The Shop Around the Corner
Why this pick
Lubitsch again pairs exquisite comic timing with romantic restraint: a sophisticated, warmly humane comedy where attraction develops through witty misunderstandings and carefully controlled emotion.
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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
Lubitsch again pairs exquisite comic timing with romantic restraint: a sophisticated, warmly humane comedy where attraction develops through witty misunderstandings and carefully controlled emotion.
Why this pick
For Ninotchka’s champagne-dry dialogue, elegant European settings, and playful moral ambiguity, this earlier Lubitsch comedy is an especially polished match.
Why this pick
Its dazzling verbal sparring, poised romantic gamesmanship, and glamorous comic reversals echo the pleasure of watching Ninotchka’s guarded heroine meet her match.
Why this pick
A sparkling Paris-set screwball romance with a sophisticated surface, quick dialogue, and generous feeling beneath its farcical deceptions.
Why this pick
This fast, worldly romantic comedy shares Ninotchka’s affection for absurd social rituals, immaculate comic construction, and characters who become more vulnerable than they first appear.
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01 / THE STORY
Three Soviet agents, Iranoff, Buljanoff, and Kopalski, arrive in Paris to sell jewelry confiscated from the aristocracy during the Russian Revolution of 1917.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

Count Leon d'Algout
Grand Duchess Swana

Commissar Razinin
Count Alexis Rakonin
Hotel Manager
Swana's Maid Jacqueline
Gossip
Minor Role