Josef von Sternberg

Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there. Seeing Lola perform, the teacher is filled with lust, eventually resigning his position at the school to marry the young woman. However, his marriage to a coquette -- whose job is to entice men -- proves to be more difficult than Rath imagined.

Dir. Josef von Sternberg · With Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron

A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.

Dir. Josef von Sternberg · With Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong

During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Great, travels to Moscow to marry the dimwitted Grand Duke Peter, the heir to the Russian throne. Their arranged marriage proves to be loveless, and Catherine takes many lovers, including the handsome Count Alexei, and bears a son. When the unstable Peter eventually ascends to the throne, Catherine plots to oust him from power.

Dir. Josef von Sternberg · With Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge, Sam Jaffe

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

Dir. Josef von Sternberg · With George Bancroft, Betty Compson, Olga Baclanova

In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retired German entertainer returns to the cabaret as Blonde Venus and catches the eye of a wealthy politician.

Dir. Josef von Sternberg · With Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Cary Grant

Mogador, Morocco. Late 1920s. A complex romance develops between a womanizing Legionnaire and a disillusioned Parisian cabaret singer.

Dir. Josef von Sternberg · With Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou