The best Greta Garbo’s movies

Greta Garbo

Greta Garbo

18/09/1905- 15/04/1990
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Camille

Camille
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 26/12/1936
  • Character: Marguerite Gautier
Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure. One such woman is Marguerite Gautier, who begins a sumptuous romance with Armand Duval.

Ninotchka

Ninotchka
7.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 23/11/1939
  • Character: Nina "Ninotchka" Ivanovna Yakushova
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

Joyless Street

Joyless Street
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/03/1925
  • Character: Greta Rumfort
In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their families during the period of Austrian postwar hyperinflation.

Queen Christina

Queen Christina
7.5/10
Queen Christina of Sweden is a popular monarch who is loyal to her country. However, when she falls in love with a Spanish envoy, she must choose between the throne and the man she loves.

Grand Hotel

Grand Hotel
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 25/05/1932
  • Character: Grusinskaya
Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.

Anna Christie

Anna Christie
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 21/02/1930
  • Character: Anna Christie
Old sailor Chris Christofferson eagerly awaits the arrival of his grown daughter Anna, whom he sent at five years old to live with relatives in Minnesota. He has not seen her since, but believes her to be a decent and respectably employed young woman. When Anna arrives, however, it is clear that she has lived a hard life in the dregs of society, and that much of spirit has been extinguished. She falls in love with a young sailor rescued at sea by her father, but dreads to reveal to him the truth of her past. Both father and young man are deluded about her background, yet Anna cannot quite bring herself to allow them to remain deluded.

Two-Faced Woman

Two-Faced Woman
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 31/12/1941
  • Character: Karin Borg Blake
A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband.

Mata Hari

Mata Hari
6.6/10
A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.

Disco and Atomic War

Disco and Atomic War
7.5/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 10/04/2009
  • Character: Ninotchka (archive footage)
A different history of the Cold War: how Estonians under Soviet tyranny began to feel the breeze of freedom when a group of anonymous dreamers successfully used improbable methods to capture the Finnish television signal, a window into Western popular culture, brave but harmless warriors who helped change the fate of an entire nation.

Flesh and the Devil

Flesh and the Devil
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 25/12/1926
  • Character: Felicitas
As lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home following completion of their military training, Leo sees stunning Felicitas at the railway station and, mesmerized by her beauty, is smitten. A scandal follows, for which Leo is sent away. Returning home three years later, he discovers that much has changed.

Love

Love
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/01/1928
  • Character: Anna Karenina
In Imperial Russia, Anna Karenina falls in love with the dashing military officer Count Vronsky and abandons her husband and child to become his mistress.

Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina
7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 30/08/1935
  • Character: Anna Karenina
In 19th century Russia a woman in a respectable marriage to a senior statesman must grapple with her love for a dashing soldier.

The Temptress

The Temptress
6.9/10
A seductive woman forsakes her husband and lover to pursue a young engineer.

The Painted Veil

The Painted Veil
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 23/11/1934
  • Character: Katrin Koerber Fane
The wife of a doctor in China falls in love with a diplomat.

That's Entertainment, Part II

That's Entertainment, Part II
7.3/10
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.

Inspiration

Inspiration
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 31/01/1931
  • Character: Yvonne Valbret
The film features the leading actress Greta Garbo as Yvonne, an artist's model. Other stars include Robert Montgomery, Lewis Stone, Marjorie Rambeau and Judith Vosselli. It is a romantic melodrama, portraying a Parisian belle with a past returning to haunt her. The film is the only one where Montgomery played opposite Garbo.

The Love Goddesses

The Love Goddesses
7/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 03/03/1965
  • Character: (archive footage)
This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry changed its depiction of sex and actresses' portrayal of sex from the silent movie era to the present. Classic scenes are shown from the silent movie 'True Heart Susie,' starring Lillian Gish, to 'Love Me Tonight' (1932), blending sex and sophistication, starring Jeanette MacDonald (pre-Nelson Eddy), and to Elizabeth Taylor in 'A Place in the Sun' (1951), plus much , much more.

The Kiss

The Kiss
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 15/11/1929
  • Character: Irene Guarry
An unhappily married woman is caught up in scandal and murder when her affection toward a young man is misinterpreted.

As You Desire Me

As You Desire Me
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/05/1932
  • Character: Zara, a.k.a. Maria
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 estate claiming that Zara is actually Maria, the wife of his close friend Bruno, claiming that her memory was destroyed during World War I. Zara doesn't remember but leaves with Tony to Salter's dismay. Bruno, now an officer in the Italian Army, tries to coax Maria's memory back on his large estate. No one is really sure if Zara is Maria, and when Salter shows up with a mental case from Trieste that he claims is the real Maria, everyone on Bruno's estate is desperately searching for the truth.

Anna Christie

Anna Christie
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/12/1930
  • Character: Anna Christie
A young woman reunites with the father she's not seen since early childhood, also falls in love with a sailor who wishes to marry her, and eventually is forced to reveal to each man about her dark past. (NOTE: This is the German language version.)

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