Fritz Lang
2) Spies
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Fritz Lang's elaborate superspy thriller is at last restored to its proper length.
5) M
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
Deutsch
Description
Suspense based on the exploits of the Dusseldorf child-murderer. Lorre stars as a psychopathic murderer who is hunted by both the police and the criminal underworld.
6) The spiders
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
With this exotic adventure film, director Fritz Lang established himself as a master of epic storytelling, a talent that would reach its pinnacle in such monumental films as Metropolis and Die Nibelungen. Influenced by the French serials of Louis Feuillade (Fantômas) and infused with Lang's own fascination with Asian culture, The spiders follows international adventurer Kay Hoog (Carl de Vogt) in his quest for Incan gold and the precious "Buddha's...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In 1949, at Republic Pictures, Fritz Lang (self-proclaimed "master of the unusual") created House by the river, a shocking and mordant thriller of passion and murder. Boasting an ingenious script by Spiral staircase scribe Mel Dinelli and evocative photography by Edward Cronjager (I wake up screaming), House ... is an underrated American "Grand Guignol" that transcends its modest origins and affirms Lang's genius.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When middle-aged milquetoast Chris Cross (Edward G. Robinson) rescues street-walking bad girl Kitty (Joan Bennett) from the rain slicked gutters of Greenwich Village, he plunges headlong into a whirlpool of lust, larceny, and revenge. Scarlet street is Fritz Lang's 1945 remake of Jean Renoir's 1931 La chienne.
10) Ministry of fear
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
After being released from a mental institution, Stephen Neale stumbles upon a piece of microfilm and is unwittingly drawn into a web of espionage with possible Nazi connections.
11) Metropolis
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2010, 1927
Language
English
Description
In 2026, the rich rule over the poor, who live underground and one man tries to bridge the gap between the two classes.
12) Clash by night
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A party girl decides she has had enough of the wild lifestyle and returns to her childhood home, where she finds security with a new husband but soon finds herself in an affair with his best friend.
14) Spies
Publisher
Kino International Corp
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
In this first "modern" spy film a power-hungry banker with many disguises marshals his forces to steal the secrets of an important treaty. Can undercover agent No. 326 keep from being distracted by the beautiful Sonia, and stop the banker's plot?
15) The big heat
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
An honest police sergeant risks his life and his job when his investigations lead to the exposure of the crime syndicate that controls the city administration.