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Fritz Lang
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Fritz Lang - what members say
review by Sloegenie from South Brent
Underated Masterpiece 1 January 2011
review by from London
A visionary sci-fi epic 3 May 2004
review by from Bromsgrove, England
Creepy Stuff ... 2 April 2004
Fritz Lang - filmography
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Le Mepris - Blu-ray
(1963)
Starring: Michel Piccoli, Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Certificate: 
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An aspiring playwright, Paul Javal (Michel Piccoli) finds himself caught between the creative director (Fritz Lang playing himself) and the crass producer Prokosch (Jack Palance) on a movie version of Homer's 'The Odyssey'. While the director wants to faithfully re-create Homer's world, the ..read more »
 
65%
from 198 members
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Tiger of Bengal / The Tomb of Love
(2 discs)
(1959)
Starring: Debra Paget, Walter Reyer, Paul Hubschmid
Director: Fritz Lang
Certificate: 
Also known as 'The Indian Epic', this double bill of fantasy adventure films is the penultimate work of German master Fritz Lang, best known for his 1927 masterpiece 'Metropolis'. Harald (Paul Hubschmid), a German architect, is commissioned by Indian Maharaja Chandra (Walter Reyer) to construct an ..read more »
68%
from 45 members
Not available for rental
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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer
Director: Fritz Lang
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Hoping to expose fatal flaws in the legal system, a writer (DANA ANDREWS, Laura) places a bet that he can have himself convicted of murder on purely circumstantial evidence by planting false clues at a crime scene, before sensationally revealing his trick at the last minute. However, a series of ..read more »
68%
from 160 members
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Moonfleet
(1955)
Starring: Stewart Granger, Stewart Granger, Joan Greenwood
Director: Fritz Lang
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Director Fritz Lang was attracted to the British period piece Moonfleet because of the relatively unregenerate nature of its greedy hero Stewart Granger. Young Jon Whitely, who is in the legal custody of Granger, learns that he is to inherit a valuable diamond. Hoping to get his own hands on the ..read more »
59%
from 24 members
Currently unavailable
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Human Desire
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford
Director: Fritz Lang
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Film-noir starring Glenn Ford as Jeff Warren, who returns from the Korean War to his job as a train conductor. His colleague, Carl Buckley (Broderick Crawford), suspects his wife, Vicky (Gloria Grahame), of cheating. He becomes violent towards her and murders a man out of jealousy. Although Jeff is ..read more »
67%
from 105 members
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The Blue Gardenia
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Anne Sothern, Anne Baxter, Richard Conte
Director: Fritz Lang
Certificate: 
After learning that her boyfriend, a GI in Korea, has found someone else, Norah Larkin (Anne Baxter) impulsively agrees to meet womanizer Harry Prebble (Raymond Burr) for dinner. Norah allows herself to get drunk and accept Prebble's invitation to his apartment. When he tries to force himself on ..read more »
63%
from 212 members
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The Big Heat
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Gloria Grahame, Glenn Ford, Peter Whitne
Director: Fritz Lang
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A violent gang plant a bomb in a cop's car. But his wife is the victim as the car explodes. Out to avenge her death, and having already uncovered corruption within the police force he is determined to expose the gang.
73%
from 1,907 member
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Rancho Notorious
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Gloria Henry, Arthur Kennedy, Marlene Dietrich
Director: Fritz Lang
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The original title for Rancho Notorious was Chuck-a-Luck, which is also the title of the soundtrack ballad (written by Ken Darby) which unifies the plotline, à la High Noon. Frontiersman Vern Haskell (Arthur Kennedy) wanders throughout the West in search of the man who robbed and murdered his fiancé..read more »
62%
from 226 members
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Secret Beyond The Door
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Joan Bennett
Director: Fritz Lang
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In this Freudian version of the Bluebeard tale, a young, trust-funded New Yorker goes to Mexico on vacation before marrying an old friend whom she considers a safe choice for a husband. However, there she finds her dream man -- a handsome, mysterious stranger who spots her in a crowd. In a matter ..read more »
63%
from 179 members
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Cloak and Dagger
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: Gary Cooper, Lilli Palmer, Robert Alda
Director: Fritz Lang
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In Fritz Lang's compelling World War II espionage thriller CLOAK AND DAGGER, Gary Cooper stars as Alvah Jasper, a shy and retiring physics professor at a midwestern university. When government agents press Jasper into joining them in an effort to curtail the Nazis' efforts to attain atomic secrets, ..read more »
63%
from 118 members
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Scarlet Street
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Margaret Lindsay, Jess Barker
Director: Fritz Lang
Certificate:
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Masterfully directed by Fritz Lang, Scarlet Street is a bleak film in which an ordinary man succumbs first to vice and then to murder. Christopher Cross (Edward G. Robinson) is a lonely man married to a nagging wife. Painting is the only thing that brings him joy. Cross meets Kitty (Joan Bennett) ..read more »
70%
from 866 members
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Ministry Of Fear
on DVD
(1944)
Starring: Percy Waram, Alan Napier, Marjorie Reynolds
Director: Fritz Lang
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1940s wartime spy drama directed by Fritz Lang. Stephen Neale (Ray Milland) has to find his way in war-torn England after spending two years in an asylum. Mistaken for someone else at a town festival, he inadvertantly stumbles into a spy ring and soon finds himself being pursued across the country,..read more »
67%
from 416 members
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Hangmen Also Die
(1943)
Starring: Dennis O'Keefe, Walter Brennan, Brian Donlevy
Director: Fritz Lang
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Classic war drama set in Czechoslovakia during the Nazi occupation. The film depicts an Eastern Europe populated by spies, traitors and revolutionaries - a deadly funhouse of political intrigue in which every personal encounter brings with it the threat of betrayal. Pursued by the Germans after the ..read more »
63%
from 199 members
Currently unavailable
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Western Union
(1941)
Starring: Dean Jagger, Robert Young, Randolph Scott
Director: Fritz Lang
Certificate: 
When former outlaw Vance Shaw (Randolph Scott), ex-outlaw, is hired to protect a line from marauding Indians, he discovers that his outlaw brother Jack Slade (Barton McLane) is leading a band of criminals trying to prevent him from doing so. With two brothers locked in such a furious struggle, ..read more »
59%
from 174 members
Currently unavailable
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Man Hunt
on DVD
(1941)
Starring: Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders
Director: Fritz Lang
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Director Fritz Lang's political thriller follows a British hunter's attempts to outrun Nazi agents after he targets Adolf Hitler. While on holiday in Bavaria, willdlife hunter Alan Thorndike (Walter Pidgeon) stumbles upon the Fuhrer's country retreat, eventually spotting Hitler in the gardens. ..read more »
64%
from 114 members
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The Return Of Frank James
on DVD
(1940)
Starring: John Carradine, Henry Hull, Henry Fonda
Director: Fritz Lang
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Fritz Lang directs this sequel to 'Jesse James' in which Henry Fonda reprises his role as Frank James, out to avenge the death of his brother Jesse at the hands of the Ford brothers. Frank is helped by young teenager Clem (Jackie Cooper) and the daughter (Gene Tierney) of the local newspaper owner.
64%
from 53 members
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You Only Live Once
on DVD
(1937)
Starring: Jerome Cowan, Jean Dixon, Warren Hymer
Director: Fritz Lang
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Eddie Taylor (Henry Fonda) is an ex-con trying to make a good life for himself and his new bride Joan (Sylvia Sidney) but fate has other plans and wherever he turns things go wrong. First he is fired from his job over a small misunderstanding. Next he and Joan are thrown out of their motel during ..read more »
65%
from 456 members
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Fury
(1936)
Starring: Sylvia Sidney, Walter Abel, George Walcott
Director: Fritz Lang
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When a prisoner barely survives a lynch mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to frame the mob for his murder.
65%
from 13 members
Currently unavailable
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The Testament Of Dr Mabuse - Blu-ray
(1933)
Starring: Gustav Diessl, Theodore Loos, Karl Meixner
Director: Fritz Lang
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An early Fritz Lang crime thriller, banned by the Nazis. Dr. Mabuse has been locked away in an asylum for ten years, but his crime organisation is still perpetrating an insane orgy of wanton destruction - threats, shoot-outs, thefts, explosions, bombings, burnings and floodings.
57%
from 4 members
Not available for rental
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The Testament Of Dr Mabuse
(1933)
Starring: Gustav Diessl, Theodore Loos, Karl Meixner
Director: Fritz Lang
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An early Fritz Lang crime thriller, banned by the Nazis. Dr. Mabuse has been locked away in an asylum for ten years, but his crime organisation is still perpetrating an insane orgy of wanton destruction - threats, shoot-outs, thefts, explosions, bombings, burnings and floodings.
74%
from 873 members
Not available for rental
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(1931)
Starring: Carl Balthaus, Erwin Faber, Josef Almas
Director: Fritz Lang
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Fritz Lang's classic early talkie crime melodrama is set in 1931 Berlin. The police are anxious to capture an elusive child murderer (Peter Lorre), and they begin rounding up every criminal in town. The underworld leaders decide to take the heat off their activities by catching the child killer ..read more »
77%
from 4,931 members
Not available for rental
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M - Blu-ray
(1931)
Starring: Carl Balthaus, Erwin Faber, Josef Almas
Director: Fritz Lang
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Fritz Lang's first sound film is now regarded as an Expressionist classic. The city of Berlin is being terrorised by a notorious child molester and, frustrated by the failure of the police to catch the culprit, the underworld criminals organise themselves to hunt him down. Peter Lorre portrays the ..read more »
78%
from 682 members
Not available for rental
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Frau im Mond
on DVD
(1929)
Starring: Klaus Pohl, Willy Fritsch, Gustav von Wangenheim
Director: Fritz Lang
Certificate:
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In this, Lang's final silent epic, the legendary filmmaker spins a tale involving a wicked cartel of spies who co-opt an experimental mission to the moon in the hope of plundering the satellite's vast (and highly theoretical) stores of gold. When the crew, helmed by Willy Fritsch and Gerda Maurus, ..read more »
69%
from 293 members
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Spione
on DVD
(1928)
Starring: Rudolph Klein-Rogge
Director: Fritz Lang
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Classic thriller from acclaimed director Fritz Lang. Rudolf-Klein-Rogge plays Haghi, the leader of an international spy ring. Haghi leads several lives using instruments of modern technology to spearhead a mad rush for secrets that assert his power over others. Agent No 326 (Willy Fritsch) is ..read more »
69%
from 378 members
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Metropolis
(2 discs)
(1927)
Starring: Brigitte Helm, Fritz Rasp, Rudolph Klein-Rogge
Director: Fritz Lang
Certificate:
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Directed by Fritz Lang, this acclaimed vision of a 21st century city is widely held to be one of the greatest films of the silent era. In the year 2000, industrialist John Frederson rules over a giant city where the workers exist only as an underclass. They call for rebellion, but their leader ..read more »
68%
from 7,840 members
Currently unavailable
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Metropolis - Blu-ray
(1927)
Starring: Rudolph Klein-Rogge, Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel
Director: Fritz Lang
Certificate:
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The biggest-budgeted movie ever produced at Germany's UFA, Fritz Lang's gargantuan Metropolis consumed resources that would have yielded upwards of 20 conventional features, more than half the studio's entire annual production budget. And if it didn't make a profit at the time -- indeed, it nearly ..read more »
73%
from 491 members
Not available for rental
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Nibelungen - Blu-ray, Die
(1924)
Starring: Hardy Von Francois, Bernhard Goetzke, Yuri Yurovsky
Director: Fritz Lang
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Classic German fantasy in two parts from director Fritz Lang. Based upon the same Germanic myth that inspired Wagner's epic 'Ring' cycle of operas, the first part of the film, 'Siegfried', follows a man, Siegfried (Paul Richter), who believes that he has become invincible after slaying a dragon. ..read more »
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Nibelungen, Die
(1924)
Starring: Hardy Von Francois, Bernhard Goetzke, Yuri Yurovsky
Director: Fritz Lang
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Classic German fantasy in two parts from director Fritz Lang. Based upon the same Germanic myth that inspired Wagner's epic 'Ring' cycle of operas, the first part of the film, 'Siegfried', follows a man, Siegfried (Paul Richter), who believes that he has become invincible after slaying a dragon. ..read more »
80%
from 4 members
Not available for rental
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Doctor Mabuse - The Gambler
(2 discs)
(1922)
Starring: Rudolph Klein-Rogge, Lil Dagover
Director: Fritz Lang
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Silent film noir set in the 1920s in post-WW1 Germany. Dr Mabuse (Rudolph Klein-Rogge) is a sinister and mesmerising criminal with the ability to worm his way into the confidences of the rich and influential, and wield his power over men and women alike. He builds up a deadly gang of counterfeiters,..read more »
67%
from 812 members
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Fritz Lang facts
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... his ability to portray the character of a normal man transformed by obsession. Fritz Lang's genius of direction and cinamatography enables us to observe the datedness of...
