Movies: Josef von Sternberg
- 1940
I Take This Woman (1940)
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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 in the slums....
- 1939
Sergeant Madden (1939)
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A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime....
- 1925
The Masked Bride (1925)
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An American millionaire wants to reform a Parisian cabaret singer who moonlights as a jewel thief....
- 1931
An American Tragedy (1931)
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A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder....
- 1928
The Street of Sin (1928)
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"Basher Bill," a retired prizefighter turned criminal, pretends to reform by joining a Salvation Army shelter in London run by a pious wraith named Elizabeth. Attracted to Elizabeth (although he is engaged to a street girl named Annie), Bill confesse...
- 1925
1925 Studio Tour (1925)
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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....
- 1926
The Exquisite Sinner (1926)
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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 life of an artist. Josef von Sternberg had been the original director of Exquisite Sinner, but MGM was ...
- 1927
Children of Divorce (1927)
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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 end in divorce, like his parents'. Complications ensue....
- 1935
The Fashion Side of Hollywood (1935)
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Compilation of lighting and costume tests from various films, most notably Sternberg's "The Devil Is a Woman" (1935)....
- 1922
The Bohemian Girl (1922)
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A Polish officer posing as a gypsy loves a gypsy girl who is really the count's daughter....
- 1925
The Salvation Hunters (1925)
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A hopelessly hopeful drifter, a bitter young woman, and a helpless child live on the docks, spending their days in poverty and listless wandering. Overhead, a dredge hauls up mud and trash from the nearby seabed-- the same mud and trash from the day ...
- 1926
A Woman of the Sea (1926)
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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. Magdalen's return years later causes trouble for the marriage, but Joan and Peter remain together in the end....
- 1917
A Girl's Folly (1917)
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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 her home. She makes friends with the film's leading man, who encourages her to try her luck as an ac...
- 1929
The Case of Lena Smith (1929)
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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 known to remain....
- 1969
The Epic That Never Was (1969)
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The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of its surviving footage....
- 1967
Josef von Sternberg - From Silence Comes Another (1967)
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Speaking as scenes from Anatahan are shown, for which he directed, photographed, wrote, and provided voiceover narration, film director Josef von Sternberg takes the viewer on a fantastic filmmaking journey in this presentation of Cinéastes de notre ...
- 1928
The Drag Net (1928)
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Captain Timothy 'Two Gun' Nolan is appointed head of the New York detective force, and as his first act, rounds up every criminal in town. Gang boss 'Dapper' Frank Trent stands bail for all of them as independent minor gang-leader. Setting out to get...
- 1944
The Town (1944)
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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 microcosm by Madison, Indiana. It was created primarily for exhibition abroad, to provide international...
- 1919
The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1919)
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The intrepid reporter and amateur sleuth Joseph Rouletabille becomes involved in the investigation of a hideous crime committed in a room painted yellow, whose door was locked from the inside…...
- 1924
By Divine Right (1924)
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Mildred, a young stenographer, seeks protection at the mission run by Austin Farrol, known as "The Prince," when her employer, Trent, an unscrupulous politician, attempts to seduce her. Mildred begins to work at the mission and falls in love with Far...