Josef von Sternberg Movies

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

A restless young girl yearns to leave her rural environment and "get away from it all". One day she stumbles upon a film crew shooting a western near...

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

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

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

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