Born in Vienna in 1890 and died in Los Angeles in 1976, Lang trained as an architect and brought a strong visual and architectural sense to his films. In Germany he made epic fantasies, crime serials and the sound thriller M. After leaving Germany in the 1930s he worked in Hollywood, where he made a string of film noirs.
Filmography
- Destiny (1921)
- Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922)
- Die Nibelungen (1924)
- Metropolis (1927)
- Spies (1928)
- Woman in the Moon (1929)
- M (1931)
- The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
- Fury (1936)
- You Only Live Once (1937)
- Man Hunt (1941)
- Hangmen Also Die! (1943)
- The Woman in the Window (1944)
- Scarlet Street (1945)
- Rancho Notorious (1952)
- The Big Heat (1953)
- Human Desire (1954)
- While the City Sleeps (1956)
- Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
- The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960)
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