Robert Siodmak

Directing

Robert Siodmak

Born — Died

1900-08-08 — 1973-03-10

Place of birth

Dresden, Germany

Known for

Directing

Credits

44 titles

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Robert Siodmak (8 August 1900 - 10 March 1973) was a German-born film director. He is best remembered as a thriller specialist and for the series of Hollywood film noirs he made in the 1940s. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Siodmak, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Film credits

Series credits

Behind the camera

The Killers poster
7.4

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.

The Killers

1946

The Spiral Staircase poster
7.0

On a stormy night, the mute servant to an ailing matriarch is stalked by a serial killer.

The Spiral Staircase

1946

Custer of the West poster
6.0

The story of U.S. Army commander George Armstrong Custer, a flamboyant hero of the Civil War who later fought and was exterminated with his entire command by warring Sioux and Cheyenne tribes at the battle of Little Big Horn in 1876.

Custer of the West

1967

The Crimson Pirate poster
7.0

Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball scientist, sailing ships, naval fights and tons of swordplay.

The Crimson Pirate

1952

Son of Dracula poster
5.8

Carpathian Count Alucard is invited to the U.S. by a young heiress. Her boyfriend and local officials are suspicious of the newcomer, who is interested in the "virile" soil of the new world.

Son of Dracula

1943

Criss Cross poster
7.1

An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.

Criss Cross

1949

Cry of the City poster
6.7

Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police Lt. Candella must check Niles' allegation; a friend of the Rome family, he walks a tightrope between sentiment and cynicism. When Martin fears Candella will implicate his girlfriend Teena, he'll do anything to protect her. How many others will he drag down to disaster with him?

Cry of the City

1948

Phantom Lady poster
6.9

A devoted secretary embarks on a dangerous mission to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss didn't murder his wife.

Phantom Lady

1944

The File on Thelma Jordon poster
6.6

Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.

The File on Thelma Jordon

1949

People on Sunday poster
7.2

A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. With authentic scenes of the metropolis city of Berlin, it's the first film from the later famous screenwriters/directors Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann.

People on Sunday

1930

The Suspect poster
6.8

Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly yearns for a pretty young stenographer. When the henpecking gets to be too much, Philip murders his wife and manages to make her death look like an accident. A ruthless blackmailer and a low-key detective both discover Philip's secret, and he has to decide which of them poses the more dangerous threat.

The Suspect

1945

Christmas Holiday poster
6.5

A young femme fatale realizes that the man she married is an incorrigible wastrel.

Christmas Holiday

1944

The Fight for Rome poster
5.9

A Roman noble, Cethegus, tries to start a war, setting the Ostrogoths and their Queen, Amalasuntha, against the Byzantine Emperor Justinian; Cethegus wants to swoop in after they have destroyed each other and create a new Roman Empire from their combined kingdoms; however, he does not factor into his plans the vagaries of love and the personal integrity of the people in both kingdoms.

The Fight for Rome

1968

Mercenaries of the Rio Grande poster
5.9

Dr. Karl Sternau, the personal physician of the count Bismarck, who spent much of his youth in Mexico, is sent back to that country during the occupation by French troops in the service of the Austrian 'Emperor' Maximilian, to carry an encouraging letter from U.S. President Lincoln to the nationalist Mexican president Benito Juarez.

Mercenaries of the Rio Grande

1965

The Devil Strikes at Night poster
7.1

Hamburg, Germany, 1944, during World War II. A serial killer terrorizes the city. When it seems clear that the local police are unable to catch him, forces as dark and terrible as the criminal himself become involved in the case.

The Devil Strikes at Night

1957

The Great Sinner poster
6.8

A young man succumbs to gambling fever.

The Great Sinner

1949

Katia poster
6.4

Tsar Alexandre II meets a young student, Katia. He understands that he loves her and try to send her away but they end up seeing each other again and becomes his mistress. With the help of Katia, Alexandre prepares a liberal constitution, but these reforms make him hostile to the more privileged subjects without satirising the revolutionaries against the regime.

Katia

1959

The Dark Mirror poster
7.0

A sister and her disturbed twin are implicated in a murder and a police detective must figure out which one's the killer.

The Dark Mirror

1946

Cobra Woman poster
5.4

A man tracks his kidnapped bride to a jungle island, where her twin is the high priestess.

Cobra Woman

1944

Pyramid of the Sun God poster
5.6

Mexico, 1864. The country is divided by the struggle against the French occupation and emperor Maximilian. The German doctor Karl Sternau and his friend Andreas Hasenpfeffer come to love the country and support the cause of the proud Mexicans.

Pyramid of the Sun God

1965

The Fight for Rome II - The Betrayal poster
7.0

The devious general Cethegus plays the Byzantine and Gothic forces against each other for his own gain.

The Fight for Rome II - The Betrayal

1969

Escape from East Berlin poster
5.9

East Berlin, shortly after the construction of the Berlin Wall. Kurt Schröder and his family dig a tunnel to escape to West Berlin as they struggle to overcome the obstacles blocking their underground path to freedom.

Escape from East Berlin

1962

The Rough and the Smooth poster
6.3

Young blonde woman seems to destroy everyone she comes in contact with.

The Rough and the Smooth

1959

The Rough and the Smooth poster
6.3

Young blonde woman seems to destroy everyone she comes in contact with.

The Rough and the Smooth

1959

Personal Column poster
6.8

To try solving the strange disappearances of 11 young Parisian women, the police obtain the services of Adrienne Charpentier, friend of the latest missing person.

Personal Column

1939

The Night Before the Divorce poster
5.6

Marital comedy with a dash of murder.

The Night Before the Divorce

1942

The Slump Is Over poster
6.2

A provincial tour fails without money in an abandoned theater in the capital and puts on a review under the sign of optimism.

The Slump Is Over

1934

The Whistle at Eaton Falls poster
6.8

A newly promoted plant supervisor finds himself in the position of having to announce a layoff of his fellow workers.

The Whistle at Eaton Falls

1951

Flesh and the Woman poster
4.2

In this romance, a jilted lawyer joins the French Foreign Legion to help him forget his faithless love. While in the desert he espies a village beauty who is the exact double of his true-love.

Flesh and the Woman

1954

The Man in Search of His Murderer poster
7.2

A man in bad sorts hires a burglar to later kill him, then changes his mind when his fortunes turn and must find the contracted murderer before it is too late.

The Man in Search of His Murderer

1931

The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry poster
6.2

George Sanders stars in this engrossing melodrama about a very domineering sister who holds a tight grip on her brother -- especially when he shows signs of falling in love.

The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry

1945

Time Out of Mind poster
5.6

The son of a wealthy Maine family shocks his relatives by announcing he wants to pursue a career in music.

Time Out of Mind

1947

Time Out of Mind poster
5.6

The son of a wealthy Maine family shocks his relatives by announcing he wants to pursue a career in music.

Time Out of Mind

1947

Yellow Devil poster
6.5

When a villain named "Der Schut" terrorizes the constituents of Albanian country, which he rules, heroic Kara Ben Nemsi and his sidekick are the only ones who can stop him.

Yellow Devil

1964

Yellow Devil poster
6.5

When a villain named "Der Schut" terrorizes the constituents of Albanian country, which he rules, heroic Kara Ben Nemsi and his sidekick are the only ones who can stop him.

Yellow Devil

1964

The Nina B. Affair poster
5.8

A businessman who lives from blackmailing begins to be blackmailed by his own wife who hates him.

The Nina B. Affair

1961

The Nina B. Affair poster
5.8

A businessman who lives from blackmailing begins to be blackmailed by his own wife who hates him.

The Nina B. Affair

1961

Ultimatum poster
8.0

About the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War. Focuses on the relationship between a Serbian officer and his Austrian-born wife and their involvement in espionage between the countries.

Ultimatum

1938

Someone to Remember poster
7.7

An elderly woman whose son disappeared years before refuses to move when her apartment building is turned into a college dormitory for male students, as she is convinced that he will return one day. She continues to live in the building after it becomes a dorm, and eventually grows attached to a troubled young student whom she comes to believe is her own grandson. When she finds out that the boy's father will be visiting him, she prepares herself to be reunited with the man she has convinced herself is her long-lost son.

Someone to Remember

1943

The Rats poster
6.4

Soon after World War II, a pregnant Polish refugee, Pauline, wanders Berlin looking for the boyfriend who abandoned her. She has no option but to sell her child to another woman, Anna. After the birth, Pauline decides she wants the baby back.

The Rats

1955