Josef von Sternberg Movies

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

A man is haunted by a murder he's committed.

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nick Cochran, an American in exile in Macao, has a chance to restore his name by helping capture an international crime lord. Undercover, can he...

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

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

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...

Mildred, a young stenographer, seeks protection at the mission run by Austin Farrol, known as "The Prince," when her employer, Trent, an unscrupulous...

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

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...