Josef von Sternberg Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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 former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.

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

Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police,...

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

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...

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

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.

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

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....

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