The best Marlene Dietrich’s romance movies

Marlene Dietrich

Marlene Dietrich

27/12/1901- 06/05/1992
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Around the World in Eighty Days

Around the World in Eighty Days
6.7/10
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.

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.

The Spoilers

The Spoilers
6.7/10
When honest ship captain Roy Glennister gets swindled out of his mine claim, he turns to saloon singer Cherry Malotte for assistance in his battle with no-good town kingpin Alexander McNamara.

Dishonored

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

Paris When It Sizzles

Paris When It Sizzles
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 16/03/1964
  • Character: Herself (uncredited)
Hollywood producer Alexander Meyerheimer has hired drunken writer Richard Benson to write his latest movie. Benson has been holed up in a Paris apartment supposedly working on the script for months, but instead has spent the time living it up. Benson now has just two days to the deadline and thus hires a temporary secretary, Gabrielle Simpson, to help him complete it in time.

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.

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?

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.

The Garden of Allah

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

Golden Earrings

Golden Earrings
6.6/10
A British colonel escapes from the Gestapo to the Black Forest and poses as a Gypsy's mate.

The Room Upstairs

The Room Upstairs
6.5/10
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. Despite Martin's many efforts for the now femme-fatal Blanche, she is not able to chose between him and the rich consul De Laubry.

The Song of Songs

The Song of Songs
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 19/07/1933
  • Character: Lily Czepanek
After her father dies, Lily moves to the city to live with her strict aunt. During the day Lily works in her aunt's bookstore, and at night she sneaks across the street to model for Richard, a sculptor with whom she falls in love. A patron of Richard's, Baron von Merzbach, develops an interest in Lily that may not be with the best of intentions.

The Flame of New Orleans

The Flame of New Orleans
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 07/07/1941
  • Character: Countess Claire Ledoux, aka Lili
In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.

The Lady Is Willing

The Lady Is Willing
6.3/10
  • Genre: Romance
  • Release: 12/02/1942
  • Character: Elizabeth Madden
Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street. She wants to keep the baby but has to find a husband to make adoption viable. She offers her new obstetrician Dr. McBain help with his research on rabbits in exchange for marriage - and he accepts. The marriage of convenience turns into a marriage of real love until Dr. McBain's ex-wife comes looking for money.

Cafe Electric

Cafe Electric
6.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaRomance
  • Release: 25/11/1927
  • Character: Erni Göttlinger - ein flatterhaftes Mädchen
The daughter of a wealthy industrialist falls for a pickpocket.

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