Fritz Lang

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

Dir. Fritz Lang · With Gustav Fröhlich, Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel

In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.

Dir. Fritz Lang · With Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut

After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicious crime syndicate.

Dir. Fritz Lang · With Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando

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.

Dir. Fritz Lang · With Gertrud Arnold, Margarete Schön, Hanna Ralph

Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to make huge profits on the stock exchange. Afterwards, Mabuse disguises himself and attends the Folies Bergères show, where Cara Carozza, the main attraction of the show, passes him information on Mabuse's next intended victim, the young millionaire Edgar Hull. Mabuse then uses psychic manipulation to lure Hull into a card game where he loses heavily. When Police Commissioner von Wenk begins an investigation of this mysterious crime spree, he has little to go on, and he needs to find someone who can help him.

Dir. Fritz Lang · With Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Aud Egede-Nissen, Gertrude Welcker

Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.

Dir. Fritz Lang · With Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea

After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professor's preoccupation with another patient, the criminal genius Dr. Mabuse the hypnotist. When Mabuse's notes are found to be connected with a rash of recent crimes, Commissioner Lohmann must determine how Mabuse is communicating with the criminals, despite conflicting reports on the doctor's whereabouts, and capture him for good.

Dir. Fritz Lang · With Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Oscar Beregi Sr., Camilla Spira

When Kriemhild, thirsty for revenge, marries to Etzel, king of the Huns, she invites King Gunther and his court to visit them, intending to finally take the life of the man responsible of her disgrace.

Dir. Fritz Lang · With Margarete Schön, Gertrud Arnold, Theodor Loos

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.

Dir. Fritz Lang · With Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel

A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

Dir. Fritz Lang · With Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey

Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".

Dir. Fritz Lang · With Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders

Shortly before the start of WW2, renowned British big-game hunter Alan Thorndike, vacationing in Bavaria, has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by Nazi agents and aided by a young woman.

Dir. Fritz Lang · With Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders

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.

Dir. Fritz Lang · With Lil Dagover, Walter Janssen, Bernhard Goetzke

Wealthy writer Stephen Byrne tries to seduce the family maid, but when she resists, he kills her. Long jealous of his brother John, Stephen does his best to pin the blame for the murder on his sibling. Also affected by Stephen's arrogant dementia is his long-suffering wife Marjorie.

Dir. Fritz Lang · With Louis Hayward, Jane Wyatt, Lee Bowman

A scientist discovers that there's gold on the moon. He builds a rocket to fly there, but there's too much rivalry among the crew to have a successful expedition.

Dir. Fritz Lang · With Willy Fritsch, Gerda Maurus, Klaus Pohl

Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.

Dir. Fritz Lang · With Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane

Art film producer Jeremy Prokosch, unhappy with the work of his director, hires Fritz Lang (as himself) to direct an adaptation of The Odyssey, but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb, he brings in a screenwriter to energise the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rift develops between the writer and his wife.

Dir. Jean-Luc Godard · With Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance

Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so sane outside either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization, he stumbles across a murderous spy ring and doesn't quite know to whom to turn.

Dir. Fritz Lang · With Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond

During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.

Dir. Fritz Lang · With Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee

A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub dancer. Once Tom is found guilty, he is to reveal the setup and humiliate the DA.

Dir. Fritz Lang · With Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer

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...

Dir. Fritz Lang · With Peter van Eyck, Gert Fröbe, Wolfgang Preiss

Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old friend of his mother's, Jeremy Fox. Fox is a morally ambiguous character, an elegant gentleman involved with smugglers and pirates.

Dir. Fritz Lang · With Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood

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 following a murder on a train.

Dir. Fritz Lang · With Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford

After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full of his strange relations, and macabre rooms that are replicas of famous murder sites. One locked room contains the secret to her husband's obsession, and the truth about what happened to his first wife.

Dir. Fritz Lang · With Joan Bennett, Michael Redgrave, Anne Revere

An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend.

Dir. Fritz Lang · With Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan

In Eschnapur, a German architect saves the life of the Maharajah's favorite temple dancer and becomes Maharajah's friend but their friendship is tested when the architect and the dancer fall in-love, triggering the Maharajah's vengeful ire.

Dir. Fritz Lang · With Debra Paget, Paul Hubschmid, Walther Reyer

Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.

Dir. Fritz Lang · With Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern

A man in search of revenge infiltrates a ranch, hidden in an inhospitable region, where its owner, Altar Keane, gives shelter to outlaws fleeing from the law in exchange for a price.

Dir. Fritz Lang · With Marlene Dietrich, Arthur Kennedy, Mel Ferrer

Seetha and Harold Berger are rescued from the desert by a caravan and brought to a small village. However, the greedy owner of the house where they are lodged betrays the law of hospitality and reveals their location to Prince Ramigani. The couple tries to escape but is hunted and captured by Ramigani and his men. Meanwhile Irene Rhode and her husband Walter Rhode suspect that Maharaja Chandra is not telling the truth about Harold's destiny. The conspirator Ramigani forces Seetha to accept to get married with Chandra to provoke the wrath of the priests and get the alliance of Prince Padhu and his army. In the meantime, Harold succeeds in escaping from the dungeon and seeks out Seetha to save her.

Dir. Fritz Lang · With Debra Paget, Paul Hubschmid, Walther Reyer

Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.

Dir. Fritz Lang · With Henry Fonda, Jackie Cooper, Gene Tierney