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...
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.
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
Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (Die Nibelungen - Part II)
1924 · Movie · 130 min. · Germany
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