Direction: Josef von Sternberg

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Emil Jannings · Kurt Gerron · Eduard von Winterstein

Plot Based on Heinrich Mann's novel "Professor Unrat". Immanuel Rath (Emil Jannings) is a provincial prep school teacher who becomes incensed when he learns his boys have become infatuated with Lola...

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Emil Jannings · Evelyn Brent · William Powell · Jack Raymond

Plot A decorated, aristocratic Czarist General is reduced to penury after the collapse of Imperial Russia. An old adversary, now a successful director hires the general to re-enact the revolution which...

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Marlene Dietrich · John Lodge · Louise Dresser · C. Aubrey Smith

Plot In this re-imagining of Catherine the Great’s life story, filmmaker Josef von Sternberg and star Marlene Dietrich supply some of the most eye-popping images and outrageously decadent antics in early...

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast George Bancroft · Betty Compson · Olga Baclanova · Clyde Cook

Plot The ship on which Bill Roberts is a stoker has just put into port, giving the crew one night ashore. The ship's bad-tempered third engineer orders the stokers to clean...

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Akemi Negishi · Tadashi Suganuma · Kisaburo Sawamura · Shôji Nakayama

Plot Josef von Sternberg directed, photographed, provides the voice-over narration and wrote the screenplay about twelve Japanese seaman who, in June 1944, are stranded on an abandoned-and-forgotten island called An-ta-han for...

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Clive Brook · Warner Oland · Anna May Wong

Plot Many passengers on the Shanghai Express are more concerned that the notorious Shanghai Lily is on board than the fact that a civil war is going on that may make...

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast George Bancroft · Evelyn Brent · Clive Brook · Fred Kohler

Plot 'Nobody helps me -- I help them!' boasts open-handed gangster Bull Weed, handing over what will prove to be the best investment in his high-spending career: a thousand dollars that...

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Victor McLaglen · Gustav von Seyffertitz · Warner Oland

Plot Director Josef von Sternberg’s answer to MGM’s MATA HARI with Greta Garbo stars Marlene Dietrich as X27, a seductive agent sent by the Austrian secret service to spy on the...

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast George K. Arthur · Georgia Hale · Bruce Guerin · Otto Matieson

Plot Often described as "the first American independent film", von Sternberg’s The Salvation Hunters is an austere and obscurely naturalist drama about "humans who crawl near the floor." It's hard now...

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Peter Lorre · Edward Arnold · Marian Marsh · Elisabeth Risdon

Plot Von Sternberg’s first film after leaving Paramount (and Dietrich) was this expressionistic riot based on the Dostoevsky novel, about student Peter Lorre (in his Hollywood debut) obsessed by a murder...

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Herbert Marshall · Cary Grant · Dickie Moore

Plot Marlene Dietrich is Helen, a former nightclub entertainer married to scientist Herbert Marshall. Their idyllic family life is shattered when he becomes disabled, and she must return to the stage...

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Gary Cooper · Adolphe Menjou · Ulrich Haupt

Plot In Morocco the nightclub singer Amy Jolly (Dietrich) meets two men, a soldier, Tom Brown (Gary Cooper) and a millionaire, La Bessiere(Adolphe Menjou). She falls in love with the soldier,...

Direction W.S. Van Dyke · Frank Borzage · Josef von Sternberg

Cast Spencer Tracy · Hedy Lamarr · Verree Teasdale · Kent Taylor

Plot Georgi has attempted suicide in reaction to an earlier love affair. Now that Dr. Decker has married her he sets out to get her to love him. To make enough...

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Gene Tierney · Walter Huston · Victor Mature · Ona Munson

Plot Bored good girl Gene Tierney goes looking for thrills in Shanghai – and winds up in Mother Gin Sling’s gambling palace, a bizarre, alternate reality that could only exist in...

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Lionel Atwill · Cesar Romero · Edward Everett Horton

Plot Coquettish Spanish vixen Concha (Marlene Dietrich) toys with long-suffering lover "Pasqualito" (Lionel Atwill, in a surprisingly sympathetic role for once) while entertaining the advances of hot-blooded revolutionary Cesar Romero, in...

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Robert Mitchum · Jane Russell · William Bendix · Thomas Gomez

Plot In the anything-goes Macao, Nick Cochran is mistaken for a U.S. agent who is trying to arrest mobster Halloran, so Halloran makes the first move against him. A pretty nightclub...

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Phillips Holmes · Sylvia Sidney · Frances Dee · Irving Pichel

Plot Though his parents are street evangelists, Clyde Griffiths (Phillips Holmes) grows up in squalor, but not without ambitions. He first works as a bellhop in Kansas City, but when he's...

Direction Julien Duvivier · Victor Fleming · Josef von Sternberg

Cast Fernand Gravey · Luise Rainer · Miliza Korjus · Hugh Herbert

Plot Take the story of a man torn between two women, add the music of Johann Strauss and the scenery of 1840's Vienna and you have The Great Waltz, an irresistible...

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast George Bancroft · Fay Wray · Richard Arlen · Tully Marshall

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

Direction Frank Lloyd · Josef von Sternberg

Cast Clara Bow · Esther Ralston · Gary Cooper · Einar Hanson

Plot 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 end in divorce, like his parents'....