# Ernst Lubitsch's best films

The Lubitsch touch from Berlin to Hollywood: his best films from the BFI's ten essential works and Collider's ranking, from The Oyster Princess to To Be or Not to Be.

- 24 votes · 13 items
- May 6, 2024 · svenja_serienjunkie
- https://even.best/en/l/3174/ernst-lubitsch-s-best-films

## Top 13

1. **The Shop Around the Corner (1940)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan as pen pals who can't stand each other at work.
2. **The Doll (1919)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — A young man marries a mechanical doll – a silent fairy tale.
3. **To Be or Not to Be (1942)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Carole Lombard and Jack Benny as a theatre troupe in occupied Warsaw.
4. **Trouble in Paradise (1932)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Two master thieves in Venice and Paris.
5. **Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Claudette Colbert and Gary Cooper, written by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett.
6. **The Merry Widow (1934)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald in Lehár's operetta.
7. **Ninotchka (1939)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Greta Garbo as a Soviet envoy in Paris – 'Garbo laughs'.
8. **Heaven Can Wait (1943)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Don Ameche tells the devil his life story, in Technicolor.
9. **The Oyster Princess (1919)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Silent satire of American millionaires.
10. **Passion (Madame DuBarry, 1919)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Pola Negri as Louis XV's mistress.
11. **Angel (1937)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Marlene Dietrich between husband and lover.
12. **The Love Parade (1929)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — His first sound musical, also with Chevalier and MacDonald.
13. **Design for Living (1933)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Gary Cooper, Fredric March and Miriam Hopkins, from Noël Coward.

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