
Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-German film director, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute. Andrew Sarris in his influential book of film criticism The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929–1968 included him in the "pantheon" of the 14 greatest film directors who had worked in the United States.
Lang's most famous films are the groundbreaking science-fiction film Metropolis (1927) - the world's most expensive silent film at the time of its release - and the influential thriller film M (1931), made before he moved to the United States. Lang's work had a significant influence on the film noir genre and in Hollywood, he made some classics himself, such as Scarlet Street (1945) and The Big Heat (1953).

Contempt
1963 · as Fritz Lang

Sibyl
2025 · as (Archive footage)

Paparazzi
1964 · as Self

Fritz Lang
1990

The Dinosaur and the Baby
1967 · as Self

Encounter with Fritz Lang
1964 · as Self - Interviewee

For Example Fritz Lang
1968

From Caligari to Hitler
2015 · as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

The Exiles
1989 · as Self

Conversation with Fritz Lang
1975 · as Self

Bardot et Godard
1964 · as Self

The Film in the Film
1924 · as Self

Master of Love
1919

Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands
2004 · as Self (archive footage)

Hilde Warren and Death
1917

Voyage to 'Metropolis'
2010 · as Self (archive footage)

Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film
2017 · as Self