# 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.

*By YPB Team · Published September 4, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/what-is-the-best-fritz-lang-film-of-all-time*

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## Current results (no votes yet)

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

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