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Der blaue Engel aka The Blue Angel (1930)
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Director Josef von Sternberg
Writer Heinrich Mann, Carl Zuckmayer, Karl Vollmaaller
Cast Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron
Plot An elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer.
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Shanghai Express (1932)
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Director Josef von Sternberg
Writer Jules Furthman, Harry Hervey
Cast Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong
Plot A notorious woman rides a train through a dangerous situation with a British captain she loved.
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The Scarlet Empress (1934)
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Director Josef von Sternberg
Writer Manuel Komroff, Eleanor McGeary
Cast Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge, Sam Jaffe
Plot A German noblewoman enters into a loveless marriage with the dim-witted, unstable heir to the Russian throne, then plots to oust him from power.
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The Last Command (1928)
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Director Josef von Sternberg
Writer Lajos Bira, John F. Goodrich, Ernst Lubitsch
Cast Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent, William Powell
Plot A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.
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The Docks of New York (1928)
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Director Josef von Sternberg
Writer Jules Furthman, John Monk Saunders, Julian Johnson
Cast George Bancroft, Betty Compson, Olga Baclanova
Plot A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.
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Morocco (1930)
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Director Josef von Sternberg
Writer Jules Furthman, Benno Vigny
Cast Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou
Plot A cabaret singer and a Legionnaire fall in love, but their relationship is complicated by the results of his womanizing and the appearance of a rich man who wants her for himself.
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Underworld (1927)
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Director Josef von Sternberg, Arthur Rosson
Writer Charles Furthman, Howard Hawks, Ben Hecht
Cast George Bancroft, Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent
Plot Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.
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Blonde Venus (1932)
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Director Josef von Sternberg
Writer Jules Furthman, S.K. Lauren, Josef von Sternberg
Cast Marlene Dietrich, Cary Grant, Herbert Marshall
Plot A cabaret singer takes up with a millionaire to pay for her gravely-ill husband's operation.
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It (1927)
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Director Clarence G. Badger, Josef von Sternberg
Writer Elinor Glyn, Hope Loring, Louis D. Lighton
Cast Clara Bow, Antonio Moreno, William Austin
Plot A salesgirl pursues a handsome playboy.
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Dishonored (1931)
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Director Josef von Sternberg
Writer Daniel Nathan Rubin, Josef von Sternberg
Cast Marlene Dietrich, Victor McLaglen, Gustav von Seyffertitz
Plot The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians.
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The Devil Is a Woman (1935)
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Director Josef von Sternberg
Writer John Dos Passos, Pierre Loua¿s, David Hertz
Cast Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Atwill, Edward Everett Horton
Plot A young man is warned by a captain about a temptress; nonetheless, he finds himself falling in love with her.
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Anatahan (1953)
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Director Josef von Sternberg
Writer Michiro Maruyama, Tatsuo Asano, Josef von Sternberg
Cast Akemi Negishi, Tadashi Suganuma, Kisaburo Sawamura
Plot From June 1944, twelve Japanese seamen are stranded for seven years on an abandoned and forgotten island called Anatahan.
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Macao (1952)
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Director Josef von Sternberg
Writer Bernard C. Schoenfeld, Stanley Rubin, Robert Creighton Williams
Cast Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix
Plot Nick Cochran, an American in exile in Macao, has a chance to restore his name by helping capture an international crime lord. Undercover, can he mislead the bad guys and still woo the attractive singer/petty crook, Julie Benson?
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Crime and Punishment (1935)
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Director Josef von Sternberg
Writer S.K. Lauren, Joseph Anthony, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Cast Edward Arnold, Peter Lorre, Marian Marsh
Plot A young man is haunted by the murder of a neighborhood pawn broker and hounded by the local police inspector who suspects that he is guilty.
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The Shanghai Gesture (1941)
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Director Josef von Sternberg
Writer Josef von Sternberg, Geza Herczeg, Jules Furthman
Cast Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Victor Mature
Plot In Shanghai, dragon lady 'Mother' Gin Sling operates a gambling house for wealthy patrons but she clashes with influential land developer Sir Guy Charteris who wants to put her out of business.
