Erich von Stroheim
Birthday: 1885-09-22
Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
Biography: Erich von Stroheim (September 22, 1885 – May 12, 1957) was a multifaceted Austrian-American actor, director, and writer known for his contributions to cinema during the silent film era. He was renowned for his meticulous attention to detail as a director and for portraying intense, often morally ambiguous characters on screen. Stroheim gained fame for directing and starring in films like "Greed" and "The Merry Widow." His style was marked by elaborate storytelling and a commitment to realism. Stroheim's career was impactful, though often marked by conflicts with studios due to his uncompromising vision, which led to some of his films being heavily edited against his wishes.
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Sunset Boulevard
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood o...
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Grand Illusion
A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...
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Alraune
In the 1800s, a stormy love relationship develops quickly between a young medical student and a woma...
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The Great Flamarion
A beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achiev...
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Foolish Wives
A con artist masquerades as Russian nobility and attempts to seduce the wife of an American diplomat...
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The Wedding March
A young impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an inn-keeper's daughter, but has to marry money....
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Five Graves to Cairo
The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian bord...
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The Honeymoon
The honeymoon of Prince Nicki in the Alps, and the wedding of Mitzi and Schani. Mitzi still loves N...
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Personal Column
To try solving the strange disappearances of 11 young Parisian women, the police obtain the services...
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Boys' School
In a college, three friends form a secret society. Their objective - going to America. One night, af...
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The Mask of Diijon
A stage illusionist plots a revenge after a particularly humiliating comeback attempt....
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The North Star
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Later re-edited and ...
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Alibi
Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music ...
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Portrait of a Murderer
A circus daredevil is the next victim of a danger-seducing woman who tricks him into a potentially d...
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Blind Husbands
An Austrian military officer and rogue attempts to seduce the wife of a surgeon. The two men confron...
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La Vie des artistes
Everything you wanted to know about your favorite circus, radio and movie stars. They tell you about...
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The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and h...
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The Lost Squadron
When World War I comes to an end, three pilots find themselves on hard times. They wind up in Hollyw...
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Marthe Richard
Fictionalized reconstruction of the life of the French spy Marthe Richard who decided to contact the...
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Storm Over Lisbon
A nightclub star helps trap an enemy agent on the trail of an American newsman....
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As You Desire Me
Bar entertainer Zara is a discontented alcoholic who is pursued by many men but lives with novelist ...
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Devil and the Angel
The Director of an international banknote printing institute, mutilated by the face of the Great War...
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Thunder Over Paris
An international crook hunted by the police comes to Paris to save his daughter from the clutches of...
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Behind the Facade
In the elevator of two large Parisian buildings, a telegraph operator discovers the body of an elder...
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The World Will Shake
In this sci-fi film, a scientist invents a prescient machine that can tell people when they will die...
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The Great Gabbo
For the ventriloquist Gabbo his wooden dummy Otto is the only means of expression. When he starts re...
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The Lady and the Monster
A millionaire's brain is preserved after his death by a scientist and his two assistants, only to cr...
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Friends and Lovers
British Army captain Geoff Roberts carries on an affair with Alva, the wife of the cruel Victor Sang...
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Stroheim in Vienna
Issue No. 162 (date: July 16, 1948) of the Austrian newsreel "Welt im Film" shows Erich von Stroheim...
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The Unbeliever
A wealthy young American, bred to class distinction and racial intolerance, enters the Marines durin...
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The Crime of Doctor Crespi
A crazed scientist invents a serum that induces a catatonic state in anyone who gets the injection. ...
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The Heart of Humanity
The story centers around Nanette, an American girl living in a small Canadian village, who is in lov...
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Série noire
Léo Fardier is a police inspector who goes to prison undercover as a convict. He shares a cell with ...
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So Ends Our Night
An anti-Nazi refugee on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler...
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Crimson Romance
After Fred von Bergen, a German immigrant in America, is forced from his job by anti-German hysteria...
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The Man You Loved to Hate
The Man You Loved To Hate blends revealing interviews, rare photographs, and clips from von Stroheim...
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Scotland Yard Investigator
A London curator loses the Mona Lisa to a collector, who discovers it's a fake....
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Other Side of Paradise
Complicated intrigues fester in the warmth of Segnac, a charming village on the Cô te d'Azur. The hô...
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Threats
"Menaces" deals with the months before WW2 in a hotel :t he fear of the impending war never leaves t...
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La Danse de mort
A sinister fortress on an island where the sun never seems to shine. An officer whose values have lo...
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Fugitive Road
An Austrian officer must face up to the good and evil aspects of his own personality as he becomes i...
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The Hun Within
A German-American father, loyal to his new U.S. home, finds himself on opposite sides with his son i...
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Gibraltar
A British officer poses as a traitor in order to infiltrate a team of terrorists who are sabotaging ...
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I Was an Adventuress
Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two ac...
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Greed
A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife....
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Old Heidelberg
Karl Heinrich is the heir to the throne of the small European principality of Rutania, but he's a lo...
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Ghosts
Helen Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's ...
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The Flying Torpedo
In the future (1921), an alliance of several foreign countries plot to attack the US. American offic...
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Ultimatum
About the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War. Focuse...
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Gambling Hell
In Macao, where places of pleasure and arms trafficking are concentrated, a tragedy opposes an adven...
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Napoleon
The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. T...
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The Social Secretary
An attractive young girl struggles to hold a job as she deals with unwanted romantic advances from h...
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven wit...
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1925 Studio Tour
A tour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in 1925 shows the people who make the movies there, and giv...
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Midnight... Quai de Bercy
Having recently moved into her new apartment, Irène Cazenave, the widow of a well-known police offic...
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La madone des sleepings
Lady Diana Winham is beautiful, wealthy and a widow, so she's courted. She travels Europe in luxury ...
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Rail Pirates
Henri Pierson, the chief engineer of a railway line crossing Yunnan in China, must prevent the inces...
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His Picture in the Papers
Produced at the Reliance studio in Yonkers, New York, HIS PICTURE IN THE PAPERS solidly established ...
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The Lafarge Case
Based on true facts, a news item which was widely talked about in the nineteenth century, this is th...
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Alarm in Morocco
When 1 of 2 Foreign Legion officers is killed after witnessing a secret experiment on a death ray (c...
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Armored Attack!
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Re-edited version of ...
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The Red Signal
A physician whose wife was killed when two trains collided has remained a tormented soul,In his mind...
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Hearts of the World
A group of youngsters grow up and love in a peaceful French village. But war intrudes and peace is s...
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One Does Not Die That Way
In the studio where the famous director Eric Von Berg reigns, Pierre Vanier, the male star of the fi...
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Quand Jean devint Renoir
The fascinating story of a man destined to be only a son of and who sought all his life to become "s...
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Immediate Call
In September 1938, an American diplomat negotiated in London the peace of Munich, rather than rush t...
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Under Secret Orders
During the First World War, a woman doctor falls in love with one of her patients who turns out to b...
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The Country Boy
Tom, a young man in a small town, wants to marry his sweetheart Jane, but Jane's father won't allow ...
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Garbo, by Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford narrates this documentary about the career of Greta Garbo....
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