, Samson Raphaelson, Leopold Jacobson
Cast Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins
Plot An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side.
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The Merry Widow (1934)
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Ernest Vajda, Samson Raphaelson, Viktor Leon
Cast Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Edward Everett Horton
Plot When a small kingdom's main taxpayer leaves for Paris, its king dispatches a dashing count to win back her allegiance.
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Anna Boleyn aka Deception (1920)
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Norbert Falk, Hanns Kra¤ly
Cast Henny Porten, Emil Jannings, Paul Hartmann
Plot 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.
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Das Weib des Pharao aka The Loves of Pharaoh (1922)
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Norbert Falk, Hanns Kra¤ly
Cast Emil Jannings, Harry Liedtke, Paul Biensfeldt
Plot The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries.
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Sumurun (1920)
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Friedrich Freksa, Hanns Kra¤ly, Ernst Lubitsch
Cast Ernst Lubitsch, Pola Negri, Paul Wegener
Plot 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.
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The Love Parade (1929)
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Ernest Vajda, Guy Bolton, Leon Xanrof
Cast Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Lupino Lane
Plot The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.
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One Hour with You (1932)
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Director George Cukor, Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Lothar Schmidt, Samson Raphaelson, Leopold Marchand
Cast Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Genevieve Tobin
Plot An unhappily married couple try to come between a happy one.
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Das fidele Gefangnis aka The Merry Jail (1917)
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Ernst Lubitsch
Cast Harry Liedtke, Emil Jannings, Paul Biensfeldt
Plot A neglected wife disguises herself in order to lure her wastrel husband into a compromising position.
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The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927)
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Director Ernst Lubitsch, John M. Stahl
Writer Karl Heinrich, Marian Ainslee, Ruth Cummings
Cast Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer, Jean Hersholt
Plot A cloistered, overprotected Austrian prince falls in love with a down-to-earth barmaid in this "Viennese fairy tale."
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If I Had a Million (1932)
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Director James Cruze, H. Bruce Humberstone, Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Robert Hardy Andrews, Claude Binyon, Whitney Bolton
Cast Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, W.C. Fields
Plot A dying tycoon gives million-dollar windfalls to eight people picked from the city directory.
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Broken Lullaby (1932)
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Maurice Rostand, Reginald Berkeley, Samson Raphaelson
Cast Lionel Barrymore, Nancy Carroll, Phillips Holmes
Plot French soldier travels to Germany to find a family of a man he killed during World War I.
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Kohlhiesels Tochter aka Kohlhiesel's Daughters (1920)
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Hanns Kra¤ly, Ernst Lubitsch
Cast Henny Porten, Emil Jannings, Jakob Tiedtke
Plot 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.
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That Uncertain Feeling (1941)
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Donald Ogden Stewart, Walter Reisch, Victorien Sardou
Cast Merle Oberon, Melvyn Douglas, Burgess Meredith
Plot A psychoanalyst causes a woman to doubt her happy marriage.
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Carmen (1918)
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Prosper Merimee, Hanns Kra¤ly, Grete Diercks
Cast Pola Negri, Harry Liedtke, Sophie Pagay
Plot 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 damnation.
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Lady Windermere's Fan (1925)
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Oscar Wilde, Julien Josephson, Maude Fulton
Cast Irene Rich, May McAvoy, Bert Lytell
Plot A society woman believes her husband is having an affair, a misconception which may have dire personal consequences for all involved.
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The Marriage Circle (1924)
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Paul Bern, Lothar Schmidt
Cast Florence Vidor, Monte Blue, Marie Prevost
Plot Professor Stock and his wife Mizzi are always bickering. Mizzi tries to seduce Dr. Franz Braun, the new husband of her good friend Charlotte.
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Wo ist mein Schatz? aka Where is My Treasure? (1916)
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Ernst Lubitsch
Cast Ernst Lubitsch, Louise Schenrich, Helene VoaŸ
Plot 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.
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Romeo und Julia im Schnee aka Romeo and Juliet in the Snow (1920)
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Hanns Kra¤ly, Ernst Lubitsch
Cast Lotte Neumann, Julius Falkenstein, Gustav von Wangenheim
Plot Comical variation on the Shakespeare play, featuring two feuding farmers families.
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Monte Carlo (1930)
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Ernest Vajda, Hans Maller, Booth Tarkington
Cast Jeanette MacDonald, Jack Buchanan, Claud Allister
Plot A countess flees to Monte Carlo on the day of her wedding, where she is courted by a count posing as a hairdresser.
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Meyer aus Berlin aka Meyer from Berlin (1919)
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Hanns Kra¤ly, Erich Schaanfelder
Cast Ernst Lubitsch, Ossi Oswalda, Ethel Orff
Plot 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.
