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Fritz Lang
Known for: DirectingFriedrich 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).
Filmography 45
M
+8
Director, Screenplay 
Metropolis
+16
Director, Screenplay 
Contempt
+1
as Fritz Lang 
The Big Heat
+4
Director 
Scarlet Street
+30
Director, Producer 
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
+5
Director 
Secret Beyond the Door
+2
Director, Producer 
While the City Sleeps
+2
Director 
The Woman in the Window
+11
Director 
Destiny
+2
Director, Writer 
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
+1
Director, Screenplay 
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Director, Screenplay 
Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge
Director 
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried
Director, Screenplay 
Rancho Notorious
Director 
The Blue Gardenia
+10
Director 
The Return of Frank James
+4
Director 
You Only Live Once
+8
Director 
Clash by Night
+2
Director 
Fury
+3
Director, Screenplay 
Ministry of Fear
+2
Director 
House by the River
+2
Director 
Woman in the Moon
Director, Screenplay 
Cloak and Dagger
Director 
Western Union
+4
Director 
Voyage to Metropolis
as Self (archive footage) 
Hangmen Also Die!
+15
Director, Original story 
Human Desire
Director 
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
+1
Director, Screenplay 
The Tiger of Eschnapur
+3
Director, Writer 
The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
Director, Writer 
Man Hunt
+4
Director 
M
+2
Original story 
Moonfleet
Director 
You and Me
+4
Director, Producer 
The Indian Tomb
+3
Director, Writer 
Spies
+1
Director, Writer 
Journey to the Lost City
Director, Screenplay 
The Spiders: Part 2 - The Diamond Ship
Director, Writer 
Four Around the Woman
Director, Screenplay 
Paparazzi
as Self 
Liliom
Director, Writer 
Bardot et Godard
as Self