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Director Facts
Birth:
December 5, 1890
Death:
August 2, 1976
Biography:
Fritz Lang was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1890. His father managed a construction company. His mother, Pauline Schlesinger, was Jewish but converted to Catholicism when Lang was ten. After high school he enrolled briefly at the Technische Hochschule Wien, then started to train as a painter. ...more about Fritz Lang
Fritz Lang
DIRECTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1920s
2.9498
7
1930s
2.4423
5
1940s
2.6771
8
1950s
2.6320
10
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards for each movie.
Overall Director Score: 
2.9444
2.9444Fritz Lang Movie Rankings
1
3.9370In the future humans are divided into two classes: the thinkers and the workers. When the leader of the workers falls in love with the son of the leader of the thinkers they are both faced with the cruel reality of the world they live in. ...more about Metropolis
- DVD Best Pricing:
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2
3.5087Siegfried, son of King Sigmund, hears of the beautiful sister of Gunter, King of Worms, Kriemhild. On his way to Worms, he kills a dragon and finds a treasure, the Hort. ...more about Nibelungen: Siegfried
- DVD Best Pricing:
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3
3.2920A child murder is on the loose in the streets of the German city of Dusseldorf. With the police unable to locate the murderer the towns people begin to panic. Even the normal criminals are upset and nervous about the situation. ...more about M
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
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4
3.1877Detective Dave Bannion investigates a police sergeant's suicide. Strictly routine...until a B-girl claiming to have evidence is found murdered, and Bannion's superiors order him off the case. ...more about Big Heat
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
5
3.1428Based on the story "Mob Rule" by Norman Krasna. Joe Wilson and Katherine Grant are in love, but he doesn't have enough money for them to get married. So Katherine moves across the country to make money. ...more about Fury
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
6
3.0507Chris Cross, 25 years a cashier, has a gold watch and little else. That rainy night, he rescues delectable Kitty from her abusive boyfriend Johnny. Smitten, amateur painter Chris lets Kitty think he's a wealthy artist. ...more about Scarlet Street
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7
2.9259Gotham College professor Wanley and his friends become obsessed with the portrait of a woman in the window next to the men's club. Wanley happens to meet the woman while admiring her portrait, and ends up in her apartment for talk and a bit of champagne. ...more about Woman in the Window
- Not Available on DVD
8
2.8661A western based on the story "Gunsight Whitman" by Silvia Richards. Vern Haskell, a nice rancher, seeks out to revenge his fiance's death when she is killed during a robbery. ...more about Rancho Notorious
- Not Available on DVD
9
2.8322Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so sane outside either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization, he stumbles across a murderous spy ring and doesn't quite know who to turn to. ...more about Ministry of Fear
- Not Available on DVD
10
2.8251Mae Doyle comes back to her hometown a cynical woman. Her brother Joe fears that his love, fish cannery worker Peggy, may wind up like Mae. Mae marries Jerry and has a baby; she is happy but restless, drawn to Jerry's friend Earl. ...more about Clash by Night
- DVD Best Pricing:
Wal Mart
11
2.8017Nora is a pretty telephone operator engaged to a soldier overseas. On her birthday, she gets a Dear John letter from him. Feeling despondent, she agrees to a date with a wolf from her office. ...more about Blue Gardenia
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
12
2.7526A deranged writer murders a maid after she resists his advances. The writer engages his brother's help in hiding the body, and then watches as the brother becomes the prime suspect. ...more about House by the River
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
13
2.7396Vance Shaw gives up outlawing and goes to work for the telegraph company; his brother Jack Slade leads outlaws trying to prevent the company connecting the line between Omaha and Salt Lake City. Lots of Indian fighting and gunplay. ...more about Western Union
- Not Available on DVD
14
2.5478Joan is the secretary to the public defender in a large city. She is in love with a career criminal named Eddie, and she believes that he is a basically good person who just had some tough breaks. ...more about You Only Live Once
- DVD Best Pricing:
DVDEmpire
15
2.5329Dr. 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. ...more about Dr. Mabuse
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16
2.5113British hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria has Hitler in his gunsight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by German agents and aided by a prostitute. ...more about Man Hunt
- Not Available on DVD
17
2.3789Agent No 326 is ordered to stop a spy-ring, but he falls in love with one of the spies, Sonja. No 326 tries to find the head of that organisation. ...more about Spione
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
18
2.3364Somewhere in the 18th century Great Britain, noble but penniless young boy John Mohune is sent by his dying mother to Moonfleet, to put himself under the protection of a certain Jeremy Fox. ...more about Moonfleet
- Not Available on DVD
19
2.3223Near the end of World War II, the Allies must find out how much the Axis knows about building atomic bombs. The OSS recruits a physicist, Alvah Jesper, to reach his former colleague, Katerin Lodor, now in Switzerland, and bring her out for debriefing. ...more about Cloak and Dagger
- DVD Best Pricing:
Herman Street
20
2.2908Writer sets himself up to take murder rap to show the errors of circumstantial evidence. With a friend holding back evidence so he can prove his innocence at the last minute, he goes to trial. But during the trial, his friend is killed in a car accident. ...more about Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
- Not Available on DVD
21
2.2433Engineer Jeff, returning from Korea, falls in Love to his co-worker Carl's wife Vicky, who both commited a murder. Naturally Carl gets jealous but can't say a thing because Jeff knows a little bit about the case. ...more about Human Desire
- Not Available on DVD
22
2.1415After Siegfried's dead, Kriemhild marries Etzel, the King of the Huns. She gives birth to a child, and invites her brothers for a party. ...more about Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache
- DVD Best Pricing:
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23
2.1112Death of media magnat Amos Kyne is causing power struggle between his executives. In the meantime New York women become prey of a serial killer. ...more about While the City Sleeps
- Not Available on DVD
24
2.1004In 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. ...more about Secret Beyond the Door...
- Not Available on DVD
25
2.0547Frank James sets out to find the men who killed his brother. When the killers are pardoned, he takes matters into his own hands. The reporter who hopes to tell his story winds up in love with him. ...more about Return of Frank James
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27
1.4049In the spring of 1942, following the blockade-run that took General Douglas MacArthur and his staff from the Philippines to the safety of Australia, the survivors of a bombed-and-sunk PT Boat make their way to shore. ...more about American Guerrilla in the Philippines
- Not Available on DVD
28
A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the young woman becomes pregnant, the carousel barker tries to help pull off a robbery, which goes wrong. ...more about Liliom
- DVD Best Pricing:
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29
Kay Hoog wants to stop the organisation "Die Spinnen" to get a certain diamond, that will give the owning woman the crown of Asia, but the man, who should be the owner of that diamond, doesn't know of its existence.... ...more about Spinnen
- Not Available on DVD
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