Fritz Lang — Director (40)
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The Wandering Image (1920) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Das wandernde Bild
director: Fritz Lang actor: Mia May / Hans Marr …
other title: Das wandernde Bild / L'Image vagabonde …
When Irmgard becomes pregnant from Georg, a free-love disciple, she decides, for the sake of her child, to pretend they are married. The secret plan is to wed his twin brother, John, who will pretend to be Georg in front of the priest. Soon after that happens, Georg disappears and is declared dead. Years later, Irmgard is trying to escape John, who is obsessed with her. In the mountains, she finds a stranger willing to protect her.
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Western Union (1941) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Western Union
director: Fritz Lang actor: Robert Young / Randolph Scott …
other title: Fred il ribelle / Überfall der Ogalalla …
When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2000.
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You and Me (1938) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
You and Me
director: Fritz Lang actor: Sylvia Sidney / George Raft …
other title: Du und ich / Casier judiciaire
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.
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Moonfleet (1955) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Moonfleet
director: Fritz Lang actor: Stewart Granger / George Sanders …
other title: Il covo dei contrabbandieri / Mens bøddelen ventede …
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.
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House by the River (1950) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
House by the River
director: Fritz Lang actor: Louis Hayward / Jane Wyatt …
other title: Bassa marea / Huset ved floden …
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.
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The Indian Tomb (1959) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Das indische Grabmal
director: Fritz Lang actor: Debra Paget / Paul Hubschmid …
other title: Il sepolcro indiano / Sepulcro Indiano …
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.
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The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Der Tiger von Eschnapur
director: Fritz Lang actor: Debra Paget / Paul Hubschmid …
other title: La tigre di Eschnapur / O Tigre da India …
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.
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The Spiders: Part 2 - The Diamond Ship (1920) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Die Spinnen, 2. Teil - Das Brillantenschiff
director: Fritz Lang actor: Carl de Vogt / Ressel Orla …
other title: I ragni: La nave dei diamanti / Die Spinnen, 2. Teil - Das Brillantenschiff …
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. Hoog’s arch-nemesis, the homicidal femme Lio Sha, murdered Naela on the very grounds of Hoog’s estate, prompting him to swear revenge upon her and her criminal organization, the Spiders. Now he must find them, as the Spiders continue their global quest for the Buddha-head Diamond. The head, it’s said, has the power to restore Asia to world dominance.
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The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea (1919) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Die Spinnen, 1. Teil - Der Goldene See
director: Fritz Lang actor: Carl de Vogt / Ressel Orla …
other title: I ragni: Il lago d'oro / Die Spinnen, 1. Teil - Der Goldene See …
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. But Lio Sha, the head of a criminal organization known as the Spiders, is determined to get the treasure for herself and plans a rival expedition.
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Clash by Night (1952) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Clash by Night
director: Fritz Lang actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Paul Douglas …
other title: La confessione della signora Doyle / Opgør i natten …
An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend.
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Spies (1928) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Spione
director: Fritz Lang actor: Rudolf Klein-Rogge / Gerda Maurus …
other title: L'inafferrabile / Os Espiões …
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.
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The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse
director: Fritz Lang actor: Peter van Eyck / Gert Fröbe …
other title: Il diabolico Dr. Mabuse / Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse …
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...
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Man Hunt (1941) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Man Hunt
director: Fritz Lang actor: Walter Pidgeon / Joan Bennett …
other title: Duello mortale / Feras Humanas …
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.