Movies by Director - Josef von Sternberg (33 [Missing: 8]) Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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Jet PilotAir Force Colonel Jim Shannon is tasked to escort a defecting Soviet pilot who is scheming to lure Shannon to the USSR. | 1957 | Josef von Sternberg | Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War | 5.7 (2.4K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
AnatahanIn June 1944, twelve Japanese seaman are stranded on an abandoned-and-forgotten island called Ana-ta-han for seven years. | 1953 | Josef von Sternberg | Drama, History, War | 7.0 (1.2K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
MacaoNick Cochran, an American in exile in Macao, has a chance to restore his name by helping capture an international crime lord. Undercover, can he mislead the bad guys and still woo the attractive singer/petty crook, Julie Benson? | 1952 | Josef von Sternberg, Mel Ferrer, Nicholas Ray, Robert Stevenson | Adventure, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.7 (3.4K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
Duel in the SunBeautiful, biracial, Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad. | 1946 | King Vidor, Otto Brower, William Dieterle, Sidney Franklin, William Cameron Menzies | Drama, Romance, Western | 6.8 (8.5K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
The TownNA | | | | | | Not Available |
Shanghai Gesture, TheIn Shanghai, dragon-lady 'Mother' Gin Sling operates a gambling house for wealthy patrons but she clashes with influential land developer Sir Guy Charteris who wants to put her out-of-business. | 1941 | Josef von Sternberg | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance | 6.6 (2.7K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
I Take This WomanA doctor (Spencer Tracy) marries a suicidal woman (Hedy Lamarr) but begins to doubt her fidelity. | 1940 | W.S. Van Dyke, Frank Borzage, Josef von Sternberg | Drama, Romance | 6.4 (655 votes) | 98 | 20220414 |
Sergeant MaddenA highly respected Irish cop is pleased when his son follows him onto the force. Unfortunately, the son is more interested in rewards than in upholding the law. When he shoots a child caught stealing, the others frame him and he is s | 1939 | Josef von Sternberg | Drama | 6.0 (186 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Great Waltz, TheIn 1845 Vienna, Johann Strauss II - Schani to his friends - would rather write and perform waltzes than anything else, this at a time when a waltz is not considered proper society music. After he is fired from his clerical bank job b | 1938 | Julien Duvivier, Victor Fleming, Josef von Sternberg | Biography, Drama, Music, Musical, Romance | 6.5 (1.2K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
I, ClaudiusNA | | | | | | Not Available |
King Steps Out, ThePrincess is destined to marry the Emperor, until her sister steps in. | 1936 | Josef von Sternberg | Musical | 6.3 (222 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
Crime and PunishmentMan is haunted by a murder he's committed. | 1935 | Josef von Sternberg | Crime, Drama | 7.0 (1.9K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
Devil Is a Woman, TheA young man is warned by a captain about a temptress; nonetheless, he finds himself falling in love with her. | 1935 | Josef von Sternberg | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.0 (3.5K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
Scarlet EmpressA German noblewoman enters into a loveless marriage with the dim-witted, unstable heir to the Russian throne, then plots to oust him from power. | 1934 | Josef von Sternberg | Drama, History, Romance | 7.6 (6.4K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
Blonde VenusA cabaret singer takes up with a millionaire to pay for her gravely ill husband's operation. | 1932 | Josef von Sternberg | Drama | 7.1 (4.9K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
Shanghai ExpressA notorious woman rides a train through a dangerous situation with a British captain she loved. | 1932 | Josef von Sternberg | Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 7.3 (8.6K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
American Tragedy, AnA poor factory worker, employed by a wealthy uncle, falls in love with a beautiful heiress but his happiness and promising future are jeopardized by a previous affair with a coworker he impregnated. | 1931 | Josef von Sternberg | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.5 (738 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
DishonoredThe Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians. | 1931 | Josef von Sternberg | Drama, Romance, War | 7.2 (2.6K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
MoroccoA cabaret singer and a Legionnaire fall in love, but their relationship is complicated by the results of his womanizing and due to the appearance of a rich man who wants her for himself. | 1930 | Josef von Sternberg | Drama, Romance | 7.1 (6.5K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
Blue Angel [Der blaue Engel]An elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer. | 1930 | Josef von Sternberg | Drama, Music | 7.7 (14.8K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
ThunderboltA 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 who is in love with Thunderbolt's girl. Thunderbolt hopes to stave off the execution | 1929 | Josef von Sternberg | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Music, Romance | 6.5 (671 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
The Case of Lena SmithNA | | | | | | Not Available |
Docks of New York, TheA blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide. | 1928 | Josef von Sternberg | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 7.5 (4.4K votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
The DragnetNA | | | | | | Not Available |
Street of SinNA | | | | | | Not Available |
Last Command, TheA former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary. | 1928 | Josef von Sternberg | Drama, History, Romance, War | 8.0 (3.8K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
UnderworldBoisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend. | 1927 | Josef von Sternberg, Arthur Rosson | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 7.6 (2.9K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Children of DivorceA young flapper tricks her childhood sweetheart into marrying her. He really loves another woman, but didn't marry her for fear the marriage would end in divorce, like his parents'. Complications ensue. | 1927 | Frank Lloyd, Josef von Sternberg | Drama, Romance | 6.5 (282 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
ItA salesgirl with plenty of "it" (sex appeal) pursues a handsome playboy. | 1927 | Clarence G. Badger, Josef von Sternberg | Comedy, Romance | 7.3 (3.2K votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
A Woman of the SeaNA | | | | | | Not Available |
Exquisite SinnerNA | | | | | | Not Available |
The Masked BrideNA | | | | | | Not Available |
Salvation Hunters, TheA cowardly young man, a bitter young woman and a helpless child live on the docks, spend their days full of ennui watching a dredge dig the same hole day in and day out, chased around by the dredge workers. One day they up and decide | 1925 | Josef von Sternberg | Drama | 6.6 (380 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |