Movies: Marlene Dietrich

Pioneer filmmaker J. Stuart Blackton was intrigued by the idea of a film about the history of the movies as early as 1915. He finally released a 52-minute feature called The Film Parade that was shown in New York and favorably reviewed by "Variety" i...

The rise and fall of Nazi Germany in part through the use of classical allegory....

The husband of Countess Manon Moreau is found murdered. André Rabatin, who belongs to the same club as Count Moreau, is the suspect. Rabatin, a old-school gentleman, affirms his innocence to the widow and claims that the death of the count must have ...

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Set in Berlin and New York's Lower East Side, The Great Yiddish Love stars the self-exiled Marlene Dietrich and her Nazi-endorsed replacement, Zarah Leander. It is a melodrama of love, emigration, and betrayal reassembled from Hollywood, German Ufa a...

Cecilia Barriga’s culty video montage tells the story of two queens who fall in love, unwittingly played by Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo. Clipped from their most iconic works, the Chilean born video artist manipulates scenes from the legendary ac...

Biography of Marlene Dietrich using interviews, film clips and rare footage of the actress, including her own home movies....

It was the world's largest, most beautiful and fastest cruise ship. Built in Saint Nazaire in 1932, the "Normandie" was the pride of France. But it took only a few hours, amidst the chaos of World War Two, for this dream of grandeur to lie broken in ...

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Documentary about film....

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Documentary about the birth of bossa-nova, in Brazil, and the major stars of this musical style....

Taped on two nights in a London theatre, I Wish You Love is a live concert with Marlene Dietrich performing songs from her film and music career....

A young intellectual falls in love with a circus performer and decides to cultivate her into a lady and marry her. Eventually however she decides to return to her tightrope walker lover....

Marlene Dietrich's screen tests for the classic 1930 German film The Blue Angel directed by Josef von Sternberg....

His Greatest Bluff is a German silent comedy film. Today, the film is best known for the early role it offered to Marlene Dietrich who was only cast after great effort by her agents....

After a chance meeting at a train station, Henry and Stascha, unhappy with their circumstances, are determined to leave and be together....

Laurence Gerard has just divorced. While leading fat lover Talandier by the nose, She meets the count Lerski, who now works as waiter but do not tell her. When she hears from her husband he is a waiter, she thinks Lerksi lies and throws him out....

A man unknowingly falls madly in love with the fiancé of a close friend who has twice saved his life....