Fritz Lang Archives

The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse

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 from seeing the man behind the crime...

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6.8

1960 Crime 99 min Play

6.1

The Indian Tomb

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 the law of hospitality and reveals their location to Prince Ramigani. The couple tries to escape but is hunted and captured by Ramigani and his men. Meanwhile Irene Rhode and her husband Walter Rhode suspect that Maharaja Chandra is not telling the truth about Harold's destiny. The conspirator Ramigani forces Seetha to accept ...

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6.1

1959 Adventure 97 min Play

6.2

The Tiger of Eschnapur

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 in-love, triggering the Maharajah's vengeful ire.

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6.2

1959 Adventure 101 min Play

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While the City Sleeps

Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer"

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7

1956 Crime 100 min Play

7

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

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 city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub dancer. Once Tom is found guilty, he is to reveal the setup and humiliate the DA.

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7

1956 Crime 80 min Play

6.4

Moonfleet

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 mother's, Jeremy Fox. Fox is a morally ambiguous character, an elegant gentleman involved with smugglers and pirates.

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6.4

1955 Adventure 87 min Play

6.7

Human Desire

Jeff Warren, a Korean War vet just returning to his railroad engineer's job, boards at the home of co-worker Alec Simmons and is charmed by Alec's beautiful daughter. He becomes attracted immediately to Vicki Buckley, the sultry wife of brutish railroad supervisor Carl Buckley, an alcoholic wife beater with a hair trigger temper and penchant for explosive violence. Jeff becomes reluctantly drawn into a sordid affair by the compulsively seductive Vicki. After Buckley is fired for ...

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6.7

1954 Drama 91 min Play

6.6

The Blue Gardenia

Deeply distraught that her GI ex-boyfriend plans to marry another woman, Norah Larkin agrees to go out on a date with lothario Harry Prebble. Norah's drunken night out with Prebble ends in a hazily remembered confrontation and the next day a startling discovery: Harry has been murdered, and the police have found Norah's personal effects at the scene. Tipped off to the breaking news, reporter Casey Mayo invites Norah to tell her side of the story.

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6.6

1953 Crime 88 min Play

7.7

The Big Heat

Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate.

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7.7

1953 Crime 89 min Play

6.5

Rancho Notorious

A cowboy infiltrates a bandit hideout in search of his girlfriend's killer.

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6.5

1952 Western 89 min Play

6.9

Clash by Night

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

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6.9

1952 Drama 105 min Play

5.1

American Guerrilla in the Philippines

American soldiers stranded in the Philippines after the Japanese invasion form guerrilla bands to fight back.

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5.1

1950 Drama 105 min Play

6.7

House by the River

Louis Hayward stars as a wealthy man who tries to seduce the family maid. She resists, and he kills her. Long jealous of his brother Lee Bowman, Hayward does his best to pin the blame for the murder on his sibling. Also affected by Hayward's arrogant dementia is his long-suffering wife Jane Wyatt. Originally, director Lang had proposed that the unfortunate maid be a black woman, but was over ruled

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6.7

1950 Crime 88 min Play