Fritz Lang filmography

Fritz Lang (1890–1976) was an Austrian film director, producer and screenwriter. In his early career, Lang 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 Mépris, 1963).^[2]

Filmography

Films

Year	Film	Functioned as				Notes
		Director	Producer	Writer	Actor
1919	Halbblut					silent lost film
	Master of Love
	The Spiders – Part 1: The Golden Sea					silent
	Harakiri
1920	The Spiders – Part 2: The Diamond Ship
	The Wandering Image
1921	Four Around a Woman
	Destiny
1922	Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler – Part 1: The Great Gambler
	Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler – Part 2: Inferno
1924	Die Nibelungen – Part 1: Siegfried
	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
	Man Hunt
1943	Hangmen Also Die!
1944	Ministry of Fear
	The Woman in the Window
1945	Scarlet Street
1946	Cloak and Dagger
1947	Secret Beyond the Door
1950	House by the River
	American Guerrilla in the Philippines
1952	Rancho Notorious
	Clash by Night
1953	The Blue Gardenia
	The Big Heat
1954	Human Desire
1955	Moonfleet
1956	While the City Sleeps
	Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
1959	The Tiger of Eschnapur
	The Indian Tomb
1960	The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse

Contributions

Year	Film	Functioned as			Notes
		Writer	Actor	Other
1916	Die Peitsche [de]
1917	Wedding in the Eccentric Club
	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