John Wayne stars as U.S. Air Force aviator Jim Shannon, who's tasked with escorting a Soviet pilot (Janet Leigh) claiming -- at the height of the Cold War -- that she wants to defect. After falling in love with and wedding the fetching flyer, Shannon learns from his superiors that she's a spy on a mission to extract military secrets. To save his new wife from prison and deportation, Shannon devises a risky plan in this 1957 drama.

Blonde Venus

1932

English

7.1

♡ 8

65%

Josef von Sternberg Director

Robert Emmett O'Connor as Dan O'Connor

Marlene Dietrich as Helen Faraday, aka Helen Jones

Sterling Holloway as Joe, Hiker

Dennis O'Keefe as Minor Role

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.

Morocco

1930

English

7.0

♡ 11

83%

Josef von Sternberg Director

Gary Cooper as Légionnaire Tom Brown

Paul Porcasi as Lo Tinto

Adolphe Menjou as Monsieur La Bessiere

Francis McDonald as Sergeant Tatoche

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

Thunderbolt

1929

English

6.4

♡ 2

70%

Josef von Sternberg Director

Louise Beavers as Black Cat Cafe Patron

Richard Arlen as Bob Moran

Fay Wray as Ritzie

Tully Marshall as Warden

A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and who is in love with Thunderbolt's girl, without knowing of their relationship. Thunderbolt hopes to stave off the execution long enough to kill young Moran for romancing his girl.

The Devil Is a Woman

1935

English

6.9

♡ 10

56%

Josef von Sternberg Director

Marlene Dietrich as Concha Perez

Hank Mann as Foreman on Snowbound Train

Alison Skipworth as Senora Perez

Edwin Maxwell as Tobacco Plant Manager

In the carnival in Spain in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the exiled republican Antonio Galvan comes from Paris masquerade to enjoy the party and visit his friend Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar. However, he flirts with the mysterious Concha Perez and they schedule to meet each other later. When Antonio meets Pasqualito, his old friend discloses his frustrated relationship with the promiscuous Concha and her greedy mother and how his life was ruined by his obsession for the beautiful demimondaine. Pasqualito makes Antonio promise that he would not see Concha. However, when Antonio meets Concha, she seduces him and the long friendship between Antonio and Pasqualito is disrupted

Children of Divorce

1927

English

6.5

♡ 4

96%

Josef von Sternberg Director

Gary Cooper as Edward D. 'Ted' Larrabee

Esther Ralston as Jean Waddington

Hedda Hopper as Katherine Flanders

Bill Elliott as Party Guest

A young flapper tricks her childhood sweetheart into marrying her. He really loves another woman, but didn't marry her for fear the marriage would end in divorce, like his parents'. Complications ensue.

The Scarlet Empress

1934

English

7.5

♡ 9

86%

85%

Action

based on novel or book

Josef von Sternberg Director

Sam Jaffe as Grand Duke Peter

Edward Van Sloan as Herr Wagner

Olive Tell as Princess Johanna Elizabeth

Marlene Dietrich as Princess Sophia Frederica / Catherine II

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.

The Last Command

1928

English

7.9

♡ 5

95%

russian revolution (1917)

silent film

War

Josef von Sternberg Director

Jack Raymond as Assistant Director

William Powell as Lev Andreyev

Evelyn Brent as Natalie Dabrova

Harry Cording as Revolutionist

A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.

An American Tragedy

1931

English

6.4

♡ 6

50%

Action

based on novel or book

Josef von Sternberg Director

Sidney D'Albrook as Courtroom Policeman

Nella Walker as Hotel Guest

Sylvia Sidney as Roberta Alden

Matty Roubert as Vendor Outside of Courtroom

A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.

The Docks of New York

1928

English

7.5

♡ 10

100%

Josef von Sternberg Director

Richard Alexander as Lou's Sweetheart

Charles McMurphy as Policeman

John Kelly as Sailor Barfly

Guy Oliver as The Crimp

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

Shanghai Express

1932

English

7.3

♡ 15

96%

Josef von Sternberg Director

Warner Oland as Henry Chang

Forrester Harvey as Peiping Ticket Agent

Marlene Dietrich as Shanghai Lily

Bess Flowers as Undetermined Secondary Role

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

The Blue Angel

1930

German

7.6

♡ 18

96%

86%

based on novel or book

Josef von Sternberg Director

Bess Flowers as Audience Member

Reinhold Bernt as Der Clown / The Clown

Marlene Dietrich as Lola Lola

Károly Huszár as Proprietor of The Blue Angel

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.