Josef von Sternberg Movies

A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.

A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.

Princess is destined to marry the Emperor, until her sister steps in.

A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and...

Adapted by Alice Duer Miller from a novel by Alden Brooks, the film concerns a young man who forsakes the humdrum business world for the bohemian...

The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of its surviving footage.

A Polish officer posing as a gypsy loves a gypsy girl who is really the count's daughter.

A restless young girl yearns to leave her rural environment and "get away from it all". One day she stumbles upon a film crew shooting a western near...

"Basher Bill," a retired prizefighter turned criminal, pretends to reform by joining a Salvation Army shelter in London run by a pious wraith named...

Screened at Il Cinema Ritrovato 2024 as part of Marlene Dietrich – Cinema Redistributed, presented by Kristina Jaspers (Deutsche Kinemathek). ...

An American millionaire wants to reform a Parisian cabaret singer who moonlights as a jewel thief.

Compilation of lighting and costume tests from various films, most notably Sternberg's "The Devil Is a Woman" (1935).

The Town was a short propaganda film produced by the Office of War Information in 1945. It presents an idealized vision of American life, shown in...

An unfinished 1937 film adaptation of life and times of the Roman Emperor, Claudius. The production was dogged by adverse circumstances, culminating...

Society miss Sally Raeburn is left penniless and is helped out by an older woman. The woman makes it clear that to repay her, Sally must marry...

A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and gives viewers a glimpse at how movies are made.

The intrepid reporter and amateur sleuth Joseph Rouletabille becomes involved in the investigation of a hideous crime committed in a room painted...

Biography of Marlene Dietrich using interviews, film clips and rare footage of the actress, including her own home movies.

Joan and Magdalen are the daughters of a fisherman. Magdalen leaves her fiancé, Peter, to run off to the big city. Joan and Peter marry....

Speaking as scenes from Anatahan are shown, for which he directed, photographed, wrote, and provided voiceover narration, film director Josef von...