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...
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?
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