Fritz Lang — Playwright (17)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Dance of Death (1919) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Der Totentanz
director: Otto Rippert actor: Werner Krauss / Sascha Gura
other title: Der Totentanz / Totentanz
In this apparently lost film, a beautiful dancer's sexual allure is used by an evil cripple to entice men to their deaths. Falling in love with one of the potential victims, she is told by the cripple that he will set her free if her lover, actually a murderer himself, survives and escapes a bizarre labyrinthe which runs beneath the cripple's house.
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...
The Plague in Florence (1919) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Die Pest in Florenz
director: Otto Rippert actor: Marga von Kierska / Anders Wikman
other title: Die Pest in Florenz / La Peste à Florence
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. Acts of evil and corruption continue unabated until the arrival of Death, who brings with her a horrible plague which she is about to loose upon the city.
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.
Hangmen Also Die! (1943) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB Skybridge WikiData
Hangmen Also Die
director: 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.
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban
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.
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.
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922) [Movie] TMDB IMDb Skybridge
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.
Siegfried (1924) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
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.
M (1931) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb Skybridge WikiData
M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder
8.4 (14 ratings) director: 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.