Ranking All Of Director Ernst Lubitsch’s Movies
“What are Ernst Lubitsch’s Best Movies?” We looked at all of Lubitsch’s directed filmography and ranked them against one another to answer that very question!
We took all of the movies directed by Ernst Lubitsch and looked at their Rotten Tomato Critic, Rotten Tomato User, IMDB, and Letterboxd scores, ranking them against one another to see which movies came out on top. The movies are ranked in our list below based on which movies have the highest overall score between all 6 review sites in comparison with all of the other movies by the same director. The process is all very scientific with no flaws at all.
The full ranking chart is also included below the countdown on the bottom of the page.
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The Top Film’s Of Ernst Lubitsch
54 ) Aufs Eis geführt (1915)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 29
- IMDB User Review Score: 53
- Letterboxd User Score: 41
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54 ) Blindekuh (1915)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 29
- IMDB User Review Score: 53
- Letterboxd User Score: 41
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53 ) Das Schwabenmädel (1919)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 29
- IMDB User Review Score: 52
- Letterboxd User Score: 41
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52 ) When Four Do the Same (1917)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 29
- IMDB User Review Score: 50
- Letterboxd User Score: 41
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51 ) Eyes of the Mummy Ma (1918)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 27
- IMDB User Review Score: 51
- Letterboxd User Score: 40
Jannings and Negri are Egyptians involved in a scam milking tourists out of their money, by having the girl lend her eyes to the “mummy” from inside an empty sarcophagus! When a British lord and adventurer comes to visit, she falls in love and leaves with him to England. Needless to say, Jannings – who, naturally, has feelings for Negri himself – follows them (conveniently in the employ of another English aristocrat and friend to Liedtke) in order to exact his revenge.
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49 ) Paramount On Parade (1930)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 29
- IMDB User Review Score: 46
- Letterboxd User Score: 41
This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios’ contract stars, credits 11 directors (including Dorothy Arzner, Ernst Lubitsch, Victor Schertzinger and Edmund Goulding). The cast features Clara Bow, Gary Cooper, Fredric March, Jean Arthur, William Powell, Maurice Chevalier, Kay Francis, Buddy Rogers, Jack Oakie, Stuart Erwin and Nancy Carroll.
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49 ) The Patriot (1928)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 22
- IMDB User Review Score: 53
- Letterboxd User Score: 41
These Characters Will Fascinate You! EMIL JANNINGS – Cruel, brutal, but also pathetic. The mad Czar who holds all Russia in his tyrannical grasp. FLORENCE VIDOR – An exotic beauty of the court. The Czar’s favorite! Betrayed by her lover, she becomes a thorn in the hands of the conspirators! LEWIS STONE – Prime Minister and trusted friend of the mad Czar, who conspires against the monster ruler of Russia. NEIL HAMILTON – Heir to the throne. Worshiped by the Russians. The only man who can hold the government from self-destruction.
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47 ) When I Was Dead (1916)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 29
- IMDB User Review Score: 47
- Letterboxd User Score: 37
Because Ernst feels oppressed by his wife and her mother, he fakes his suicide and hires in his own household disguised as a servant.
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47 ) The Vagabond King (1930)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 29
- IMDB User Review Score: 43
- Letterboxd User Score: 41
The story takes place in medieval France. Poet-rogue Francois Villon, sentenced to hang by King Louis XI for writing derogatory verses about him, is offered a temporary reprieve. His hanging will be postponed for 24 hours, and in that time he must defeat the invading Burgundians and win the love of the beautiful Katherine.
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45 ) Pinkus’s Shoe Palace (1916)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 29
- IMDB User Review Score: 49
- Letterboxd User Score: 33
Sally Pinkus is an German-Jewish boy who takes a job as a shoe store clerk after being expelled from school for goofing around. Soon fired for trying to court the owner’s daughter, Pinkus lands another job in a more ‘upmarket’ shoe salon, only to be fired again, before charming a rich benefactress to fund his ultimate dream: Pinkus’ Shoe Palace.
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45 ) That Lady in Ermine (1948)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 26
- IMDB User Review Score: 48
- Letterboxd User Score: 37
Circa 1861, Angelina, ruling countess of an Italian principality, is at a loss when invaded by a Hungarian army. Her lookalike ancestress Francesca, who saved a similar situation 300 years before, comes to life from a portrait to help her descendant. Complicating factor: the newlywed countess feels strangely drawn to the handsome invader…
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44 ) Rosita (1923)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 29
- IMDB User Review Score: 39
- Letterboxd User Score: 41
The King tosses Rosita in jail and when Don Diego, who Rosita loves, tries to defend her, he too is thrown in jail. While Don Diego is sentenced to be executed, the King lusts after Rosita and decides to put her up in a luxurious villa. To give her a title, he marries her to a masked nobleman, who turns out to be Don Diego.
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43 ) Carmen (1918)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 29
- IMDB User Review Score: 41
- Letterboxd User Score: 37
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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41 ) Die Flamme (1923)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 29
- IMDB User Review Score: 36
- Letterboxd User Score: 41
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41 ) Forbidden Paradise (1924)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 29
- IMDB User Review Score: 36
- Letterboxd User Score: 41
Film based on the Lajos Biró play, directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
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40 ) Meyer from Berlin (1919)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 29
- IMDB User Review Score: 43
- Letterboxd User Score: 33
Sally Meyer, a young Berliner, persuades his Doctor to convince his wife that he is ill, so that he is able to take a holiday in the Austrian Alps in order to pursue women. Meyer dresses up in what he considers Tyrolean attire. However, he mistakenly travels to the Bavarian Alps rather than Austria. Meyer becomes infatuated with Kitty, a young, attractive woman at the hotel where he is staying. His pursuit of her angers many of her other suitors who are also staying at the hotel. In order to impress Kitty, Meyer agrees rather reluctantly to climb Mount Watzmann. Wwhile they are approaching the summit, both Meyer’s wife and Kitty’s fiancee unexepectedly arrive from Berlin.
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39 ) Der Fall Rosentopf (1918)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 29
- IMDB User Review Score: 32
- Letterboxd User Score: 41
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36 ) The Merry Jail (1917)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 29
- IMDB User Review Score: 43
- Letterboxd User Score: 26
A neglected wife disguises herself in order to lure her wastrel husband into a compromising position.
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36 ) Sumurun (1920)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 24
- IMDB User Review Score: 41
- Letterboxd User Score: 33
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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36 ) Kiss Me Again (1925)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 29
- IMDB User Review Score: 28
- Letterboxd User Score: 41
Gaston Fleury’s wife, Loulou, takes a perfunctory interest in music but a deeper one in a musician named Maurice.
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35 ) The Loves of Pharaoh (1922)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 28
- IMDB User Review Score: 39
- Letterboxd User Score: 26
The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries.
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33 ) Romeo and Juliet in the Snow (1920)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 29
- IMDB User Review Score: 36
- Letterboxd User Score: 26
Romeo and Juliet as a comedy and in the snow.
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33 ) Three Women (1924)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 29
- IMDB User Review Score: 21
- Letterboxd User Score: 41
A frivolous middle aged socialite is suddenly put upon to have her daughter live with her. Her conniving paramour dumps her for the daughter, leaving the young boyfriend crushed.
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32 ) Anna Boleyn (1920)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 25
- IMDB User Review Score: 32
- Letterboxd User Score: 33
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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31 ) A Royal Scandal (1945)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 29
- IMDB User Review Score: 30
- Letterboxd User Score: 26
Catherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her.
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30 ) Kohlhiesel’s Daughters (1920)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 29
- IMDB User Review Score: 32
- Letterboxd User Score: 20
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 first, get rid of her and then he can marry Gretel…
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29 ) The Honeymoon Express (1926)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 29
- IMDB User Review Score: 10
- Letterboxd User Score: 41
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28 ) That Uncertain Feeling (1941)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 11
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 23
- IMDB User Review Score: 32
- Letterboxd User Score: 26
A happily married woman sees a psychoanalyst and develops doubts about her husband.
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27 ) If I Had a Million (1932)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 29
- IMDB User Review Score: 21
- Letterboxd User Score: 26
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to 8 strangers chosen at random from the phone directory. The various segents of this 1932 film were directed by Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Taurog, Stephen Roberts, Norman Z. McLeod, James Cruze, William A. Seiter, and H. Bruce Humberstone. The huge cast includes Richard Bennett, Gary Cooper, W. C. Fields, May Robson, George Raft, Charles Ruggles, Alison Skipworth, Charles Laughton, Mary Boland, Gene Raymond, Frances Dee, Wynne Gibson, Jack Pennick, Jack Oakie, Roscoe Karns, Cecil Cunningham, Grant Mitchell, Clarence Muse, Joyce Compton, Dewey Robinson and Margaret Seddon.
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26 ) Fräulein Seifenschaum (1915)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 29
- IMDB User Review Score: 4
- Letterboxd User Score: 41
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25 ) Madame DuBarry (1919)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 14
- IMDB User Review Score: 30
- Letterboxd User Score: 26
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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24 ) Eternal Love (1929)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 21
- IMDB User Review Score: 25
- Letterboxd User Score: 24
In the Swiss Alps of the early 19th century, a couple forced into loveless marriages struggle to find happiness with one another.
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23 ) Monte Carlo (1930)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 14
- IMDB User Review Score: 28
- Letterboxd User Score: 24
A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino.
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21 ) One Hour with You (1932)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 29
- IMDB User Review Score: 19
- Letterboxd User Score: 16
Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist her advances. But she is persistent, and very cute, and he succumbs. Mitzi’s husband wants to divorce her, and has been having her tailed. Andre gets caught, and must confess to his wife. But Colette has had problems resisting the attentions of another man herself, and they forgive each other.
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21 ) So This Is Paris (1926)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 29
- IMDB User Review Score: 15
- Letterboxd User Score: 20
Paris, Hollywood, not Paris, France, the perfect setting for Ernst Lubitsch’s comedy of pretense.
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20 ) The Oyster Princess (1919)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 29
- IMDB User Review Score: 21
- Letterboxd User Score: 11
A pampered American oyster tycoon decides to buy a husband for his daughter, but things don’t go quite as planned. Along the way there are mishaps, misunderstandings and a foxtrot sequence that must be seen to be believed.
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19 ) I Don’t Want to Be a Man (1918)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 13
- IMDB User Review Score: 25
- Letterboxd User Score: 20
A teenage tomboy, tired of being bossed around by her strict guardian, impersonates a man so she can have more fun. She quickly discovers that being the opposite sex isn’t as easy as she had hoped for. What ensues is a gender-bending comedy decades ahead of its time.
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18 ) The Doll (1919)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 29
- IMDB User Review Score: 19
- Letterboxd User Score: 8
The misadventures of an effete young man who must get married in order to inherit a fortune. He opts to purchase a remarkably lifelike doll and marry it instead, not realizing that the doll is actually the puppet-maker’s flesh-and-blood daughter in disguise.
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17 ) The Wildcat (1921)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 14
- IMDB User Review Score: 25
- Letterboxd User Score: 16
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. A wonderfully anarchic and playfully subversive satire of military life from one of the great comedy filmmakers.
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16 ) Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (1938)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 19
- IMDB User Review Score: 15
- Letterboxd User Score: 11
US multi-millionaire Michael Barndon marries his eight wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broken French Marquis. But she doesn’t want to be only a number in the row of his ex-wives and starts her own strategy to “tame” him.
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14 ) Angel (1937)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 18
- IMDB User Review Score: 15
- Letterboxd User Score: 5
Woman and her husband take separate vacations, and she falls in love with another man.
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14 ) The Love Parade (1929)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 9
- IMDB User Review Score: 21
- Letterboxd User Score: 20
The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.
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12 ) Lady Windermere’s Fan (1925)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 9
- IMDB User Review Score: 12
- Letterboxd User Score: 16
Mrs Erlynne, the mother of Lady Windermere – her daughter does not know about her – wants to be introduced in society, so that she can marry Lord Augustus Lorton. Lord Windermere, who helped her with a cheque, invites her to his wifes birthday-party, but Lady Windermere thinks, she has reason to be jealous, so she decides to leave her husband and go to Lord Darlington, who is pining for her. Mrs Erlynne finds this out and tries to prevent her of this mistake, but her daughter leaves her fan in Lord Darlingtons residence.
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12 ) The Marriage Circle (1924)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 6
- IMDB User Review Score: 15
- Letterboxd User Score: 16
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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11 ) The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1928)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 20
- IMDB User Review Score: 6
- Letterboxd User Score: 8
A young prince falls in love with a beautiful barmaid while at university in old Heidelberg.
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10 ) Heaven Can Wait (1943)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 6
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 12
- IMDB User Review Score: 12
- Letterboxd User Score: 11
Henry Van Cleve presents himself at the gates of Hell only to find he is closely vetted on his qualifications for entry. Surprised there is any question on his suitability, he recounts his lively life and the women he has known from his mother onwards, but mainly concentrating on his happy but sometimes difficult twenty-five years of marriage to Martha.
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8 ) The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 8
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 14
- IMDB User Review Score: 6
- Letterboxd User Score: 11
A misfired flirtation lands a young lieutenant married to a princess instead of the one he loves.
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8 ) The Merry Widow (1934)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 8
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 8
- IMDB User Review Score: 12
- Letterboxd User Score: 11
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
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7 ) Design for Living (1933)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 10
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 7
- IMDB User Review Score: 9
- Letterboxd User Score: 5
Two Americans sharing a flat in Paris, playwright Tom Chambers and painter George Curtis, fall for free-spirited Gilda Farrell. When she can’t make up her mind which one of them she prefers, she proposes a “gentleman’s agreement”: She will move in with them as a friend and critic of their work, but they will never have sex. But when Tom goes to London to supervise a production of one of his plays, leaving Gilda alone with George, how long will their gentleman’s agreement last?
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5 ) Cluny Brown (1946)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 6
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 9
- IMDB User Review Score: 10
- Letterboxd User Score: 5
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate..
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5 ) Broken Lullaby (1932)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 1
- IMDB User Review Score: 8
- Letterboxd User Score: 8
A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each having attended the same musical conservatory in France. The fact that the incident occurred in war does not assuage his guilt. He travels to Germany to meet the man’s family.
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4 ) Ninotchka (1939)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 4
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 5
- IMDB User Review Score: 4
- Letterboxd User Score: 4
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
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3 ) Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 5
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 3
- IMDB User Review Score: 1
- Letterboxd User Score: 2
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette’s personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.
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2 ) The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 3
- IMDB User Review Score: 3
- Letterboxd User Score: 2
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other’s anonymous pen pal.
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1 ) To Be or Not to Be (1942)
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 3
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 2
- IMDB User Review Score: 1
- Letterboxd User Score: 1
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier’s efforts to track down a German spy.
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