Fritz Lang filmography

Fritz Lang (1890–1976) was an Austrian film director, producer and screenwriter. In Lang's early career he worked primarily as a screenwriter, finishing film scripts in four to five days.^[1] Lang directed major German films of the silent and early sound eras including Metropolis (1927) and M (1931) respectively.^[2]^[3] After fleeing from the Nazi regime, Lang directed some of the most important American crime and film noir motion pictures of the studio era, such as The Big Heat (1953).^[3] Lang appeared as himself in Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt (Le Mepris, 1963).^[2]

Filmography

Films

Year	Film	Functioned as				Notes
Year	Film	Director	Producer	Writer	Actor	Notes
1919	Halbblut					silent lost film
	Master of Love					silent lost film
	The Spiders – Part 1: The Golden Sea					silent
	Harakiri
1920	The Spiders – Part 2: The Diamond Ship
1920	The Wandering Image
1921	Four Around a Woman
1921	Destiny
1922	Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler – Part 1: The Great Gambler
1922	Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler – Part 2: Inferno
1924	Die Nibelungen – Part 1: Siegfried
1924	Die Nibelungen – Part 2: Kriemhild's Revenge
1927	Metropolis
1928	Spies
1929	Woman in the Moon
1931	M
1933	The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
1934	Liliom
1936	Fury
1937	You Only Live Once
1938	You and Me
1940	The Return of Frank James
1941	Western Union
1941	Man Hunt
1943	Hangmen Also Die!
1944	Ministry of Fear
1944	The Woman in the Window
1945	Scarlet Street
1946	Cloak and Dagger
1947	Secret Beyond the Door
1950	House by the River
1950	American Guerrilla in the Philippines
1952	Rancho Notorious
1952	Clash by Night
1953	The Blue Gardenia
1953	The Big Heat
1954	Human Desire
1955	Moonfleet
1956	While the City Sleeps
1956	Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
1959	The Tiger of Eschnapur
1959	The Indian Tomb
1960	The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse

Contributions

Year	Film	Functioned as			Notes
Year	Film	Writer	Actor	Other	Notes
1916	Die Peitsche [de]
1917	Wedding in the Eccentric Club
1917	Hilde Warren und der Tod
1918	Lilith und Ly
1919	Revenge Is Mine
	Bettler GmbH
	Wolkenbau und Flimmerstern
	The Woman with Orchids
	The Dance of Death				Lost film
	The Plague of Florence
1920	The Mistress of the World
1921	The Indian Tomb
1942	Moontide				Lang left early in shooting, film direction is credited to Archie Mayo
1963	Contempt				Lang plays himself

Notes

General

"Fritz Lang > Filmography". Allmovie. Retrieved March 12, 2010.
McGilligan, Patrick (June 1997). Fritz Lang: the nature of the beast. St. Martin's Press. pp. 483–503. ISBN 0-312-19454-4.
Eisner, Lotte H (1986). Fritz Lang. Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80271-6. Retrieved March 12, 2010.
Grant, Barry Keith (2007). Film genre: from iconography to ideology. Wallflower Press. ISBN 978-1-904764-79-3. Retrieved March 12, 2010.

Specific

^ Eisner, 1986. p. 407
^ ^a ^b Ankeny, Jason. "Fritz Lang > Biography – Allmovie". Allmovie. Retrieved March 12, 2010.
^ ^a ^b Grant, 2007. p. 71

External links

Fritz Lang at IMDb

[1] Eisner, 1986. p. 407

[amg-2] Ankeny, Jason. "Fritz Lang > Biography – Allmovie". Allmovie. Retrieved March 12, 2010.

[Grant-3] Grant, 2007. p. 71

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v t e Films directed by Fritz Lang
Filmography Bibliography
Silent films	Halbblut (1919) Der Herr der Liebe (1919) The Spiders, Part 1 (1919) Harakiri (1919) The Spiders, Part 2 (1920) The Wandering Image (1920) Four Around a Woman (1921) Destiny (1921) Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922) Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924) Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache (1924) Metropolis (1927) Spione (1928) Woman in the Moon (1929)
Sound films	M (1931) The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) Liliom (1934) Fury (1936) You Only Live Once (1937) You and Me (1938) The Return of Frank James (1940) Western Union (1941) Man Hunt (1941) Hangmen Also Die! (1943) Ministry of Fear (1944) The Woman in the Window (1944) Scarlet Street (1945) Cloak and Dagger (1946) Secret Beyond the Door (1947) House by the River (1950) American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950) Rancho Notorious (1952) Clash by Night (1952) The Blue Gardenia (1953) The Big Heat (1953) Human Desire (1954) Moonfleet (1955) While the City Sleeps (1956) Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959) The Indian Tomb (1959) The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960)