Dishonored

Dishonored (1931) is a spy melodrama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Josef von Sternberg and set in Vienna at the height of the First World War. Marlene Dietrich plays Agent X-27, a destitute widow recruited by Austrian intelligence to seduce and expose enemy officers.

Her early assignments go smoothly until she crosses paths with Russian officer Kranau, played by Victor McLaglen. He slips away. They meet again — and again — on opposite sides of a war, drawn to each other in ways neither will fully admit.

Shot in pre-Code Hollywood with Sternberg's signature expressionist lighting, the film refuses easy morality from start to finish. Dietrich is at her most luminous, the mood is cold and precise. Stream Dishonored (1931) online on iFILM.