Erich von Stroheim
Popularity:0.442
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1885-09-22
Place of Birth:Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
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Also Known As:Erich Stroheim, Eric von Stroheim, 에리히 폰 슈트로하임, 에리히 폰 스트로하임, Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Stroheim, Eric Oswald Stroheim

Sunset Boulevard (1950)
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

Grand Illusion (1937)
A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own...

Alraune (1952)
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...

The Great Flamarion (1945)
A beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achieve her aims.

Foolish Wives (1922)
A con artist masquerades as Russian nobility and attempts to seduce the wife of an American diplomat.

Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12 (1922)
Another entry in the popular one-reel series.

The Wedding March (1928)
A young impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an inn-keeper's daughter, but has to marry money.

Five Graves to Cairo (1943)
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 Honeymoon (1929)
The honeymoon of Prince Nicki in the Alps, and the wedding of Mitzi and Schani. Mitzi still loves Nicki, and jealous Schani decides once again to...

Personal Column (1939)
To try solving the strange disappearances of 11 young Parisian women, the police obtain the services of Adrienne Charpentier, friend of the latest...

Boys' School (1938)
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...

The Mask of Diijon (1946)
A stage illusionist plots a revenge after a particularly humiliating comeback attempt.

The North Star (1943)
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Later re-edited and released as "Armored Attack."

Alibi (1937)
Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music hall, where he performs telepathy. He pays...

Portrait of a Murderer (1949)
A circus daredevil is the next victim of a danger-seducing woman who tricks him into a potentially deadly stunt after he attempted to kill her.

Blind Husbands (1919)
An Austrian military officer and rogue attempts to seduce the wife of a surgeon. The two men confront each other in a test of abilities that ends...

La Vie des artistes (1938)
Everything you wanted to know about your favorite circus, radio and movie stars. They tell you about their lives and likes and dislikes.

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino (1961)
A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and his premature death.

The Lost Squadron (1932)
When World War I comes to an end, three pilots find themselves on hard times. They wind up in Hollywood, where they work as stunt fliers for a...

Three Faces East (1930)
The action takes place during the Great War in the home of the First Lord of the Admiralty.

Marthe Richard (1937)
Fictionalized reconstruction of the life of the French spy Marthe Richard who decided to contact the secret services during the First World War.

Storm Over Lisbon (1944)
A nightclub star helps trap an enemy agent on the trail of an American newsman.

As You Desire Me (1932)
Bar entertainer Zara is a discontented alcoholic who is pursued by many men but lives with novelist Carl Salter. One day, Tony shows up on Salter's...

Devil and the Angel (1946)
The Director of an international banknote printing institute, mutilated by the face of the Great War, Frank Davres, falls in love with a young woman,...

Thunder Over Paris (1940)
An international crook hunted by the police comes to Paris to save his daughter from the clutches of a blackmailer friend of a cabaret singer with...

Behind the Facade (1939)
In the elevator of two large Parisian buildings, a telegraph operator discovers the body of an elderly woman, Madame Mathieu, the owner of both...

The World Will Shake (1939)
In this sci-fi film, a scientist invents a prescient machine that can tell people when they will die. Oddly enough, the people do not want to know...

The Great Gabbo (1929)
For the ventriloquist Gabbo his wooden dummy Otto is the only means of expression. When he starts relying more and more on Otto, he starts going mad.

The Lady and the Monster (1944)
A millionaire's brain is preserved after his death by a scientist and his two assistants, only to create a telepathic monster.

Friends and Lovers (1931)
British Army captain Geoff Roberts carries on an affair with Alva, the wife of the cruel Victor Sangrito. Sangrito, however, is well aware of the...

Stroheim in Vienna (1948)
Issue No. 162 (date: July 16, 1948) of the Austrian newsreel "Welt im Film" shows Erich von Stroheim's arrival in Vienna as part of the cast of Ernst...

The Unbeliever (1918)
A wealthy young American, bred to class distinction and racial intolerance, enters the Marines during the First World War. In the course of his...

The Crime of Doctor Crespi (1935)
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...

The Heart of Humanity (1918)
The story centers around Nanette, an American girl living in a small Canadian village, who is in love with John Patricia, the eldest of five...

Série noire (1955)
Léo Fardier is a police inspector who goes to prison undercover as a convict. He shares a cell with Mariani, a Corsican mafioso, whose trust...

So Ends Our Night (1941)
An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.

Crimson Romance (1934)
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...

The Man You Loved to Hate (1979)
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...

Scotland Yard Investigator (1945)
A London curator loses the Mona Lisa to a collector, who discovers it's a fake.

Other Side of Paradise (1953)
Complicated intrigues fester in the warmth of Segnac, a charming village on the Cô te d'Azur. The hô teliers' daughter, Violaine, has...

Threats (1940)
"Menaces" deals with the months before WW2 in a hotel :t he fear of the impending war never leaves the guests of an hotel in Paris.

La Danse de mort (1948)
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.

Fugitive Road (1934)
An Austrian officer must face up to the good and evil aspects of his own personality as he becomes involved in a war.

The Hun Within (1918)
A German-American father, loyal to his new U.S. home, finds himself on opposite sides with his son in the wartime conflict between Germany and...

Edge of Outside (2006)
An hour-long documentary designed to celebrate the spirit of the independent filmmaker from D.W. Griffith to Quentin Tarantino. Interview footage and...

Gibraltar (1938)
A British officer poses as a traitor in order to infiltrate a team of terrorists who are sabotaging ships, while a seductive cabaret dancer is...

I Was an Adventuress (1940)
Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two accomplices are really a team of skilled con...

Greed (1924)
A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.

Souls for Sale (1923)
A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.

Old Heidelberg (1915)
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...

Ghosts (1915)
Helen Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's death, she is about to open an orphanage as a...

The Flying Torpedo (1916)
In the future (1921), an alliance of several foreign countries plot to attack the US. American officials, coming to the realisation that the country...

Erich von Stroheim - Der Mann mit dem bösen Blick (1966)
Documentary on Erich von Stroheim

Ultimatum (1938)
About the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War. Focuses on the relationship between a Serbian officer...

Gambling Hell (1942)
In Macao, where places of pleasure and arms trafficking are concentrated, a tragedy opposes an adventurer and his daughter whom he has brought up in...

Napoleon (1955)
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...

The Social Secretary (1916)
An attractive young girl struggles to hold a job as she deals with unwanted romantic advances from her boss.

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.

1925 Studio Tour (1925)
A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and gives viewers a glimpse at how movies are made.

Midnight... Quai de Bercy (1953)
Having recently moved into her new apartment, Irène Cazenave, the widow of a well-known police officer, is forced by one of her husband's...

La madone des sleepings (1955)
Lady Diana Winham is beautiful, wealthy and a widow, so she's courted. She travels Europe in luxury trains, earning her nickname. One of her riches,...

Rail Pirates (1938)
Henri Pierson, the chief engineer of a railway line crossing Yunnan in China, must prevent the incessant attacks of a gang of looters.

Panthea (1917)
A woman sacrifices everything for her husband's career.

His Picture in the Papers (1916)
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...

The Lafarge Case (1938)
Based on true facts, a news item which was widely talked about in the nineteenth century, this is the story of a wife who might have poisoned her...

Alarm in Morocco (1953)
When 1 of 2 Foreign Legion officers is killed after witnessing a secret experiment on a death ray (capable of shooting down aircraft) in southern...

Armored Attack! (1957)
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Re-edited version of The North Star (1943), to remove positive...

The Red Signal (1949)
A physician whose wife was killed when two trains collided has remained a tormented soul,In his mind,he can still hear his wife whisper "Stop the...

Hearts of the World (1918)
A group of youngsters grow up and love in a peaceful French village. But war intrudes and peace is shattered. The German army invades and occupies...

One Does Not Die That Way (1946)
In the studio where the famous director Eric Von Berg reigns, Pierre Vanier, the male star of the film and the lover of Berg's muse, dies while...

Quand Jean devint Renoir (2017)
The fascinating story of a man destined to be only a son of and who sought all his life to become "someone" by getting rid of the overwhelming image...

Immediate Call (1939)
In September 1938, an American diplomat negotiated in London the peace of Munich, rather than rush to Paris where his wife, a famous film actress, is...

Under Secret Orders (1937)
During the First World War, a woman doctor falls in love with one of her patients who turns out to be a German spy. She herself ends up working for...
