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1. Es kommt ein Tag (1950)
91 min | Drama
Director: Rudolf Jugert | Stars: Dieter Borsche, Maria Schell, Lil Dagover, Gustav Knuth
Votes: 21
2. Metropolis (1927)
Not Rated | 153 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Votes: 185,773 | Gross: $1.24M
3. M (1931)
Passed | 99 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke
Votes: 168,695 | Gross: $0.03M
4. Fahrt ins Glück (1948)
88 min | Comedy, Romance
Director: Erich Engel | Stars: Käthe Dorsch, Rudolf Forster, Hildegard Knef, Werner Fuetterer
Votes: 19
5. Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924)
Not Rated | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, sets off on a treacherous journey to the Kingdom of Burgundy to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the beautiful Princess Kriemhild.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Paul Richter, Margarete Schön, Theodor Loos, Gertrud Arnold
Votes: 6,568
6. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
Not Rated | 122 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A criminal mastermind uses hypnosis to rule the rackets after death.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Otto Wernicke, Thomy Bourdelle, Gustav Diessl
Votes: 13,607
7. Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (1924)
Not Rated | 129 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Princess Kriemhild vows to avenge her husband's murder but must overcome her brothers who swore allegiance to Hagen. She marries Etzel, King of the Huns, and persuades his army to attack Hagen, but she loses more than she bargained for.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Margarete Schön, Gertrud Arnold, Theodor Loos, Hans Carl Mueller
Votes: 5,003
8. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
Not Rated | 242 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Arch-criminal Dr. Mabuse sets out to make a fortune and run Berlin. Detective Wenk sets out to stop him.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Aud Egede-Nissen, Gertrude Welcker, Alfred Abel
Votes: 9,188
9. Die Frau am Scheidewege (1938)
95 min | Drama, Romance
Following the breakdown of her marriage to an artist, a female doctor goes back to her position at a hospital.
Director: Josef von Báky | Stars: Ewald Balser, Magda Schneider, Karin Hardt, Hans Söhnker
Votes: 16
10. Eine Frau für drei Tage (1944)
81 min
Lisa's lover has left her. On her train trip to Berlin she meets Hanns who cheers her up, sensing her melancholy. Reluctantly, she agrees to spend three days with him before he has to travel on. Her recent hurt keeps her from trusting him.
Director: Fritz Kirchhoff | Stars: Hannelore Schroth, Carl Raddatz, Ursula Herking, Charlotte Witthauer
Votes: 9
11. Destiny (1921)
Not Rated | 114 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
When a woman's fiancé disappears, Death gives her three chances to save him from his fate.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Bernhard Goetzke, Lil Dagover, Walter Janssen, Hans Sternberg
Votes: 6,704 | Gross: $0.01M
12. Spies (1928)
Not Rated | 90 min | Romance, Thriller
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.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gerda Maurus, Willy Fritsch, Lien Deyers
Votes: 3,951
13. Worlds Apart (2015)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama, Romance
In modern Greece, while socioeconomic turmoil ravages Southern Europe, three distinct stories unfold, each representing a different generation of Greeks in love with a foreigner, each story coming together in the end to form a whole.
Director: Christopher Papakaliatis | Stars: J.K. Simmons, Maria Kavoyianni, Andrea Osvárt, Christopher Papakaliatis
Votes: 9,213
14. Lauter Liebe (1940)
89 min | Comedy
Marlies Nathusius and Hans Haeberling have known each other since childhood and have been close friends who share everything with each other ever since. But alarm bells suddenly start ... See full summary »
Director: Heinz Rühmann | Stars: Hertha Feiler, Rolf Weih, Ilse Stobrawa, Helmut Weiss
Votes: 18
15. Jugend (1938)
93 min | Drama
Annie is an illegitimate child brought up by her uncle, a fanatical priest. After her first sexual experience, Annie is so overwhelmed by guilt, it profoundly affects the lives of those closest to her.
Director: Veit Harlan | Stars: Kristina Söderbaum, Eugen Klöpfer, Hermann Braun, Werner Hinz
Votes: 34
16. Life Goes On (1945)
Drama, War
Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Stars: Gustav Knuth, Hilde Krahl, Lina Lossen, Marianne Hoppe
Votes: 31
17. Clarissa (1941)
79 min | Comedy, Romance
Director: Gerhard Lamprecht | Stars: Sybille Schmitz, Gustav Fröhlich, Gustav Diessl, Charlotte Radspieler
Votes: 12
18. Metropolis (2001)
PG-13 | 108 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
Kenichi and his uncle Shunsaku Ban must find the mystery behind robot girl Tima.
Director: Rintarô | Stars: Toshio Furukawa, Scott Weinger, Yuka Imoto, Kei Kobayashi
Votes: 22,644 | Gross: $0.64M
19. Woman in the Moon (1929)
Not Rated | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A tenacious scientist blasts off for the moon in hopes of riches that may be found there.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Willy Fritsch, Gerda Maurus, Klaus Pohl, Fritz Rasp
Votes: 3,863
20. The Broken Jug (1935)
Passed | 86 min | Comedy
The man who broke the jug, the judge, is trying a case who determine who broke the jug. Long before the evidence becomes conclusive against the suspects, it becomes apparent that the ... See full summary »
Directors: Gustav Ucicky, Emil Jannings | Stars: Emil Jannings, Friedrich Kayßler, Max Gülstorff, Lina Carstens
Votes: 232
21. Michael (1924)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Romance
Triangle story: painter, his young male model, unscrupulous princess.
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer | Stars: Walter Slezak, Benjamin Christensen, Nora Gregor, Alexander Murski
Votes: 2,046
22. The Making of a King (1935)
91 min | Drama
The story of the stormy relationship between King Friedrich Wilhelm and his son, who later became known as King Frederick the Great of Prussia.
Director: Hans Steinhoff | Stars: Emil Jannings, Werner Hinz, Leopoldine Konstantin, Claus Clausen
Votes: 114
23. Prinzessin Turandot (1934)
82 min
The age old legend of a Chinese princess whose suitors are beheaded if they fail to answer a tricky riddle she has deliberately chosen so as to avoid getting married.
Director: Gerhard Lamprecht | Stars: Willi Schaeffers, Leopoldine Konstantin, Käthe von Nagy, Inge List
Votes: 16
24. Affairs of Dr. Holl (1951)
Approved | 99 min | Drama
A doctor marries, out of pity, the invalid daughter of a wealthy industrialist.Though the doctor has helped to cure her, he expects she will not live much longer.
Director: Rolf Hansen | Stars: Maria Schell, Dieter Borsche, Heidemarie Hatheyer, Carl Wery
Votes: 39
25. Die Austreibung (1923)
40 min | Short, Drama
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Carl Goetz, Ilka Grüning, Eugen Klöpfer, Aud Egede-Nissen
Votes: 66
26. Die Gattin (1943)
94 min | Comedy, Romance
Because her ingenious but unsuccessful architect husband Peter is in financial straits his wife Puck uses her wiles to persuade industrialist Walter to hire him. The couple have become rich when Peter starts an affair with alluring Helene.
Director: Georg Jacoby | Stars: Jenny Jugo, Willy Fritsch, Viktor Staal, Hilde von Stolz
Votes: 13
27. The Burning Soil (1922)
98 min | Drama
When farmer Rog dies, his son Peter stays, but Johannes can not be satisfied with such a condition (and servant Maria's love) and finds a job as old Count Rudenberg's secretary. His ... See full summary »
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Werner Krauss, Eugen Klöpfer, Vladimir Gajdarov, Eduard von Winterstein
Votes: 781
28. A varieté csillagai (1939)
103 min | Drama
Simultaneously filmed Hungarian version of the German film Menschen vom Variete: a marksman and a magician in a show troupe feud backstage over the magician's exotic former wife.
Director: Josef von Báky | Stars: Bella Bordy, Pál Jávor, Antal Páger, Erzsi Simor
Votes: 31
29. Versprich mir nichts! (1937)
104 min | Comedy
Artist Martin refuses to sell his paintings as he thinks that they still need improvement before being publicly exhibited, but his wife Monika sells them because they need the money, claiming to have painted them herself.
Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Stars: Luise Ullrich, Viktor de Kowa, Heinrich George, Hubert von Meyerinck
Votes: 18
30. M (1951)
Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
In this Americanization of the 1931 German thriller, both the police and the criminal underworld stalk a mysterious serial killer who preys on little girls.
Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: David Wayne, Howard Da Silva, Martin Gabel, Luther Adler
Votes: 2,370
31. Covered Tracks (1938)
81 min | Drama
Séraphine and her mother arrive in Paris for the 1867 World Exhibition. As their reservation was lost they must be accommodated in separate hotels. The next day the mother has disappeared and everybody denies having ever met her.
Director: Veit Harlan | Stars: Kristina Söderbaum, Philip Dorn, Charlotte Schultz, Friedrich Kayßler
Votes: 114
32. Via Mala (1945)
108 min | Crime, Drama
A hated and bully patriarch is murdered. The investigating judge falls in love and marries the daughter, and then she confesses to have killed. Did she? Or she was protecting some one?
Director: Josef von Báky | Stars: Karin Hardt, Carl Wery, Viktor Staal, Hilde Körber
Votes: 42
33. Ich war Jack Mortimer (1935)
85 min | Drama, Thriller
Fred Sponer, a taxi driver in Budapest, has great aspirations in life. One day, he finds a dead passenger in the backseat of his cab.
Director: Carl Froelich | Stars: Anton Walbrook, Eugen Klöpfer, Sybille Schmitz, Marieluise Claudius
Votes: 55
34. Elisabeth und der Narr (1934)
76 min | Drama
Elisabeth is subject of a girl's boarding school run by the nuns. The village idiot Michele adores her and is particularly drawn to her organ playing. In his madness, he kills the girl's father and tries to lay the blame on the organist.
Director: Thea von Harbou | Stars: Hertha Thiele, Theodor Loos, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Erna Morena
Votes: 13
35. Mysteries of India, Part I: Truth (1921)
120 min | Adventure, Fantasy
The unfaithful wife of a cruel Indian prince attempts to escape from his domination.
Director: Joe May | Stars: Olaf Fønss, Mia May, Conrad Veidt, Erna Morena
Votes: 395
36. Phantom (1922)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama, Romance
A shiftless young man becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman and yearns to find her again.
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Alfred Abel, Frida Richard, Aud Egede-Nissen, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski
Votes: 1,957
37. Mysteries of India, Part II: Above All Law (1921)
100 min | Adventure, Fantasy
Irene saves Herbert and the two help Princess Savitri flee the palace.
Director: Joe May | Stars: Olaf Fønss, Mia May, Conrad Veidt, Erna Morena
Votes: 428
38. Annelie (1941)
92 min | Comedy, Drama, History
A Berlin woman grows up in the wake of Prussia's victory over France in 1870 and lives to see her grandchildren participating in the military successes of Germany under Hitler.
Director: Josef von Báky | Stars: Luise Ullrich, Werner Krauss, Käthe Haack, Karl Ludwig Diehl
Votes: 45
39. The Chronicles of the Gray House (1925)
110 min | Drama
A lord falls in love with one of his serfs and chooses to be disinherited and stripped of his title in order to marry her. Her love and gratitude extend beyond the grave.
Director: Arthur von Gerlach | Stars: Arthur Kraußneck, Paul Hartmann, Rudolf Forster, Gertrude Welcker
Votes: 165
40. The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959)
101 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In Eschnapur, a local Maharajah and a German architect fall in-love with the same temple dancer.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Debra Paget, Paul Hubschmid, Walther Reyer, Claus Holm
Votes: 3,225
41. The Indian Tomb (1959)
102 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A German architect runs away with the maharajah of Eschnapur's fiancee but is caught and thrown in the dungeon, while his relatives arrive from Europe looking for him and the maharajah's brother is scheming to usurp the throne.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Debra Paget, Paul Hubschmid, Walther Reyer, Claus Holm
Votes: 2,950
42. An Ideal Spouse (1935)
85 min | Comedy
The mysterious Mrs Cheveley wants Sir Robert to support a bill in parliament that his conscience tells him to oppose. But she blackmails him with a dark secret from his past. Sir Robert asks his philandering friend Lord Goring for help.
Director: Herbert Selpin | Stars: Brigitte Helm, Sybille Schmitz, Karl Ludwig Diehl, Georg Alexander
Votes: 27
43. Wie konntest Du, Veronika! (1940)
100 min
Director: Milo Harbich | Stars: Gusti Huber, Wolf Albach-Retty, Ralph Arthur Roberts, Grethe Weiser
Votes: 10
44. Erzieherin gesucht (1950)
88 min
Director: Ulrich Erfurth | Stars: Olly Holzmann, Ernst von Klipstein, Wolfgang Lukschy, Fritz Wagner
Votes: 6
45. Eskapade (1936)
93 min | Comedy, Romance, Thriller
Polish agent Helene persuades American traveler Arthur to pose as a married couple when they arrive at the Czarist Russian border. Arthur quickly realizes that he is now part of a desperate plot to free prisoners from a notorious fortress.
Director: Erich Waschneck | Stars: Renate Müller, Georg Alexander, Grethe Weiser, Walter Franck
Votes: 20
46. Der steinerne Reiter (1923)
86 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A dreaded master lives in a gloomy castle on top of a mountain, while the villagers in the valley below dread his arrival at every wedding.
Director: Fritz Wendhausen | Stars: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Lucie Mannheim, Gustav von Wangenheim, Georg John
Votes: 103
47. Journey to the Lost City (1960)
94 min | Adventure
"Journey to the Lost City" is not a specific film by Fritz Lang but the combination of The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959) with its sequel The Indian Tomb (1959), done in 1960 by American International Pictures.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Debra Paget, Paul Hubschmid, Walther Reyer, Claus Holm
Votes: 302
48. Am Abend auf der Heide (1941)
98 min | Drama
Director: Jürgen von Alten | Stars: Magda Schneider, Heinz Engelmann, Else von Möllendorff, Günther Lüders
Votes: 12
49. Der Läufer von Marathon (1933)
98 min | Romance, Sport
Director: Ewald André Dupont | Stars: Brigitte Helm, Hans Brausewetter, Ursula Grabley, Viktor de Kowa
Votes: 13
50. Gefährtin meines Sommers (1943)
92 min
Director: Fritz Peter Buch | Stars: Franz-Paul Adams, Ilse Cornels, Anna Dammann, Gerhard Dammann
Votes: 12