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Marlene Dietrich
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Marlene Dietrich - what members say
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Ze Drunken Angel 19 September 2004
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Below Average Movie 3 December 2005
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Orson Welles does film noir 7 January 2004
Marlene Dietrich - filmography
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Marlene
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Marlene Dietrich
Director: Maximilian Schell
Certificate: 
Marlene is no standard movie star documentary. It is a mystery story, a discourse on truth and fiction, a battle with a sacred monster, a caustic comedy of errors, and the story of the making of a film all rolled into one. Despite personally selecting Schell to make the film about her, Dietrich ..read more »
 
70%
from 54 members
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Just A Gigolo
(1978)
Starring: David Bowie, Sydne Rome, Kim Novak
Director: David Hemmings
Certificate: 
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.
54%
from 5 members
Currently unavailable
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Marlene Dietrich - An Evening With
(1973)
Starring: Marlene Dietrich
Certificate:
Filmed in 1972 at the New London Theatre. Marlene Dietrich performs in her own unique style. The twenty tracks include: 'Lily Marlene', 'Falling In Love Again', 'La Vie En Rose', 'I Wish You Love', 'White Grass', 'Where Have All The Flowers Gone', 'My Blue Heaven' and 'When The World Was Young'.
60%
from 84 members
Currently unavailable
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Paris When It Sizzles
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: William Holden, Audrey Hepburn, Gregoire Aslan
Director: Richard Quine
Certificate: 
Richard Quine directs George Axelrod's acerbic script (adapted from Julien Duvivier's La Fête à Henriette) in this romantic comedy that reunites William Holden and Audrey Hepburn for the first time since 1954's Sabrina. Holden plays Richard Benson, a Hollywood screenwriter being pressured by movie ..read more »
57%
from 960 members
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Judgement At Nuremberg
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark
Director: Stanley Kramer
Certificate: 
"Judgment at Nuremberg" explores the post-World War II war crimes committed by the Third Reich through a series of trials held in 1948 Nuremberg, Germany. Judge Dan Haywood is oversees the trials of four German judges -specifically Dr. Ernst Janning and Emil Hahn - accused of knowingly sentencing ..read more »
74%
from 1,143 member
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Touch Of Evil
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles
Director: Orson Welles
Certificate: 
Welles plays the racist Captain Hank Quinlan, a grotesque, troubled, and powerful figure who runs his small U.S. border town according to his own version of the law. Quinlan's brutishness and vulgarity contrast starkly with the idealism and playboy good looks of Charlton Heston as Mike Vargas, a ..read more »
71%
from 6,188 members
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Touch Of Evil - Blu-ray
(1958)
Starring: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles
Director: Orson Welles
Certificate:
Orson Welles's TOUCH OF EVIL is nothing short of a masterpiece. Beginning with a three-minute-plus tracking crane shot, the film explodes onto the screen, literally--the marvelously expressive opening shot ends with a car blowing up, and that detonation sets into motion a classic noir tale of ..read more »
63%
from 3 members
Not available for rental
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Rancho Notorious
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Arthur Kennedy, Mel Ferrer
Director: Fritz Lang
Certificate:
The original title for Rancho Notorious was Chuck-a-Luck, which is also the title of the soundtrack ballad (written by Ken Darby) which unifies the plotline, à la High Noon. Frontiersman Vern Haskell (Arthur Kennedy) wanders throughout the West in search of the man who robbed and murdered his fiancé..read more »
62%
from 210 members
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No Highway in the Sky
(1951)
Starring: James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Glynis Johns
Director: Henry Koster
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Theodore Honey is an aeronautical engineer being sent to Labrador from London to examine the wreckage of a new passenger plane designed by his company. His theory is that the planes are susceptible to metal fatigue after a specific amount of time in the air. The absent minded Honey boards the ..read more »
53%
from 9 members
Currently unavailable
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Follow The Boys
on DVD
(1944)
Starring: George Raft, Vera Zorina, Grace McDonald
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Certificate:
A screen star organises all-star USO shows for the troops after being turned down himself for active duty. Features musical acts and guest stars galore, including Orson Welles, Dinah Shore, Marlene Dietrich, Donald O'Connor and many, many more.
53%
from 35 members
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The Lady Is Willing
on DVD
(1942)
Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Fred MacMurray, Aline MacMahon
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Certificate:
Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Lisa 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. Why not her new obstetrician Dr. McBain? She offers him help with his research on rabbits in ..read more »
56%
from 53 members
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The Spoilers
on DVD
(1942)
Starring: John Wayne, Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott
Director: Ray Enright
Certificate:
John Wayne, Marlene Dietrich and Randolph Scott make up a potent love triangle in this Western. Wayne's gold miner and Scott's unscrupulous politician become entangled in rivalries in turn of the century America...
61%
from 246 members
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Destry Rides Again
on DVD
(1939)
Starring: Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart, Mischa Auer
Director: George Marshall
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James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich star in this hilarious western send-up. As Destry, a mild-mannered deputy who doesn't like guns, Stewart is called to restore order in the hopelessly corrupt frontier town of Bottle Neck. He soon meets Frenchy (Dietrich), an alluring sallon girl who belts out 'the ..read more »
73%
from 676 members
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Angel
on DVD
(1937)
Starring: Ernest Cossart, Marlene Dietrich, Melvyn Douglas
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
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Classic comedy starring Marlene Dietrich. Maria (Dietrich) is married to Sir Frederick Barker (Herbert Marshall), a British diplomat who spends a lot of time travelling and pays little attention to his partner. Maria is starting to feel neglected by her husband and while she is visiting a friend in ..read more »
65%
from 114 members
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Desire
on DVD
(1936)
Starring: Alan Mowbray, John Halliday, Zeffie Tilbury
Director: Frank Borzage
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Classic romantic drama starring Marlene Dietrich as Madeleine de Beaupre (Dietrich), a crafty and calculating jewel thief. After smuggling some valuable pearls away from a Parisian jeweller, Madeleine attempts to leave the country, framing psychiatrist Dr. Pauquet (Alan Mowbray) in the process. ..read more »
69%
from 53 members
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The Garden Of Allah
on DVD
(1936)
Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer, Basil Rathbone
Director: Richard Boleslawski
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In THE GARDEN OF ALLAH, Domini, a society girl (Marlene Dietrich) mourning the death of her father, travels to the Sahara. There she finds romance with Boris, a monk (Charles Boyer) who has recently abandoned the monastic life but remains torn between religious devotion and worldly desire, ..read more »
51%
from 182 members
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Intermezzo
on DVD
(1936)
Starring: Leslie Howard, Ingrid Bergman, Edna Best
Director: Gregory Ratoff
Certificate:
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David O. Selznick's INTERMEZZO is Ingrid Bergman's first English-speaking film and the movie that launched her Hollywood career. Billed as the greatest love story of all time, it avoids the schmaltz factor despite being highly melodramatic, due to Gregory Ratoff's swift direction.
58%
from 245 members
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Scarlet Empress
on DVD
(1934)
Starring: Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge, Sam Jaffe
Director: Josef Von Sternberg
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Of the two 1934 film versions of the life of Russia's Catherine the Great, Josef von Sternberg's The Scarlet Empress was the most opulent and exotic. Marlene Dietrich plays the German-born Catherine, who is required to marry Russia's mad Grand Duke Peter (Sam Jaffe, decked out in a Harpo Marx wig). ..read more »
66%
from 497 members
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The Song Of Songs
on DVD
(1932)
Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Brian Aherne, Lionel Atwill
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
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Country orphan Lily goes to Berlin to stay with her tippling aunt, and soon meets Richard, handsome sculptor across the street. Persuaded half-reluctantly to pose for Richard, her physical charms soon melt away his 'strictly business' attitude, and they become lovers. But Richard, wanting his ..read more »
68%
from 33 members
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The Blue Angel
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1930)
Starring: Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron
Director: Josef Von Sternberg
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This Josef Von Sternberg film, based on Heinrich Mann's novel PROFESSOR UNRAT, made Marlene Dietrich a celebrity and began a tumultuous relationship between star and director that spanned Sternberg's most creative period. The film features Emil Jannings as Dr. Immanuel Rath, a provincial prep ..read more »
66%
from 1,306 member
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Morocco
on DVD
(1930)
Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, Adolphe Menjou
Director: Josef Von Sternberg
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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 ..read more »
68%
from 165 members
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Seven Sinners
on DVD
Starring: John Wayne, Marlene Dietrich, Albert Dekker
Director: Tay Garnett
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Bijou is a beautiful, man-eating cabaret singer in the South Seas who travels from one island saloon to another - usually wreaking havoc on the female-starved clientele. Then she falls in love with dashing and unsuspecting Naval officer Dan Brent. As their romance blossoms, Dan proposes marriage to ..read more »
56%
from 136 members
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Marlene Dietrich facts
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...This is an historic film that launched the career of Marlene Dietrich. It became her trademark and her performance in this movie has been imitated by Liza Minelli in ?Cabaret?,...
