Josef von Sternberg Movies

Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's...

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...

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

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

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

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

A peasant girl goes to great lengths to protect her child in 19th century Vienna. The film is considered lost, and only four minutes of footage are...

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

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

Mildred, a young stenographer, seeks protection at the mission run by Austin Farrol, known as "The Prince," when her employer, Trent, an unscrupulous...

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...

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....

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

A young flapper tricks her childhood sweetheart into marrying her. He really loves another woman, but didn't marry her for fear the marriage would...

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.

A hopelessly hopeful drifter, a bitter young woman, and a helpless child live on the docks, spending their days in poverty and listless wandering....

Made for BBC Television in 1967, this 20-minute documentary features a rare interview with the director and a unique demonstration of his lighting...

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

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

Marlene Dietrich's screen tests for the classic 1930 German film The Blue Angel directed by Josef von Sternberg.