The best Erich von Stroheim’s crime movies

Erich von Stroheim

Erich von Stroheim

22/09/1885- 12/05/1957
We present our ranking of the best Erich von Stroheim’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Erich von Stroheim.

Greed

Greed
8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 26/01/1925
  • Character: Balloon Vendor (uncredited)
A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.

The Great Flamarion

The Great Flamarion
6.5/10
A vaudevillian is tricked into murder by a bored wife.

Derrière la façade

Derrière la façade
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 14/03/1939
  • Character: Eric

I Was an Adventuress

I Was an Adventuress
6.7/10
Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two accomplices are really a team of skilled con artists! They mingle with Europe's high society, always looking for the next wealthy victim to fleece with their fake jewellery scam... Then Tanya meets the dashing young Paul Vernay. At first she wants to rob him. Then she decides she wants to marry him and to leave her criminal past behind her. Her accomplices agree but only if she'll join them in one last, big swindle...

The Lafarge Case

The Lafarge Case
6.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 08/03/1938
  • Character: Denis
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 husband .

Scotland Yard Investigator

Scotland Yard Investigator
6.1/10
A London curator loses the Mona Lisa to a collector, who discovers it's a fake.

Portrait of an Assassin

Portrait of an Assassin
6.6/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 25/11/1949
  • Character: Eric
Three powerhouse European screen personalities--Pierre Brasseur, Erich Von Stroheim, Maria Montez---elevate the tawdry melodramatics of Le Portrait d'Un Assassin.

Série noire

Série noire
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 04/03/1955
  • Character: Sacha Zavaroff

Minuit... Quai De Bercy

Minuit... Quai De Bercy
6.3/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 21/05/1953
  • Character: Le professeur Kieffer

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