Films directed by Fritz Lang (Film Guide)

Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 36. Chapters: Metropolis, Fury, Scarlet Street, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, Die Nibelungen, Liliom, The Big Heat, Ministry of Fear, Clash by Night, Man Hunt, Hangmen Also Die!, Spione, Western Union, Woman in the Moon, American Guerrilla in the Philippines, The Woman in the Window, Destiny, The Tiger of Eschnapur, While the City Sleeps, Rancho Notorious, The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse, Human Desire, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, The Spiders, Cloak and Dagger, House by the River, The Return of Frank James, The Blue Gardenia, You Only Live Once, Secret Beyond the Door, Der Herr der Liebe, The Indian Tomb, Moonfleet, Harakiri, Moontide, You and Me, Das wandernde Bild. Excerpt: Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist film in the science-fiction genre directed by Fritz Lang. Produced in Germany during a stable period of the Weimar Republic, Metropolis is set in a futuristic urban dystopia and makes use of this context to explore the social crisis between workers and owners inherent in capitalism, as expressed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The film was produced in the Babelsberg Studios by Universum Film A.G. (UFA). The most expensive silent film ever made, it cost approximately 5 million Reichsmark, or approximately $200 million when adjusted for inflation. Metropolis was cut substantially after its German premiere, and much footage was lost over the passage of successive decades. There have been several efforts to restore it, as well as discoveries of previously lost footage. A 2001 reconstruction of Metropolis, shown at the Berlin Film Festival, was inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in that same year. In 2008, a copy of the film 30 minutes longer than any other known surviving copy was located in Argentina. After a long period of restoration in Germany, the restored film was shown publicly for the first time simultaneously at Berlin and Frankfurt on February 12, 2010. The event of the Friedrichstadtpalast was shown live on a screen at the Brandenburg Gate as well as on TV on ARTE. This version was also shown in New York at the Ziegfeld Theater in the last two weeks of October 2010. In the futuristic mega-city Metropolis, society is divided into two classes. The "managers" live in luxurious skyscrapers and the workers live and toil underground. The city was founded and built by the autocratic Joh Fredersen. Fredersen's son, Freder, lives a life of luxury as do all the sons of the manager class. One day, as Freder is cavorting in the Eternal Gardens, he sees a beautiful girl who has with her a group of workers' children. She is quickly shooed away, but Freder becomes infatuated with her and follows her down to the wo