Direction: Robert Siodmak

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


The Killers

1946 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Burt Lancaster · Ava Gardner · Edmond O'Brien · Albert Dekker

Plot Two professional killers invade a small town and kill a gas station attendant, "the Swede", who's expecting them. Insurance investigator Reardon pursues the case against the orders of his boss,...

7.9

8K votes

7.9

8K votes

Criss Cross

1949 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Burt Lancaster · Yvonne De Carlo · Dan Duryea · Stephen McNally

Plot While driving an armored car in a lonely road, Steve Thompson recalls his life, after divorcing his beloved wife Anna and working in many places in the United States of...

7.5

3K votes

7.5

3K votes

The Crimson Pirate

1952 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Burt Lancaster · Eva Bartok · Nick Cravat · Torin Thatcher

Plot 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...

7.5

11K votes

7.5

11K votes

The Suspect

1944 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Charles Laughton · Ella Raines · Henry Daniell · Rosalind Ivan

Plot In 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...

7.4

1K votes

7.4

1K votes

The Dark Mirror

1946 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Olivia de Havilland · Lew Ayres · Thomas Mitchell · Richard Long

Plot 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, a psychiatrist is called in...

7.2

3K votes

7.2

3K votes

The Spiral Staircase

1945 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Dorothy McGuire · George Brent · Kent Smith · Ethel Barrymore

Plot 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....

7.2

4K votes

7.2

4K votes

The Rats

1955 · Movie · 97 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

7.2

76 votes

7.2

76 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

Phantom Lady

1944 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Franchot Tone · Ella Raines · Alan Curtis · Aurora Miranda

Plot This noir thriller follows an innocent man blamed for the murder of his wife and unable to find the woman with whom he passed the evening in question. When he's...

7.0

945 votes

7.0

945 votes

The File on Thelma Jordon

1949 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Wendell Corey · Paul Kelly · Joan Tetzel

Plot 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....

6.9

511 votes

6.9

511 votes

The Great Sinner

1949 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Gregory Peck · Ava Gardner · Melvyn Douglas · Walter Huston

Plot A young writer goes to Paris. He meets in the train a young woman forced to marry a wealthy casino manager in Monte Carlo. His true love for the girl...

6.9

508 votes

6.9

508 votes

Cry of the City

1948 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Victor Mature · Richard Conte · Mimi Aguglia · Shelley Winters

Plot Victor Mature and Richard Conte play men who both grew up in the same tough inner-city neighborhood (New York's Little Italy). One turned out to be a good cop; the...

6.8

523 votes

6.8

523 votes

The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry

1945 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast George Sanders · Geraldine Fitzgerald · Ella Raines · Sara Allgood

Plot Bachelor Harry Quincey, head designer in a small-town cloth factory, lives with his selfish sisters, glamorous hypochondriac Lettie and querulous widow Hester. His developing relationship with new colleague Deborah Brown...

6.8

552 votes

6.8

552 votes

Escape from East Berlin

1962 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Don Murray · Christine Kaufmann · Werner Klemperer · Ingrid van Bergen

Plot In January of 1962, 29 East Berliners escaped to West Berlin via a tunnel they had dug beneath the Berlin Wall, led by Erwin Becker, a chauffeur in the car...

6.6

256 votes

6.6

256 votes

Nights, When the Devil Came

1957 · Movie · 99 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Claus Holm · Annemarie Düringer · Mario Adorf · Hannes Messemer

Plot 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.

6.6

381 votes

6.6

381 votes

Looking for His Murderer

1931 · Movie · 97 min. · Germany

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Heinz Rühmann · Lien Deyers · Raimund Janitschek · Hans Leibelt

Plot It starts straight away with our young hero trying to shoot a bullet into his head. No explanation whatsoever is given as to his motives – moviegoers in the Germany...

6.5

32 votes

6.5

32 votes

Christmas Holiday

1944 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Deanna Durbin · Gene Kelly · Richard Whorf · Dean Harens

Plot Don't be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It's a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story begins as Abigail Martin marries Southern aristocrat...

6.2

258 votes

6.2

258 votes

Custer of the West

1966 · Movie · 146 min. · United States

5.8

401 votes

5.8

401 votes

Hatred

1938 · Movie · 106 min. · France

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Harry Baur · Albert Préjean · Gabrielle Dorziat · Gina Manès

Plot Justin Mollenard is a sailor and arms smuggler who does not support the hypocrisy of society. He has a wife in Dunkirk who reproaches him the fact of having neglected...

5.8

25 votes

5.8

25 votes

Fly-By-Night

1942 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Richard Carlson · Nancy Kelly · Albert Basserman · Miles Mander

Plot After being charged with the murder of a scientist, a young doctor must track down a Nazi spy ring to clear his name.

5.6

21 votes

5.6

21 votes