List of the best Erich von Stroheim movies: Greed(1924), The Wedding March(1928), Blind Husbands(1919), Foolish Wives(1922), Hello Sister(1933), The Great Flamarion(1945), Merry-Go-Round(1923), Fugitive Road(1934), The Great Gabbo(1929), The Mask of Diijon(1946), The Merry Widow(1925), Queen Kelly(1929) ... ...
Drama
USA
1924
128 Minutes
Director
Gibson Gowland ZaSu Pitts Jean Hersholt Chester Conklin Sylvia Ashton Joan Standing Tempe Pigott Dale Fuller Oscar Gottell Otto Gottell Frank Hayes
wife dentist friend fascinating suspenseful emotional family home california doctor's office desert greed extortion paranoia fall wretched excess 1920s
The sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved.
Drama
USA
1928
115 Minutes
Director
Erich von Stroheim Fay Wray ZaSu Pitts Matthew Betz George Fawcett Maude George George Nichols Dale Fuller Cesare Gravina Hughie Mack
army officer heiress butcher country maiden disheartening brash emotional vienna class conflict romance social standing love triangle love temptation 1910s
A young impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an inn-keepers daughter, but has to marry money.
Drama
USA
1919
68 Minutes
Director
Erich von Stroheim Francilia Billington Sam De Grasse Gibson Gowland Fay Holderness Jack Perrin Valery Germonprez Ruby Kendrick Richard Cummings Louis Fitzroy William De Vaull
doctor wife lieutenant friend guide chambermaid emotional spectacular alps resort hotel marital problems flirtation mountain climbing jealousy vacation love transformation 1910s
An Austrian officer sets out to seduce a neglected young wife.
Drama
USA
1922
100 Minutes
Director
Erich von Stroheim Mae Busch Maude George Rudolph Christians Miss DuPont Dale Fuller Al Edmundsen Cesare Gravina Malvina Polo Louis K. Webb C.J. Allen
con artist cousin diplomat wife maid father striking dark witty hedonistic monte carlo, monaco casino tower villa scams seduction impersonation secret identity revenge pursuit
A con artist masquerades a Russian nobility and attempts to seduce the wife of an American diplomat.
Drama
USA
1933
62 Minutes
Director
Alfred L. Werker James Dunn ZaSu Pitts Boots Mallory
Peggy and her friend Millie are strolling down Broadway while Jimmy and Mac are trolling Broadway, and the four get together. Jimmy and Peggy get together in many romantic ways and Peggy ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1945
78 Minutes
The Great Flamarion
Erich von Stroheim Mary Beth Hughes Dan Duryea Steve Barclay Lester Allen Esther Howard Michael Mark Joseph Granby John R. Hamilton
Part of an entertainment act, a beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achieve her aims.
Drama
USA
1923
110 Minutes
Director
Norman Kerry Mary Philbin Dale Fuller Maude George Cesare Gravina George Hackathorne George Siegmann Anton Vaverka Lillian Sylvester
A nobleman, posing as a necktie salesman, falls in love with the daughter of a circus puppeteer, even though he is already married to the daughter of his country's war minister.
Drama
USA
1934
69 Minutes
Hauptmann Oswald Von Traunsee
Erich von Stroheim Wera Engels Leslie Fenton George Humbert Harry Holman Hank Mann Michael Visaroff
An Austrian officer must face up to the good and evil aspects of his own personality as he becomes involved in a war.
Musical
USA
1929
95 Minutes
Director
Erich von Stroheim Betty Compson Don Douglas Babe Kane
ventriloquist assistant dancer dummy husband wife brooding disturbing outlandish dark café stage backstage puppetry madness performance show business rejection failure fall
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.
Horror
USA
1946
73 Minutes
Diijon
Erich von Stroheim Jeanne Bates William Wright Mauritz Hugo Hope Landin Robert Malcolm Shimen Ruskin Edward Van Sloan Denise Vernac Roy Darmour Antonio Filauri
A stage illusionist's comeback attempt results in his humiliation. He plots to revenge himself by hypnotizing people into committing murders for him.
Drama
1925
113 Minutes
Director
Mae Murray John Gilbert Roy D'Arcy Josephine Crowell George Fawcett Tully Marshall Gertrude Bennett Sidney Bracey Estelle Clark Edward Connelly Albert Conti
prince dancer king uncle baron widow melodramatic passionate palace wedding dance hall ruritania marriage courtship class conflict royal life second chance underdog pursuit love
A prince (John Gilbert) and a baron with a foot fetish vie for a widowed U.S. dancer (Mae Murray) in Ruritania.
Romance
1929
96 Minutes
Director
Gloria Swanson Walter Byron Seena Owen Tully Marshall Madame Sul-Te-Wan Wilson Benge Sidney Bracey William von Brincken Gordon Westcott
orphan prince queen aunt drunk confident spirited melodramatic convent palace river africa brothel mythical land jealousy abduction forced marriage attempted suicide prostitution death
The drama follows the fate of a convent girl (Gloria Swanson) seduced by a prince (Walter Byron) ; restored in 1985.
War, Drama
1937
117 Minutes
Capt. von Rauffenstein
Pierre Fresnay Erich von Stroheim Jean Gabin Marcel Dalio Dita Parlo Julien Carette Gaston Modot Georges Peclet Jean Dasté Sylvain Itkine Jacques Becker
captain soldier captor widow powerful amusing touching p.o.w. camp castle countryside germany class distinctions world war i friendship escape sacrifice 1910s
World War I French fliers (Pierre Fresnay, Jean Gabin) become captives of a German aristocrat (Erich von Stroheim) who considers one of them his equal.
Drama
USA
1950
110 Minutes
Max Von Mayerling
William Holden Gloria Swanson Erich von Stroheim Nancy Olson Fred Clark Jack Webb
writer actress lover butler police officer chilling dark creepy mansion hollywood madness insanity death romance silent movies suicide fall wretched excess 1950s
A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.
War
USA
1943
96 Minutes
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Franchot Tone Anne Baxter Erich von Stroheim Akim Tamiroff Peter Van Eyck Fortunio Bonanova Konstantin Shayne Fred Nurney Miles Mander Leslie Denison Ian Keith
soldier innkeeper clerk field marshal erwin rommel tense thrilling engaging hotel desert cairo war espionage dangerous assignment world war ii adventure sacrifice pursuit 1940s
In the North African campaign a British straggler manages to pass himself off as a waiter at the hotel commandeered as Rommel's headquarters. He has thoughts of assassinating Rommel but his cover may have an even better use.
Drama
USA
1932
71 Minutes
Carl Salter
Greta Garbo Melvyn Douglas Erich von Stroheim Hedda Hopper Owen Moore Rafaela Ottiano Warburton Gamble Albert Conti William Ricciardi Roland Varno
Budapest bar entertainer Zara is a discontented alcoholic who is pursued by many men but lives with novelist Carl Salter. A strange man (Tony) shows up on Salter's estate claiming that Zara... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1932
79 Minutes
Arthur von Furst
Richard Dix Mary Astor Erich von Stroheim Robert Armstrong Dorothy Jordan Joel McCrea Hugh Herbert Ralph Ince Marjorie Peterson Ralph Lewis William B. Davidson
flying ace director stunt pilot actress mechanic sister gripping melodramatic hollywood, calif. airplane movie set grauman's chinese theatre filmmaking dangerous assignment love triangle jealousy world war i sabotage rivalry adventure
In hard times just after World War I, three ex-fighter pilots manage to land jobs as Hollywood stunt fliers working for dictatorial director Von Furst.
Drama, War
USA
1918
80 Minutes
Lt. Kurt von Schnieditz
Raymond McKee Marguerite Courtot Erich von Stroheim Kate Lester Frank DeVernon Mortimer Martine Blanche Davenport Harold Hollacher Darwin Karr Earl Schenck
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 »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1944
86 Minutes
Deresco
Deresco owner of a night club in neutral Portugal, works a free-lance spy for everybody who can afford his price. He tries to get information from US agent John Craig with help from ... See full summary »
War
USA
1934
72 Minutes
Capt. Wolters
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 »
Romance, Drama
USA
1915
50 Minutes
Lutz
Wallace Reid Dorothy Gish Karl Formes Erich von Stroheim Raymond Wells John McDermott James Gibson Franklin Arbuckle Madge Hunt Erich von Ritzau Kate Toncray
Karl Heinrich is the heir to the throne of the small European principality of Rutania, but he's a lonely child, not allowed to play with other children and knowing little about life outside... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
France
1939
111 Minutes
Maurice Chevalier Marie Déa Pierre Renoir Erich von Stroheim Jean Temerson André Brunot Jacques Varennes Henri Bry
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.
War
USA
1943
105 Minutes
Dr. von Harden
Anne Baxter Dana Andrews Walter Huston Ann Harding Erich von Stroheim Jane Withers Farley Granger Walter Brennan Carl Benton Reid Esther Dale Paul Guilfoyle
russian doctor nazi villager peasant tense solemn soviet union village invasion war violence uprising murder nazi occupation fall underdog wretched excess 1940s
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941.
Drama, War
USA
1918
110 Minutes
Eric von Eberhard
Dorothy Phillips William Stowell Robert Anderson Walt Whitman Margaret Mann Erich von Stroheim Lloyd Hughes
An American woman is terrorized by the ravages of war and a lecherous Prussian lieutenant when she becomes a Red Cross nurse overseas during the Great War.
Comedy
USA
1917
62 Minutes
Prince Badinoff's Aide
Douglas Fairbanks Eileen Percy Joe Brooks Frank Campeau Richard Cummings Eugene Ormonde Charles Stevens Keene Thompson Millard Webb Erich von Stroheim
clerk prime minister rival princess sweetheart king hilarious thrilling factory new york city europe cliff foreign land royalty assassination attempt dreams happiness dueling adventure discovery
A factory worker has always dreamed that he was meant for better things, to be rich and famous and in "the company of kings". One day he discovers that he is indeed the only heir to the ... See full summary »