Cast: Marlene Dietrich

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Marlene Dietrich. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Witness for the Prosecution

1957 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast Tyrone Power · Marlene Dietrich · Charles Laughton · Elsa Lanchester

Plot Leonard Vole (Tyrone Power), a young and attractive man, is accused of the murder of Miss French, a rich old woman. Wilfred Roberts (Charles Laughton), a criminal lawyer from London,...

8.6

43K votes

8.6

43K votes

Judgment at Nuremberg

1961 · Movie · 186 min. · United States

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Spencer Tracy · Burt Lancaster · Richard Widmark · Marlene Dietrich

Plot It has been three years since the most important Nazi leaders had already been tried. This trial is about four Judges who used their offices to conduct Nazi sterilization and...

8.2

12K votes

8.2

12K votes

Touch of Evil

1958 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Charlton Heston · Janet Leigh · Orson Welles · Marlene Dietrich

Plot An unseen man sets the timer on an explosive device. The clock starts ticking down as soon as he stashes it in the boot of a fancy-looking car. Immediately afterwards,...

8.2

29K votes

8.2

29K votes

The Blue Angel

1930 · Movie · 109 min. · Germany

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Emil Jannings · Kurt Gerron · Eduard von Winterstein

Plot Based on Heinrich Mann's novel "Professor Unrat". Immanuel Rath (Emil Jannings) is a provincial prep school teacher who becomes incensed when he learns his boys have become infatuated with Lola...

7.8

5K votes

7.8

5K votes

Angel

1937 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Melvyn Douglas · Herbert Marshall · Edward Everett Horton

Plot Bored and neglected by her husband, the British nobleman Sir Frederick Barker, Maria angrily sets off to Paris without telling her husband. There she meets Anthony Halton, an American with...

7.7

2K votes

7.7

2K votes

The Scarlet Empress

1934 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Marlene Dietrich · John Lodge · Louise Dresser · C. Aubrey Smith

Plot In this re-imagining of Catherine the Great’s life story, filmmaker Josef von Sternberg and star Marlene Dietrich supply some of the most eye-popping images and outrageously decadent antics in early...

7.5

920 votes

7.5

920 votes

Rancho Notorious

1952 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Arthur Kennedy · Mel Ferrer · Gloria Henry

Plot A western based on the story "Gunsight Whitman" by Silvia Richards. Vern Haskell, a nice rancher, seeks out to avenge his fiancé's death when she is killed during a robbery....

7.3

3K votes

7.3

3K votes

A Foreign Affair

1948 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast Jean Arthur · Marlene Dietrich · John Lund · Millard Mitchell

Plot A congressional committee visits occupied Berlin to investigate G.I. morals. Congresswoman Phoebe Frost, appalled at widespread evidence of human frailty, hears rumors that cafe singer Erika, former mistress of a...

7.3

4K votes

7.3

4K votes

Shanghai Express

1932 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Clive Brook · Warner Oland · Anna May Wong

Plot Many passengers on the Shanghai Express are more concerned that the notorious Shanghai Lily is on board than the fact that a civil war is going on that may make...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

Dishonored

1931 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Victor McLaglen · Gustav von Seyffertitz · Warner Oland

Plot Director Josef von Sternberg’s answer to MGM’s MATA HARI with Greta Garbo stars Marlene Dietrich as X27, a seductive agent sent by the Austrian secret service to spy on the...

7.2

615 votes

7.2

615 votes

Destry Rides Again

1939 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast Marlene Dietrich · James Stewart · Irene Hervey · Mischa Auer

Plot Kent, the unscrupulous boss of Bottleneck has Sheriff Keogh killed when he asks one too many questions about a rigged poker game that gives Kent a stranglehold over the local...

7.1

1K votes

7.1

1K votes

Marlene: An Astonishing Visit

1984 · Documentary · 94 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Maximilian Schell

Cast Annie Albers · Marlene Dietrich · Bernard Hall · Maximilian Schell

Plot Acclaimed, award-winning filmmaker Maximillian Schell reconstructs the life and career of the enigmatic film diva. This is accomplished through use of archival footage and commentary from the actress recorded at...

7.1

51 votes

7.1

51 votes

Blonde Venus

1932 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Herbert Marshall · Cary Grant · Dickie Moore

Plot Marlene Dietrich is Helen, a former nightclub entertainer married to scientist Herbert Marshall. Their idyllic family life is shattered when he becomes disabled, and she must return to the stage...

7.0

983 votes

7.0

983 votes

Morocco

1930 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Gary Cooper · Adolphe Menjou · Ulrich Haupt

Plot In Morocco the nightclub singer Amy Jolly (Dietrich) meets two men, a soldier, Tom Brown (Gary Cooper) and a millionaire, La Bessiere(Adolphe Menjou). She falls in love with the soldier,...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

Desire

1936 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Gary Cooper · John Halliday · William Frawley

Plot 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...

7.0

758 votes

7.0

758 votes

Manpower

1941 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Marlene Dietrich · George Raft · Alan Hale

Plot Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work on a road crew for the power company. In a freak accident Hank is injured and is promoted to foreman of the gang. One...

6.9

319 votes

6.9

319 votes

Stage Fright

1950 · Movie · 110 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Jane Wyman · Michael Wilding · Richard Todd

Plot A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high society entertainer.

6.9

3K votes

6.9

3K votes

Billy Wilder Speaks

2006 · Documentary · 71 min. · United States

Direction Volker Schlöndorff · Gisela Grischow

Cast Billy Wilder · Jean Arthur · Humphrey Bogart · James Cagney

Plot Billy Wilder discusses his life and films in interviews filmed by Volker Schlondorff over two weeks in 1988.

6.9

615 votes

6.9

615 votes

The Devil is a Woman

1935 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Lionel Atwill · Cesar Romero · Edward Everett Horton

Plot Coquettish Spanish vixen Concha (Marlene Dietrich) toys with long-suffering lover "Pasqualito" (Lionel Atwill, in a surprisingly sympathetic role for once) while entertaining the advances of hot-blooded revolutionary Cesar Romero, in...

6.6

688 votes

6.6

688 votes

Around the World in 80 Days

1956 · Movie · 167 min. · United States

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast David Niven · Mario Moreno "Cantinflas" · Charles Boyer · Robert Newton

Plot English nobleman Phileas Fogg, a very strict and emotionless man, gets wound up in a bet at his gentlemen's club: He has to prove that it is possible to travel...

6.5

8K votes

6.5

8K votes