Direction: Hugo Haas

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Hugo Haas. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


The White Disease

1937 · Movie · 103 min. · Czechoslovakia

Direction Hugo Haas

Cast Hugo Haas · Bedrich Karen · Zdenek Stepánek · Václav Vydra

Synopsis “The White Disease”, a leprosy-like disease, ravages the world during a war. Based on a play by Karel Čapek.

7.4

24 votes

7.4

24 votes

The Other Woman

1954 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Hugo Haas

Cast Hugo Haas · Cleo Moore · Lance Fuller · Lucille Barkley

Synopsis Bit player Sherry Stewart gets miffed when director Walter Darman turns her down after she reads for a small part in his picture. She and her boy friend, Ronnie, devise a plan to lure Darman to her apartment, where she...

7.1

34 votes

7.1

34 votes

Pickup

1951 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Hugo Haas

Cast Hugo Haas · Beverly Michaels · Allan Nixon · Howland Chamberlain

Synopsis Low-budget, tabloid-lurid story with high camp value of older man falling for much younger beauty who's busy figuring out how she can kill him now that they're married. Nasty verbal encounters and above all, Beverly Michaels, spike up this flick.

7.0

24 votes

7.0

24 votes

The Girl on the Bridge

1951 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Hugo Haas

Cast Hugo Haas · Beverly Michaels · Robert Dane · Anthony Jochim

Synopsis An elderly watchmaker stops a beautiful young blonde from committing suicide by throwing herself off a bridge. They eventually marry, and things go well until a man from the woman's somewhat unsavory past shows up and attempts to blackmail her.

6.5

42 votes

6.5

42 votes

Strange Fascination

1952 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Hugo Haas

Cast Cleo Moore · Hugo Haas · Mona Barrie · Rick Vallin

Synopsis The first of seven features produced, written and directed by low-rent auteur Hugo Haas stars his fatale muse Cleo Moore. Haas plays a concert pianist led down the road to perdition by bad girl Moore, with typically painful results.

6.4

22 votes

6.4

22 votes

Lizzie

1957 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Hugo Haas

Cast Eleanor Parker · Richard Boone · Joan Blondell · Hugo Haas

Synopsis Elizabeth has reoccurring headaches and trouble sleeping. Threatening letters signed by Lizzie are given to her, but she does not know anyone named Lizzie. As her situation deteriorates, she goes to a Dr. Wright who hypnotizes her. Deep in her...

6.2

36 votes

6.2

36 votes

One Girl's Confession

1953 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Hugo Haas

Cast Cleo Moore · Hugo Haas · Glenn Langan · Helene Stanton

Synopsis Filmmaker Hugo Haas unfolds his usual cautionary "old man-young woman" story in One Girl's Confession. Perennial Haas leading lady Cleo Moore stars as Mary Adams, whose first step on the road to ruin is a $25,000 robbery. Mary hides the...

6.1

40 votes

6.1

40 votes

Bait

1954 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Hugo Haas

Cast Cleo Moore · Hugo Haas · John Agar · Emmett Lynn

Synopsis Bait starts out with a cunning pre-credits sequence, wherein a dapper, erudite gentlemen (Cedric Hardwicke), after signing a series of autographs for his admiring fans, introduces himself as the Devil. Addressing the viewer, His Satanic Majesty introduces a cautionary tale...

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Thy Neighbor's Wife

1953 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Hugo Haas

Cast Cleo Moore · Hugo Haas · Ken Carlton · Kathleen Hughes

Synopsis Suspicious Raphael Vojnar, a Moravian village judge, makes his young wife Barbara witness the public humiliation of an unfaithful wife who is bound with ropes to a wooden half-cross. He tells Barbara that if he ever catches her with another...

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Paradise Alley

1962 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Hugo Haas

Cast Hugo Haas · Don Sullivan · Carol Morris · Marie Windsor

Synopsis As studio financing dwindled away for Hugo Haas, his last film as a writer-director-producer has certain autobiographical elements, a cast featuring several film veterans from the silent era, and a storyline containing a metaphoric commentary on Hollywood. When former European...

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Night of the Quarter Moon

1959 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Hugo Haas

Cast Julie London · John Drew Barrymore · Anna Kashfi · Dean Jones

Synopsis A young man returns to San Francisco and his wealthy family with a new bride. His family objects to his marriage as his wife is mixed race snd his mother is determined to have it annulled.

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Hold Back Tomorrow

1955 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Hugo Haas

Cast John Agar · Cleo Moore · Frank DeKova · Dallas Boyd

Synopsis Joe Cardos, a death row inmate in some unidentified country, is to face the gallows in the morning for strangling three women. Filled with bitterness at the world, and perhaps himself, Joe lashes out at the warden and guards' attempts...

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Devcata, nedejte se!

1937 · Movie · 85 min. · Czechoslovakia

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The Dream (TV)

1956 · Movie · 30 min. · United States

Direction Hugo Haas

Cast George Sanders · Sal Mineo · Patricia Morison · John Banner

Synopsis In 1887 France, a mother is starting to become worried about her young son. He has a recurring dream in which he looks for his dead father. His mother gets worried even more when he tells her that he has...

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Born to Be Loved

1959 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Hugo Haas

Cast Carol Morris · Barbara Jo Allen · Hugo Haas · Dick Kallman

Synopsis A seamstress (Carol Morris) and a music teacher (Hugo Haas) play Cupid for each other, ending with a double wedding

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Direction Hugo Haas · Otakar Vávra

Cast Hugo Haas · Antonie Nedosinská · Jirina Stepnicková · Rudolf Deyl

Synopsis Slightly ironic comedy of wretches, who come to understand the rich and are able to accept charity, and also about how love and work prevail over the factory owner’s son.

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Hit and Run

1957 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Hugo Haas

Cast Cleo Moore · Hugo Haas · Vince Edwards · Dolores Reed

Synopsis Garage owner Gus Hilmer marries showgirl Julie, many years his junior, and this causes a conflict between Gus and Frankie, a young mechanic he has befriended. FRankie falls in love with Julie and she, as expected in any Hugo Hass...

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Edge of Hell

1956 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Hugo Haas

Cast Hugo Haas · Francesca De Scaffa · June Shelley · Jeffrey Stone

Synopsis A Russian beggar and his performing dog Flip struggle to make ends meet living upon the cruel streets.

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