Erich von Stroheim

During WW1, two French officers are captured. Captain De Boeldieu is an aristocrat while Lieutenant Marechal was a mechanic in civilian life (imdb)

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity. (imdb)

Prince Nikki, Lieutenant of the Guard in pre WWI Vienna, is flat broke, but the only advice he gets from his parents is either to shoot himself or to marry money... (imdb)

A con artist masquerades as Russian nobility and attempts to seduce the wife of an American diplomat.

The second half of Erich von Stroheim's overly long "The Wedding March", which was presented only in Europe (paraphrased from cyranos.ch)

June, 1942. The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border--Corporal John Bramble, who finds refuge at a remote desert hotel...soon to be German HQ. To survive, Bramble assumes an identity which proves perilous. The new guest of honor is none other than Rommel, hinting of his secret strategy, code-named 'five graves.' And the fate of the British in Egypt depends on whether a humble corporal can penetrate the secret... (imdb)

An Austrian military officer and roue' attempts to seduce the wife of a surgeon. The two men confront each other in a test of abilities that ends surprisingly. (imdb)

For the ventriloquist Gabbo his wooden dummy Otto is the only means of expression. When he starts relying more and more on Otto, he starts going mad. (imdb)

A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. (imdb)

Flamarion, expert marksman, is entertaining people in a show which features Connie, beautiful woman and her husband Al. Flamarion and Connie fall in love and decide to get rid of the alcoholic husband. (imdb)

A woman recovering from amnesia must choose between her current lover and the husband she's forgotten. (TCM.com)

In a college, three friends form a secret society. There objective - going to America. A night, after one of their secret meetings, one of them see a man coming out from a wall. Then the day after he talks about it, he disappears. Then the second one vanishes. Are they gone to their dreams? That's when the art teacher is murdered. Suspicions now are too high so the third one decides to investigate. (imdb)

A crazed scientist invents a serum that induces a catatonic state in whoever it is injected into. He uses the serum to paralyze his enemies, so that he can bury them alive. (imdb)

A millionaire's brain is preserved after his death, and telepathically begins to take control of those around him. (imdb)

WWI aces must adjust to post-war lives as Hollywood stuntmen under the gaze of a ruthless director.

A factory worker has always dreamed that he was meant for better things, to be rich and famous and in "the company of kings". One day he discovers that he is indeed the only heir to the throne of a small European kingdom. However, there are forces at work who don't want him to survive to take the throne. (imdb)

An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence. When the political refugee risks his life to see his dying wife in Austria, he has a dangerous encounter with a rabid Nazi. (TCM.com)

Another cameo for Orson Welles as Hudson Lowe in this all star production of episodic glances at Napoleon's life, performed by Daniel Gelin as the young and Raymond Pellegrin as the old. (imdb)

A pair of crooks (von Stroheim and Lorre) use a phony countess (Zorina) who winds up falling in love with one of their victims (Greene). (imdb)

Pierre Brasseur stars as a daredevil who succumbs to Maria Montez's femme fatale in this star-filled, but rote drama that ends in a typically ironic fashion.

A stage illusionist's comeback attempt results in his humiliation. He plots to revenge himself by hypnotizing people into committing murders for him. (imdb)

A scientist creates a beautiful "perfect woman", but since she is artificial, she seems soul-less and with no sense of morality, she brings ruin to all around her. (imdb)

The story centers around Nanette, an American girl living in a small Canadian village, who is in love with John Patricia, the eldest of five brothers. The war interrupts their romantic idyll, as everyone goes overseas to Belgium and France. Nanette becomes a Red Cross nurse and is terrorized by the evil Prussian Lt. von Eberhard (allmovie)

A mobster kills his enemy under the guise of a stage performance of telepathy, but the police are suspicious of his alibi.

"Menaces" deals with the months before WW2 in a hotel: the fear of the impending war never leaves the guests of an hotel in Paris.The Munich agreement, Poland invasion, Danzig ,and the calling up provide a good background. (imdb)

British Army captain carries on an affair with the wife of the cruel Victor Sangrito, who uses his beautiful wife to lure men into romance with her, then blackmailing them to save their careers. When Roberts falls into Sangrito's trap, he pays the blackmail and leaves for India, hoping to forget Alva, whom he loved but now believes betrayed him. After some time in India, he is joined by his young friend Lt. Ned Nichols, who too, is in love with a woman back in England... the same woman. (imdb)

A wealthy young American, bred to class distinction and racial intolerance, enters the Marines during the First World War. In the course of his training and his experiences in the trenches fighting, being wounded by, and being hospitalized with Germans, he comes to a recognition of the equality and brotherhood of men. (imdb)

C-V News follows the cast and crew of "Greed" (1925) into Death Valley while filming the infamous closing scenes in 150+ degree heat in 1923 at the height of the summer. (imdb)

The action takes place during the Great War in the home of the First Lord of the Admiralty.

After Fred von Bergen, a German immigrant in America, is forced from his job by anti-German hysteria before the first world war, he and his friend Bob Wilson leave America and join the German air force. There, both men fall in love with ambulance driver Alida Hoffman. When America enters the war, Bob is caught between loyalty to his home country and the threat of execution for desertion and treason to Germany. It remains for his friend Fred to extricate him from the dilemma - but at what cost? (imdb)

An Austrian officer must face up to the good and evil aspects of his own personality as he becomes involved in a war. (imdb)

At the outbreak of World War II, the famous 'Mona Lisa' is removed from the Lourve Museum in Paris, and stored for safekeeping in London. Sir James Collison, director of National Art Museum in London, is determined to safeguard the priceless painting. But Carl Hoffmeyer, a German fanatic art collector, is equally determined to steal the painting even it takes murder to do so.

A British officer poses as a traitor in order to infiltrate a team of terrorists who are sabotaging ships, while a seductive cabaret dancer is working for the mysterious genius who runs the enemy spy ring.

In this sci-fi film, a scientist invents a prescient machine that can tell people when they will die. Oddly enough, the people do not want to know and therefore begin to riot...

When a German spy realizes that he is being followed by British agents, he gives the secret information he is carrying to his girlfriend. When he is killed, she gives the information to his superiors, and herself becomes a spy, hoping to get revenge for his death. She is then sent on several dangerous and deadly missions during World War I that cause her to question whether what she is doing is right. (imdb)

Deresco owner of a night club in neutral Portugal, works a free-lance spy for everybody who can afford his price. He tries to get information from US agent John Craig with help from immigrant dancer Maritza, but she falls in love with him. Craig becomes a special "guest" at Deresco's casino, but there you can't be sure of the occupation of everybody, as well as in their political intention.

After the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War, a Serbian officer and his Austrian-born wife become involved in espionage between the countries.

A captain, who has rescued a woman from danger,sails with her to Macao to do an arms deal with the Asian proprietor of a gambling den.The proprietor,s daughter, whom a visiting journalist tries to help, doesn't know the sordid business her father is involved with.

An internationally renowned engraver manages to make counterfeit notes for the love of a woman. She is a blind man who cannot see the ugliness of the excruciatingly disfigured engraver.

The fictionalized story of Marthe Richard ,a spy in WW1.

Karl Heinrich is the heir to the throne of the small European principality of Rutania, but he's a lonely child, not allowed to play with other children and knowing little about life outside the castle. When he reaches college age he is sent to attend the University of Heidelberg, and really starts to enjoy himself for the first time, even falling in love with Kathie, his only friend during childhood and the niece of an innkeeper. However, political turmoil in Rutania forces him to return.

A sinister fortress on an island where the sun never seems to shine. An officer whose values have long gone a thing of the past.