Search results for "Fritz Lang"

The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960)

The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960)

The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960)
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99

A reporter is murdered while driving to his job. The Police are contacted by a clairvoyant who saw the death in a vision, but some dark force is preventing him…

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The Indian Tomb (1959)

The Indian Tomb (1959)

The Indian Tomb (1959)
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97

Seetha and Harold Berger are rescued from the desert by a caravan and brought to a small village. However, the greedy owner of the house where they are lodged betrays…

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The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959)

The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959)

The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959)
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101

In Eschnapur, a German architect saves the life of the Maharajah’s favorite temple dancer and becomes Maharajah’s friend but their friendship is tested when the architect and the dancer fall…

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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
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80

A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the…

Genre: Crime, Drama
While the City Sleeps (1956)

While the City Sleeps (1956)

While the City Sleeps (1956)
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100

Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed “The Lipstick Killer”.

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Moonfleet (1955)

Moonfleet (1955)

Moonfleet (1955)
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87

Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old friend of his…

Human Desire (1954)

Human Desire (1954)

Human Desire (1954)
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91

A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in a sordid affair with a co-worker’s wife and murder. Preserved by the Academy Film…

The Big Heat (1953)

The Big Heat (1953)

The Big Heat (1953)
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89

After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicious crime syndicate.

Genre: Crime, Thriller
The Blue Gardenia (1953)

The Blue Gardenia (1953)

The Blue Gardenia (1953)
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89

Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of…

Genre: Crime, Mystery
Clash by Night (1952)

Clash by Night (1952)

Clash by Night (1952)
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105

An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Rancho Notorious (1952)

Rancho Notorious (1952)

Rancho Notorious (1952)
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86

A man in search of revenge infiltrates a ranch, hidden in an inhospitable region, where its owner, Altar Keane, gives shelter to outlaws fleeing from the law in exchange for…

Genre: Drama, Western
American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950)

American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950)

American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950)
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105

American soldiers stranded in the Philippines after the Japanese invasion form guerrilla bands to fight back. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation…

Genre: Drama, War
House by the River (1950)

House by the River (1950)

House by the River (1950)
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88

Wealthy writer Stephen Byrne tries to seduce the family maid, but when she resists, he kills her. Long jealous of his brother John, Stephen does his best to pin the…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Secret Beyond the Door (1947)

Secret Beyond the Door (1947)

Secret Beyond the Door (1947)
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99

After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full of his strange…

Cloak and Dagger (1946)

Cloak and Dagger (1946)

Cloak and Dagger (1946)
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106

Italian partisans help a professor sent by the OSS to find an atomic scientist held by Nazis.

Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Scarlet Street (1945)

Scarlet Street (1945)

Scarlet Street (1945)
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103

Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she’s really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty…

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Woman in the Window (1944)

The Woman in the Window (1944)

The Woman in the Window (1944)
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99

A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Ministry of Fear (1944)

Ministry of Fear (1944)

Ministry of Fear (1944)
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86

Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn’t seem so sane outside either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization,…

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Hangmen Also Die! (1943)

Hangmen Also Die! (1943)

Hangmen Also Die! (1943)
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134

During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal “Hangman of Europe”, Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his…

Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Man Hunt (1941)

Man Hunt (1941)

Man Hunt (1941)
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105

Shortly before the start of WW2, renowned British big-game hunter Alan Thorndike, vacationing in Bavaria, has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes…

Genre: Thriller, War
Western Union (1941)

Western Union (1941)

Western Union (1941)
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95

When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor. Preserved by the Academy…

Genre: Western
The Return of Frank James (1940)

The Return of Frank James (1940)

The Return of Frank James (1940)
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92

Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse’s killers, the back-shooting Fords.

Genre: Western
You and Me (1938)

You and Me (1938)

You and Me (1938)
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94

Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his ’employed-prison-graduates’ are Helen…

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
You Only Live Once (1937)

You Only Live Once (1937)

You Only Live Once (1937)
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86

Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder,…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Fury (1936)

Fury (1936)

Fury (1936)
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92

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly…

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
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122

After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professor’s preoccupation with another patient, the criminal genius Dr. Mabuse the…

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M (1931)

M (1931)

M (1931)
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111

In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert’s heinous crimes are so repellant and…

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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Woman in the Moon (1929)

Woman in the Moon (1929)

Woman in the Moon (1929)
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170

A scientist discovers that there’s gold on the moon. He builds a rocket to fly there, but there’s too much rivalry among the crew to have a successful expedition.

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Spies (1928)

Spies (1928)

Spies (1928)
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145

The mastermind behind a ubiquitous spy operation learns of a dangerous romance between a Russian lady in his employ and a dashing agent from the government’s secret service.

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Genre: Romance, Thriller
Metropolis (1927)

Metropolis (1927)

Metropolis (1927)
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153

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city’s mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate…

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Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild’s Revenge (1924)

Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild’s Revenge (1924)

Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild’s Revenge (1924)
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129

When Kriemhild, thirsty for revenge, marries to Etzel, king of the Huns, she invites King Gunther and his court to visit them, intending to finally take the life of the…

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Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924)

Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924)

Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924)
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148

Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, travels to Worms, capital of the Burgundian kingdom, to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the beautiful Kriemhild.

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Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922)

Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922)

Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922)
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271

Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to make huge profits on the…

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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Destiny (1921)

Destiny (1921)

Destiny (1921)
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98

As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and is sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall. The woman finds…

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Four Around the Woman (1921)

Four Around the Woman (1921)

Four Around the Woman (1921)
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85

Harry Yquem buys his beloved wife some jewelry in a place where underworld middlemen trade in fake and stolen goods. By chance, he spots a man with whom his wife…

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Genre: Drama
The Wandering Image (1920)

The Wandering Image (1920)

The Wandering Image (1920)
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67

When Irmgard becomes pregnant of Georg, a free love disciple, she decides, for the sake of her child, to pretend they are married. The secret plan is to wed his…

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Genre: Drama, Romance
The Spiders: Part 2 – The Diamond Ship (1920)

The Spiders: Part 2 – The Diamond Ship (1920)

The Spiders: Part 2 – The Diamond Ship (1920)
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105

When last we saw Kay Hoog (millionaire adventurer, courageous hunk), he’d been beset with tragedy. Having escaped an ancient Incan city by the skin of his gleaming teeth, Hoog looked…

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Genre: Adventure, Crime
The Spiders: Part 1 – The Golden Sea (1919)

The Spiders: Part 1 – The Golden Sea (1919)

The Spiders: Part 1 – The Golden Sea (1919)
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69

In San Francisco, well-known sportsman Kay Hoog announces to a club that he has found a message in a bottle with a map drawn by a Harvard professor who has…

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Genre: Adventure, Crime