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Fritz Lang
1) 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) 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...
Language
English
Description
In 2026, the rich rule over the poor, who live underground. One man tries to bridge the gap between the two classes. In July 2008 a complete copy of the film was discovered with an additional 25 minutes of lost footage that had not been seen since the film's premiere in 1927. After years of restoration the sci-fi epic was re-released in theaters in 2010 as The Complete Metropolis.
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
Deutsch
Description
An early silent film describing a journey by rocket ship to the moon. Rather than a flight of pure fantasy, director Fritz Lang conceived a modernized "trip to the Moon" grounded in state-of-the-art astrophysics & spiced with romance and espionage. One of the most influential science fiction films of its era, in many respects technically accurate.
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.
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
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 a mystic entrance and is met by Death, who tells her three separate stories set in exotic locales, all involving circumstances similar to hers. In each story, a woman, trying to save her lover from his ultimate tragic fate, fails. The young lady realizes the meaning of the tales and takes...
11) Scarlet street
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 231
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
Deutsch
Formats
Description
An insane criminal mastermind plots crimes that begin to take place, even after his death.
13) Cloak and dagger
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Alvah Jesper, an American scientist, parachutes into war-torn Nazi Germany to obtain military secrets. But the deeper he probes, the deadlier his mission becomes - especially when his involvement with a mysterious woman, Gina, catapults him into an intense maelstrom of danger, betrayal, and murder.
15) Rancho Notorious
Series
Publisher
Turner
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
A western based on the story "Gunsight Whitman" by Silvia Richards. Vern Haskell, a nice rancher, seeks out to avenge his fiancé's death when she is killed during a robbery. His revenge leads him to Chuck-a-luck, Altar Keane's ranch set up to hide criminals, and he finds more than he bargains for.
16) Human desire
Series
Columbia Pictures film noir classics volume 2
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A Korean War vet comes back to his job as a railroad engineer, and promptly falls prey to his boss' wife, starting a trail of deception, suspicion, and murder.
17) M
Series
Criterion collection volume 30
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
Deutsch
Formats
Description
When a serial killer is stalking the children of the city, everyone, including the criminal underworld, wants to see him brought down.
Publisher
Kino Video
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Mabuse maintains his wealth through counterfeiting, manipulating the stock exchange and his ability to bend weaker minds to his will. In part one Mabuse builds his empire, and casually ruins Count Told while entrancing the thrill-seeking Countess. In part 2 Mabuse turns from criminal to villain, murdering the Count and kidnapping the Countess. Mabuse is finally captured in his own hideaway, consumed by madness.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
When a college professor becomes obsessed with a portrait of a woman in the window next to the men's club, he ends up meeting her at her apartment. Her boyfriend bursts in thinking the worst, has a scuffle, and accidentally dies.