Screenplay: Hanns Kräly

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Ramon Novarro · Norma Shearer · Jean Hersholt · Gustav von Seyffertitz

Synopsis Nephew and heir to the King of a small country, Karl Heinrich is taken to Heidelberg to study by his tutor, Dr. Jüttner. There he falls in love with Kathi, niece of the man who owns the inn at which...

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Ossi Oswalda · Hermann Thimig · Victor Janson · Gerhard Ritterband

Synopsis Presaging such playful sex comedies as Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise and Design for Living, THE DOLL follows the misadventures of an effete young man who must get married in order to inherit a fortune. He opts to purchase a remarkably...

Direction Jacques Feyder

Cast Greta Garbo · Conrad Nagel · Holmes Herbert · Anders Randolf

Synopsis Irene (Greta Garbo) is unhappily married to an older businessman, but very much in love with a handsome young lawyer. He doesn't want to add to her unhappiness by ruining her marriage; she is terrified of her husband's jealousy and...

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Victor Janson · Ossi Oswalda · Harry Liedtke · Julius Falkenstein

Synopsis Ossi, daughter of oyster-king Quaker wants to marry a real prince, after the daughter of a shoe-polish manufacturer has married a count. The marriage arranger finds prince Nucki, who sends his friend and secretary to the Quaker's mansion. Ossi is...

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Pola Negri · Emil Jannings · Harry Liedtke · Eduard von Winterstein

Synopsis The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Pola Negri · Victor Janson · Paul Heidemann · Wilhelm Diegelmann

Synopsis The daughter of the leader of a gang of mountain bandits falls in love with the head of the military outfit in charge of arresting her father. Lubitsch proceeds to create a plot constantly satirizing militarism and war, leading to...

Direction Henry Koster

Cast Deanna Durbin · Leopold Stokowski · Adolphe Menjou · Alice Brady

Synopsis The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends and through persistence, charm and a few misunderstandings, is able to get Leopold Stokowski to lead them in a concert that leads to a...

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Emil Jannings · Hedwig Pauly-Winterstein · Hilde Müller · Ludwig Hartau

Synopsis Sumptuous historical recreation qualified as 'the greatest film of all times'. A robust, brutal and cruel Henry VIII played by Emil Jannings contrasts with the innocence of Henny Porten's Anne Boleyn. Two architects directed construction of the replicas of the...

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast May McAvoy · Pauline Frederick · Marie Prevost · Lew Cody

Synopsis Although the heavily indebted Edmund Lamont is courting wealthy widow Mabel Wilton, he soon turns his affections to her daughter, Jeanne. Despite marrying the latter, he proceeds to have an affair with a flapper called Harriet. Jeanne is in love...

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast John Barrymore · Camilla Horn · Victor Varconi · Hobart Bosworth

Synopsis Ciglia (Camilla Horn) is a young woman living in a tiny village in the Swiss Alps. Her village has been occupied by the French, and all of the villagers have surrendered their guns. Only Marcus (John Barrymore) refuses to turn...

Direction Henry Koster

Cast Deanna Durbin · Charles Laughton · Robert Cummings · Guy Kibbee

Synopsis A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a turn for the better and now his son doesn't know...

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Monte Blue · Patsy Ruth Miller · George Beranger · Lilyan Tashman

Synopsis Young dancing couple Georgette and Maurice flirt constantly. One day, Dr. Paul Giraud comes to their apartment, angry with Maurice in the conviction that he's trying to attract his wife, Suzanne. However, recognising a former sweetheart in Georgette, he tells...

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Pola Negri · Rod La Rocque · Adolphe Menjou · Pauline Starke

Synopsis Having earned the Czarina's love after having saved her small kingdom from revolutionary conspirators, young officer Alexei leaves his sweetheart Anna, the regent's lady-in-waiting. Pushed by spite to join her conspirators when the Czarina is unfaithful to him, Alexei is...

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Jakob Tiedtke · Henny Porten · Emil Jannings · Gustav von Wangenheim

Synopsis Somewhere in Southern Bavaria Xaver wants to marry Gretel, but her father Kohlhiesel wants his elder daughter Liesel to marry first. The problem is, nobody wants to marry her, because she's too brutal. Seppel suggests, that he should marry Liesel...

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Rudolph Valentino · Vilma Bánky · Louise Dresser · Albert Conti

Synopsis Vladimir Dubrouvsky, a lieutenant in the Russian army, catches the eye of Czarina Catherine II. He spurns her advances and flees, and she puts out a warrant for his arrest, dead or alive. Vladimir learns that his father's lands have...

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Emil Jannings · Paul Biensfeldt · Friedrich Kühne · Albert Basserman

Synopsis Devotion to a beautiful sclave causes war between Pharoah Menes and the King of Ethiopia. But the girl loves Ramphis. This was the most spectacular film produced till then in Europe, with an impressive reconstruction of the pyramids, temples, deserts...

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Lotte Neumann · Gustav von Wangenheim · Jakob Tiedtke · Ernst Rückert

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Ossi Oswalda · Curt Goetz · Ferry Sikla · Margarete Kupfer

Direction Sidney Franklin

Cast Greta Garbo · Lewis Stone · Nils Asther · Dick Sutherland

Synopsis A prince in Java tries to seduce his visitor's wife, but he's discovered.

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Pola Negri · Jenny Hasselqvist · Aud Egede Nissen · Margarete Kupfer

Synopsis Yeggar, a hunchbacked clown and travelling carnival manager, falls in love with one of his dancers. Although she gives in to his desires, she is also unfaithful to him. Based on a theatre pantomime created by Max Reinhardt, this is...