List of the best Marlene Dietrich movies: The Scarlet Empress(1934), Shanghai Express(1932), Dishonored(1931), Blonde Venus(1932), The Devil Is a Woman(1935), Rancho Notorious(1952), Knight Without Armor(1937), Three Loves(1929), The Song of Songs(1933), The Spoilers(1942), Pittsburgh(1942), The Ship of Lost Men(1929) ... ...
Biography
USA
1934
104 Minutes
Princess Sophia Frederica, Catherine II
Marlene Dietrich John Lodge Sam Jaffe Phillip Sleeman Louise Dresser C. Aubrey Smith
noblewoman duke mother-in-law count husband ruler emotional spectacular tense germany russia palace marriage of convenience decadence catherine the great power struggle monarchy espionage rise forbidden love
A German noblewoman enters into a loveless marriage with the dim-witted, unstable heir to the Russian throne, then plots to oust him from power.
Drama
USA
1932
80 Minutes
Shanghai Lily
Marlene Dietrich Clive Brook Anna May Wong Warner Oland Eugene Pallette Lawrence Grant Louise Closser Hale Gustav von Seyffertitz Emile Chautard
physician prostitute general woman spy old flame tense melodramatic peking train station train shanghai civil wars revolution prostitution espionage hostage situation rape pursuit transformation
A notorious woman rides a train through a dangerous situation with a British captain she loved.
Drama
USA
1931
91 Minutes
Marie Kolverer, X27
The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians.
Drama
USA
1932
94 Minutes
Helen Faraday, aka Helen Jones
Marlene Dietrich Herbert Marshall Cary Grant Dickie Moore Robert E. O'Connor Gene Morgan Rita La Roy Sidney Toler Morgan Wallace Francis Sayles Gertrude Short
A cabaret singer takes up with a millionaire to pay for her gravely ill husband's operation.
Drama
USA
1935
85 Minutes
Concha Perez
Marlene Dietrich Lionel Atwill Cesar Romero Edward Everett Horton Alison Skipworth Don Alvarado
A young man is warned by a captain about a temptress; nonetheless, he finds himself falling in love with her.
Western
USA
1952
89 Minutes
Marlene Dietrich Mel Ferrer Arthur Kennedy Lloyd Gough Gloria Henry William Frawley Lisa Ferraday John Raven Jack Elam George Reeves Frank Ferguson
man matron killer thief fiancée outlaw gritty intense wild west general store jail ranch hideout bank murder betrayal investigation deception robbery quest
After the murder of his fiancée, a Wyoming ranch hand sets out to find her killer.
Drama
UK
1937
107 Minutes
Marlene Dietrich Robert Donat Irene Vanbrugh Herbert Lomas Austin Trevor Basil Gill David Tree John Clements
double agent aristocrat bolshevik spy police officer soldier melodramatic engaging russia train countryside england hideout revolution communism espionage escape pursuit 1910s
After two years as a Czarist British agent posing as a Russian Commissar, he rescues a Russian countess from her Bolshevik captors.
Drama
Germany
1929
75 Minutes
Stascha
Marlene Dietrich Fritz Kortner Oskar Sima Uno Henning Karl Etlinger Edith Edwards
On his honeymoon with a bride he has wed for business reasons, a man falls for a woman who is in the clutches of a sinister character.After this woman begs him to help her escape, he plots to do so using the opportunity of a masked ball.
Romance
USA
1933
90 Minutes
Lily Czepanek
Marlene Dietrich Brian Aherne Lionel Atwill Alison Skipworth Hardie Albright Helen Freeman Morgan Wallace Wilson Benge Hans Schumm Richard Bennett James Marcus
model country girl aunt sculptor baron love interest mushy melodramatic emotional berlin bookstore studio relationships family art death new life romance love discovery
Lily falls in love with the sculptor who leaves her out of fear of commitment.
Western
USA
1942
87 Minutes
Cherry Malotte
Marlene Dietrich Randolph Scott John Wayne Margaret Lindsay Harry Carey Richard Barthelmess George Cleveland Samuel S. Hinds Russell Simpson William Farnum Marietta Canty
miner saloon girl commissioner judge love interest politician spirited thrilling melodramatic alaska mine saloon mining gold rush political corruption love triangle theft court battles love rivalry
In Nome, Alaska, miner Roy Glennister and his partner Dextry, financed by saloon entertainer Cherry Malotte, fight to save their gold claim from crooked commissioner Alexander McNamara.
Drama
USA
1942
90 Minutes
Marlene Dietrich Randolph Scott John Wayne Frank Craven Louise Allbritton Shemp Howard Thomas Gomez Ludwig Stossel Samuel S. Hinds Paul Fix William Haade
coal miner boxer beautiful woman magnate rich girl tailor fiery melodramatic passionate patriotic pittsburgh factory boardroom office ambition ethics greed steel industry military industrial complex redemption
Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham rides roughshod over his friends, his lovers, and his ideals in his trek toward financial success in the Pittsburgh steel industry, only to find himself ... See full summary »
Drama
Germany|France
1929
97 Minutes
Ethel Marley
Marlene Dietrich Fritz Kortner Vladimir Sokolov
Vela, cynical captain of a slow, decrepit sailing ship, sells passage out of Germany to fugitives. His crew are no angels either. Cheyne, a young American doctor visiting the ship, is ... See full summary »
Drama
France
1946
76 Minutes
Blanche Ferrand
Marlene Dietrich Jean Gabin Margo Lion
The local building-contractor Martin Roumagnac is fascinated by the fashionable Blanche Ferrand. To impress Blache, Martin presents her with a villa. However, this ruins him financially. ... See full summary »
Romance
USA
1942
92 Minutes
Elizabeth "Liza" Madden
actress doctor baby ex-wife police officer manager cheeky melodramatic amusing new york city theater doctor's office apartment marriage of convenience adoption romance schemes illness love transformation
In order to adopt an abandoned baby, an actress arranges a marriage of convenience with a doctor.
Romance
USA
1936
80 Minutes
Domini Enfilden
Marlene Dietrich Charles Boyer Basil Rathbone C. Aubrey Smith Tilly Losch Joseph Schildkraut John Carradine Alan Marshall Lucile Watson Henry Brandon Helen Jerome Eddy
monk heiress soldier guide emotional melodramatic passionate desert monastery north africa unlikely romance uncertainty regret running away forbidden love quest sacrifice 1930s
The star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.
Comedy, Drama
Italy|USA
1957
99 Minutes
Maria de Crevecoeur
gambler count widower valet wealthy man beautiful woman melodramatic amusing monte carlo, monaco casino household romance money gambling addiction engagement forbidden love fall 1950s
A gambler very much in debt, sets his cap for a beautiful woman, not knowing that she is also penniless.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
1957
114 Minutes
Christine Helm Vole
Tyrone Power Marlene Dietrich Charles Laughton Elsa Lanchester John Williams Henry Daniell Ian Wolfe Una O'Connor Torin Thatcher Francis Compton Norma Varden
lawyer wife defendant prosecutor nurse witness gripping crafty courtroom trial love triangle love-hate relationship betrayal murder investigation mystery rivalry love temptation 1950s
A veteran British barrister must defend his client in a murder trial that has surprise after surprise.
Western
USA
1939
94 Minutes
Frenchy
James Stewart Marlene Dietrich Mischa Auer Charles Winninger Brian Donlevy Allen Jenkins Warren Hymer Irene Hervey Una Merkel Billy Gilbert Samuel S. Hinds
sheriff boss drunk singer amusing lighthearted small town wild west corruption romance showdown adventure rise 19th century
Deputy sheriff Destry tames the town of Bottle Neck, including saloon singer Frenchy.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1948
116 Minutes
Erika von Schlütow
Jean Arthur Marlene Dietrich John Lund Millard Mitchell Peter von Zerneck Stanley Prager
congresswoman military officer singer witty engaging berlin nightclub military base office nazism world war ii political corruption love triangle love quest transformation 1940s
In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi café singer and the U.S. congresswoman investigating her.
Drama
UK|USA
1951
98 Minutes
James Stewart Marlene Dietrich Glynis Johns Jack Hawkins Elizabeth Allan Kenneth More Janette Scott Ronald Squire
mathematician actress stewardess inspector suspenseful amusing laboratory england airport newfoundland courtroom aviation paranoia engineering plane crash sabotage discovery 1950s
An aeronautical engineer predicts that a new model of plane will fail catastrophically and in a novel manner after a specific number flying hours.
Romance
USA
1930
90 Minutes
Gary Cooper Marlene Dietrich Adolphe Menjou Ullrich Haupt Eve Southern Francis Macdonald Paul Porcasi Emile Chautard
singer wealthy man legionnaire club owner woman somber sultry intense ship morocco club apartment street desert devotion unrequited love singing military life dangerous assignment love triangle
A cabaret singer and a Legionnaire fall in love, but their relationship is complicated by the results of his womanizing and due to the appearance of a rich man who wants her for himself.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1950
110 Minutes
Charlotte Inwood
Jane Wyman Marlene Dietrich Richard Todd Michael Wilding Kay Walsh Sybil Thorndike Miles Malleson Hector MacGregor Joyce Grenfell Andre Morell Patricia Hitchcock
wrongly accused ex-girlfriend detective actress actor amateur sleuth suspenseful gripping london theater chase false accusations disguise blackmail deception investigation pursuit mystery escape 1950s
A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high society entertainer.
Drama
USA
1947
95 Minutes
Ray Milland Marlene Dietrich Murvyn Vye Bruce Lester Dennis Hoey Reinhold Schünzel Ivan Triesault Hermine Sterler Eric Feldary Gisela Werbiseck Larry Simms
On the eve of WW2, a British spy goes to Germany to obtain a secret poison-gas formula from a scientist but things go awry and he is saved by a beautiful nomadic gypsy woman.
Drama
1930
94 Minutes
Lola Lola
Emil Jannings Marlene Dietrich Hans Albers Kurt Gerron Rosa Valetti Eduard von Winterstein Reinhold Bernt Hans Roth Rolf Müller Robert Klein-Lork
teacher singer student lover cabaret performer sultry melodramatic school nightclub germany apartment infatuation infidelity jealousy fall temptation 1930s
Josef von Sternberg's classic tells of a middle-aged professor whose obsession with a young cabaret singer leads to his downfall.
Drama
USA
1961
186 Minutes
Mrs. Bertholt
Spencer Tracy Burt Lancaster Richard Widmark Marlene Dietrich Maximilian Schell Judy Garland Montgomery Clift William Shatner Ed Binns Kenneth MacKenna Werner Klemperer
judge defendant lawyer military officer nazi widow dark disturbing courtroom nuremberg, germany world war ii nazism genocide court battles quest wretched excess 1940s
In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazis judged for war crimes.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
1958
95 Minutes
Charlton Heston Orson Welles Janet Leigh Joseph Calleia Akim Tamiroff Valentin de Vargas Ray Collins Dennis Weaver Joanna Moore Mort Mills Marlene Dietrich
drug enforcement agent police officer criminal wife chilling mexico police station motel country road border crime crooked cops smuggling murder mystery pursuit 1950s
A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in a Mexican border town.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1956
170 Minutes
David Niven Cantinflas Shirley MacLaine Robert Newton Charles Boyer Joe E. Brown Martine Carol John Carradine Charles Coburn Ronald Colman Melville Cooper
explorer servant police officer princess airy charming playful london spain paris india japan san francisco expedition class distinctions culture clash theft adventure pursuit quest
A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.