Fritz Lang

Director, Actor

Filmography (All Films)

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Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler (1922): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Alfred Abel, Lil Dagover; Lang's first foray into ze evil exploits of Dr. Mabuse is a visually dazzling example of German expressionism, involving the master criminal's plan…
Siegfried (Die Nibelungen Pt. 1) (1924): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Paul Richter, Margarete Schon, Theodor Loos…; First part of Dir. Lang's recreation of the German Nibelungen myth cycle (that inspired Wagner's 'Ring'), features fire–breathing dragons,…
Kriemhilde's Revenge (Die Nibelungen Pt. 2) (1925): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Margarete Schon, Gertrud Arnold, Theodor Loos; Second part of Lang's Die Nibelungen saga (Part One – SIEGFRIED) has the aggrieved Kriemhilde joining forces with Attila the Hun against her…
Metropolis (1926): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Alfred Abel, Gustav Frohlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge…; Fritz Lang's masterpiece is a magnificent marriage of pure cinema innovation and startlingly ambitious set design. Set around the year 2000, a…
Metropolis (1984 Version) (1926): Dir. Fritz Lang; Fritz Lang's silent masterpiece retains its magnificence in spite of the slashed running time and the rock bombast of Georgio Moroder's contemporary…
Spies (Spione) (1928): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Willy Fritsch; Post WWI Europe provides a volatile backdrop for this silent spy–saga, whose brilliant visual flourishes and 'house–of–mirrors'…
Woman in the Moon (Frau im Mond) (1929): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Willy Fritsch, Fritz Rasp, Gerda Maurus…; Silent–era sci–fi from director Fritz Lang. Based on the 1928 novel "The Rocket to the Moon" by his collaborator (and wife at the time)…
M... Worst Crime of All (1931): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Peter Lorre; A chilling expressionist classic starring Peter Lorre as psychotic child molester. Dir. Lang masterfully fills the screen with understated but…
Testament of Dr. Mabuse, The (1933): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Rudolf Klein-Rogge; Dir. Lang's brilliant sequel to the silent DR. MABUSE – THE GAMBLER, rethinking his vision of the evil controlling mastermind for the nascent…
Fury (1936): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Sylvia Sidney; Blunt statement against the mob–mentality with Spencer Tracy as an innocent man set upon by vicious locals intent on lynching with extreme…
You Only Live Once (1937): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Henry Fonda, Sylvia Sidney; An awesome early film noir from dir. Lang with Fonda playing a career criminal determined to go straight, but compelled by fate into murdering a…
Return of Frank James (1940): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Jackie Cooper; Worthy sequel to JESSE JAMES with Henry Fonda reprising his role of Frank, now out to avenge the death of his brother.
Western Union (1941): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Robert Young, Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger…; Outlaw Vance Shaw tries to escape his dark past by protecting the good citizens building telegraph poles in the Great Plains from bandits, only to…
Man Hunt (1941): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders…; A Fritz Lang–directed thriller set in Europe just prior to World War II – the first of the German exile's four anti–Nazi films, and…
Hangmen Also Die (1943): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee…; Moody political thriller with Donlevy on the run after assassinating a prominent Nazi and finding shelter with a Czech family as the manhunt consumes…
Woman in the Window, The (1944): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey; Fritz Lang applies his quietly gripping style to this highly–ranked film–noir in which Criminology Professor Edward G Robinson is led…
Ministry of Fear (1944): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond…; Fritz Lang's classic film noir focuses on a man who, upon being released from an insane asylum, unwittingly discovers a piece of microfilm intended…
Scarlet Street (1945): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett; One of dir. Fritz Lang's best American film noirs, salts a slightly bizzare plot with pinches of cruelty and sexual repression. Edward G Robinson…
Cloak and Dagger (1946): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Gary Cooper; Fritz Lang spruces up this WWII spy thriller in which Gaz Cooper takes on the the Nazis.
American Geurrilla In The Phillipines (I Shall Return) (1950): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Tyrone Power, Micheline Presle; War film from Fritz Lang following a group of American soldiers stranded in the Philippines after a motor torpedo boat is destroyed by Japanese…
House by the River (1950): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Louis Hayward, Lee Bowman, Jane Wyatt…; Crime noir which chillingly evokes the Victorian era thanks to director Fritz Lang's characteristic attention to detail and mood. When a rich…
Rancho Notorious (1952): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Arthur Kennedy, Mel Ferrer; Lively and interesting Western about a vengeful gunman who search brings him to the ranch of sultry saloon mistress Marlene Dietrich.
Clash by Night (1952): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe; Simmering jealousies in a run–down fishing village provide downbeat fare from the pen of Clifford Odets. With Barbara Stanwyk, Robert Ryan and…
Big Heat, The (1953): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Glenn Ford, Lee Marvin, Gloria Grahame; Pugnacious cop Glenn Ford turns up the heat on civic corruption in this iconic film–noir from dir. Lang's 50s period. When a detective's…
While the City Sleeps (1956): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders…; Considered a vastly under–rated Fritz Lang noir, this newspaper drama provides plenty of social commentary depicting the story of the "Lipstick…
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer…; This bleak film noir from director Fritz Lang is a triumph of style and mood with a cynical take on fate and the human condition. An impeccably…
Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse (The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse) (1960): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Dawn Addams, Peter Van Eyck, Gert Frobe; The final film in Fritz Lang's DR. MABUSE series, which includes DR. MABUSE, THE GAMBLER and THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE, is also the director's…
Le Mepris (Contempt) (1963): Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Fritz Lang; An insecure screen–writer struggles with vulgar producers as well as his movie–star wife on the set of Homer's Odyssey. Brigitte Bardot,…

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