Movies by Josef Von Sternberg
As a director:
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Jet Pilot (1957)
Cast: John Wayne, Janet Leigh, Jay C. Flippen …
Directed by: Josef Von Sternberg
John Wayne stars as U.S. Air Force aviator Jim Shannon, who's tasked with escorting a Soviet pilot (Janet Leigh) claiming -- at the height of the Cold War -- that she wants to defect.…
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Macao (1952)
Cast: William Bendix, Brad Dexter, Thomas Gomez …
Directed by: Nicholas Ray, Josef Von Sternberg
Josef von Sternberg's classic mystery follows a trio of travelers who cross paths on the way to the Asian port city of Macao, then become caught up in a conflict between Chinese cops and…
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The Shanghai Gesture (1941)
Cast: Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Victor Mature …
Directed by: Josef Von Sternberg
Madame Gin Sling (Ona Munson), the owner of a Shanghai vice den, blackmails an English financier (Walter Huston) with secrets about his beautiful daughter (Gene Tierney). The 1925 play was…
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The Great Waltz (1938)
Cast: Luise Rainer, Fernand Gravey, Miliza Korjus …
Directed by: Julien Duvivier, Josef Von Sternberg
Austrian composer Johann Strauss's (Fernand Gravey) devoted wife (Luise Rainer) is devastated when she realizes her husband is having an affair with a gorgeous opera singer (Miliza…
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The Scarlet Empress (1934)
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge, Sam Jaffe …
Directed by: Josef Von Sternberg
Marlene Dietrich stars as Sophia Frederica, a young German princess who uses her cunning and sexual prowess to seize Russia's throne from her ineffective husband, Peter (Sam Jaffe), and…
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Shanghai Express (1932)
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong …
Directed by: Josef Von Sternberg
As the Shanghai Express barrels through civil war-torn China in this Oscar winner, a mini-revolution also unfurls aboard the train itself. The infamous Shanghai Lily (Marlene Dietrich), a…
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Morocco (1930)
Cast: Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou …
Directed by: Josef Von Sternberg
Hollywood icon Marlene Dietrich made a big splash in her American debut by appearing in a tuxedo and kissing a woman in this romantic melodrama directed by Josef Von Sternberg. Morocco earned…
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The Blue Angel (English Version) (1930)
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings, Rosa Valetti …
Directed by: Josef Von Sternberg
This finely crafted drama of despair from legendary filmmaker Josef von Sternberg follows brusque professor Rath (Emil Jannings), who's determined to stop his pupils' visits to hear…
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The Blue Angel (German Version) (1930)
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Hans Albers, Rosa Valetti …
Directed by: Josef Von Sternberg
This finely crafted drama of despair from legendary filmmaker Josef von Sternberg follows brusque professor Rath (Emil Jannings), who's determined to stop his pupils' visits to hear…
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The Last Command (1928)
Cast: Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent, William Powell …
Directed by: Josef Von Sternberg
Emil Jannings earned a Best Actor Oscar for his nuanced portrayal of Sergius Alexander, an aristocratic czarist general deposed during the Bolshevik Revolution who ultimately escapes to…
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The Docks of New York (1928)
Cast: George Bancroft, Betty Compson, Olga Baclanova …
Directed by: Josef Von Sternberg
When burly seaman Bill Roberts (George Bancroft) sees a young woman trying to drown herself in the East River, he jumps in to rescue her -- but soon comes to realize that much more will be…
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Underworld (1927)
Cast: George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent, Clive Brook …
Directed by: Josef Von Sternberg
Bull Weed (George Bancroft) is a gangster in love with his moll, Feathers (Evelyn Brent), and in command of his turf. But when he takes alcoholic Rolls Royce (Clive Brook) under his wing and…