
January 28, 1892
Ernst Lubitsch (January 29, 1892 – November 30, 1947) was a German film director, producer, writer, and actor. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as his prestige grew, his films were promoted as having "the Lubitsch to…

During the German occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.

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.

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.

An old roué arrives in Hades to review his life with Satan, who will rule on his eligibility to enter the Underworld.

A woman cannot decide between two men who love her, and the trio agree to try living together in a platonic friendly relationship.

A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.

After learning her multi-millionaire fiancé has already been married seven times, the daughter of a penniless marquis decides to tame him.

An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side.

A psychoanalyst causes a woman to doubt her happy marriage.

An unhappily married couple try to come between a happy one.

Forced into marriage by his uncle, a man decides to fool him by marrying a life-like mechanical doll instead.

A dying tycoon gives million-dollar windfalls to eight people picked from the city directory.

A countess flees to Monte Carlo on the day of her wedding, where she is courted by a count posing as a hairdresser.

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.

Georgette lives in Paris with her unexciting, effeminate husband, Maurice. Suzanne lives across the street, spending her time reading romance novels, while dreaming of someone more exciting than her own lackluster spouse, Paul. Bo...

The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries.

A frivolous middle-aged socialite is suddenly put upon to have her daughter live with her. Her conniving paramour dumps her for her daughter, leaving her young boyfriend crushed.