Star Pola Negri and director Ernst Lubitsch, who created an international sensation with the German superproduction DuBarry, Woman of Passion, were reunited in the frothy Hollywood comedy/drama Forbidden Paradise. Negri is cast as Catherine, the Czarina of an unnamed but very Russian-looking country. Rescued from revolutionaries by dashing Captain Alexis Czerny (Rod LaRocque), Catherine "repays" the Captain in the boudoir. Czerny falls madly in love with the Czarina, only to discover that he is the latest in a long line of royal consorts. Angrily, he joins the rebellion, vowing to topple the monarchy (but promising that Catherine will remain unharmed). When the revolution fails, Czerny is sentenced to death, but Catherine rescinds the order and allows him a happily-ever-after with his true love, lady-in-waiting Anna (Pauline Starke). Adolphe Menjou, a favorite of Lubitsch's, has all the film's best scenes as a rakish chancellor. Based on a play by Lajos Biro and Melchoir Lengyel, Forbidden Paradise was remade in 1945 as A Royal Scandal, with Tallulah Bankhead as Catherine; the 1945 film was produced by Ernst Lubitsch, who fell ill during shooting and was forced to relinquish the directorial responsibilities to Otto Preminger. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors

In a Swiss Village in 1806, the fiery Marcus and the local clergyman’s niece Ciglia are passionately in love. Unfortunately, after getting drunk during a celebration, Marcus is seduced by his aggressive admirer Pia, who uses the encounter to force him into marrying her. Heart-broken, Ciglia tries to forget him by marrying her own persistent admirer, Lorenz. Able to be faithful in deed but not thought, the two pine for each other, inspiring jealousy in their respective spouses. And once Lorenz decides to find a way to force Marcus out of town for good, it seems the relationship between Marcus and Ciglia can only end in tragedy.
Also Known As (AKA): Der König der Bernina, Die Lawine, Amor Eterno, L’abîme, La valanga, Amor eterno, King of the Mountains

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.

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

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...

到美國只三年，劉別謙已成首席導演，劉別謙筆觸這個詞兒開始出現，仿效導演無數。已是傳奇人物的他，對人家學步毫不在乎，翻翻手閒閒的又示範了一部抄也抄不來的妙品。醫生夫婦恩愛日子平靜如白開水，百無聊賴的太太將跌宕感情昇華在通俗愛情小說裏，直至一天小說中的美男袒胸在對窗出現。那邊廂，醫生碰上美男的豪放妻，卻原來是舊相好。兩對夫婦各懷鬼主意，不忠的結局出人意表。默片的喜劇動感在這裏妙不可言，手杖做偷情藉口這種神來之筆，也許可以叫大家意會什麼叫劉別謙筆觸。

The last of Lubitsch's silent sex comedies is exuberant, fanciful and teasingly elliptical at the same time. Since Paris is synonymous with sophistication and risqué romance, he deliberately cultivates the mood for love with an opening shot of a bed, subverting audience expectations of the obligatory Eiffel Tower. With equal subtlety, he gives his stock and trade subject of marital infidelities inventive treatment, wittily satirising "sheik fever" and other sex-oriented fads in the erotic masquerades between a doctor, his wife, his old flame and her husband. Unlike many Hollywood contemporaries, where sexual innuendoes serve only as evasions and euphemisms, in this film, they are bold announcements of the real thing.

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Against her better judgement, happily married Jill Baker is persuaded to see a popular psychoanalyst about her psychosomatic hiccups. Soon, she's disillusioned about husband Larry; and one day in the doctor's waiting room she meets pianist Alexander Sebastian, who's even more confused than she is. Can this marriage be saved? Larry has a plan that is pure Lubitsch...

Wealthy John Glidden wants to give his money away to strangers rather than have his relatives fight over it. We see the effect the gifts have on many different sorts of individuals.

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这部电影是一个被埋葬的宝藏。它是潜力导演Lubitsch的作品。虽然另一位导演Preminger认为这部戏可以拍摄的更好。这部戏剧令人很轻松，有很多很好笑的对话。故事讲说从前俄国皇族Catherine爱上了一位英俊的兵士William。而这位就是她倒台的原因。最后，Catherine竟然还让William和另外一位女人溜走。电影中3人的关系演得非常微妙。

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.

改编自莎士比亚名剧《罗密欧与朱丽叶》，讲述的背景换成了一个德国冰雪覆盖下的小村，而最终也取得了一个圆满的结局

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.@

亨利八世与安娜.博林的爱恨情仇...

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.

Young Prince Karl Heinrich has spent his entire life behind the palace gates protected from the world. He has been raised in a melancholy atmosphere of strict discipline and duty, yet he often looks out at the frolics of youths and maidens who live beyond the walls. When he passes his exams, Karl is sent to Heidelberg to complete his studies. It is a heady new world of brew, song, and comradeship. Karl falls in love with Kathi, a pretty barmaid, and she reciprocates. But can the love survive their disparate backgrounds? Will Karl ever find happiness or will duty deny it to him?

The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.

1930 film by Ernst Lubitsch

女人的媚眼可以殺死人，梅禮士·司花利亞的儘管也有相同效果，但險些兒還殺死自己。他飾演的中尉向對街情人擠弄媚眼，卻給路上出巡的公主攔腰接收，中尉為保頭顱胡謅出心存傾慕的話，公主豈肯放過飛來美男，二話不說招為駙馬。劉別謙鏡頭下的三角戀人都有情有性，這個中尉的情人更愛得出奇的豁達。影後克勞黛高拔拖寂寞身軀悄然離開的一刻，賺人的恐怕不只有同情的眼淚。高拔蕩氣迴腸的歌聲與美麗的哀愁，叫人久久沒能忘懷。是歌是影也是戲，劉別謙深諳改編輕歌劇的竅門。此作一度散佚，七十年代找回拷貝，驚艷得不在話下。