Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows With Erich von Stroheim

1. Sunset Blvd. (1950)

Passed | 110 min | Drama, Film-Noir

A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson

Votes: 236,151

2. Five Graves to Cairo (1943)

Passed | 96 min | Thriller, War

In the North African campaign a British straggler manages to pass himself off as a waiter at the hotel commandeered as Rommel's headquarters. He has thoughts of assassinating Rommel but his cover may have an even better use.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Fortunio Bonanova

Votes: 6,806

3. The Birth of a Nation (1915)

TV-PG | 195 min | Drama, History, War

The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.

Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper

Votes: 26,316 | Gross: $10.00M

4. Intolerance (1916)

Passed | 163 min | Drama, History

The story of a poor young woman separated by prejudice from her husband and baby is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.

Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Mae Marsh, F.A. Turner

Votes: 16,707 | Gross: $2.18M

5. The Grand Illusion (1937)

Not Rated | 113 min | Drama, War

During WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress.

Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim

Votes: 38,837 | Gross: $0.17M

6. Anna Karenina (1935)

Passed | 95 min | Drama, Romance

The married Anna Karenina falls in love with Count Vronsky despite her husband's refusal to grant a divorce, and both must contend with the social repercussions.

Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Freddie Bartholomew, Maureen O'Sullivan

Votes: 5,780 | Gross: $0.87M

7. Greed (1924)

Not Rated | 140 min | Drama, Thriller, Western

The sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved.

Director: Erich von Stroheim | Stars: Gibson Gowland, Zasu Pitts, Jean Hersholt, Dale Fuller

Votes: 10,746 | Gross: $0.16M

8. The North Star (1943)

Passed | 108 min | Drama, Romance, War

A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the German invasion of June 1941.

Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Walter Brennan

Votes: 1,779

9. The Devil-Doll (1936)

Passed | 78 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

An escaped convict uses miniaturized humans to wreak vengeance on those who framed him.

Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Lawton, Rafaela Ottiano

Votes: 4,935

10. Panorama (I) (1953– )

40 min | Documentary, News

Long-running factual programme reporting on all aspects of life in Britain.

Stars: Fred Emery, David Dimbleby, Richard Lindley, Richard Dimbleby

Votes: 597

11. Storm Over Lisbon (1944)

Approved | 86 min | Action, Mystery, Romance

Deresco, owner of a night club in neutral Portugal, works as a free-lance spy for everybody who can afford his price. He tries to get information from US agent John Craig with help from ... See full summary »

Director: George Sherman | Stars: Vera Ralston, Richard Arlen, Erich von Stroheim, Otto Kruger

Votes: 168

12. The Great Flamarion (1945)

Approved | 78 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Part of an entertainment act, a beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achieve her aims.

Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Erich von Stroheim, Mary Beth Hughes, Dan Duryea, Steve Barclay

Votes: 1,449

13. Foolish Wives (1922)

Not Rated | 117 min | Drama, Thriller

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

Director: Erich von Stroheim | Stars: Rudolph Christians, Miss DuPont, Maude George, Mae Busch

Votes: 4,016 | Gross: $0.40M

14. The Merry Widow (1925)

Passed | 137 min | Drama, Romance

A prince must woo the now-wealthy dancer he once abandoned, to keep her money in the country in order to keep it from crashing economically.

Director: Erich von Stroheim | Stars: Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Roy D'Arcy, Josephine Crowell

Votes: 2,564 | Gross: $1.92M

15. The Lady and the Monster (1944)

Approved | 86 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

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

Director: George Sherman | Stars: Vera Ralston, Erich von Stroheim, Richard Arlen, Helen Vinson

Votes: 441

16. The Great Gabbo (1929)

Passed | 92 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

An insanely, egocentric ventriloquist, even though he is possessed by his wooden dummy, is in love with a dancer who is in love with another. The dummy gives advice to the ventriloquist.

Directors: James Cruze, Erich von Stroheim | Stars: Erich von Stroheim, Donald Douglas, Betty Compson, Marjorie Kane

Votes: 1,002

17. The Wedding March (1928)

Passed | 113 min | Drama

A young impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an inn-keepers daughter, but has to marry money.

Director: Erich von Stroheim | Stars: Erich von Stroheim, Fay Wray, Zasu Pitts, Matthew Betz

Votes: 1,895

18. Three Faces East (1930)

71 min | Drama, Thriller

A beautiful British intelligence agent attempts to reveal the identity and motives of a powerful German spy during World War 1.

Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Constance Bennett, Erich von Stroheim, Anthony Bushell, William Holden

Votes: 266

19. The Emperor's Candlesticks (1937)

Approved | 89 min | Drama, History, Romance

A male Polish secret agent and a female Russian secret-police spy smuggle messages to St. Petersburg in candlesticks. While chasing after stolen candlesticks they discover each other's identity and fall in love.

Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: William Powell, Luise Rainer, Robert Young, Maureen O'Sullivan

Votes: 830

20. Queen Kelly (1932)

Passed | 101 min | Drama

A convent girl is abducted and seduced by a prince before being sent off to a brothel in East Africa.

Directors: Erich von Stroheim, Richard Boleslawski | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Walter Byron, Seena Owen, Sylvia Ashton

Votes: 3,359

21. As You Desire Me (1932)

Approved | 70 min | Drama, Romance

An officer tries to convince an amnesiac bar entertainer that she is his long-lost lover.

Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Erich von Stroheim, Owen Moore

Votes: 763 | Gross: $0.71M

22. Napoleon (1955)

190 min | Biography, Drama, War

Napoléon Bonaparte's life, loves and exceptional destiny from 1769 to 1821, but as seen through the eyes of Talleyrand, the cynical and ironic politician who once was the Emperor of France's Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Director: Sacha Guitry | Stars: Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jeanne Boitel, Pierre Brasseur, Gianna Maria Canale

Votes: 614

23. Hearts of the World (1918)

TV-PG | 117 min | Drama, War

Young lovers in a French village are torn apart with the coming of the Great War.

Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Robert Harron, Adolph Lestina

Votes: 1,102

24. I Was an Adventuress (1940)

Not Rated | 81 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

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).

Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Vera Zorina, Richard Greene, Erich von Stroheim, Peter Lorre

Votes: 386

25. Tempest (1928)

Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Romance

In Czarist Russia, a peasant officer, resented by the aristocrats, falls in love with a princess.

Directors: Sam Taylor, Lewis Milestone, Viktor Tourjansky | Stars: John Barrymore, Camilla Horn, Louis Wolheim, Boris de Fast

Votes: 521

26. Blind Husbands (1919)

Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Romance

An Austrian officer sets out to seduce a neglected young wife.

Director: Erich von Stroheim | Stars: Sam De Grasse, Francelia Billington, Erich von Stroheim, Gibson Gowland

Votes: 1,689

27. Souls for Sale (1923)

Passed | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.

Director: Rupert Hughes | Stars: Eleanor Boardman, Mae Busch, Barbara La Marr, Richard Dix

Votes: 1,104

28. Alraune (1952)

92 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

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.

Director: Arthur Maria Rabenalt | Stars: Hildegard Knef, Erich von Stroheim, Trude Hesterberg, Denise Vernac

Votes: 413

29. So Ends Our Night (1941)

TV-PG | 117 min | Drama, War

Story about three German refugees during World War II who are always hiding, always in fear of deportation.

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Fredric March, Margaret Sullavan, Frances Dee, Glenn Ford

Votes: 646

30. Les disparus de St. Agil (1938)

98 min | Drama, Mystery

Strange things happen at night at the Saint-Argil secondary school. Baume, Sorgues and Macroy, three of the school's pupils, discover a suspicious man on the premises. Shortly after this unsettling event, pupils begin to go missing.

Director: Christian-Jaque | Stars: Erich von Stroheim, Michel Simon, Armand Bernard, Aimé Clariond

Votes: 951

31. The Alibi (1937)

84 min | Crime

Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music hall, where he performs telepathy. He pays another artist, Helene, so that she tells the ... See full summary »

Director: Pierre Chenal | Stars: Erich von Stroheim, Albert Préjean, Jany Holt, Louis Jouvet

Votes: 246

32. Personal Column (1939)

106 min | Musical, Romance, Thriller

After one of her fellow taxi dancers is murdered by an unknown man who she met through a personal column advert, Adrienne Charpentier is recruited by the police to answer a series of similar adverts to try to track down the killer.

Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Pierre Renoir, Marie Déa, Erich von Stroheim

Votes: 409

33. Marthe Richard (1937)

95 min | Drama, War

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

Director: Raymond Bernard | Stars: Edwige Feuillère, Délia Col, Marthe Mellot, Liliane Lesaffre

Votes: 117

34. The Crime of Doctor Crespi (1935)

Passed | 63 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

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.

Director: John H. Auer | Stars: Erich von Stroheim, Harriet Russell, Dwight Frye, Paul Guilfoyle

Votes: 397

35. The Lost Squadron (1932)

Passed | 79 min | Drama, History, War

In hard times just after World War I, three ex-fighter pilots manage to land jobs as Hollywood stunt fliers working for dictatorial director Von Furst.

Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Richard Dix, Mary Astor, Robert Armstrong, Dorothy Jordan

Votes: 819

36. Hello, Sister! (1933)

Passed | 62 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Peggy and her friend Millie are strolling down Broadway while Jimmy and Mac are trolling Broadway, and the four get together. Jimmy and Peggy get together in many romantic ways and Peggy ... See full summary »

Directors: Alan Crosland, Erich von Stroheim, Raoul Walsh, Alfred L. Werker | Stars: James Dunn, Zasu Pitts, Boots Mallory, Minna Gombell

Votes: 245

37. Gambling Hell (1942)

61 min | Adventure, Drama

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 ... See full summary »

Director: Jean Delannoy | Stars: Sessue Hayakawa, Mireille Balin, Henri Guisol, Erich von Stroheim

Votes: 175

38. Scotland Yard Investigator (1945)

Passed | 68 min | Action, Crime, Mystery

At the outbreak of World War II, the famous "Mona Lisa" is removed from the Louvre in Paris, and stored for safekeeping in London. Sir James Collison, director of National Art Museum in ... See full summary »

Director: George Blair | Stars: C. Aubrey Smith, Erich von Stroheim, Stephanie Bachelor, Forrester Harvey

Votes: 141

39. The Honeymoon (1929)

"The Wedding March" ended with the marriage between Nikki and the crippled Cecilia takes place. Eberle swears to kills the prince unless Mitzi will agree to marry him. She relents, but at ... See full summary »

Director: Erich von Stroheim | Stars: Matthew Betz, Dale Fuller, Cesare Gravina, Hughie Mack

Votes: 74

40. Merry-Go-Round (1923)

110 min | Drama

A nobleman posing as a necktie salesman falls in love with the daughter of a circus puppeteer although he is already married to the daughter of his country's war minister.

Directors: Rupert Julian, Erich von Stroheim | Stars: Norman Kerry, Mary Philbin, Cesare Gravina, Edith Yorke

Votes: 455

41. The Infiltrator (1955)

88 min | Crime, Drama

Mariani, a Corsican gangster, sympathizes with his cellmate, Léo, a police inspector who poses as an inmate. When Léo is to be released, Mariani hand him a letter to bring to his wife Elaine.

Director: Pierre Foucaud | Stars: Henri Vidal, Monique van Vooren, Erich von Stroheim, Robert Hossein

Votes: 54

42. Portrait of a Killer (1949)

100 min | Drama, Thriller

A circus daredevil is the next victim of a danger-seducing woman who tricks him into a potentially deadly stunt after he attempted to kill her.

Director: Bernard-Roland | Stars: Maria Montez, Erich von Stroheim, Arletty, Pierre Brasseur

Votes: 164

43. 1925 Studio Tour (1925)

Unrated | 32 min | Documentary, Short

A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 is given to meet the people who make the movies there and see how movies are made.

Stars: Mrs. M.F. Lee, Carey Wilson, Howard Hawks, Agnes Christine Johnston

Votes: 429

44. The Mask of Diijon (1946)

Approved | 73 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery

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

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Erich von Stroheim, Jeanne Bates, William Wright, Denise Vernac

Votes: 269

45. Between Two Women (1937)

Passed | 88 min | Drama, Romance

A young surgeon loves a married nurse, then meets and falls for an heiress with appendicitis.

Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Franchot Tone, Maureen O'Sullivan, Virginia Bruce, Leonard Penn

Votes: 247

46. Ultimatum (1938)

73 min | Drama, War

About the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War. Focuses on the relationship between a Serbian officer and his Austrian-born wife and their involvement in espionage between the countries.

Directors: Robert Wiene, Robert Siodmak | Stars: Erich von Stroheim, Abel Jacquin, Bernard Lancret, Dita Parlo

Votes: 82

47. Alerte au sud (1953)

110 min | Drama

When 1 of 2 Foreign Legion officers is killed after witnessing a secret experiment on a death ray (capable of shooting down aircraft) in southern Morocco, the other gets vengeance by infiltrating the organization responsible.

Director: Jean Devaivre | Stars: Jean-Claude Pascal, Gianna Maria Canale, Erich von Stroheim, Jean Tissier

Votes: 41

48. Devil and the Angel (1946)

107 min | Drama

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

Director: Pierre Chenal | Stars: Madeleine Sologne, Erich von Stroheim, Louis Salou, Yves Vincent

Votes: 158

49. The Heart of Humanity (1918)

105 min | Drama, Romance, War

An American woman is terrorized by the ravages of war and a lecherous Prussian lieutenant when she becomes a Red Cross nurse overseas during the Great War.

Director: Allen Holubar | Stars: Dorothy Phillips, William Stowell, Robert Anderson, Walt Whitman

Votes: 113

50. Crimson Romance (1934)

Approved | 71 min | Action, Drama, War

After Fred von Bergen, a German immigrant in America, is forced from his job by anti-German hysteria before the Great War, he and his friend Bob Wilson leave America and join the German air force,

Director: David Howard | Stars: Ben Lyon, Sari Maritza, Erich von Stroheim, James Bush

Votes: 184