Fritz Lang — Director (25)
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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] WikiData TMDB IMDb
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.
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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
director: Fritz Lang actor: Dana Andrews / Joan Fontaine …
other title: L'alibi era perfetto / Den hårdeste straf …
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.
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Destiny (1921) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Der müde Tod
director: Fritz Lang actor: Lil Dagover / Walter Janssen …
other title: Destino / Der müde Tod …
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.
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You Only Live Once (1937) [Movie] NeoDB Douban WikiData IMDb TMDB
You Only Live Once
director: 弗里茨·朗 actor: 西尔维娅·西德尼 / 亨利·方达 …
other title: 你只活一次 / 逃命鸳鸯(港) …
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.
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Ministry of Fear (1944) [Movie] TMDB
Ministry of Fear
director: Fritz Lang actor: Ray Milland / Marjorie Reynolds …
other title: Il prigioniero del terrore / Prisioneiros do Terror …
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.
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Rancho Notorious (1952) [Movie] TMDB Douban IMDb NeoDB
Rancho Notorious
director: Fritz Lang actor: Marlene Dietrich / Arthur Kennedy …
other title: Guldfuglen / Engel der Gejagten …
A western based on the story "Gunsight Whitman" by Silvia Richards. Vern Haskell, a nice rancher, seeks out to avenge his fiancé's death when she is killed during a robbery. His revenge leads him to Chuck-a-luck, Altar Keane's ranch set up to hide criminals, and he finds more than he bargains for.
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The Blue Gardenia (1953) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Blue Gardenia
director: Fritz Lang actor: Anne Baxter / Richard Conte …
other title: Gardenia blu / Gardenia - Eine Frau will vergessen …
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.
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Fury (1936) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Fury
director: Fritz Lang actor: Sylvia Sidney / Spencer Tracy …
other title: Furia / Fúria …
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.
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Hangmen Also Die (1943) [Movie] NeoDB Douban
Hangmen Also Die
director: 弗里茨·朗 actor: 汉斯·海因里希·冯·特尔瓦多夫斯基 / 布莱恩·唐莱维 …
other title: 刽子手之死 / 杀人者死
黑色電影的影像加間諜片的驚險，根據真實事件改編，費立茲‧朗這部反納粹電影有著豪華的陣容，戲劇大師布萊希特、音樂家漢斯‧艾斯勒等流亡美國的德國文化巨星參與創作，華裔攝影大師黃宗霑掌鏡。外號「布拉格劊子手」的德國佔領軍高層在布拉格被剌殺，剌客得到反抗人士幫助逃脫。德國人拘捕數百無辜人質，要求交出剌客，否則殺掉人質報復。逃脫的剌客要如何救回人質？
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Liliom (1934) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Liliom
director: Fritz Lang actor: Charles Boyer / Madeleine Ozeray …
other title: La leggenda di Liliom
Two women love the same man in a world of few prospects. In Budapest, Liliom is a "public figure," a rascal who's a carousel barker, loved by the experienced merry-go-round owner and by a young, innocent maid. The maid, Julie, loses her job after going out with Liliom; he's fired by his jealous employer for going out with Julie. The two lovers move in with Julie's aunt; unemployment emasculates him and a local weasel tempts him with crime. Julie, now wan, is true to Liliom even in his bad temper. Meanwhile, a stolid widower, a carpenter, wants to marry Julie. Is there any future on this earth for Julie and Liliom, whose love is passionate rather than ideal?
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The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) [Movie] TMDB IMDb NeoDB Douban WikiData
Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse
director: Fritz Lang actor: Rudolf Klein-Rogge / Oscar Beregi Sr. …
other title: Il testamento del dottor Mabuse / Dr. Mabuses testamente …
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.
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Woman in the Moon (1929) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Frau im Mond
director: Fritz Lang actor: Willy Fritsch / Gerda Maurus …
other title: Una donna nella luna / Frau im Mond …
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.
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The Big Heat (1953) [Movie] NeoDB
The Big Heat
director: 弗里茨·朗 actor: 格伦·福特 / 格洛丽亚·格雷厄姆 …
other title: 大内幕 / 芝加哥剿匪战 …
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.
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Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler
director: Fritz Lang actor: Rudolf Klein-Rogge / Aud Egede-Nissen …
other title: Il dottor Mabuse / Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler …
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.
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Siegfried (1924) [Movie] TMDB WikiData NeoDB IMDb Douban
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried
director: Fritz Lang actor: Gertrud Arnold / Margarete Schön …
other title: I Nibelunghi: Sigfrido / Os Nibelungos - A Morte de Siegfried …
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.