Erich von Stroheim

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

Dir. Billy Wilder · With William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp. When the men are transferred to a high-security fortress, they must concoct a plan to escape beneath the watchful eye of aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein, who has formed an unexpected bond with de Boeldieu.

Dir. Jean Renoir · With Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim

Respected Parisian banker Paul Lavond is framed for robbery and murder by crooked associates and sent to prison. Years later, he escapes with a friend, a scientist who was working on a method to reduce humans to a height of mere inches (all for the good of humanity, of course). Lavond, however, is consumed with hatred for those who betrayed him, and takes the scientist's methods back to Paris to exact painful revenge.

Dir. Tod Browning · With Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Lawton

When housewife Trina wins the lottery, her comfortable life with her dentist husband John slowly deteriorates, in part by her own increasing paranoia and partly by the machinations of villainous acquaintance Marcus.

Dir. Erich von Stroheim · With Gibson Gowland, Zasu Pitts, Jean Hersholt

During the 1942 North African campaign, a British straggler passes as a waiter at the hotel commandeered as Erwin Rommel's headquarters. He has thoughts of assassinating Rommel but his cover may provide an even better use.

Dir. Billy Wilder · With Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff

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

Dir. Erich von Stroheim · With Erich von Stroheim, Rudolph Christians, Miss DuPont