Josef von Sternberg Movies

  • 1929
    The Case of Lena Smith

    The Case of Lena Smith

    The Case of Lena Smith

    5.21929HD

    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...

    The Case of Lena Smith
  • 1941
    The Shanghai Gesture

    The Shanghai Gesture

    The Shanghai Gesture

    6.31941HD

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

    The Shanghai Gesture
  • 1938
    The Great Waltz

    The Great Waltz

    The Great Waltz

    5.71938HD

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

    The Great Waltz
  • 1928
    The Docks of New York

    The Docks of New York

    The Docks of New York

    6.941928HD

    A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.

    The Docks of New York
  • 1953
    Anatahan

    Anatahan

    Anatahan

    6.71953HD

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

    Anatahan
  • 1926
    The Exquisite Sinner

    The Exquisite Sinner

    The Exquisite Sinner

    01926HD

    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...

    The Exquisite Sinner
  • 1946
    Duel in the Sun

    Duel in the Sun

    Duel in the Sun

    6.3811946HD

    Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other...

    Duel in the Sun
  • 1930
    The Blue Angel

    The Blue Angel

    The Blue Angel

    7.31930HD

    Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in...

    The Blue Angel
  • 1930
    Morocco

    Morocco

    Morocco

    6.3391930HD

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

    Morocco
  • 1934
    The Scarlet Empress

    The Scarlet Empress

    The Scarlet Empress

    6.8721934HD

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

    The Scarlet Empress
  • 1969
    The Epic That Never Was

    The Epic That Never Was

    The Epic That Never Was

    6.71969HD

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

    The Epic That Never Was
  • 1931
    An American Tragedy

    An American Tragedy

    An American Tragedy

    6.11931HD

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

    An American Tragedy
  • 1928
    The Last Command

    The Last Command

    The Last Command

    7.31928HD

    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.

    The Last Command
  • 1932
    Blonde Venus

    Blonde Venus

    Blonde Venus

    6.81932HD

    In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retired German entertainer returns to the cabaret as...

    Blonde Venus
  • 1925
    The Salvation Hunters

    The Salvation Hunters

    The Salvation Hunters

    6.31925HD

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

    The Salvation Hunters
  • 1926
    A Woman of the Sea

    A Woman of the Sea

    A Woman of the Sea

    61926HD

    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 Woman of the Sea
  • 1925
    The Masked Bride

    The Masked Bride

    The Masked Bride

    01925HD

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

    The Masked Bride
  • 1931
    Dishonored

    Dishonored

    Dishonored

    6.81931HD

    The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians.

    Dishonored
  • 1957
    Jet Pilot

    Jet Pilot

    Jet Pilot

    5.41957HD

    John Wayne stars as U.S. Air Force aviator Jim Shannon, who's tasked with escorting a Soviet pilot (Janet Leigh) claiming -- at the height of the...

    Jet Pilot
  • 1935
    The Devil Is a Woman

    The Devil Is a Woman

    The Devil Is a Woman

    6.31935HD

    In the carnival in Spain in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the exiled republican Antonio Galvan comes from Paris masquerade to enjoy the...

    The Devil Is a Woman