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2. The Dreamers (2003)

NC-17 | 115 min | Drama, Romance

7.1
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63 Metascore

A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Michael Pitt, Louis Garrel, Eva Green, Anna Chancellor

Votes: 131,751 | Gross: $2.53M

3. Continental (1989)

104 min | Crime, Thriller

6.1
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In the late 1950s, after assassinating the mythical kingpin Goncalves and dividing their domains, Ventura and Otálora, rival bosses and old friends, fight with their gangs for control of ... See full summary »

Director: Xavier Villaverde | Stars: Eusebio Poncela, Jorge Sanz, Cristina Marcos, Féodor Atkine

Votes: 83

4. Josef von Sternberg, een retrospektieve (1969 TV Movie)

60 min | Documentary

6.9
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A portrait of the director Josef von Sternberg.

Director: Harry Kümel | Stars: Josef von Sternberg, Dorothée Blanck, Guido Barrezeele, Annemarie Coebergh

Votes: 31

5. Monsieur Hawarden (1968)

109 min | Drama

7.0
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Meriora Gillibrand (Ellen Vogel) disguises herself as a man to avoid prosecution for murdering her lover.

Director: Harry Kümel | Stars: Ellen Vogel, Hilde Uitterlinden, Joan Remmelts, Dora van der Groen

Votes: 195

6. Josef von Sternberg Interview (1968 TV Special)

40 min | Documentary

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An interview with Austrian-American director, Josef von Sternberg, recorded for Swedish television in 1968. Sternberg browsed and recounted stories from his book "Fun in a Chinese Laundry" ... See full summary »

Director: Torsten Jungstedt | Stars: Torsten Jungstedt, Josef von Sternberg, George K. Arthur, Georgia Hale

7. Cinéastes de notre temps (1964–1972)
Episode: D'un silence l'autre (1967)

50 min | Documentary

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In an hour's chat with two French interviewers, Sternberg laments the failure of critics and the public to truly understand his work.

Director: André S. Labarthe | Star: Josef von Sternberg

8. The Epic That Never Was (1965 TV Movie)

74 min | Documentary

7.6
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The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of its surviving footage.

Director: Bill Duncalf | Stars: Charles Laughton, Robert Graves, Josef von Sternberg, Merle Oberon

Votes: 312

9. Camera Three (1955–1980)
Episode: The Film Director (1965)

Drama

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Veteran film director Josef von Sternberg and New Republic film critic Stanley Kauffmann discussed the art of Film and its development.

Director: Nick Havinga | Stars: Stanley Kauffmann, James Macandrew, Josef von Sternberg

10. Today (1952– )
Episode: Episode dated 16 March 1965 (1965)

TV-G | News, Talk-Show

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Stars: Hugh Downs, Barbara Walters, Frank Blair, Josef von Sternberg

11. Cinéastes de notre temps (1964–1972)

Documentary

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In-depth documentaries about the greatest filmmakers from around the world, all in the form of candid face-to-face interviews, conducted, created and produced by former critics for Les Cahiers du Cinéma, Janine Bazin and André S. Labarthe.

Stars: André S. Labarthe, Georges Franju, Jean Renoir, Jacques Rivette

Votes: 94

12. Spectrum (1961–1977)
Episode: Episode dated 29 October 1964 (1964)

Documentary

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Stars: Wolfgang Staudte, Josef von Sternberg

13. Spectrum (1961–1977)

Documentary

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Stars: Josef von Sternberg, Wolfgang Staudte

14. Jet Pilot (1957)

Approved | 113 min | Action, Drama, Romance

5.6
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Air Force Colonel Jim Shannon is tasked to escort a defecting Soviet pilot who is scheming to lure Shannon to the USSR.

Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: John Wayne, Janet Leigh, Jay C. Flippen, Paul Fix

Votes: 2,720

15. Camera Three (1955–1980)

30 min | Drama

7.7
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A weekly examination of the arts and literature, on Sunday mornings when there was more likely to be an audience interested in such matters and there was less competition for ratings.

Stars: James Macandrew, Faubion Bowers, Margaret Croyden, Alfredo Antonini

Votes: 63

16. Anatahan (1953)

PG | 91 min | Drama, History, War

7.0
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From June 1944, twelve Japanese seamen are stranded for seven years on an abandoned and forgotten island called Anatahan.

Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Akemi Negishi, Tadashi Suganuma, Kisaburo Sawamura, Shôji Nakayama

Votes: 1,352 | Gross: $0.05M

17. Today (1952– )

TV-G | 240 min | News, Talk-Show

4.6
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A daily live broadcast provides current domestic and international news, weather reports, and interviews with newsmakers from the worlds of politics, business, media, entertainment, and sports.

Stars: Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb, Jack Lescoulie, Frank Blair

Votes: 2,462

18. Macao (1952)

Passed | 81 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

6.6
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Nick Cochran, an American in exile in Macao, has a chance to restore his name by helping capture an international crime lord. Undercover, can he mislead the bad guys and still woo the attractive singer/petty crook, Julie Benson?

Directors: Josef von Sternberg, Mel Ferrer, Nicholas Ray, Robert Stevenson | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix, Thomas Gomez

Votes: 3,816

19. Duel in the Sun (1946)

Passed | 129 min | Drama, Romance, Western

6.7
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Beautiful, biracial Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between two brothers, one good and the other bad.

Directors: King Vidor, Otto Brower, William Dieterle, Sidney Franklin, William Cameron Menzies, David O. Selznick, Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck, Lionel Barrymore

Votes: 9,496 | Gross: $20.41M

20. The Town (1944)

12 min | Short

5.8
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One in a series of shorts made by the Office of War Information during World War II to portray America and it's values to overseas viewers, this one focuses on a small town in Indiana.

Director: Josef von Sternberg | Star: Myron McCormick

Votes: 71

21. The Shanghai Gesture (1941)

Approved | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

6.6
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In Shanghai, dragon lady 'Mother' Gin Sling operates a gambling house for wealthy patrons but she clashes with influential land developer Sir Guy Charteris who wants to put her out of business.

Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Victor Mature, Ona Munson

Votes: 2,967

22. I Take This Woman (1940)

Passed | 98 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

6.3
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A doctor (Spencer Tracy) marries a suicidal woman (Hedy Lamarr) but begins to doubt her fidelity.

Directors: W.S. Van Dyke, Frank Borzage, Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, Verree Teasdale, Kent Taylor

Votes: 715

23. Lady of the Tropics (1939)

Passed | 92 min | Drama

6.1
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Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.

Directors: Jack Conway, Leslie Fenton | Stars: Robert Taylor, Hedy Lamarr, Joseph Schildkraut, Gloria Franklin

Votes: 658

24. Sergeant Madden (1939)

Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance

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A highly respected Irish cop is pleased when his son follows him onto the force. Unfortunately, the son is more interested in rewards than in upholding the law. After he shoots a child ... See full summary »

Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Wallace Beery, Tom Brown, Alan Curtis, Laraine Day

Votes: 199

25. The Great Waltz (1938)

Passed | 104 min | Biography, Drama, Music

6.5
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In 1845 Vienna, Johann Strauss II (Fernand Gravey) - 'Jonahi' to his friends - would rather write and perform waltzes than anything else, this at a time when a waltz is not considered ... See full summary »

Directors: Julien Duvivier, Victor Fleming, Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Luise Rainer, Fernand Gravey, Miliza Korjus, Hugh Herbert

Votes: 1,306

26. I, Claudius (1937)

Drama

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

Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Charles Laughton, Merle Oberon, Emlyn Williams, Flora Robson

27. The King Steps Out (1936)

Approved | 85 min | Biography, Musical, Romance

6.2
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Princess is destined to marry the Emperor, until her sister steps in.

Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Franchot Tone, Grace Moore, Walter Connolly, Raymond Walburn

Votes: 238

28. The Devil Is a Woman (1935)

Approved | 79 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

6.9
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A young man is warned by a captain about a temptress; nonetheless, he finds himself falling in love with her.

Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Atwill, Edward Everett Horton, Alison Skipworth

Votes: 3,960

29. Crime and Punishment (1935)

Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Drama

6.9
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Man is haunted by a murder he's committed.

Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Edward Arnold, Peter Lorre, Marian Marsh, Tala Birell

Votes: 2,236

30. The Fashion Side of Hollywood (1935)

10 min | Documentary, Short

5.8
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Compilation of lighting and costume tests from various films, most notably Sternberg's The Devil Is a Woman (1935).

Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Travis Banton, Joan Bennett, Claudette Colbert, Bing Crosby

Votes: 67

31. The Scarlet Empress (1934)

Passed | 104 min | Drama, History, Romance

7.5
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A German noblewoman enters into a loveless marriage with the dim-witted, unstable heir to the Russian throne, then plots to oust him from power.

Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge, Sam Jaffe, Louise Dresser

Votes: 7,244

32. Shanghai Express (1932)

Approved | 82 min | Adventure, Drama, Film-Noir

7.3
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83 Metascore

A notorious woman rides a train through a dangerous situation with a British captain she loved.

Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, Warner Oland

Votes: 10,350

33. Blonde Venus (1932)

Passed | 93 min | Drama

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A cabaret singer takes up with a millionaire to pay for her gravely-ill husband's operation.

Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Cary Grant, Herbert Marshall, Dickie Moore

Votes: 5,630

34. An American Tragedy (1931)

Approved | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

6.4
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A poor factory worker employed by a wealthy uncle falls in love with a beautiful heiress, but his happiness and promising future are jeopardized by a previous affair with a coworker he impregnated.

Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Phillips Holmes, Sylvia Sidney, Frances Dee, Irving Pichel

Votes: 949

35. Dishonored (1931)

Approved | 91 min | Drama, Romance, War

7.2
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The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians.

Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Victor McLaglen, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Warner Oland

Votes: 3,201

36. Der blaue Engel (1930)

Passed | 104 min | Drama, Music, Romance

7.7
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90 Metascore

An elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer.

Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron, Rosa Valetti

Votes: 16,308 | Gross: $0.08M

37. Morocco (1930)

Passed | 92 min | Drama, Romance

7.0
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A cabaret singer and a Legionnaire fall in love, but their relationship is complicated by the results of his womanizing and the appearance of a rich man who wants her for himself.

Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou, Ullrich Haupt

Votes: 7,487

38. Thunderbolt (1929)

Passed | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

6.5
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A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and who is in love with Thunderbolt's girl. ... See full summary »

Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: George Bancroft, Fay Wray, Richard Arlen, Eugenie Besserer

Votes: 885

39. The Case of Lena Smith (1929)

80 min | Drama, Romance

6.7
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In late 19th century Vienna, Lena Smith, a naive peasant girl from Hungary, has a child by a corrupt young cavalry officer, and goes to work his house as a servant, hiding the truth from ... See full summary »

Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Esther Ralston, James Hall, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Emily Fitzroy

Votes: 48

40. The Honeymoon (1929)

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"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: 76

41. The Last Command (1928)

Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, History, Romance

8.0
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A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.

Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent, William Powell, Jack Raymond

Votes: 4,526

42. The Docks of New York (1928)

Not Rated | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

7.5
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A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.

Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: George Bancroft, Betty Compson, Olga Baclanova, Clyde Cook

Votes: 5,037

43. The Wedding March (1928)

Passed | 113 min | Drama

7.4
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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: 1,899

44. The Dragnet (1928)

80 min | Crime, Drama

6.7
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Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent, William Powell, Fred Kohler

Votes: 23

45. Street of Sin (1928)

Passed | 70 min | Drama

6.8
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The story is set in the seamy Soho section of London, where burglar Basher Bill shares bed and board with his sluttish girlfriend Annie. As wicked as they come, Bill softens when he meets virtuous Salvation Army lass Elizabeth.

Directors: Mauritz Stiller, Ludwig Berger, Lothar Mendes, Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Emil Jannings, Fay Wray, Olga Baclanova, Ernest W. Johnson

Votes: 32

46. It (1927)

Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Romance

7.2
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A salesgirl pursues a handsome playboy.

Directors: Clarence G. Badger, Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Clara Bow, Antonio Moreno, William Austin, Priscilla Bonner

Votes: 3,577 | Gross: $0.41M

47. Underworld (1927)

Not Rated | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

7.5
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Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.

Directors: Josef von Sternberg, Arthur Rosson | Stars: George Bancroft, Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent, Fred Kohler

Votes: 3,480 | Gross: $1.64M

48. Children of Divorce (1927)

Passed | 70 min | Drama, Romance

6.5
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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.

Directors: Frank Lloyd, Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Clara Bow, Esther Ralston, Gary Cooper, Einar Hanson

Votes: 407

49. A Trip Through the Paramount Studio (1927)

9 min | Documentary, Short

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Stars: Richard Arlen, Mary Astor, Clarence G. Badger, George Bancroft

50. A Woman of the Sea (1926)

75 min | Drama

The sea motif is employed as a device counterpointing a psychologically dramatic though simple love story.

Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Edna Purviance, Eve Southern, Raymond Bloomer, Gayne Whitman



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