Beyond a Reasonable Doubt 1956  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer, Arthur Franz, Philip Bourneuf, Ed Binns, Shepperd Strudwick, Dan Seymour, Barbara Nichols, Rusty Lane
Tom Garrett (Dana Andrews) pretends to be guilty of murder to prove the injustice of capital punishment. Unfortunately, when his alibi is killed in an automobile crash, Garrett is left unable to prove his innocence.
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The Big Heat 1953  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Thriller
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Lee Marvin, Carolyn Jones, Jeanette Nolan, Alexander Scourby, Peter Whitney, Willis Bouchey, Harry Lauter, Robert Burton, Adam Williams, Howard Wendell, Chris Alcaide, Dorothy Green
Following his colleague's suicide, homicide detective Dave Bannion (Glenn Ford) investigates possible mob influence from within the city's police force. When a car bomb, meant for him, kills Bannion's wife Katie (Jocelyn Brando), he is taken off the case. Now, with help from Debbie (Gloria Grahame) who is the ex-mistress of gang leader Vince Stone (Lee Marvin), Bannion seeks revenge.
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The Blue Gardenia 1953  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern, Raymond Burr, Jeff Donnell, Richard Erdman, George Reeves, Ruth Storey, Ray Walker, Nat King Cole
After finding out that her soldier/boyfriend has found a new girlfriend, Norah (Anne Baxter) goes out with Harry (Raymond Burr). The blind date doesn't go well for Norah. Returning to Harry's place after having too much to drink, he makes a pass at her, and she takes a poker to him. Later, after Harry is found dead, Norah assumes she did it while drunk, and now a reporter (Richard Conte) is on her trail. OK film noir.
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Clash by Night 1952 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe, J. Carrol Naish, Keith Andes, Silvio Minciotti, Julius Tannen, Mario Siletti
Mae (Barbara Stanwyck) returns to her hometown after an absence of 10 years and marries a fisherman, Jerry (Paul Douglas). She raises a family but cannot seem to stay away from a rough-around-the-edges projectionist (Robert Ryan) who seems to understand her restless unhappiness.
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Cloak and Dagger 1946 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama / Adventure / Thriller / Romance
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Gary Cooper, Robert Alda, Lilli Palmer, J. Edward Bromberg, Vladimir Sokoloff, Marc Lawrence, Ludwig Stossel, Patrick O'Moore, Charles Marsh, Dan Seymour, Marjorie Hoshelle, Helen Thimig, James Flavin, Lex Barker, Richard Fraser
American physics professor Alva Jesper (Gary Cooper) is called on for a mission by the O.S.S. in the last months of World War II. He arrives in Europe and learns from former colleague Dr. Katerin Lodor (Helen Thimig) that a former acquaintance, atomic scientist Dr. Giovanni Polda (Vladimir Sokoloff), is working in Italy on plans for an atomic bomb for the Nazis. Then, Loder is killed, and Jesper travels to Italy where he links up with resistance fighters Pinkie and Gina (Robert Alda and Lilli Palmer). He does meet with Polda and learns about the Nazi plans to build an atomic bomb. Meanwhile, he falls in love with Gina, but now must find a way to escape from the Nazis.
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The Diabolical Dr. Mabuse 1960 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Thriller
aka: The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Dawn Addams, Peter van Eyck, Gert Frobe, Wolfgang Preiss, Werner Peters, Andrea Checchi, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Nico Pepe, Rolf Mobius, Howard Vernon
When visitors turn up dead at Berlin's Hotel Luxor, police suspect that the murderer believes he is the reincarnation of master criminal Dr. Mabuse. Although this film represents Fritz Lang's final effort as a director, five "Dr. Mabuse" sequels followed this very popular film.
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Die Nibelungen 1924 N/R, 143 min.
Genre: Foreign / Fantasy / Adventure / Drama
aka: Siegfried
Siegfried's Death
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Paul Richter, Margarete Schon, Theodor Loos, Hanna Ralph, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Georg John, Gertrud Arnold, Hans Carl Mueller, Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Hardy von Francois, Frida Richard, Yuri Yurovsky
This classic of German mythology is told in two parts. First, Siegfried (Paul Richter) gains immortality after slaying a dragon. The second part tells of his wife, Kriemhild (Margarete Schoen), seeking revenge after he was slain. The first part is sometimes found separately with a title of "Siegfried," and the second part may be found as "Kriemhild's Revenge."
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Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler 1922 N/R, 171 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Dr. Mabuse, King of Crime
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Alfred Abel, Aud Egede Nissen, Gertrude Welcker, Bernhard Goetzke, Paul Richter
Dr. Mabuse (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) is a psychiatrist who uses his professional knowledge to hypnotize wealthy patients, get them to cheat at their businesses, and then con them out of their money. His goal: corner the stock market. Unfortunately for Mabuse, he did not take into consideration the plodding Chief Inspector von Wenck (Bernhard Goetzke) who is on his trail.
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Fury 1936 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Sylvia Sidney, Walter Abel, Edward Ellis, Walter Brennan, Frank Albertson, Bruce Cabot, Raymond Hatton, Ward Bond, George Chandler
In a case of mistaken identity, Joe Wilson (Spencer Tracy) is arrested for kidnapping and falls into the hands of a lynch mob. Narrowly escaping with his life, Joe plans to bring the perpetrators to trial. Still a winner.
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Hangmen Also Die 1943 N/R, 131 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Lest We Forget
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee, Gene Lockhart, Dennis O'Keefe, Alexander Granach, Margaret Wycherly, Nana Bryant, Lionel Stander, Arthur Loft
Following the assassination of the hated Nazi, Reinhardt Heydrich, by Czechoslovakian Doctor Svoboda (Brian Donlevy), Germans retaliate against the Czechs through a reign of terror.
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House by the River 1950 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Louis Hayward, Jane Wyatt, Lee Bowman, Dorothy Patrick, Ann Shoemaker, Jody Gilbert, Sarah Padden, Peter Brocco, Howland Chamberlain, Margaret Seddon, Kathleen Freeman, Will Wright
After Stephen (Louis Hayward) accidentally murders a maid, his brother, John (Lee Bowman), helps him hide the body. But, when police find the body, John, not Stephen, becomes the prime suspect.
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Human Desire 1954 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford, Edgar Buchanan, Kathleen Case, Peggy Maley, Grandon Rhodes, Dan Seymour, Paul Brinegar, Dan Riss
Based on Emile Zola's novel, "La Bete Humaine," this is the story of an unfaithful wife, Vicki Buckley (Gloria Grahame), who plots with Jeff Warren (Glenn Ford) to do in her husband, Carl (Broderick Crawford).
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The Indian Tomb 1959 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Foreign / Adventure
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Debra Paget, Paul Hubschmid, Walter Reyer, Claus Holm, Valery Inkijinoff, Sabine Bethmann, Angela Portaluri, Rene Deltgen, Guido Celano, Jochen Brockmann
This is the second half of the story about the architect (Paul Hubschmid) who comes upon Eshnapur and falls in love with exotic dancer Seetha (Debra Paget). They flee the city to free themselves of the Maharaja, who also wants Seetha, but the maharaja's troops are hot on their trail. In the end, it comes the inevitable showdown with the maharaja himself. The two halves (the first being "The Tiger of Eschnapur") were edited, dubbed into English, and released as "Journey to the Lost City."
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Journey to the Lost City 1959  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Debra Paget, Paul Hubschmid, Walter Reyer, Claus Holm, Valery Inkijinoff, Sabine Bethmann, Rene Deltgen, Guido Celano, Jochen Brockmann, Angela Portaluri
This is an edited version of two of Lang's films ("The Tiger of Eschnapur" and "The Indian Tomb") and dubbed into English. Both the editing and dubbing weakened the film, which tells the story of a lost city that is divided between two brothers where dangers lurk. Into this city comes an architect who falls in love with a native dancer.
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 Le Mepris 1963  N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Contempt
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Giorgia Moll, Jean-Luc Godard, Fritz Lang, Linda Veras, Raoul Coutard
Paul Javal (Michel Piccoli) is busy rewriting the screenplay "The Odyssey" for producer Jeremy Prokosch (Jack Palance). Meanwhile, Paul's wife, Camille (Brigitte Bardot), is not happy in their marriage. As she expresses her unhappiness, Paul is unable to confront the real world, just does not understand the problems, and their marriage falls apart. This film was restored and re-released in 1997.
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Liliom 1934 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Charles Boyer, Madeleine Ozeray, Florelle, Pierre Alcover, Robert Arnoux, Roland Toutain, Alexandre Rignault, Henri Richard, Barencey, Raoul Marco, Antonin Artaud, Rene Stern
Carousel barker Liliom (Charles Boyer) falls in love with innocent Julie (Madeleine Ozeray), quits his job, and marries her. But he proves to be a terrible husband, and when he learns that Julie is pregnant, he takes part in a robbery during which he kills himself. Liliom waits at Heaven's gates where he is told that he must return to Earth on his daughter's 16th birthday and perform one good deed before he can earn his wings. Rogers & Hammerstein later used this story for their musical, "Carousel."
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 M 1931  N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Thriller
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke, Gustaf Grundgens, Theodor Loos, Theo Lingen, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Franz Stein, Friedrich Gnab, Fritz Odemar, Georg John, Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur, Rosa Valetti, Hertha von Walther
In Peter Lorre's first film role, he plays a child killer who is being hunted by both police and the underworld. A chilling Fritz Lang masterpiece.
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Man Hunt 1941 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama / Thriller
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, John Carradine, Roddy McDowall, Ludwig Stossel, Heather Thatcher, Frederick Worlock, Roger Imhof, Holmes Herbert, Olaf Hytten, William Haade, Kurt Kreuger, Frederick Vogeding, Lester Matthews
While in the Bavarian Alps, big-game hunter Thorndyke (Walter Pidgeon) has an opportunity to assassinate Hitler. He fails in the attempt and is captured by the Gestapo, beaten, and left for dead. With help from young Vaner (Roddy McDowell), Thorndyke stows away on a steamer where he sees a "Mr. Jones" (John Carradine) who has stolen Thornydyke's identity, including his passport. But "Mr. Jones" is only one problem he must deal with in the coming days. Remade in 1976 as "Rogue Male."
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 Metropolis 1927 N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Romance
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Frohlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Fritz Rasp, Theodor Loos, Heinrich George, Erwin Biswanger, Fritz Alberti, Hanns Leo Reich, Olaf Storm, Heinrich Gotho
In addition to innovative camera work, this early, classic, silent film gives an eerily accurate prediction of future scientific possibilities–in the year 2000. The film is an example of artistic Expressionism at its best with visual elements reflecting the mood of the theme: the conflicts between the working-class and upper-class residents of the city.
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Ministry of Fear 1944 N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond, Dan Duryea, Hillary Brooke, Alan Napier, Percy Waram, Erskine Sanford, Thomas Louden, Rita Johnson
Set during World War II, this is the film adaptation of Graham Greene's powerful novel about espionage involving Stephen Neale's (Ray Milland) unraveling of a Nazi plot.
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The Return of Frank James 1940 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Jackie Cooper, Henry Hull, John Carradine, J. Edward Bromberg, Donald Meek, Eddie Collins, George Barbier, Ernest Whitman
This sequel to "Jesse James" depicts Frank James' (Henry Fonda) actions in avenging his brother's death.
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 Scarlet Street 1945 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay, Rosalind Ivan, Jess Barker, Samuel S. Hinds, Arthur Loft, Vladimir Sokoloff, Russell Hicks, Charles Kemper, Lou Lubin, Anita Sharp-Bolster, Cy Kendall, Lee Phelps
An amateur painter, Christopher Cross (Edward G. Robinson), is also the henpecked husband of Adele (Rosalind Ivan). Christopher is a sitting duck for extortion when the seductive Kitty March (Joan Bennett) arrives on the scene with big plans for making money off Christopher's art work. Kitty persuades Cross to embezzle money to pay for her apartment. Meanwhile, what Cross does not know is that Kitty's lover is con man Johnny Prince (Dan Duryea), and he is removing Cross' name from the paintings and replacing them with Kitty's name. Now the art work proves successful, and Johnny claims they are Kitty's and makes money off of them. Cross finally catches on, kills Kitty, and then suffers a mental breakdown. This is a remake of Jean Renoir's classic "La Chienne."
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Secret Beyond the Door 1948 N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Joan Bennett, Michael Redgrave, Anne Revere, Barbara O'Neil, Natalie Schafer, Paul Cavanagh, Anabel Shaw, Rosa Rey, James Seay, Mark Dennis, Houseley Stevenson
A wealthy socialite from New York, Celia (Joan Bennett), vacations in Mexico where she meets and marries Mark Lamphere (Michael Redgrave). It doesn't take long before Celia begins to suspect that her husband holds many secrets, including murdering his first wife. Could Celia be next on his list?
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Spione 1928 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Thriller
aka: Spies
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gerda Maurus, Willy Fritsch, Lupu Pick, Lien Deyers, Louis Ralph, Craighall Sherry, Hertha von Walther, Fritz Rasp, Georg John
British Secret Service Agent No. 326 (WIlly Fritsch) gets help from a defecting Russian spy (Gerda Maurus) in thwarting the activities of ruthless master-spy Haghi (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) who runs his spy ring despite being confined to a wheelchair.
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The Testament of Dr. Mabuse 1933 N/R, 122 min.
Genre: Foreign / Thriller
aka: The Crimes of Dr. Mabuse
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Oscar Beregi Sr., Karl Meixner, Theodor Loos, Otto Wernicke, Klaus Pohl, Wera Liessem, Gustav Diessl, Paul Bernd, Henry Bless
In Fritz Lang's 1922 film, "Dr. Mabuse, King of Crimes," Mabuse (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) hypnotized his patients and told them to commit crimes. By story's end, Mabuse had been confined as a mental patient. Now, after his death, evidence comes to light that Mabuse continues his tricks; it appears that he was able to gain control of Dr. Baum's (Oscar Beregi, Sr.) mind, and he can direct Baum to perform criminal acts.
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The Tiger of Eschnapur 1959 N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Foreign / Adventure
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Debra Paget, Paul Hubschmid, Walter Reyer, Claus Holm, Luciana Paluzzi, Valery Inkijinoff, Sabine Bethmann, Rene Deltgen, Jochen Brockmann, Jochen Blume
This is the first of two parts in an adventure/romance that takes place in the lost city of Eschnapur. An architect (Paul Hubschmid) arrives and falls in love with exotic dancer Seetha (Debra Paget). But, the evil maharajah, Chandra (Walter Reyer), also desires her. Meanwhile, a revolt is being planned by the unhappy citizens. This film and the second of the series ("The Indian Tomb") were (poorly) edited and (poorly) dubbed into English and released as "Journey to the Lost City."
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Western Union 1941 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Randolph Scott, Robert Young, Dean Jagger, Virginia Gilmore, John Carradine, Slim Summerville, Chill Wills, Barton MacLane, Minor Watson, George Chandler
Based on Zane Grey's novel, this is a beautifully filmed and well conceived story about the completion of Western Union's cross-country telegraph lines in 1861.
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While the City Sleeps 1956 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Dana Andrews, Ida Lupino, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders, Vincent Price, Thomas Mitchell, Sally Forrest, Howard Duff, John Barrymore Jr., Mae Marsh
A psychopath (John Barrymore Jr.) is on the loose committing a series of murders. When a newspaper publisher (Vincent Price) offers the prize of a top job to the reporter who solves the crimes, the journalists go berserk using unethical efforts to achieve success.
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Woman in the Moon 1929 N/R, 156 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
aka: Girl in the Moon
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Gerda Maurus, Willy Fritsch, Gustav von Wangenheim, Fritz Rasp, Klaus Pohl, Gustl Gstettenbaur, Tilla Durieux, Margarete Kupfer, Heinrich Gotho, Hermann Vallentin
With plans of controlling the world's gold supply by obtaining gold from the Moon, a cartel backs a flight to the Moon. However, treachery, suspicion, and fear interfere with the success of this mission. Good special effects in this early sci-fi epic.
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The Woman in the Window 1944 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Raymond Massey, Joan Bennett, Edmund Breon, Dan Duryea, Robert Blake, Dorothy Peterson, Thomas E. Jackson, Arthur Loft, Frank Dawson, Bess Flowers, Frank McClure
When his family is out of town, the very proper Professor Richard Wanley (Edward G. Robinson) meets the subject of a painting (Joan Bennett) and becomes involved in a murder. Great thriller.
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You Only Live Once 1937 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane, Jean Dixon, William Gargan, Warren Hymer, Charles "Chic" Sale, Margaret Hamilton, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Jerome Cowan
Just when ex-con Eddie Taylor (Henry Fonda) and his fiancee Joan Graham (Sylvia Sidney) were on the verge of finding happiness, Eddie is arrested for a robbery in which he had no part. Months later, Eddie kills the prison chaplain and breaks out of prison; he and Joan are forced to run from the police.
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| 1. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
2. The Big Heat (1953)
3. The Blue Gardenia (1953)
4. Clash by Night (1952)
5. Cloak and Dagger (1946)
6. The Diabolical Dr. Mabuse (1960)
aka: The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
7. Die Nibelungen (1924)
aka: Siegfried
aka: Siegfried's Death
8. Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922)
aka: Dr. Mabuse, King of Crime
9. Fury (1936)
10. Hangmen Also Die (1943)
aka: Lest We Forget
11. House by the River (1950)
12. Human Desire (1954)
13. The Indian Tomb (1959)
14. Journey to the Lost City (1959)
15. Le Mepris (1963)
aka: Contempt
16. Liliom (1934)
17. M (1931)
18. Man Hunt (1941)
19. Metropolis (1927)
20. Ministry of Fear (1944)
21. The Return of Frank James (1940)
22. Scarlet Street (1945)
23. Secret Beyond the Door (1948)
24. Spione (1928)
aka: Spies
25. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
aka: The Crimes of Dr. Mabuse
26. The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959)
27. Western Union (1941)
28. While the City Sleeps (1956)
29. Woman in the Moon (1929)
aka: Girl in the Moon
30. The Woman in the Window (1944)
31. You Only Live Once (1937)
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