Blonde Venus (1932)

One of the great things about the Sternberg-Dietrich movies is that each is very different from the others. They are all about love, sex, and power, and all involve the humiliation of men in some way or another, but each comes at it with a unique approach, with the key difference being Dietrich's role. The generalization is that she is the femme fatale, the destroyer or humiliater of men, but in four of the seven films she's actually brought down herself, even if men are collateral damage as well. Blonde Venus is one of those, as is Morocco, but the resolutions, while equally absurd (in the aesthetic sense), couldn't be more different.

( It's the Depression, and the women are falling )