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
Direction Fritz Lang
Cast Stewart Granger · George Sanders · Joan Greenwood · Viveca Lindfors
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
Direction Fritz Lang
Cast Charles Boyer · Madeleine Ozeray · Robert Arnoux · Roland Toutain
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
Direction Fritz Lang
Cast Carl de Vogt · Ressel Orla · Georg John · Lil Dagover
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
Direction Fritz Lang
Cast Mia May · Hans Marr · Harry Frank · Rudolf Klein-Rogge
5.9
173 votes
5.9
173 votes
The Spiders, Part 2: The Diamond Ship
1920 · Movie · 69 min. · Germany
Direction Fritz Lang
Cast Carl de Vogt · Ressel Orla · Georg John · Lil Dagover
5.8
210 votes
5.8
210 votes
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
1950 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Fritz Lang
Cast Tyrone Power · Micheline Presle · Tom Ewell · Robert Patten
5.6
330 votes
5.6
330 votes