Fritz Lang
Director, Actor
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 (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 (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'…
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…
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.
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
- 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…
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,…