Fritz Lang
Directing
Born 1890-12-05
Died 1976-08-02
Vienna, Austria
81 credits
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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).
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Directing
42 credits
Metropolis
M
The Big Heat
Scarlet Street
Western Union
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried
Destiny
The Woman in the Window
Hangmen Also Die!
Fury
Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Man Hunt
Rancho Notorious
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
You Only Live Once
Clash by Night
The Return of Frank James
While the City Sleeps
Moonfleet
Secret Beyond the Door
Woman in the Moon
Human Desire
The Blue Gardenia
Ministry of Fear
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Moontide
You and Me
Harakiri
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
Cloak and Dagger
The Indian Tomb
House by the River
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
Spies
The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
The Tiger of Eschnapur
Liliom
The Wandering Image
The Spiders: Part 2 - The Diamond Ship
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Confirm or Deny
Writing
25 credits
Metropolis
M
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried
Destiny
Hangmen Also Die!
Fury
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
Woman in the Moon
The Dance of Death
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
M
The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi
The Indian Tomb
Spies
The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
The Tiger of Eschnapur
Die Peitsche
Liliom
Die Rache ist mein
Lilith and Ly
The Wandering Image
The Spiders: Part 2 - The Diamond Ship
Die Hochzeit im Excentricclub
Die Frau mit den Orchideen
Acting
10 credits
German Film Award
Contempt
Hangmen Also Die!
Das Jahrhundert des Theaters
Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
Paparazzi
Sibyl
M the Damned
The Word According to Whoopi
The Black Vampire
Producing
7 credits
Scarlet Street
Hangmen Also Die!
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Secret Beyond the Door
Woman in the Moon
You and Me
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
Other credits
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