Erich von Stroheim Movies

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.

The fascinating story of a man destined to be only a son of and who sought all his life to become "someone" by getting rid of the overwhelming image...

Helen Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's death, she is about to open an orphanage as a...

In a college, three friends form a secret society. Their objective - going to America. One night, after one of their secret meetings, one of them...

During the First World War, a woman doctor falls in love with one of her patients who turns out to be a German spy. She herself ends up working for...

About the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War. Focuses on the relationship between a Serbian officer...

A sinister fortress on an island where the sun never seems to shine. An officer whose values have long gone a thing of the past.

The action takes place during the Great War in the home of the First Lord of the Admiralty.

The Director of an international banknote printing institute, mutilated by the face of the Great War, Frank Davres, falls in love with a young woman,...

Léo Fardier is a police inspector who goes to prison undercover as a convict. He shares a cell with Mariani, a Corsican mafioso, whose trust...

A woman sacrifices everything for her husband's career.

Produced at the Reliance studio in Yonkers, New York, HIS PICTURE IN THE PAPERS solidly established Fairbanks as the American ideal of pop, vim, and...

The Man You Loved To Hate blends revealing interviews, rare photographs, and clips from von Stroheim's legendary and lesser-known works to create a...

An Austrian officer must face up to the good and evil aspects of his own personality as he becomes involved in a war.

In this sci-fi film, a scientist invents a prescient machine that can tell people when they will die. Oddly enough, the people do not want to know...

A wealthy young American, bred to class distinction and racial intolerance, enters the Marines during the First World War. In the course of his...

Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music hall, where he performs telepathy. He pays...

Fictionalized reconstruction of the life of the French spy Marthe Richard who decided to contact the secret services during the First World War.

An attractive young girl struggles to hold a job as she deals with unwanted romantic advances from her boss.

In the elevator of two large Parisian buildings, a telegraph operator discovers the body of an elderly woman, Madame Mathieu, the owner of both...