Josef von Sternberg

Air Force Colonel Shannon is assigned to escort defecting Soviet pilot Anna. He falls in love with her, but she is scheming to lure him back to the USSR. But Shannon has a scheme of his own. (imdb)

About twelve Japanese seaman who, in June 1944, are stranded on an abandoned-and-forgotten island called An-ta-han for seven years... (imdb)

A cynical American adventurer and an alluring lounge singer become entangled in the dangerous world of smuggling in the titular Portuguese colony. When a police investigator arrives to capture a notorious crime boss, the pair is caught between the law and the underworld, navigating a treacherous path through exotic locations and double-crosses to survive.

When her father is hanged for shooting his wife and her lover, half-breed Pearl Chevez goes to live with distant relatives in Texas... (imdb)

The Town was a short propaganda film produced by the Office of War Information in 1944. It presents an idealized vision of American life, shown in microcosm by Madison, Indiana.

A young woman, Poppy, out for excitement in Shanghai, enters a gambling house owned by "Mother" Gin Sling, a dragon-lady who worked herself up from poverty to buy the casino... (imdb)

Beery as the law . . . blasting his way in thundering thrills (imdb)

The film is a loosely based bio-pic of Johann Strauss, critics have claimed that the film is really nothing more than a love triangle covered up by many, many waltz's, some sung by Korjus, who was, and plays, a famous opera soprano... (wikipedia.org)

The life and times of the Roman emperor Claudius (10 B.C.-A.D. 54).

Princess is destined to marry the Emperor, until her sister steps in. (imdb)

Man is haunted by a murder he's committed. (imdb)

Film told in flashbacks of an older man's obsession for a woman who can belong to no-one but can frustrate everyone... (imdb)

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

Young Princess Sophia of Germany is taken to Russia to marry the half-wit Grand Duke Peter, son of the Empress... (imdb)

American chemist Ned Faraday marries a German entertainer and starts a family. However, he becomes poisoned... (imdb)

During the Chinese Civil War, an express train traveling from Peking to Shanghai is delayed and ultimately seized by a notorious warlord. Among the diverse group of passengers—including a former flame, a mysterious socialite, and a missionary—tensions rise as they are held for ransom, forcing them to confront their pasts and make terrible sacrifices to survive.

A weak young man is torn between his poor girlfriend and a beautiful, wealthy girl who falls in love with him.

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

The Blue Angel deals with the humiliation and breakdown an inhibited, overbearing, sexually-repressed instructor at a boys' prep school... (imdb)

The Foreign Legion marches in to Mogador with booze and women in mind just as singer Amy Jolly arrives from Paris to work at Lo Tinto's cabaret. That night, insouciant legionnaire Tom Brown catches her inimitably seductive, tuxedo-clad act. Both bruised by their past lives, the two edge cautiously into a no-strings relationship while being pursued by others. But Tom must leave on a perilous mission: is it too late for them? (imdb)

4 minutes of fun at the fair. A pity.

Gun moll of famous gangster dumps him for a straight guy. Famous gangster thinks this isn't such a hot idea. Stray dog takes liking to famous gangster. More silliness ensues.

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

A 1928 silent film crime drama produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures, directed by Josef von Sternberg from an original screen story and starring George Bancroft and Evelyn Brent. (The Movie Database)

A decorated, aristocratic Czarist General is reduced to penury after the collapse of Imperial Russia. An old adversary, now a successful director hires the general to re-enact the revolution which deposed him. (imdb)

A salesgirl with plenty of "it" (sex appeal) pursues a handsome playboy. (imdb)

'Nobody helps me -- I help them!' boasts open-handed gangster Bull Weed, handing over what will prove to be the best investment in his high-spending career: a thousand dollars that will put the literate 'Rolls Royce' of vagrants back on his feet... (imdb)

The film follows "The Boy" and "The Girl" as they escape the deplorable living conditions of their riverfront home to the city, only to encounter "The Brute," who is hell-bent on having the girl to himself. "A starkly poetic tale of poverty and depression which, after being hissed at its premiere, was hailed as a masterpiece by Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin. (Senses of Cinema)