Robert Siodmak — Director (35)
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The Burning Secret (1933) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Brennendes Geheimnis
director: Robert Siodmak actor: Alfred Abel / Hilde Wagener …
other title: Perigosa Aventura / Brennendes Geheimnis …
One autumn, Edgar, a 12 year old boy, spends a holiday with his mother at a plush hotel in Switzerland. His father, a busy lawyer, remains at the family home in Vienna. When he sees a stylish motorcar pull up at the hotel, Edgar wastes no time befriending its owner, an amiable dandy. The latter pays more attention to the boy’s mother than to the boy himself, and decides to use Edgar to wheedle his way into her affections. When Edgar realises he has been used, he is far from happy...
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Someone to Remember (1943) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Someone to Remember
director: Robert Siodmak actor: Mabel Paige / John Craven …
other title: Qualcuno da ricordare
An elderly woman whose son disappeared years before refuses to move when her apartment building is turned into a college dormitory for male students, as she is convinced that he will return one day. She continues to live in the building after it becomes a dorm, and eventually grows attached to a troubled young student whom she comes to believe is her own grandson. When she finds out that the boy's father will be visiting him, she prepares herself to be reunited with the man she has convinced herself is her long-lost son.
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Hatred (1938) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Mollenard
director: Robert Siodmak actor: Harry Baur / Albert Préjean …
other title: Mollenard / El capitán corsario …
Captain Justin Mollenard works for a company that sells armaments to the Far East. After an eventful stay in Shanghai, where he and his cargo are the victim of a malicious attack, he returns to his hometown of Dunkirk. Mollenard receives a frosty welcome from his wife Mathilde, who resents the way in which he has neglected his family for so many years. Mollenard’s only wish is to get back to sea as soon as he can, but a sudden heart-attack leaves him paralysed and entirely in his wife’s power...
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Fly By Night (1942) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Fly By Night
director: Robert Siodmak actor: Richard Carlson / Nancy Kelly …
Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff's passenger is an inventor has just escaped from a shady sanitarium, where he has been held prisoner by Nazi spies.
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Mercenaries of the Rio Grande (1965) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Der Schatz der Azteken
director: Robert Siodmak actor: Lex Barker / Gérard Barray …
other title: I violenti di Rio Bravo / Der Schatz der Azteken …
Dr. Karl Sternau, the personal physician of the count Bismarck, who spent much of his youth in Mexico, is sent back to that country during the occupation by French troops in the service of the Austrian 'Emperor' Maximilian, to carry an encouraging letter from U.S. President Lincoln to the nationalist Mexican president Benito Juarez.
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Deported (1950) [Movie] WikiData IMDb Skybridge TMDB
Deported
director: Robert Siodmak actor: Märta Torén / Jeff Chandler …
other title: Il deportato / Abgeschoben …
The real-life deportation of gangster Lucky Luciano was the inspiration for this romanticized and slightly crackbrained crime drama. Jeff Chandler plays the Luciano counterpart, who once he arrives in Italy renews his criminal activities.
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The Suspect (1945) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Suspect
director: Robert Siodmak actor: Charles Laughton / Ella Raines …
other title: Quinto: non ammazzare! / Unter Verdacht …
Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly yearns for a pretty young stenographer. When the henpecking gets to be too much, Philip murders his wife and manages to make her death look like an accident. A ruthless blackmailer and a low-key detective both discover Philip's secret, and he has to decide which of them poses the more dangerous threat.
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Cry of the City (1948) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Cry of the City
director: Robert Siodmak actor: Victor Mature / Richard Conte …
other title: L'urlo della città / Schrei der Großstadt …
Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police Lt. Candella must check Niles' allegation; a friend of the Rome family, he walks a tightrope between sentiment and cynicism. When Martin fears Candella will implicate his girlfriend Teena, he'll do anything to protect her. How many others will he drag down to disaster with him?
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Quick (1932) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Quick
director: Robert Siodmak actor: Lilian Harvey / Hans Albers …
Die schon früh geschiedene, 21-jährige Eva Prätorius residiert im edlen Sanatorium Sonneneck, das von dem angesehenen Prof. Bertram ärztlich geführt wird. Ihr Interesse weckt einzig der Musikclown Quick, den sie allabendlich in der Varietévorführung des Apollo-Theaters bewundert. Dort singt er und führt allerlei akrobatische Kunststücke vor. Bald beginnt sich auch der weiß geschminkte Entertainer für die junge, kapriziöse Frau, die ihn allabendlich aus ihrer Loge anhimmelt, zu interessieren.