Biography: Fritz Lang |

While the exact origins of film noir are impossible to pinpoint, no director worked within the genre more consistently or more brilliantly than Fritz Lang. Bringing to the screen an obsessive and fatalistic world populated by a rogues' gallery of... more
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Cast: Brigitte Bardot Jean-Luc Godard   
Tags: Psychological Drama Satire Marriage Drama Showbiz Drama Drama 
Length: 102min
Contempt is the story of the end of a marriage. Camille (Brigitte Bardot) falls out of love with her husband Paul (Michel Piccoli) while he is rewriting the screenplay Odyssey by American producer Jeremiah Prokosch (Jack Palance). Just as the director...

The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960)
Tags: Crime Thriller Police Detective Film Master Criminal Films Crime 
Length: 103min
Back in Germany for the first time since 1933, director Fritz Lang returned to the screen character that brought him enormous success in his pre-Hollywood years. The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse is not so much a sequel as an extension of Lang's early...

Tags: Romantic Adventure Costume Adventure Escape Film Jungle Film Adventure 
Length: 97min
This unrealistic, routine drama is the second half of a story that began with Der Tiger von Eschnapur. This sequel was later cut slightly, combined with the first story then released in English as Journey to the Lost City. Both halves were written by...

Der Tiger von Eschnapur (1958)
Tags: Adventure Drama Romantic Drama Adventure 
Length: 101min
This is the third and least successful version of screenwriter Thea von Harbou's original story, Das Indische Grabmal, written around 1919. Her ex-husband, Fritz Lang directs this routine, outdated drama about an exotic dancer named Seetha (Debra...

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
Cast: Fritz Lang   
Tags: Psychological Drama Courtroom Drama Crime Drama Drama Film Noir 
Length: 80min
Crusading publisher Austin Spenser (Sidney Blackmer) wants to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence. Spencer talks his prospective son-in-law Tom Garrett (Dana Andrews) into participating in a hoax, the better to expose the...

Cast: Alexander Scourby   
Tags: Film Noir Thriller Police Detective Film Crime 
Length: 90min
Fritz Lang directed this gritty drama of gangland murder and police corruption, which was considered quite violent in its day. Dave Bannion (Glenn Ford) is a scrupulously honest police detective who learns that one of his fellow officers has committed...

Tags: Film Noir Crime Drama Drama 
Length: 90min
Carl Buckley (Broderick Crawford) needs the intervention of his beautiful wife Vicki (Gloria Grahame) to keep his job, so Vicki meets with Carl's boss Owens (Grandon Rhodes), and Carl's job is secure. Insanely jealous, Carl finds Vicki with Owens on...

Cast: Vincent Price Thomas Mitchell Ida Lupino   
Tags: Thriller Film Noir Psychological Thriller 
Length: 100min
When media mogul Amos Kyne (Robert Warwick) dies, his business, which includes a major newspaper, a television station, and a wire news service, is turned over to his sole heir, his foppish, ne'er do well son (Vincent Price). The younger Kyne has no...

Cast: Viveca Lindfors Joan Greenwood George Sanders   
Tags: Adventure Swashbuckler Costume Adventure 
Length: 89min
Director Fritz Lang was attracted to the British period piece Moonfleet because of the relatively unregenerate nature of its greedy "hero" Stewart Granger. Young Jon Whitely, who is in the legal custody of Granger, learns that he is to inherit a...

Cast: Anne Baxter   
Tags: Psychological Drama Crime Drama Drama Film Noir 
Length: 90min
After learning that her boyfriend, a GI in Korea, has found someone else, Norah Larkin (Anne Baxter) impulsively agrees to meet womanizer Harry Prebble (Raymond Burr) for dinner. Norah allows herself to get drunk and accept Prebble's invitation to his...



























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