Robert Siodmak

Robert Siodmak
Country: Germany
Total Credits at Criticker: 47 (Director), 1 (Writer)
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Son of Dracula
Carpathian Count Alucard is invited to the U.S. by a young "morbid" heiress (Katherine Caldwell). Her... (imdb)
The Crimson Pirate
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. (imdb)
The Dark Mirror
A woman suspected of murdering her doctor boyfriend has an identical twin sister. When both twins have an alibi for the night of the murder... (imdb)
The Killers
Hit men kill an unresisting victim, and investigator Reardon uncovers his past involvement with beautiful, deadly Kitty Collins. (imdb)
Phantom Lady
Unhappily married Scott Henderson spends the evening on a no-name basis with a hat-wearing woman he picked up in a bar... (imdb)
Criss Cross
Romantic, obsessive Steve Thompson is drawn back to L.A. to make another try for Anna, his former wife. However, Anna belongs now to the L.A. underworld. Steve believes he can rescue her, ignoring the advice and warnings of people who would try to save him. He commits himself to a dangerous course of action that quickly takes everyone somewhere unintended. (imdb)
The Spiral Staircase
Beautiful young mute Helen is a domestic worker for old ailing Mrs. Warren. Mrs. Warren's two sons, Albert (a professor) and womanizing impudent Steven, also live in the Warren mansion. Mrs. Warren becomes concerned for Helen's safety when a rash of murders involving 'women with afflictions' hits the neighborhood. She implores her physician, Dr. Parry, to take Helen away for her own safety. When another murder occurs inside the Warren mansion, it becomes obvious that Helen is in danger. (imdb)
People on Sunday
Edwin, a taxi driver, lives with Annie, a neurasthenic model. They plan to spend Sunday at the Nikolassee beach with Wolfgang, an officer, gentleman, antiquarian, gigolo, at the moment a wine salesman. After an argument, Annie stays at home while Edwin joins Wolf. Wolf has brought along a new girlfriend, Christl... (imdb)
The File on Thelma Jordon
Thelma Jordon, late one night, shows up in the office of married Assistant DA Cleve Marshall. Before Cleve can stop himself, he and Thelma are involved in an illicit affair. But Thelma is a mysterious woman, and Cleve can't help wondering if she is hiding something... (imdb)
Custer of the West
George Armstrong Custer's love of the heroic traditions of the Calvary and his distaste with the coming of industrialization leads him to his destiny at the Little Big Horn. (imdb)
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
This rather Hitchcockian smalltown thriller is a typically impressive psychological study in various forms of obsession. Sanders is both superb and unusually touching as the shy, naive designer who falls for Raines; Fitzgerald [is] the sister he lives with, a scheming hypochondriac so possessive of her brother she'll do anything to wreck his budding romance. (...) the overall effect is still gripping, intelligent, and oddly critical of petit bourgeois aspirations. (timeout.com)
Christmas Holiday
A young femme fatale-type woman realizes that the wealthy man she married is an incorrigible wastrel. (imdb)
Cry of the City
Police Lieut. Candella, longtime friend of the Rome family, walks a tightrope in the case of cop-killer Martin Rome. (imdb)
The Suspect
n 1902 London, unhappily married Philip Marshall meets young Mary Gray, who is unemployed and depressed. Their deepening friendship, though physically innocent, is discovered by Philip's wife who threatens him with exposure and scandal. (imdb)
Escape from East Berlin
East German chauffeur becomes determined to tunnel to West Berlin, to allow his family and new girlfriend to escape Communist domination. (Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide)
Yellow Devil
When a villain named "the Shoot" terrorizes the constituents of Albanian country, which he rules. Heroic Kara Ben Nemsi (Lex Barker), and his sidekick are the only ones who can stop him. (imdb)
Cobra Woman
Upon discovering his fiancée Tollea has been kidnapped, Ramu and his friend Kado set out for a Pacific isle where all strangers are to be killed on arrival and the inhabitants, who are frequently sacrificed to an angry volcano god, worship the cobra. The island is ruled over by Tollea's evil twin Naja, the Cobra Woman, who, besides having designs on her new prisoner Ramu, also desires to eliminate any competition from her benevolent sister. (imdb)
The Great Sinner
A young writer goes to Monte Carlo to write about gambling and gamblers, only to ultimately become a compulsive gambler himself. Losing all his wealth, as well as his moral fibre, he commits the ultimate degradation of robbing a church poor box in order to feed his compulsion. (imdb)
Die Ratten
Maria Schell stars as an East German girl anxious to get a fake passport to the West. To raise the necessary funds, she sells her illegitimate baby to another woman (Barbara Rush), who hopes that the child will bring her closer to her husband. There are rats scampering on the set and chewing up prop food, but the actual "rats" of the title are of the human variety--notably the petty crook (Curt Jurgens) who impregnates Ms. Schell in the first place.
The Devil Strikes at Night
A serial killer terrorizes Hamburg, Germany, during World War II. When the local police can't seem to catch him, the SS is brought into the case. (imdb)
Time Out of Mind
The son of a wealthy Maine shipping magnate causes a crisis in the family when he announces that he wants a career in music rather than in the family business (imdb)
Pyramid of the Sun God
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, so the Republican cause finally turns out to be victorious. (imdb)
Brennendes Geheimnis
One autumn, Edgar, a 12 year old boy, spends a holiday with his mother at a plush hotel in Switzerland. His father, a busy lawyer, remains at the family home in Vienna. When he sees a stylish motorcar pull up at the hotel, Edgar wastes no time befriending its owner, an amiable dandy. The latter pays more attention to the boy's mother than to the boy himself, and decides to use Edgar to wheedle his way into her affections. When Edgar realises he has been used, he is far from happy...
Fight for Rome
Cethegus, leader of the Roman nobility, travels to Bizantium and its leader Justinian, in an attempt to raise an army to march on the Goths under Narses. Cethegus would like to set the two sides to war against each other, that his own forces might take control at the outcome. (imdb)
Fight for Rome II
The second half, of Der Kampf um rom 2: Der Verrat (which also clocks in at just over 1.5 hours) was issued in 1969, a year after the first; Four years after that (c. 1973), the two parts of Der Kampf um Rom were edited together, cut down to 94 minutes, and distributed as a single entry in the United States. (allmovie.com)
Abschied
Hella lives in a boarding house and has various romantic adventures before settling down with vacuum cleaner salesman Winkler. (imdb)
The Treasure of the Aztecs
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. It's good news, but there's no cash- both men wonder whether that's to be found in the legendary treasure of the Aztecs, the whereabouts of which an ancient priest h (imdb)
The Rough and the Smooth
Based on a novel by Robin Maugham, the story concerns a young archaeologist engaged to marry the daughter of a wealthy publisher. At the last moment, the archaeologist leaves his bride-to-be for a nymphomaniac with a masochistic streak. (NY Times)
Deported
A pair of corrupt INS Agents deport an Italian-American action star to Mexico, where he attempts to find his way back across the border with some help from a lovable gang or orphans. Gianni de Carlo (Nicholas Turturro) is in a bit of a pickle; despite being a legal American citizen, he's stuck in Mexico with no means of getting back to his family or career. Perhaps with the help of mischievous moppet Juan (Nicholas Turturro III) and friends, Gianni will find a way to outsmart small-town bullies (imdb)
Fly by Night
A man is accused of a murder he didn't commit and goes on the run in order to clear his name.
Katia
The life of Ekaterina Mikhaïlovna Dolgoroukova, called Katia, from her years at a boarding school till her affair and her marriage with Czar Alexander II.
Pièges
The mysterious disappearance of several Parisian women cause the police to hire the roommate of the latest victim to go undercover, looking into strange newspaper ads seeking young single women, and meet all that placed the ads. (msn)
Flesh and the Woman
Pierre Martel is a brilliant lawyer in Paris who has fallen in love with a ravishing Italian girl, Sylvia Sorrego and they take up housekeeping on a luxurious scale beyond his means, and Pierre commits a few irregularities and is asked to resign the Bar Association. He heads for Algeria and tells Sylvia to sell everything they own and join him there. (imdb)
Mollenard
Captain Justin Mollenard works for a company that sells armaments to the Far East. After an eventful stay in Shanghai, where he and his cargo are the victim of a malicious attack, he returns to his hometown of Dunkirk. Mollenard receives a frosty welcome from his wife Mathilde, who resents the way in which he has neglected his family for so many years.
Tumultes
Fresh out of prison a small-time crook finds his girlfriend's dropped him, which sends him into a murderous rage.
Voruntersuchung
When a prostitute is murdered in a cheap Berlin boarding house, an investigating judge suspects that the killer is her boyfriend, unaware that his own son and daughter are also mixed up in the case.
White Cargo
Two journalists go on the trail of gangsters who are kidnapping women to sell in South America.
The Night Before the Divorce
George Nordyke is married to Lynn, the perfect wife, but is unhappy about it; his wife is so competent that poor George's masculine ego never gets exercised. But along comes a spider with a coy approach, Lola May Wayne, and Mr. Deflated files for divorce and ready to set up housekeeping with a new web-master.But, on the eve of the trial (hence the title) an orchestra leader who has been eying Lynn himself, is murdered, and Lynn deliberately draws suspicion upon herself.
Mister Flow
A struggling lawyer is responsible for defending a formidable criminal. He falls in love with the bandit's mistress. The young woman finally becomes in love with the lawyer while Mr. Flow stays in prison.
Stürme der Leidenschaft
Fresh out of prison a small-time crook finds his girlfriend's dropped him, which sends him into a murderous rage.
Someone to Remember
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.
My Heart Belongs to Daddy
A distinguished professor finds his well-ordered life tospy-turvy after he is forced to take in a pregnant widow.
West Point Widow
West Point Widow is a 1941 American comedy film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Anne Shirley, Richard Carlson and Richard Denning.
Quick
A woman at a spa keeps sneaking out to see a performer "Quick" (in heavy make-up) do his act. She goes backstage to see him but he is out of his make-up. He tries to get her to fall in love with who he is in real life but she only likes him as a person who can introduce her to "Quick."
The Whistle at Eaton Falls
Brad Adams is the new manager of a manufacturing plant in a small New Hampshire town. He is brought in by owner Mrs. Doubleday to calm labor relations plus layoff employees. Brad manages to also find romance.
Der Mann, der seinen Mörder sucht
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.
Le sexe faible
Crisscrossed in a sumptuous Parisian palace: the wealthy Leroy-Gomez serves as a matchmaker for her children. All this is orchestrated by Antoine, the butler, lucid and cynical, who serves as confidants to all.