Fritz Lang

Fritz Lang

December 5, 1890

Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-German film director, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Inst…

Known For

31 titles
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Metropolis

Metropolis

1927 · 2h 33m · Movie

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

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M

M

1931 · 1h 39m · Movie

When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.

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Contempt

Contempt

1963 · 1h 42m · Movie

A French writer's marriage deteriorates while working on Fritz Lang's version of "The Odyssey", as his wife accuses him of using her to court favor with the film's brash American producer.

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The Big Heat

The Big Heat

1953 · 1h 29m · Movie

Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate.

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Scarlet Street

Scarlet Street

1945 · 1h 42m · Movie

A man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman, though her fiancé persuades her to con him out of the fortune they mistakenly assume he possesses.

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The Woman in the Window

The Woman in the Window

1944 · 1h 47m · Movie

A reserved professor meets a model and gets mixed up in murder.

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Fury

Fury

1936 · 1h 32m · Movie

When a wrongly-accused prisoner barely survives a lynch-mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to fake his death and frame the mob for his supposed murder.

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The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

1933 · 2h 2m · Movie

A criminal mastermind uses hypnosis to rule the rackets after death.

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Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler

1922 · 3h 15m · Movie

Arch-criminal Dr. Mabuse sets out to make a fortune and run Berlin. Detective Wenk sets out to stop him.

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Ministry of Fear

Ministry of Fear

1944 · 1h 26m · Movie

Stephen Neale has just been released from an asylum during World War II in England when he accidentally stumbles onto a deadly Nazi spy plot and tries to stop it.

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You Only Live Once

You Only Live Once

1937 · 1h 26m · Movie

The public defender's secretary and an ex-convict get married and try to make a life together, but a series of disasters sends their lives spiraling out of control.

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Clash by Night

Clash by Night

1952 · 1h 45m · Movie

Mae Doyle comes back to her hometown a cynical woman. Her brother Joe fears that his love, fish cannery worker Peggy, may wind up like Mae. Mae marries Jerry and has a baby; she is happy but restless, drawn to Jerry's friend Earl.

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Hangmen Also Die!

Hangmen Also Die!

1943 · 2h 14m · Movie

After the German administrator of Czechia is shot, his assassin tries to elude the Gestapo and struggles with his impulse to give himself up as hostages are executed.

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Human Desire

Human Desire

1954 · 1h 31m · Movie

A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in an affair with a co-worker's wife following a murder on a train where they meet.

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Die Nibelungen: Siegfried

Die Nibelungen: Siegfried

1924 · 1h 40m · Movie

Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, sets off on a treacherous journey to the Kingdom of Burgundy to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the beautiful Princess Kriemhild.

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Man Hunt

Man Hunt

1941 · 1h 45m · Movie

In July 1939, British hunter Thorndike, vacationing in Bavaria, has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by German agents and aided by a young woman.

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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

1956 · 1h 20m · Movie

A novelist aided by his future father-in-law conspires to frame himself for the murder of a burlesque dancer as part of an effort to ban capital punishment.

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Secret Beyond the Door...

Secret Beyond the Door...

1947 · 1h 39m · Movie

After a lovely woman and her new husband settle in an ancient mansion on the East coast, she discovers that he may want to kill her.

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Rancho Notorious

Rancho Notorious

1952 · 1h 29m · Movie

After the murder of his fiancée, a Wyoming ranch hand sets out to find her killer.

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House by the River

House by the River

1950 · 1h 23m · Movie

A deranged writer murders a maid after she resists his advances. The writer engages his brother's help in hiding the body, causing unexpected problems for both of them.

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Spies

Spies

1928 · 1h 30m · Movie

The mastermind behind a ubiquitous spy operation learns of a dangerous romance between a Russian lady in his employ and a dashing agent from the government's secret service.

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The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse

The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse

1960 · 1h 43m · Movie

In 1960s Germany, criminal mastermind Dr. Mabuse uses hypnotized victims and the surveillance equipment of a Nazi-era bugged hotel to steal nuclear technology from a visiting American industrialist.

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The Return of Frank James

The Return of Frank James

1940 · 1h 32m · Movie

Frank James continues to avoid arrest in order to take revenge on the Ford brothers for their murder of his brother Jesse.

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Cloak and Dagger

Cloak and Dagger

1946 · 1h 46m · Movie

In WW2, the Allies race against time to persuade two nuclear scientists working for the Germans to switch sides.

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Western Union

Western Union

1941 · 1h 35m · Movie

When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite east with west, he hires a reformed Western outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor.

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The Tiger of Eschnapur

The Tiger of Eschnapur

1959 · 1h 41m · Movie

In Eschnapur, a local Maharajah and a German architect fall in-love with the same temple dancer.

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The Indian Tomb

The Indian Tomb

1959 · 1h 42m · Movie

A German architect runs away with the maharajah of Eschnapur's fiancee but is caught and thrown in the dungeon, while his relatives arrive from Europe looking for him and the maharajah's brother is scheming to usurp the throne.

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You and Me

You and Me

1938 · 1h 34m · Movie

An altruistic department-store owner hires ex-convicts in order to give them a second chance at life. Unfortunately, one of the convicts he hires recruits two of his fellow ex-convicts in a plan to rob the store.

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The Spiders - Episode 1: The Golden Sea

The Spiders - Episode 1: The Golden Sea

1919 · 2h 10m · Movie

Kay Hoog finds a message that indicates that some Incas are still alive, but the secret organisation "Die Spinnen" wants the Incas' gold....

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The Wandering Image

The Wandering Image

1920 · 1h 7m · Movie

Mia May has surrendered herself to a disciple of free love, and, having given birth to a child, marries the twin brother and Doppelgänger of her chosen lover.

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Mysteries of India, Part II: Above All Law

Mysteries of India, Part II: Above All Law

1921 · 1h 40m · Movie

Irene saves Herbert and the two help Princess Savitri flee the palace.

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