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).
Contempt
(Fritz Lang)
From Caligari to Hitler
(Self - Filmmaker (archive footage))
For Example Fritz Lang
The Dinosaur and the Baby
(Self)
Conversation with Fritz Lang
(Self)
Voyage to 'Metropolis'
(Self (archive footage))
Hilde Warren and Death
Master of Love
Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit
(Himself (archive))
Paparazzi
(Himself)
Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film
(Self)
Encounter with Fritz Lang
(Interviewee)
Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands
(Self (archive footage))
Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood
(Self (archive footage))
The Film in the Film
(Himself)
Bardot et Godard
(Himself)
The Exiles
(Self)
Fritz Lang
Deutscher Filmpreis
(Self)
Das Jahrhundert des Theaters
(Self (archive footage))
Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
(Self)
Metropolis
(Director)
Metropolis
(Editor)
Secret Beyond the Door
(Director)
Secret Beyond the Door
(Producer)
M
(Director)
M
(Screenplay)
Woman in the Moon
(Director)
Woman in the Moon
(Screenplay)
Woman in the Moon
(Producer)
Ministry of Fear
(Director)
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
(Director)
Human Desire
(Director)
The Blue Gardenia
(Director)
House by the River
(Director)
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
(Director)
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
(Screenplay)
Hangmen Also Die!
(Director)
Hangmen Also Die!
(Original Story)
Hangmen Also Die!
(Adaptation)
Hangmen Also Die!
(Producer)
Man Hunt
(Director)
The Indian Tomb
(Writer)
Clash by Night
(Director)
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried
(Director)
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
(Director)
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
(Screenplay)
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
(Producer)
Destiny
(Director)
Destiny
(Writer)
Rancho Notorious
(Director)
The Big Heat
(Director)
Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge
(Director)
Fury
(Director)
Fury
(Screenplay)
Moonfleet
(Director)
While the City Sleeps
(Director)
Western Union
(Director)
The Return of Frank James
(Director)
Liliom
(Director)
Scarlet Street
(Director)
Scarlet Street
(Producer)
Cloak and Dagger
(Director)
The Woman in the Window
(Director)
You and Me
(Director)
You and Me
(Producer)
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
(Director)
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
(Screenplay)
The Tiger of Eschnapur
(Director)
You Only Live Once
(Director)
The Spiders: Part 2 - The Diamond Ship
(Director)
The Indian Tomb
(Director)
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
(Director)
The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
(Director)
The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
(Writer)
Die Rache ist mein
(Writer)
Bettler GmbH
(Writer)
Wolkenbau und Flimmerstern
(Writer)
Spies
(Director)
The Wandering Image
(Director)
Hilde Warren and Death
(Writer)
Harakiri
(Director)
Four Around the Woman
(Director)
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler: Part 2 – Inferno
(Director)
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler: Part 2 – Inferno
(Screenplay)
Journey to the Lost City
(Director)
Journey to the Lost City
(Screenplay)
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler: Part 1 – The Great Gambler
(Director)
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler: Part 1 – The Great Gambler
(Screenplay)
Giorgio Moroder's Metropolis
(Director)
Giorgio Moroder's Metropolis
(Writer)
The Spiders: Part 2 - The Diamond Ship
(Writer)
The Plague in Florence
(Screenplay)
Confirm or Deny
(Co-Director)
Metropolis
(Screenplay)
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
(Producer)
Spies
(Writer)
Half-Blood
(Director)
Master of Love
(Director)
The Tiger of Eschnapur
(Writer)
Liliom
(Writer)
M
(Original Story)
The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi
(Writer)
The Indian Tomb, Part II: The Tiger of Eschnapur
(Writer)
The Mistress of the World, Part VIII: The Revenge of Maud Fergusson
(Writer)
The Dance of Death
(Screenplay)
Die Peitsche
(Screenplay)
Die Hochzeit im Excentricclub
(Screenplay)
Half-Blood
(Screenplay)
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried
(Screenplay)
Four Around the Woman
(Screenplay)
The Wandering Image
(Writer)
Lilith and Ly
(Writer)
Die Frau mit den Orchideen
(Writer)
Metropolis
(Original Film Writer)
M the Damned
(Original Film Writer)
The Black Vampire
(Original Film Writer)
Synthwave Horror: Metropolis
(Director)
Synthwave Horror: Metropolis
(Screenplay)
The Word According to Whoopi
(Sound Mixer)
Metropolis
(Original Story)