Erich von Stroheim Movies

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is...

A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own...

The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border who finds refuge at a remote desert hotel. He...

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

A crazed scientist invents a serum that induces a catatonic state in anyone who gets the injection. He uses the serum to paralyze his enemies, in...

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

Wrongfully convicted of a robbery and murder, Paul Lavond breaks out of prison with a genius scientist who has devised a way to shrink humans. When...

A stage illusionist plots a revenge after a particularly humiliating comeback attempt.

The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location...

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

An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.

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...

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.

A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Later re-edited and released as "Armored Attack."

A millionaire's brain is preserved after his death by a scientist and his two assistants, only to create a telepathic monster.

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...

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...

In the 1800s, a stormy love relationship develops quickly between a young medical student and a woman believing herself to be the daughter of his...