Fritz Lang

Biography

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).

Directed

1. Metropolis (1927) — Director
2. M (1931) — Director
3. The Big Heat (1953) — Director
4. Scarlet Street (1945) — Director
5. The Woman in the Window (1944) — Director
6. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) — Director
7. Fury (1936) — Director
8. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922) — Director
9. Ministry of Fear (1944) — Director
10. You Only Live Once (1937) — Director
11. Destiny (1921) — Director
12. Secret Beyond the Door (1947) — Director
13. Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924) — Director
14. The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959) — Director
15. Human Desire (1954) — Director
16. While the City Sleeps (1956) — Director
17. The Return of Frank James (1940) — Director
18. Hangmen Also Die! (1943) — Director
19. Clash by Night (1952) — Director
20. Moonfleet (1955) — Director
21. Man Hunt (1941) — Director
22. Rancho Notorious (1952) — Director
23. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) — Director
24. The Indian Tomb (1959) — Director
25. Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (1924) — Director
26. Woman in the Moon (1929) — Director
27. House by the River (1950) — Director
28. The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960) — Director
29. The Blue Gardenia (1953) — Director
30. Spies (1928) — Director
31. Western Union (1941) — Director
32. Cloak and Dagger (1946) — Director
33. You and Me (1938) — Director
34. The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea (1919) — Director
35. The Spiders: Part 2 - The Diamond Ship (1920) — Director
36. Liliom (1934) — Director
37. Harakiri (1919) — Director
38. American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950) — Director
39. Four Around the Woman (1921) — Director
40. The Wandering Image (1920) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Contempt (1963) — Fritz Lang
2. From Caligari to Hitler (2015) — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
3. Paparazzi (1964) — Self
4. Conversation with Fritz Lang (1975) — Self
5. Voyage to 'Metropolis' (2010) — Self (archive footage)
6. Bardot et Godard (1964) — Self
7. The Dinosaur and the Baby (1967) — Self
8. Hilde Warren and Death (1917)
9. Encounter with Fritz Lang (1964) — Self - Interviewee
10. Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands (2004) — Self (archive footage)
11. For Example Fritz Lang (1968)
12. Master of Love (1919)
13. The Film in the Film (1924) — Self
14. The Exiles (1989) — Self
15. German Film Award (1951) — Self
16. Das Jahrhundert des Theaters (2002) — Self (archive footage)
17. Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film (2017) — Self
18. Fritz Lang (1990)
19. Sibyl (2025) — (Archive footage)
20. Film Emigration from Nazi Germany (1975) — Self