The best Marlene Dietrich’s drama movies

Marlene Dietrich

Marlene Dietrich

27/12/1901- 06/05/1992
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Witness for the Prosecution

Witness for the Prosecution
8.4/10
When Leonard Vole is arrested for the sensational murder of a rich, middle-aged widow, the famous Sir Wilfrid Robarts agrees to appear on his behalf. Sir Wilfrid, recovering from a near-fatal heart attack, is supposed to be on a diet of bland, civil suits—but the lure of the criminal courts is too much for him, especially when the case is so difficult.

Judgment at Nuremberg

Judgment at Nuremberg
8.3/10
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.

The Blue Angel

The Blue Angel
7.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/04/1930
  • Character: Lola Lola
Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there. Seeing Lola perform, the teacher is filled with lust, eventually resigning his position at the school to marry the young woman. However, his marriage to a coquette -- whose job is to entice men -- proves to be more difficult than Rath imagined.

Shanghai Express

Shanghai Express
7.3/10
A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.

Rancho Notorious

Rancho Notorious
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 01/03/1952
  • Character: Altar Keane
A cowboy infiltrates a bandit hideout in search of his girlfriend's killer.

Dishonored

Dishonored
7.2/10
The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians.

The Scarlet Empress

The Scarlet Empress
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaHistoryRomance
  • Release: 09/05/1934
  • Character: Princess Sophia Frederica / Catherine II
During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Great, travels to Moscow to marry the dimwitted Grand Duke Peter, the heir to the Russian throne. Their arranged marriage proves to be loveless, and Catherine takes many lovers, including the handsome Count Alexei, and bears a son. When the unstable Peter eventually ascends to the throne, Catherine plots to oust him from power.

Angel

Angel
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 29/10/1937
  • Character: Maria 'Angel' Barker, aka Mrs. Brown
A woman and her husband take separate vacations, and she falls in love with another man.

Manpower

Manpower
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 09/08/1941
  • Character: Fay Duval
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.

Blonde Venus

Blonde Venus
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 23/09/1932
  • Character: Helen Faraday, aka Helen Jones
American chemist Ned Faraday marries a German entertainer and starts a family. However, he becomes poisoned with Radium and needs an expensive treatment in Germany to have any chance at being cured. Wife Helen returns to night club work to attempt to raise the money and becomes popular as the Blonde Venus. In an effort to get enough money sooner, she prostitutes herself to millionaire Nick Townsend.

A Foreign Affair

A Foreign Affair
7.3/10
In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi cafe singer and the U.S. congresswoman investigating her.

Desire

Desire
7.1/10
Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses US engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of France. But getting the pearls back from him proves to be difficult without falling in love.

Morocco

Morocco
7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 14/11/1930
  • Character: Mademoiselle Amy Jolly
The Foreign Legion marches in to Mogador with booze and women in mind just as singer Amy Jolly arrives from Paris to work at Lo Tinto's cabaret. That night, insouciant legionnaire Tom Brown catches her inimitably seductive, tuxedo-clad act. Both bruised by their past lives, the two edge cautiously into a no-strings relationship while being pursued by others. But Tom must leave on a perilous mission: is it too late for them?

Just a Gigolo

Just a Gigolo
5.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/11/1978
  • Character: Baroness von Semering
After World War I, a war hero returns to Berlin to find that there's no place for him--he has no skills other than what he learned in the army, and can only find menial, low-paying jobs. He decides to become a gigolo to lonely rich women.

The Devil Is a Woman

The Devil Is a Woman
6.9/10
In the carnival in Spain in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the exiled republican Antonio Galvan comes from Paris masquerade to enjoy the party and visit his friend Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar. However, he flirts with the mysterious Concha Perez and they schedule to meet each other later. When Antonio meets Pasqualito, his old friend discloses his frustrated relationship with the promiscuous Concha and her greedy mother and how his life was ruined by his obsession for the beautiful demimondaine. Pasqualito makes Antonio promise that he would not see Concha. However, when Antonio meets Concha, she seduces him and the long friendship between Antonio and Pasqualito is disrupted

Seven Sinners

Seven Sinners
6.5/10
Beautiful chanteuse 'Bijou' (Marlene Dietrich) cascades through Malaysia's ports of call eventually landing in a handsome lieutenant's lap. As Bijou 'drifts through the standards', the fleet's Admiral reckons the US Navy "already has enough destroyers". A Marlene classic with songs by Frederick Hollander and a young and promising John Wayne.

Jigsaw

Jigsaw
5.6/10
New York Assistant District Attorney Howard Malloy is working hard on investigation about a series of murders related to an extremist group.

Follow the Boys

Follow the Boys
5.8/10
During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical numbers and comedy skits, and were meant as morale-boosters to both the troops overseas and the civilians at home. This was Universal Pictures' effort. It features everyone from Donald O'Connor to the Andrews Sisters to Orson Welles to W.C. Fields to George Raft to Marlene Dietrich, and dozens of other Universal players.

No Highway

No Highway
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/06/1951
  • Character: Monica Teasdale
James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant. His studies show that the aircraft being manufactured by his employer has a subtle but deadly design flaw that manifests itself only after the aircraft has flown a certain number of hours. En route to a crash site to prove his theory, Honey discovers that he is aboard a plane rapidly approaching his predicted deadline.

The Garden of Allah

The Garden of Allah
5.8/10
The star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.

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