Marlene Dietrich – MRQE

Cinema’s Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood (TV)

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Eight hundred German filmmakers (cast and crew) fled the Nazis in the 1930s. The film uses voice-overs, archival footage, and film clips to examine Berlin’s vital filmmaking in the 1920s; then it follows a producer, directors, composers, editors, writers, and actors to Hollywood: some succeeded and many found no work. Among those profiled are Erich Pommer, Joseph May, Ernst Lubitsch, Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder, and Peter Lorre. Once in Hollywood, these exiles helped each other, housed new arrivals, and raised money so others could escape. Some worked on anti-Nazi films, like Casablanca. The themes and lighting of German Expressionism gave rise in Hollywood to film noir.

Marlene

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Retrospective on the career of enigmatic screen diva Marlene Dietrich.

Angel

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A woman and her husband take separate vacations, and she falls in love with another man.

Desire

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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 the pearls back from him proves to be difficult without falling in love.

Stage Fright

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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

Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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.

Judgment at Nuremberg

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.

The Blue Angel

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there. Seeing Lola perform, the teacher is filled with lust, eventually resigning his position at the school to marry the young woman. However, his marriage to a coquette — whose job is to entice men — proves to be more difficult than Rath imagined.

Witness for the Prosecution

Sun, 14 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

When Leonard Vole is arrested for the sensational murder of a rich, middle-aged widow, the famous Sir Wilfrid Robarts agrees to appear on his behalf. Sir Wilfrid, recovering from a near-fatal heart attack, is supposed to be on a diet of bland, civil suitsbut the lure of the criminal courts is too much for him, especially when the case is so difficult.

Montecarlo

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Stylish, sophisticated and absolutely broke, Dino and Maria pursue a romance until they realize neither of them has any money, which forces the gold diggers to turn their attention to a wealthy widower and his daughter. A compulsive gambler who owes several anxious investors a small fortune, Dino has trouble cutting his losses, no matter how bad the losing streak.