Josef von Sternberg Movies

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.

On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic...

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

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

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...

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

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

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....

A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.

During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Great, travels to Moscow to marry the dimwitted...

Mogador, Morocco. Late 1920s. A complex romance develops between a womanizing Legionnaire and a disillusioned Parisian cabaret singer.

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

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...

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

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.

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

An interview with film director Josef von Sternberg, produced for Belgium television.

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...