Soundtrack: Hugo Friedhofer
The best movies, series, and documentaries with a soundtrack by Hugo Friedhofer. Enjoy the titles that feature an unforgettable music.
Titles found: 134
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946 · Movie · 170 min. · United States
Direction William Wyler
Cast Dana Andrews · Fredric March · Myrna Loy · Harold Russell
Synopsis After the Second World War, the soldiers who survived, some of them with physical problems, came back to the United States. Initially, they were treated as heroes, but afterwards they became marginalized.
8.2
8K votes
8.2
8K votes
Ace in the Hole
1951 · Movie · 111 min. · United States
Direction Billy Wilder
Cast Kirk Douglas · Jan Sterling · Robert Arthur · Porter Hall
Synopsis A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to re-jump start his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus. Charles Tatum, a down-on-his-luck...
8.0
8K votes
8.0
8K votes
Gilda
1946 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction Charles Vidor
Cast Rita Hayworth · Glenn Ford · George Macready · Joseph Calleia
Synopsis Just arrived in Argentina, small-time crooked gambler Johnny Farrell is saved from a gunman by sinister Ballin Mundson, who later makes Johnny his right-hand man. But their friendship based on mutual lack of scruples is strained when Mundson returns from...
7.7
31K votes
7.7
31K votes
An Affair to Remember
1957 · Movie · 119 min. · United States
Direction Leo McCarey
Cast Cary Grant · Deborah Kerr · Richard Denning · Neva Patterson
Synopsis In this legendary tearjerker, the world's most eligible bachelor (Cary Grant) is set to marry an heiress. But unfortunately for his bride-to-be, while he's traveling alone on a luxury liner he meets Terry McKay (Deborah Kerr) and realizes he's engaged...
7.6
11K votes
7.6
11K votes
The Harder They Fall
1956 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction Mark Robson
Cast Humphrey Bogart · Rod Steiger · Jan Sterling · Mike Lane
Synopsis Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant, his chances for success are hampered by a powder-puff punch...
7.6
4K votes
7.6
4K votes
Body and Soul
1947 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Robert Rossen
Cast John Garfield · Lilli Palmer · Hazel Brooks · Anne Revere
Synopsis Charley Davis wins an amateur boxing match and is taken on by promoter Quinn. Charley's mother doesn't want him to fight, but when Charley's father is accidentally killed, Charley sets up a fight for money. His career blooms as he...
7.6
2K votes
7.6
2K votes
Lifeboat
1944 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Alfred Hitchcock
Cast Tallulah Bankhead · John Hodiak · William Bendix · Hume Cronyn
Synopsis In the Atlantic during WWII, a ship and a German U-boat are involved in a battle and both are sunk. The survivors from the ship gather in one of the boats. They are from a variety of backgrounds: an international...
7.3
5K votes
7.3
5K votes
The Young Lions
1958 · Movie · 167 min. · United States
Direction Edward Dmytryk
Cast Marlon Brando · Montgomery Clift · Dean Martin · Maximilian Schell
Synopsis The destiny of two soldiers during World War II. The German officer Christian approves less and less of the war, while the American GI Ackerman climbs the military hierarchy.
7.2
6K votes
7.2
6K votes
No Man of Her Own
1950 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Mitchell Leisen
Cast Barbara Stanwyck · John Lund · Jane Cowl · Phyllis Thaxter
Synopsis Helen Ferguson (Stanwyck) is a pregnant girl who assumes a new identity and whose past catches up with her in blackmail and murder.
7.2
519 votes
7.2
519 votes
One-Eyed Jacks
1961 · Movie · 141 min. · United States
Direction Marlon Brando
Cast Marlon Brando · Karl Malden · Pina Pellicer · Katy Jurado
Synopsis Marlon Brando's only directorial effort. It's the Old West of 1880, and Brando stars as Kid Rio, who along with his partner, Dad Longworth (Karl Malden) are bank robbers who are caught holding up a Mexican bank. Longworth gets away...
7.1
5K votes
7.1
5K votes
Broken Arrow
1950 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Delmer Daves
Cast James Stewart · Jeff Chandler · Debra Paget · Will Geer
Synopsis By 1870, there has been 10 years of cruel war between settlers and Cochise's Apaches. Ex-soldier Tom Jeffords saves the life of an Apache boy and starts to wonder if Indians are human, after all; soon, he determines to use...
7.1
2K votes
7.1
2K votes
The Sound of Fury
1950 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Cy Endfield
Cast Frank Lovejoy · Kathleen Ryan · Richard Carlson · Lloyd Bridges
Synopsis A man down on his luck falls in with a criminal. After a senseless murder, the two are lynched.
7.0
97 votes
7.0
97 votes
Enchantment
1948 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Irving Reis
Cast David Niven · Teresa Wright · Evelyn Keyes · Farley Granger
Synopsis Uncle Rollo finally retires to the house he was brought up in. Lost in thoughts of his lost love, Lark, he does not want to be disturbed in his last days. However, the appearance of his niece and the subsequent...
7.0
134 votes
7.0
134 votes
The Revolt of Mamie Stover
1956 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Raoul Walsh
Cast Jane Russell · Richard Egan · Joan Leslie · Agnes Moorehead
Synopsis Set in the early '40s and directed by Raoul Walsh, The Revolt of Mamie Stover stars Jane Russell as Mamie, a San Francisco prostitute who is run out of town just as the second world war has begun to intensify....
7.0
208 votes
7.0
208 votes
Vera Cruz
1954 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Robert Aldrich
Cast Gary Cooper · Burt Lancaster · Denise Darcel · Sara Montiel
Synopsis During the Mexican Rebellion of 1866, an unsavory group of American adventurers are hired by the forces of Emporer Maximilian to escort a countess to Vera Cruz.
6.9
6K votes
6.9
6K votes
Violent Saturday
1955 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Richard Fleischer
Cast Victor Mature · Richard Egan · Stephen McNally · Lee Marvin
Synopsis A trio of bandits plan to rob a bank in an Arizona mining town. When the night comes, they do it, and escape, taking a townsman hostage, to an Amish village, where they hole themselves up. Soon, the townsman and...
6.8
653 votes
6.8
653 votes
The Road to Glory
1936 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Howard Hawks
Cast Fredric March · Warner Baxter · Lionel Barrymore · June Lang
Synopsis The story of trench life during World War I through the lives of a French regiment. As men are killed and replaced jaunty Lt. Denet becomes more and more somber. His rival for the affection of nurse Monique is Capt....
6.8
223 votes
6.8
223 votes
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
1952 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Joseph M. Newman
Cast Anne Baxter · Dale Robertson · Miriam Hopkins · Cameron Mitchell
6.8
26 votes
6.8
26 votes
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
1936 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Henry Hathaway
Cast Henry Fonda · Fred MacMurray · Sylvia Sidney · Fred Stone
Synopsis The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a 1936 romance film based on the novel of the same name. It was directed by Henry Hathaway. It was the second full length feature film to be shot in three-strip Technicolor and...
6.7
456 votes
6.7
456 votes
The Bishop's Wife
1947 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction Henry Koster
Cast Cary Grant · Loretta Young · David Niven · Monty Woolley
Synopsis A harassed bishop's prayers are answered when an angel (played by Cary Grant) is sent from heaven to help him raise money for a new church. The heavenly agent performs a number of miracles on his behalf, restoring hope to...
6.7
1K votes
6.7
1K votes