List of the best Edgar G. Ulmer movies: The Black Cat(1934), Ruthless(1948), The Strange Woman(1946), The Naked Dawn(1955), Green Fields(1937), The Light Ahead(1939), Club Havana(1945), Strange Illusion(1945), Murder Is My Beat(1955), Bluebeard(1944), American Matchmaker(1940), St. Benny the Dip(1951) ... ...
Horror
USA
1934
65 Minutes
Director
Boris Karloff Bela Lugosi David Manners Jacqueline Wells Lucille Lund Egon Brecher Henry Armetta Albert Conti Anna Duncan Herman Bing Andre Cheron
American honeymooners in Hungary become trapped in the home of a Satan-worshiping priest when the bride is taken there for medical help following a road accident.
Drama
USA
1948
104 Minutes
Director
Zachary Scott Louis Hayward Diana Lynn Martha Vickers Sydney Greenstreet Lucille Bremer Edith Barrett Dennis Hoey Raymond Burr Joyce Arling Charles Evans
millionaire childhood friend childhood sweetheart father love interest businessman bleak tense striking family home boston office new york city mansion social climbing betrayal jealousy love triangle wealth murder
A poor boy who saved a rich girl from drowning is adopted by her family but he grows into a money-hungry ruthless businessman who would step on others to get to the top of the social ladder.
Drama
USA
1946
100 Minutes
Director
Hedy Lamarr George Sanders Louis Hayward Gene Lockhart Hillary Brooke Rhys Williams June Storey Moroni Olsen Olive Blakeney Dennis Hoey Alan Napier
manipulative woman businessman college student husband wife best friend dark engaging melodramatic tense bangor, maine woods cabin romantic dilemma murder plot infidelity manipulation betrayal forbidden love temptation
In 1820s New England beautiful but poor and manipulative Jenny Hager marries rich old man Isaiah Poster but also seduces his son and his company foreman.
Crime, Drama
USA
1955
82 Minutes
Director
Arthur Kennedy Betta St. John Eugene Iglesias Charlita Roy Engel Francis Macdonald
In Mexico, at the dawn of the automobile, modern bandit Santiago burglarizes train freight cars and falls in love with a poor farmer's wife.
Comedy
USA
1937
95 Minutes
Director
Michael Gorrin Helen Beverley Isidore Cashier Anna Appel Lea Noemi Dena Drute Max Vodnoy Saul Levine Herschel Bernardi
student farmer farm girl mother daughter neighbor amusing positive tender russia countryside farm synagogue city judaism country life jealousy travel neighbors love triangle
Ulmer's soulful, open-air adaptation of Peretz Hirshbein's classic play heralded the Golden Age of Yiddish cinema. When an ascetic young scholar ventures into the countryside, searching for... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1939
94 Minutes
Director
David Opatoshu Helen Beverly Isidore Cashier Rosetta Bialis Anna Guskin Wolf Mercur Jenny Cashier Judel Dubinsky Leon Seidenberg Morris Shorr
In a small town in Russia in the 1880s, two young but poor lovers are helped by a wise old bookseller.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1945
62 Minutes
Director
Edgar G. Ulmer directed this film about a number of different characters unfolding love, hate, and death problems during an evening in a fashionable Latin nightclub.
Drama
USA
1945
87 Minutes
Director
Jimmy Lydon Sally Eilers Warren William Regis Toomey Charles Arnt George H. Reed Jayne Hazard
Paul, a young man whose father was once lieutenant Governor of California before his untimely death, has a strange, recurring dream in which his mother falls in love with a dangerous man (... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1955
76 Minutes
Director
Paul Langton Barbara Payton Robert Shayne Selena Royle Roy Gordon Tracey Roberts Kate McKenna Harry Harvey Jay Adler
A police detective helps a singer heading to prison for the murder of a man she claims is still alive.
Horror
USA
1944
73 Minutes
Director
John Carradine Jean Parker Nils Asther Ludwig Stossel George Pembroke Teala Loring Sonia Sorel Iris Adrian Henry Kolker Emmett Lynn Patti McCarty
murderer artist seamstress inspector ex-lover dark creepy artist's studio funeral paris france murder case painting dangerous job wretched excess transformation love 19th century
In Paris, an artist hires portrait models, and after he finishes their portraits, he strangles them.
Romance
USA
1940
87 Minutes
Director
Leo Fuchs Yudel Dubinsky Judith Abarbanel Anna Guskin Celia Brodkin Rosetta Bialis Abraham Lax William Mercur Jacob Mestel Maurice Schwartz Arianne Arden
Nat Silver has been engaged 7 times already. This time, his 8th, he's really going to get married. But a visitor shows up, Shirley's old boyfriend. With a gun ! He'll kill himself unless he... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
USA
1951
80 Minutes
Director
Dick Haymes Nina Foch Roland Young Lionel Stander Freddie Bartholomew Oscar Karlweis Dort Clark Will Lee Verne Colette Richard Gordon
con artist con man priest police officers cheeky confident crafty creative lighthearted mission room new york united states escape police pursuit mistaken identity hide escape growing up rise
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 on them.
Sci-Fi
USA
1951
70 Minutes
Director
Robert Clarke Margaret Field Raymond Bond William Schallert Roy Engel Charles Davis Gilbert Fallman David Ormont
alien scientist professor doctor reporter eerie thrilling suspenseful scotland island observatory tower moor village saving the planet alien landing alien/human relationship mind control deception race against time
As a mysterious planet hurls itself toward Earth, an enigmatic extraterrestrial scout arrives on a remote Scottish island with unknown intentions.
Comedy
USA
1943
66 Minutes
Director
A broken down boxing promoter finds that his son has become a hero fighting in the pacific and is about to come home for a war bond tour. Trouble is, he's been lying about how successful ... See full summary »
Drama
West Germany
1953
90 Minutes
Director
Hedy Lamarr Marc Allégret Cathy O'Donnell Terence Morgan Massimo Serato Guido Celano Robert Beatty Luigi Tosi
Horror
USA
1957
67 Minutes
Director
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 ruthless killer.
Western
USA
1934
50 Minutes
Director
Guinn "Big Boy" Williams Marion Shilling Helen Westcott Claude Payton Philo McCullough Bob McKenzie Tiny Skelton
banker sheriff cowboy orphan kidnapper schoolmaster spirited melodramatic confident texas plains railroad tracks kidnapping secret documents orphans murder guardianship railroad rescue pursuit
A cowboy tries to protect a young woman whose father was murdered because he had railroad maps that showed the location of a proposed new line. Now the killers are after her because they think she has the maps.
Musical
USA
1939
75 Minutes
Director
Bud Harris Cora Green Alec Lovejoy Izinetta Wilcox Earl Gough Zerritta Stepteau Petrina Moore
Musical numbers highlight this story of a wealthy widow who disowns her daughter after a new man enters her life.
Drama, History
Italy
1960
103 Minutes
Director
Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia Victor Mature Rita Gam Gabriele Ferzetti Milly Vitale Rik Battaglia Franco Silva Terence Hill Andrea Aureli Bud Spencer
general senator niece roman soldier brash melodramatic rousing thrilling rome north africa alps camp hannibal conquest war journey unlikely romance leadership temptation
During the Second Punic War in 218 BC, Carthaginian general Hannibal attacks the Roman Republic by crossing the Pyrenees and the Alps with his vast army.
Musical
USA
1944
62 Minutes
Director
Dickie Moore Tina Thayer Gerra Young
A young, classical-trained musician, Peter Crane, transfers from the Conservatory to Clinton High School, where he finds his music in conflict to that of the high school's world of jive and... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
USA
1942
66 Minutes
Director
Ricardo Cortez Jean Parker Emmett Lynn Roseanne Stevens Ray Miller
daughter father gangster lieutenant waitress cafe owner spirited offbeat gripping arizona small town café desert nightclub crime syndicate blackmail father/daughter relationship manipulation gang war reunion
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 ... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
USA
1943
72 Minutes
Director
Arline Judge Roger Clark Robin Raymond Barbara Pepper Dorothy Burgess Clancy Cooper Addison Randall Patricia Knox Sid Melton Russell Gaige Emmett Lynn
When a teacher loses her job because her brother-in-law is a racketeer, she takes a position at a girls' reformatory.
Drama
Canada|UK
1937
61 Minutes
Director
Diane Sinclair Lyman Williams Cecilia Parker
An extramarital affair leads to a young couple contracting venereal disease.
Adventure
1949
93 Minutes
Director
Neapolitans against Queen Carolina (Binnie Barnes) have an ally in her court, secret swashbuckler Captain Sirocco (Louis Hayward).
Sci-Fi
1960
58 Minutes
Director
Marguerite Chapman Douglas Kennedy James Griffith Ivan Triesault Boyd "Red" Morgan Carmen Daniel Edward Erwin Jonathan Ledford Norman Smith Patrick Cranshaw Kevin Kelly
A crook (Douglas Kennedy) decides to rob a bank instead of working for the mad scientist who made him invisible.
Action
1943
82 Minutes
Director
John Carradine Gale Sondergaard Sidney Toler Frank Fenton Veda Ann Borg Rita Quigley Rick Vallin
seaman diver madam treasure hunter captain chief brash suspenseful melodramatic raw south sea island nightclub brothel underwater ship sunken treasure island life deep-sea diving double-cross
A diver (John Carradine) and his partner fight a captain (Sidney Toler) and a purser for gold from their scuttled ship.
Sci-Fi
1960
75 Minutes
Director
Robert Clarke Darlene Tompkins Arianne Arden Vladimir Sokoloff Boyd "Red" Morgan Stephen Bekassy John Van Dreelen Ken Knox
A pilot crashes through the time barrier into the world of 2024, inhabited by the last remnants of civilization.