Direction: Edgar G. Ulmer

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Carnegie Hall

1947 · Movie · 144 min. · United States

Direction Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast Marsha Hunt · William Prince · Frank McHugh · Martha O'Driscoll

Plot A mother (Marsha Hunt) wants her son (William Prince) to grow up to be a pianist good enough to play at Carnegie Hall but, when grown, the son prefers to...

8.0

34 votes

8.0

34 votes

Detour

1945 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast Tom Neal · Ann Savage · Claudia Drake · Esther Howard

Plot Low budget director Edgar G. Ulmer cemented his reputation with this downbeat film noir masterpiece. It has since inspired countless filmmakers. The use of minimal sets and rear-screen projection gives...

7.4

4K votes

7.4

4K votes

People on Sunday

1930 · Documentary · 74 min. · Germany

Direction Robert Siodmak · Edgar G. Ulmer · Curt Siodmak · Fred Zinnemann

Cast Brigitte Borchert · Christel Ehlers · Wolfgang von Waltershausen · Annie Schreyer

Plot This semi-documentary tells the tale of five young Berliners - a taxi driver, a travelling wine dealer, a record shop sales girl, a film extra and a model - spending...

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7.0

435 votes

7.0

435 votes

The Black Cat

1934 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast Boris Karloff · Bela Lugosi · David Manners · Julie Bishop

Plot The first cinematic teaming of horror greats Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi is a bizarre, haunting, and relentlessly eerie film that was surprisingly morbid and perverse for its time. Peter...

6.5

1K votes

6.5

1K votes

Club Havana

1945 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast Tom Neal · Margaret Lindsay · Donald Douglas · Lita Barón

Plot When a young nightclub singer attempts suicide because of her lover's departure, doctor Neal heals the girl's wounds and reunites her with her estranged boy friend.

6.5

30 votes

6.5

30 votes

Ruthless

1948 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast Zachary Scott · Louis Hayward · Diana Lynn · Sydney Greenstreet

Plot Horace Vendig shows himself to the world as a rich philanthropist. In fact, the history of his rise from his unhappy broken home shows this to be far from the...

6.5

238 votes

6.5

238 votes

The Strange Woman

1946 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Edgar G. Ulmer · Douglas Sirk

Cast Hedy Lamarr · George Sanders · Louis Hayward · Gene Lockhart

Plot Beautiful Jenny Hager finds she can always get what she wants from the men in the 1820's port of Bangor, Maine. Freed by his death from her drunkard father she...

6.4

651 votes

6.4

651 votes

Strange Illusion

1945 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast Jimmy Lydon · Warren William · Sally Eilers · Regis Toomey

Plot Clean-cut American teen Jimmy Lydon is tormented by nightmares in which his deceased father warns him about Mom's new boyfriend, and he feigns madness to infiltrate a mental hospital where...

6.3

151 votes

6.3

151 votes

Murder Is My Beat

1955 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast Paul Langton · Barbara Payton · Robert Shayne · Selena Royle

Plot Mr. Dean's body is found face down in the fireplace, his features burned beyond recognition. Detectives Patrick and Rawley arrest nightclub-singer Eden Lane and she is convicted of the crime....

6.3

122 votes

6.3

122 votes

The Naked Dawn

1955 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast Arthur Kennedy · Betta St. John · Eugene Iglesias · Charlita

Plot Filmed in Mexico, the story focuses on a poor but proud farmer named Manuel and his wife Maria. When glib-tongued drifter Santiago tries to get Manuel mixed up in a...

6.2

151 votes

6.2

151 votes

Bluebeard

1944 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast John Carradine · Jean Parker · Nils Asther · Ludwig Stössel

Plot In Paris a killer is strangling young women and dumping their dead bodies into the Seine and is nicknamed "Bluebeard" after the classic French story of the man who murdered...

6.0

382 votes

6.0

382 votes

St. Benny the Dip

1951 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast Dick Haymes · Nina Foch · Roland Young · Lionel Stander

Plot A gang of con artists disguise themselves as clerics in order to pull off a job, but soon find that even pretending to be religious people is having an effect...

6.0

34 votes

6.0

34 votes

The Man from Planet X

1951 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast Robert Clarke · Margaret Field · Raymond Bond · William Schallert

Plot American journalist John Lawrence is invited to join astronomer John Elliott at his observatory on a remote island off the Scottish coast where Elliott is monitoring a passing planet that...

5.6

575 votes

5.6

575 votes

Daughter Of Dr. Jekyll

1957 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast John Agar · Gloria Talbott · Arthur Shields · John Dierkes

Plot A young woman discovers she is the daughter of the infamous Dr. Jekyll, and begins to believe that she may also have a split personality, one of whom is a...

5.3

48 votes

5.3

48 votes

Beyond the Time Barrier

1960 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast Robert Clarke · Darlene Tompkins · Vladimir Sokoloff · Boyd 'Red' Morgan

Plot Experimental pilot testing a new rocket powered craft manages to fly into the future and land at the now deserted airbase he left. He ends up in a city with...

5.3

97 votes

5.3

97 votes

The Amazing Transparent Man

1960 · Movie · 57 min. · United States

Direction Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast Marguerite Chapman · Douglas Kennedy · James Griffith · Ivan Triesault

Plot A crazed scientist invents an invisibility formula. He plans to use the formula to create an army of invisible zombies.

4.9

92 votes

4.9

92 votes

Damaged Lives

1933 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast Diane Sinclair · Lyman Williams · Harry Myers · Marceline Day

Plot An extramarital affair leads to a young couple contracting venereal disease.

4.8

21 votes

4.8

21 votes

Annibale

1959 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

Direction Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia · Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast Victor Mature · Gabriele Ferzetti · Rita Gam · Milly Vitale

Plot After making his historic crossing of the Alps with elephants transporting supplies and troops, Hannibal marches on Rome in a war of revenge. During his advance, he captures Sylvia, the...

4.4

252 votes

4.4

252 votes

Tomorrow We Live

1942 · Movie · 64 min. · United States

Direction Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast Ricardo Cortez · Jean Parker · Emmett Lynn · William Marshall

Plot Julie Bronson (Jean Parker), whose father, "Pop" Bronson (Emmett Lynn) operates a desert café, is attracting the unwanted attention of a half-crazed gangster known as The Ghost (Ricardo Cortez) who...

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The Cavern

1964 · Movie · 94 min. · Italy

Direction Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast John Saxon · Rosanna Schiaffino · Larry Hagman · Peter Marshall

Plot Adventure drama during WW2 in Italy where a mixed group of people get trapped inside a cave after a bomb raid. But can they co-operate? And will they survive?

Not rated

Not rated