Josef von Sternberg

Josef von Sternberg

May 29, 1894

Josef von Sternberg, born Jonas Sternberg (29 May 1894 – 22 December 1969) was an Austrian-born film director and is among the few whose career successfully spanned the transition from the silent to the sound era. He is considered one of the earliest 'auteur' filmmakers, having filled many other rol…

Known For

16 titles
1
The Blue Angel

The Blue Angel

1930 · 1h 44m · Movie

An elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer.

7.6
2
Shanghai Express

Shanghai Express

1932 · 1h 22m · Movie

A notorious woman rides a train through a dangerous situation with a British captain she loved.

7.3
3
Morocco

Morocco

1930 · 1h 32m · Movie

A cabaret singer and a Legionnaire fall in love, but their relationship is complicated by the results of his womanizing and the appearance of a rich man who wants her for himself.

7.0
4
The Scarlet Empress

The Scarlet Empress

1934 · 1h 44m · Movie

A German noblewoman enters into a loveless marriage with the dim-witted, unstable heir to the Russian throne, then plots to oust him from power.

7.5
5
Blonde Venus

Blonde Venus

1932 · 1h 33m · Movie

A cabaret singer takes up with a millionaire to pay for her gravely-ill husband's operation.

7.1
6
The Docks of New York

The Docks of New York

1928 · 1h 16m · Movie

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

7.5
7
The Last Command

The Last Command

1928 · 1h 28m · Movie

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.

7.9
8
The Devil Is a Woman

The Devil Is a Woman

1935 · 1h 19m · Movie

A young man is warned by a captain about a temptress; nonetheless, he finds himself falling in love with her.

6.9
9
Macao

Macao

1952 · 1h 21m · Movie

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 mislead the bad guys and still woo the attractive singer/petty crook, Julie Benson?

6.6
10
Underworld

Underworld

1927 · 1h 20m · Movie

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

7.5
11
Dishonored

Dishonored

1931 · 1h 31m · Movie

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

7.2
12
Jet Pilot

Jet Pilot

1957 · 1h 53m · Movie

Air Force Colonel Jim Shannon is tasked to escort a defecting Soviet pilot who is scheming to lure Shannon to the USSR.

5.6
13
Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

1935 · 1h 28m · Movie

A young man is haunted by the murder of a neighborhood pawn broker and hounded by the local police inspector who suspects that he is guilty.

6.9
14
Anatahan

Anatahan

1953 · 1h 31m · Movie

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

7.0
15
The Great Waltz

The Great Waltz

1938 · 1h 44m · Movie

In 1845 Vienna, Johann Strauss II (Fernand Gravey) - 'Jonahi' 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 h...

6.5
16
An American Tragedy

An American Tragedy

1931 · 1h 36m · Movie

A 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.

6.4