Fritz Lang — Director (40)
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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
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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)
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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)
You Only Live Once
Fritz Lang actor: Sylvia Sidney / Henry Fonda …
other title: Sono innocente / Du lever kun én gang …
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)
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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)
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Fritz Lang actor: Stuart Randall / Hank Mann …
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)
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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)
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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)
Hangmen Also Die
Fritz Lang 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 / Hangmen Also Die …
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.
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Liliom (1934)
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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)
Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse
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)
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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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Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler
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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Scarlet Street (1945)
Scarlet Street
Fritz Lang actor: Edward G. Robinson / Joanie …
other title: La strada scarlatta / Gaden med de røde lygter …
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.
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Secret Beyond the Door... (1947)
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Fritz Lang actor: Joanie / Michael Redgrave …
other title: Dietro la porta chiusa / O Segredo da Porta Fechada …
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.
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M (1931)
M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder
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Fritz Lang actor: Peter Lorre / Ellen Widmann …
other title: M - Il mostro di Düsseldorf / Matou …
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.