Josef von Sternberg Movies

A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.

Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police,...

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

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.

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

From June 1944, twelve Japanese seamen are stranded for seven years on an abandoned and forgotten island called Anatahan.

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

Captain Timothy 'Two Gun' Nolan is appointed head of the New York detective force, and as his first act, rounds up every criminal in town. Gang boss...

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.

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...

Interview with Austrian-American director, Josef von Sternberg, recorded for Swedish television in 1968.