Ernst Lubitsch's best films
The top 3 according to 24 votes from people: The Shop Around the Corner (1940) · The Doll (1919) · To Be or Not to Be (1942). (Updated May 6, 2024.)
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.
Automatically translated (original in Deutsch). See the original
Top 13
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1
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan as pen pals who can't stand each other at work.
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2
The Doll (1919)
A young man marries a mechanical doll – a silent fairy tale.
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3
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Carole Lombard and Jack Benny as a theatre troupe in occupied Warsaw.
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4
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Two master thieves in Venice and Paris.
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5
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
Claudette Colbert and Gary Cooper, written by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett.
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6
The Merry Widow (1934)
Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald in Lehár's operetta.
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7
Ninotchka (1939)
Greta Garbo as a Soviet envoy in Paris – 'Garbo laughs'.
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8
Heaven Can Wait (1943)
Don Ameche tells the devil his life story, in Technicolor.
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9
The Oyster Princess (1919)
Silent satire of American millionaires.
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10
Passion (Madame DuBarry, 1919)
Pola Negri as Louis XV's mistress.
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11
Angel (1937)
Marlene Dietrich between husband and lover.
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12
The Love Parade (1929)
His first sound musical, also with Chevalier and MacDonald.
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13
Design for Living (1933)
Gary Cooper, Fredric March and Miriam Hopkins, from Noël Coward.
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Comments (1)
Sein oder Nichtsein ist für mich die beste Komödie überhaupt. Schön, dass sie hier ganz oben steht.