Erich von Stroheim Movies

Sunset Boulevard

84/100

A screenwriter is hired to rework a faded silent film star's script, only to find himself developing a dangerous relationship.

La Grande Illusion

81/100

During the First World War, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are sent to a seemingly impenetrable fortress which seems impossible to escape from.

Five Graves to Cairo

74/100

During World War II, an undercover British soldier tries get word to the Allies that the Germans have tons of supplies buried in five excavations across Egypt.

Blind Husbands

69/100

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

The Wedding March

75/100

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

The Great Flamarion

66/100

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 ... See full summary »

Das Geheimnis von St. Agil

76/100

In a college, three friends form a secret society. Their 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 ... See full summary »

The Great Gabbo

62/100

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.

As You Desire Me

64/100

Budapest bar entertainer Zara is a discontented alcoholic who is pursued by many men but lives with novelist Carl Salter...

Friends and Lovers

55/100

British Army Captain Geoff Roberts carries on an affair with Alva, the wife of the cruel Victor Sangrito. Sangrito, however, is well aware of the affair, as he uses his beautiful wife to ... See full summary »

Mandragore

60/100

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.

The Lady and the Monster

56/100

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

The Crime of Doctor Crespi

57/100

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.

I Was an Adventuress

68/100

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).

The Mask of Diijon

57/100

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

Personal Column

69/100

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.

Gambling Hell

67/100

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 »

The Alibi

69/100

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 »

Crimson Romance

67/100

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 ... See full summary »

Three Faces East

58/100

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

The Unbeliever

61/100

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 ... See full summary »

Portrait d'un assassin

69/100

Devil and the Angel

72/100

It Happened in Gibraltar

61/100

Off Gibraltar ,British ships blow up;there might be a mole among the British officers .

The World Will Shake

61/100

Jean Durand ,a young scientist invents a machine which can predict the date of your death accurately.He tries to use a prostitute as a guinea pig to test the machine.Jean Durand is evil,and... See full summary »