Direction: Fritz Lang

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


Woman in the Moon

1929 · Movie · 165 min. · Germany

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Gerda Maurus · Willy Fritsch · Fritz Rasp · Gustav von Wangenheim

Plot Thirty years ago, at a scientific conference, Prof. Manfeldt presented his theory on the existence of gold on the Moon. It was greeted with laughter by the assembled academics. Today,...

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

1956 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Dana Andrews · Joan Fontaine · Sidney Blackmer · Arthur Franz

Plot Writer sets himself up to take murder rap to show the errors of circumstantial evidence. With a friend holding back evidence so he can prove his innocence at the last...

7.1

3K votes

7.1

3K votes

Moonfleet

1955 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

7.1

4K votes

7.1

4K votes

The Indian Tomb

1959 · Movie · 96 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Debra Paget · Paul Hubschmid · Walther Reyer · Claus Holm

Plot Harald Berger and Seetha manage to elude Chandra's soldiers until Seetha's faith in her gods results in her capture and his apparent death. Berger's partner Dr. Rhode (Claus Holm) and...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

Man Hunt

1941 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Walter Pidgeon · Joan Bennett · George Sanders · Roddy McDowall

Plot British hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria has Hitler in his gunsight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by German agents...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

The Tiger of Eschnapur

1959 · Movie · 101 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Debra Paget · Walther Reyer · Paul Hubschmid · Claus Holm

Plot Architect Harald Berger (Paul Hubschmid) travels to far off Eschnapur, there to build schools and hospitals for Chandra (Walter Reyer), the district's all-powerful Maharaja. Along the way he falls in...

6.9

2K votes

6.9

2K votes

House by the River

1950 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Louis Hayward · Lee Bowman · Jane Wyatt · Dorothy Patrick

Plot The unsuccessful writer Stephen Byrne tries to force his servant Emily Gaunt sexually while his wife Marjorie Byrne is visiting a friend and accidentally strangles her. His crippled brother John...

6.9

917 votes

6.9

917 votes

The Blue Gardenia

1953 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Anne Baxter · Richard Conte · Ann Sothern · Raymond Burr

Plot Anne Baxter is a telephone operator who believes she committed murder when she was drinking away the tears of a broken romance. Too much rum with Raymond Burr, a licentious...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

The Return of Frank James

1940 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Henry Fonda · Gene Tierney · Jackie Cooper · Henry Hull

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

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

Secret Beyond the Door...

1947 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Joan Bennett · Michael Redgrave · Anne Revere · Barbara O'Neil

Plot In this Freudian version of the Bluebeard tale, a young, trust-funded New Yorker goes to Mexico on vacation before marrying an old friend whom she considers a safe choice for...

6.7

2K votes

6.7

2K votes

Cloak and Dagger

1946 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Gary Cooper · Robert Alda · Lilli Palmer · Vladimir Sokoloff

Plot Near the end of World War II, the Allies must find out how much the Axis knows about building atomic bombs. The OSS recruits a physicist, Alvah Jesper, to reach...

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

Moontide

1942 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo · Fritz Lang

Cast Jean Gabin · Ida Lupino · Thomas Mitchell · Claude Rains

Plot After a drunken binge on the San Pablo waterfront, longshoreman Bobo fears he may have killed a man. In his uncertainty, he takes a job on an isolated bait barge....

6.6

227 votes

6.6

227 votes

You and Me

1938 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Sylvia Sidney · George Raft · Robert Cummings · Barton MacLane

Plot 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...

6.5

241 votes

6.5

241 votes

Liliom

1934 · Movie · 118 min. · France

6.4

170 votes

6.4

170 votes

Western Union

1941 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Robert Young · Randolph Scott · Dean Jagger · Virginia Gilmore

Plot While escaping from a heist of a bank, the outlaw Vance Shaw helps Edward Creighton, the chief-engineer of the Western Union that is surveying the Wild West and had had...

6.4

680 votes

6.4

680 votes

The Spiders, Part 1: The Golden Lake

1919 · Movie · 81 min. · Germany

6.3

241 votes

6.3

241 votes

Journey to the Lost City

1960 · Movie · 95 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Debra Paget · Paul Hubschmid · Walther Reyer · Claus Holm

Plot An architect travels to the remote city of Eschnapur to oversee some work being done at the bequest of the local Maharajah. Along the way the architect meets and falls...

6.2

21 votes

6.2

21 votes

The Moving Image

1920 · Movie · 67 min. · Germany

5.9

173 votes

5.9

173 votes

The Spiders, Part 2: The Diamond Ship

1920 · Movie · 69 min. · Germany

5.8

210 votes

5.8

210 votes

American Guerrilla in the Philippines

1950 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

5.6

330 votes

5.6

330 votes