Josef von Sternberg Movies

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

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

A gambling queen uses blackmail to stop a British financier from closing her Chinese clip joint.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer.

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

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

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

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...

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....

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

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...

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

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

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