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Fritz Lang

Director, Writer, Editor, Producer, Actor, Additional Credits
Born December 5, 1890Died August 2, 1976 (85 years)
Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-German film director, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute. Andrew Sarris in his influential book of film criticism The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929–1968 included him in the "pantheon" of the 14 greatest film directors who had worked in the United States.

Lang's most famous films are the groundbreaking science-fiction film Metropolis (1927) - the world's most expensive silent film at the time of its release - and the influential thriller film M (1931), made before he moved to the United States. Lang's work had a significant influence on the film noir genre and in Hollywood, he made some classics himself, such as Scarlet Street (1945) and The Big Heat (1953).

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Metropolis
  • M
  • Scarlet Street
  • You Only Live Once
  • Hangmen Also Die!
  • The Blue Gardenia
  • House by the River
  • The Return of Frank James
  • The Tiger of Eschnapur
  • The Indian Tomb
  • You and Me

Known For

  • Metropolis
  • M
  • The Big Heat
  • Scarlet Street
  • The Woman in the Window
  • Fury
  • The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
  • Hangmen Also Die!
  • Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
  • Ministry of Fear
  • You Only Live Once
  • Clash by Night
  • Metropolis
  • While the City Sleeps
  • Destiny
  • Human Desire
  • Die Nibelungen: Siegfried
  • Man Hunt
  • The Blue Gardenia
  • Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
  • Secret Beyond the Door...
  • Rancho Notorious
  • Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge
  • House by the River

Fritz Lang Filmography

2001
1982
M. le maudit · as Original Film Writer
1960
1960
Journey to the Lost City · as Screenplay
1959
1959
1953
The Black Vampire · as Original Film Writer
1936
Fury · as Screenplay
1934
1933
1931
M · as Screenplay
1929
Woman in the Moon · as Screenplay
1928
1927
Metropolis · as Screenplay
1924
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried · as Screenplay
1922
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler · as Screenplay
1921
1921
1921
1921
Four Around the Woman · as Screenplay
1920
1920
1919
Pest in Florenz · as Screenplay
1919
1919
The Halfbreed · as Screenplay
1917
1917
1916
Die Peitsche · as Screenplay

2023
Godard by Godard · as Self
2018
2014
2014
2010
Two in the Wave · as Self
2010
Voyage to Metropolis · as Self (archive Footage)
2005
2003
2001
Fritz Lang: Circle of Destiny · as Self (archive Footage)
1998
Universal Horror · as Self
1975
1967
1964
Paparazzi · as Self
1964
1964
Filmmakers of our time (TV Series) · as Self
1963
Contempt · as Fritz Lang
1952
Reflets de Cannes (TV Series) · as Self
1950
This Is Your Life (US) (TV Series) · as Self

1951
M · as Original Story
1943
Hangmen Also Die! · as Original Story
1942
Moontide · as Co-Director
1941
Confirm or Deny · as Co-Director
1918

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