What is the best Fritz Lang film of all time?

By YPB Team

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

  1. Metropolis — ranked #11
    Metropolis
    The 1927 silent epic of a divided future city and its machine-woman.
    1000pts
  2. M — ranked #22
    M
    Lang's 1931 first sound film, a child-murder manhunt with Peter Lorre.
    845pts
  3. Destiny — ranked #33
    Destiny
    A 1921 silent fantasy of a woman bargaining with Death across three eras.
    595pts
  4. While the City Sleeps — ranked #44
    While the City Sleeps
    A 1956 newsroom thriller with three editors racing to catch a killer.
    534pts
  5. Die Nibelungen — ranked #55
    Die Nibelungen
    The two-part 1924 silent saga of Siegfried and Kriemhild's revenge.
    534pts
  6. Rancho Notorious — ranked #66
    Rancho Notorious
    A 1952 revenge western with Marlene Dietrich running a hideout ranch.
    534pts
  7. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler — ranked #77
    Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
    The 1922 serial-length thriller introducing Lang's master criminal.
    534pts
  8. Scarlet Street — ranked #88
    Scarlet Street
    A 1945 noir in which Edward G. Robinson's clerk is ruined by a con couple.
    463pts
  9. The Woman in the Window — ranked #99
    The Woman in the Window
    A 1944 noir of a professor drawn into a killing by a portrait come to life.
    379pts
  10. Fury — ranked #1010
    Fury
    Lang's 1936 American debut, a lynch-mob drama with Spencer Tracy.
    379pts
  11. Spies — ranked #1111
    Spies
    A 1928 silent espionage thriller built around a banking mastermind.
    379pts
  12. Hangmen Also Die! — ranked #1212
    Hangmen Also Die!
    A 1943 resistance thriller about the assassination of Heydrich in Prague.
    379pts
  13. The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse — ranked #1313
    The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
    Lang's 1960 last film, returning to Mabuse in a wired hotel.
    278pts
  14. Woman in the Moon — ranked #1414
    Woman in the Moon
    The 1929 space-travel silent that invented the rocket countdown.
    278pts
  15. Ministry of Fear — ranked #1515
    Ministry of Fear
    A 1944 Graham Greene adaptation of a fete cake and a Nazi spy ring.
    278pts
  16. Moonfleet — ranked #1616
    Moonfleet
    A 1955 smuggling adventure on the Dorset coast, with Stewart Granger.
    278pts
  17. The Big Heat — ranked #1717
    The Big Heat
    A 1953 noir with Glenn Ford's cop against a syndicate, and a pot of scalding coffee.
    154pts
  18. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt — ranked #1818
    Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
    Lang's 1956 final American film, in which a writer frames himself for murder.
    154pts
  19. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse — ranked #1919
    The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
    The 1933 sequel banned by the Nazis before its German release.
    154pts
  20. You Only Live Once — ranked #2020
    You Only Live Once
    A 1937 fugitive-couple drama with Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney.
    154pts

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