(0)Marlene Dietrich
25) Martin Roumagnac
Language
Français
Description
The tragic postwar romance is a tale of class anxiety and classic Romantic fatalism, run through with a typically French frankness about sex and gender. Jean Gabin is the title character, an unpretentious and proudly working-class building contractor, who falls in love with a ravishing shopgirl Blanche, quite unaware that she comes trailing a notorious sexual history and attracts the determined ardor of every man she meets. Among her current lovers...
27) Marlene
Language
Deutsch
Description
Using hours of audio-only taped interviews, learn about this normally reclusive star, from her childhood to her marriage, collaborators, life, death, and the Holocaust.
30) Morocco
Series
Language
English
Description
Marlene Dietrich is a cabaret singer who arrives in Morocco and continues her wicked career by enslaving all the men in sight; but true love reaches her at last.
32) Desire
Series
Language
English
Description
In the most elaborate jewel heist in European history, the beautiful and conniving "Countess" Madeline embezzles a small fortune of pearls. As she makes her getaway to Spain to deliver the hot goods, her escape is thwarted by car trouble, until a handsome and likable young tourist helps her out. She shows her gratitude by leaving the unsuspecting good Samaritan in the dust, literally! When he accidentally ends up with the pearls, she must feign...
33) Dishonored
Series
Criterion collection volume 932
Language
English
Description
In Josef von Sternberg's atmospheric spin on the espionage thriller, Marlene Dietrich further develops her shrew star persona in the role of a widow turned streetwalker who is recruited to spy for Austria during World War I. Adopting the code name X-27, Dietrich's wily heroine devotes her gifts for seduction and duplicity-- as well as her musical talents-- to the patriotic cause, until she finds a worthy adversary in a roguish Russian colonel, who...
Language
English
Description
"Charming, sophisticated and debonair, Cary Grant is one of the most popular and enduring Hollywood actors ever to grace the silver screen. His illustrious career spanned over 3 decades and included some of the most unforgettable roles in motion picture history. Cary Grant: The Vault Collection focuses on the first years of his career where the man born as Archibald Leach transforms into the iconic persona of Cary Grant that he is associated with...
35) Shanghai Express
Series
Language
English
Description
Marlene Dietrich plays the notorious adventuress Shanghai Lily, who has been jilted by Captain Donald Harvey (Clive Brook). During the Chinese civil war, the couple meet on a train which is attacked by Chinese rebels. Dietrich becomes involved with a rebel leader in order to save the man she still loves.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a wealthy widow is found murdered, her married lover is accused of the crime. The lawyer defending him is in ill health and his only hope for acquittal is the testimony of the accused's wife, proving his alibi. However, she has some secrets of her own to reveal.
37) Golden earrings
Series
Language
English
Description
Escaping from the Nazis, British colonel Ralph Denistoun and his partner arrange to meet in Stuttgart to steal Hitler's poison gas formula. On the journey, Denistoun meets Lydia, who keeps him out of harm's way. Only with the help of the extraordinary gypsy woman can he finish the mission that will make him a hero in this tale of espionage and intrigue.
39) Just a gigolo
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Language
English
Description
Winner of Two Academy Awards® including Actor in a Leading Role (Maximilian Schell), "Judgment at Nuremberg" is considered by many as one of the greatest films of all time. American judge Dan Haywood (Spencer Tracy, "Inherit The Wind") presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of "legalizing" Nazi atrocities. But as graphic accounts unfold in the courtroom, mounting political pressure for leniency forces Haywood to make the most harrowing...