Direction: Fritz Lang

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Fritz Lang. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


M

1931 · Movie · 111 min. · Germany

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Peter Lorre · Otto Wernicke · Gustaf Gründgens · Theo Lingen

Plot In Fritz Langs startling and exquisite film M, fear stalks the streets of Berlin in the form of a serial child murderer whose grisly accomplishments are so heinous even the...

Max

8.3

20K votes

8.3

20K votes

Scarlet Street

1945 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Joan Bennett · Dan Duryea · Jess Baker

Plot Chris Cross (Edward G. Robinson), a mild mannered bank clerk, celebrates his 25 years of service, but he is unhappy with his dead end job and his shrieking harpy of...

8.2

13K votes

8.2

13K votes

Metropolis

1927 · Movie · 153 min. · Germany

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Gustav Fröhlich · Brigitte Helm · Alfred Abel · Rudolf Klein-Rogge

Plot In Metropolis, society is divided in two classes: the rich, who have all the power and all kinds of luxuries and the workers, doomed to work and confined to live...

8.2

38K votes

8.2

38K votes

The Woman in the Window

1944 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Joan Bennett · Raymond Massey · Edmund Breon

Plot Gotham College professor Wanley and his friends become obsessed with the portrait of a woman in the window next to the men's club. Wanley happens to meet the woman while...

8.1

16K votes

8.1

16K votes

The Big Heat

1953 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Glenn Ford · Gloria Grahame · Lee Marvin · Jocelyn Brando

Plot Dave Bannion is an upright but unscrupulous cop on the trail of a vicious gang he suspects holds power over the police force. Bannion is tipped off after a colleague's...

8.1

11K votes

8.1

11K votes

Fury

1936 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Sylvia Sidney · Spencer Tracy · Walter Abel · Bruce Cabot

Plot This is the story of an innocent man (Spencer Tracy) who escapes a lynch mob and then orchestrates his apparent murder at their hands to get revenge.

8.1

6K votes

8.1

6K votes

Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (Die Nibelungen - Part I)

1924 · Movie · 143 min. · Germany

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Paul Richter · Margarete Schön · Hanna Ralph · Theodor Loos

Plot It is based on the German epic from the 13th century. We follow Siegfried through the making of the magic sword, his slaying of the dragon, his bath in the...

8.0

2K votes

8.0

2K votes

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

1933 · Movie · 122 min. · Germany

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Rudolf Klein-Rogge · Oskar Beregi · Theodor Loos · Karl Meixner

Plot Berlin police inspector Lohmann investigates a case, in which all clues lead to a man, who's in a hospital for mental illnesses for since many years - Dr. Mabuse.

Max

8.0

4K votes

8.0

4K votes

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler

1922 · Movie · 272 min. · Germany

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Rudolf Klein-Rogge · Alfred Abel · Aud Egede Nissen · Bernhard Goetzke

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

7.9

3K votes

7.9

3K votes

Destiny

1921 · Movie · 105 min. · Germany

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Lil Dagover · Walter Janssen · Bernhard Goetzke · Rudolf Klein-Rogge

Plot As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and is sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall. The woman finds...

7.8

3K votes

7.8

3K votes

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Margarete Schön · Rudolf Klein-Rogge · Georg John · Theodor Loos

Plot After Siegfried's dead, Kriemhild marries Etzel, the King of the Huns. She gives birth to a child, and invites her brothers for a party. She tries to persuade Etzel and...

7.8

2K votes

7.8

2K votes

Human Desire

1954 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Glenn Ford · Gloria Grahame · Broderick Crawford · Edgar Buchanan

Plot A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in a sordid affair with a co-worker's wife and murder.

7.7

5K votes

7.7

5K votes

Hangmen Also Die!

1943 · Movie · 131 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Brian Donlevy · Walter Brennan · Anna Lee · Gene Lockhart

Plot An apocryphal version of the assassination of the Nazi leader and Czech "protector" Reinhard Heydrich by a resistance fighter in World War II. The story follows the assassin as he...

7.7

3K votes

7.7

3K votes

You Only Live Once

1937 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Sylvia Sidney · Henry Fonda · Barton MacLane · Jean Dixon

Plot Archetypal depression-era stars Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney are felicitously teamed in Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once. Fonda plays an ex-convict who can't get a break on the "outside"....

7.6

4K votes

7.6

4K votes

While the City Sleeps

1956 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Dana Andrews · Ida Lupino · George Sanders · Rhonda Fleming

Plot A serial killer has been killing beautiful women in New York, and the new owner of a media company offers a high ranking job to the 1st administrator who can...

7.4

3K votes

7.4

3K votes

Rancho Notorious

1952 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Arthur Kennedy · Mel Ferrer · Gloria Henry

Plot A western based on the story "Gunsight Whitman" by Silvia Richards. Vern Haskell, a nice rancher, seeks out to avenge his fiancé's death when she is killed during a robbery....

7.3

3K votes

7.3

3K votes

Spies

1928 · Movie · 144 min. · Germany

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Rudolf Klein-Rogge · Gerda Maurus · Willy Fritsch · Lupu Pick

Plot 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.

7.3

695 votes

7.3

695 votes

Clash by Night

1952 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Paul Douglas · Robert Ryan · Marilyn Monroe

Plot Mae Doyle (Barbara Stanwyck) returns to the safe haven of her hometown, a small fishing community in Monterey, California. Upon her arrival, she is befriended by young woman (Marilyn Monroe)...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

Ministry of Fear

1944 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Ray Milland · Marjorie Reynolds · Carl Esmond · Hillary Brooke

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

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse

1960 · Movie · 103 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Dawn Addams · Peter van Eyck · Gert Fröbe · Wolfgang Preiss

Plot Lang's last film. Reporter Peter Barter gets murdered while driving to his tv station. Commisioner Kras gets a phone call from clairvoyant Cornelius who saw Barters death in a vision....

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes