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Fritz Lang
Writer 1890 - 1976

Fritz Lang

Vienna, Austria

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"... Read full bio →

Filmography

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20 titles
Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse

Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse

Fritz Lang 1960 1h 39m 7.7

A reporter is murdered while driving to his job. The Police are contacted by a clairvoyant who saw the death in a vision, but some dark force is preventing him from seeing the man behind the crime...

Der Tiger von Eschnapur

Der Tiger von Eschnapur

Fritz Lang 1959 1h 41m 8.3

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

Das indische Grabmal

Das indische Grabmal

Fritz Lang 1959 1h 37m 7.6

A German architect runs away with the maharajah of Eschnapur's fiancée 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.

Fury

Fury

Fritz Lang 1936 1h 32m 8.4

When a prisoner barely survives a lynch mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to frame the mob for his murder.

Liliom

Liliom

Fritz Lang 1934 1h 58m 8.0

Liliom is a swaggering carnival barker who falls in love with a chambermaid and sets up house-keeping with her. He fails to provide for her, however, and continues his easy way of living.

Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse

Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse

Fritz Lang 1933 2h 2m 8.7

Fritz Lang directed this sequel to his nearly four-hour Dr. Mabuse silent of 1922. The film opens with Detective Hofmeister (Karl Meixner) spying on the activities of a criminal syndicate. Not realizing he has been seen, Hofmeister is attacked by the thugs and later turns up out of his mind.

M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder

M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder

Fritz Lang 1931 1h 50m 8.5

M is German director Fritz Lang’s masterpiece that illustrates the portrait of a child murderer that has caused an entire city to begin rioting. The film is based on actual events.

Frau im Mond

Frau im Mond

Fritz Lang 1929 2h 50m 8.7

A tenacious scientist blasts off for the moon in hopes of riches that may be found there.

Spione

Spione

Fritz Lang 1928 2h 25m 8.0

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.

Metropolis

Metropolis

Fritz Lang 1927 2h 28m 8.7

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.

Die Nibelungen: Siegfried

Die Nibelungen: Siegfried

Fritz Lang 1924 2h 28m 8.6

Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, travels to Worms, capital of the Burgundian kingdom, to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the beautiful Kriemhild.

Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler - Ein Bild der Zeit

Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler - Ein Bild der Zeit

Fritz Lang 1922 4h 31m 8.6

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

Vier um die Frau

Vier um die Frau

Fritz Lang 1921 1h 25m 5.0

Harry Yquem buys his beloved wife some jewelry in a place where underworld middlemen trade in fake and stolen goods. By chance, he spots a man with whom his wife had an affair in the past…

Der müde Tod

Der müde Tod

Fritz Lang 1921 1h 38m 8.2

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 a mystic entrance and is met by Death, who tells her three separate stories set in exotic locales, all involving circumstances similar to hers.

Das indische Grabmal zweiter Teil - Der Tiger von Eschnapur

Das indische Grabmal zweiter Teil - Der Tiger von Eschnapur

Joe May 1921 1h 46m

Rowland falls sick with leprosy while Mac Allan is captured by the Maharajah, who offers Irene a deal: one night with him in exchange for letting Rowland to be cured. She accepts, but tries to commit suicide.

Das indische Grabmal erster Teil - Die Sendung des Yoghi

Das indische Grabmal erster Teil - Die Sendung des Yoghi

Joe May 1921 2h 7m

Ayan, Maharajah of Eschnapur, believes that his wife, Savitri, has been unfaithful to him with Officer Mac Allan. He decides to bury her alive, so he sends the Yogi Ramigani to England to look for Rowland, an architect; but when he orders him to build a tomb, Rowland refuses.

Die Spinnen, 2. Teil - Das Brillantenschiff

Die Spinnen, 2. Teil - Das Brillantenschiff

Fritz Lang 1920 1h 45m 5.0

When we last saw Kay Hoog (millionaire adventurer, courageous hunk), he’d been beset with tragedy. Having escaped an ancient Incan city by the skin of his gleaming teeth, Hoog looked forward to a few years of settled life with his (amicably) captured Incan lovely, Naela. But the past struck quickly.

Das wandernde Bild

Das wandernde Bild

Fritz Lang 1920 1h 7m 5.0

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.

Pest in Florenz

Pest in Florenz

Otto Rippert 1919 1h 43m 5.0

Suddenly appearing in Florence, an evil seductress causes Cesare, the city's ruler, and his son to both fall madly in love with her. The son, killing his father before an order to torture the woman can be carried out, then turns the city's churches into dens of sexual debauchery.

Die Spinnen, 1. Teil - Der goldene See

Die Spinnen, 1. Teil - Der goldene See

Fritz Lang 1919 1h 9m

In San Francisco, well-known sportsman Kay Hoog announces to a club that he has found a message in a bottle with a map drawn by a Harvard professor who has gone missing. The map tells of a lost Incan civilization that possesses an immense treasure. Hoog immediately plans an expedition to find it.

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