What is the best Fritz Lang film of all time?

Silent Berlin on one end, postwar Los Angeles on the other, master criminals at both.

1. 1
   Metropolis

   The 1927 silent epic of a divided future city and its machine-woman.
   1000pts
2. 2
   M

   Lang's 1931 first sound film, a child-murder manhunt with Peter Lorre.
   845pts
3. 3
   Destiny

   A 1921 silent fantasy of a woman bargaining with Death across three eras.
   595pts
4. 4
   While the City Sleeps

   A 1956 newsroom thriller with three editors racing to catch a killer.
   534pts
5. 5
   Die Nibelungen

   The two-part 1924 silent saga of Siegfried and Kriemhild's revenge.
   534pts
6. 6
   Rancho Notorious

   A 1952 revenge western with Marlene Dietrich running a hideout ranch.
   534pts
7. 7
   Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler

   The 1922 serial-length thriller introducing Lang's master criminal.
   534pts
8. 8
   Scarlet Street

   A 1945 noir in which Edward G. Robinson's clerk is ruined by a con couple.
   463pts
9. 9
   The Woman in the Window

   A 1944 noir of a professor drawn into a killing by a portrait come to life.
   379pts
10. 10
    Fury

    Lang's 1936 American debut, a lynch-mob drama with Spencer Tracy.
    379pts
11. 11
    Spies

    A 1928 silent espionage thriller built around a banking mastermind.
    379pts
12. 12
    Hangmen Also Die!

    A 1943 resistance thriller about the assassination of Heydrich in Prague.
    379pts
13. 13
    The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse

    Lang's 1960 last film, returning to Mabuse in a wired hotel.
    278pts
14. 14
    Woman in the Moon

    The 1929 space-travel silent that invented the rocket countdown.
    278pts
15. 15
    Ministry of Fear

    A 1944 Graham Greene adaptation of a fete cake and a Nazi spy ring.
    278pts
16. 16
    Moonfleet

    A 1955 smuggling adventure on the Dorset coast, with Stewart Granger.
    278pts
17. 17
    The Big Heat

    A 1953 noir with Glenn Ford's cop against a syndicate, and a pot of scalding coffee.
    0pts
18. 18
    Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

    Lang's 1956 final American film, in which a writer frames himself for murder.
    0pts
19. 19
    The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

    The 1933 sequel banned by the Nazis before its German release.
    0pts
20. 20
    You Only Live Once

    A 1937 fugitive-couple drama with Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney.
    0pts

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