In Eschnapur, a German architect saves the life of the Maharajah's favorite temple dancer and becomes Maharajah's friend but their friendship is tested when the architect and the dancer fall in-love, triggering the Maharajah's vengeful ire.

The Spiders - Episode 1: The Golden Sea

1919

German

6.5

♡ 4

san francisco, california

Fritz Lang Director

Harry Frank as

Paul Morgan as Diamantenexperte

Carl de Vogt as Kay Hoog

Ressel Orla as Lio Sha

In San Francisco, well-known sportsman Kay Hoog announces to a club that he has found a message in a bottle with a map drawn by a Harvard professor who has gone missing. The map tells of a lost Incan civilization that possesses an immense treasure. Hoog immediately plans an expedition to find it. But Lio Sha, the head of a criminal organization known as the Spiders, is determined to get the treasure for herself and plans a rival expedition.

Scarlet Street

1945

English

7.7

♡ 18

100%

Fritz Lang Director

Edward G. Robinson as Christopher Cross

Dan Duryea as Johnny Prince

Joan Bennett as Katharine 'Kitty' March

Amzie Strickland as Woman

Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.

The Wandering Image

1920

German

5.9

♡ 3

20%

Romance

silent film

Fritz Lang Director

Harry Frank as

Rudolf Klein-Rogge as Georgs Vetter Wil Brand

Loni Nest as Irmgards Tochter Mia May

Mia May as Irmgard Vanderheit

When Irmgard becomes pregnant from Georg, a free-love disciple, she decides, for the sake of her child, to pretend they are married. The secret plan is to wed his twin brother, John, who will pretend to be Georg in front of the priest. Soon after that happens, Georg disappears and is declared dead. Years later, Irmgard is trying to escape John, who is obsessed with her. In the mountains, she finds a stranger willing to protect her.

Die Nibelungen: Siegfried

1924

German

8.1

♡ 20

Action

Adventure

based on song, poem or rhyme

Fritz Lang Director

Hans Adalbert Schlettow as Hagen Tronje

Paul Richter as Siegfried

Yuri Yurovsky as The Priest

Frida Richard as The Runes Maid

Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, travels to Worms, capital of the Burgundian kingdom, to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the beautiful Kriemhild.

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler

1922

German

7.8

♡ 8

94%

Fritz Lang Director

Aud Egede-Nissen as Cara Carozza, the dancer

Paul Richter as Edgar Hull

Károly Huszár as Hawasch

Heinrich Gotho as (uncredited)

Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to make huge profits on the stock exchange. Afterwards, Mabuse disguises himself and attends the Folies Bergères show, where Cara Carozza, the main attraction of the show, passes him information on Mabuse's next intended victim, the young millionaire Edgar Hull. Mabuse then uses psychic manipulation to lure Hull into a card game where he loses heavily. When Police Commissioner von Wenk begins an investigation of this mysterious crime spree, he has little to go on, and he needs to find someone who can help him.

Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge

1924

German

7.9

♡ 11

Adventure

attila

based on song, poem or rhyme

Fritz Lang Director

Hans Adalbert Schlettow as Hagen Tronje

Iris Roberts as The precious boy

Yuri Yurovsky as The Priest

Hubert Heinrich as Werbel, the play man

When Kriemhild, thirsty for revenge, marries to Etzel, king of the Huns, she invites King Gunther and his court to visit them, intending to finally take the life of the man responsible of her disgrace.

Cloak and Dagger

1946

English

6.6

♡ 8

78%

Fritz Lang Director

Hans Schumm as German Agent

Leonardo Scavino as Italian Soldier

Rory Mallinson as Paul

Robert Alda as Pinkie

Italian partisans help a professor sent by the OSS to find an atomic scientist held by Nazis.

The Return of Frank James

1940

English

6.6

♡ 12

71%

Fritz Lang Director

Irving Bacon as Bystander

Barbara Pepper as Nellie Blane

Lloyd Corrigan as Randolph Stone

George Chandler as Roy

Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.

House by the River

1950

English

7.0

♡ 10

60%

Fritz Lang Director

Kathleen Freeman as Effie Ferguson - Party Guest

Peter Brocco as Harry - Coroner

Will Wright as Inspector Sarten

Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer as Walter Herbert

Wealthy writer Stephen Byrne tries to seduce the family maid, but when she resists, he kills her. Long jealous of his brother John, Stephen does his best to pin the blame for the murder on his sibling. Also affected by Stephen's arrogant dementia is his long-suffering wife Marjorie.

The Big Heat

1953

English

7.9

♡ 32

95%

Fritz Lang Director

Gloria Grahame as Debby Marsh

Carolyn Jones as Doris

Howard Wendell as Police Commissioner Higgins

Lee Marvin as Vince Stone

After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicious crime syndicate.

The Indian Tomb

1959

German

6.6

♡ 5

88%

Fritz Lang Director

Claus Holm as Dr. Walter Rhode

Friedrich Schoenfelder as Narrator

René Deltgen as Prince Ramigani

Debra Paget as Seetha

Seetha and Harold Berger are rescued from the desert by a caravan and brought to a small village. However, the greedy owner of the house where they are lodged betrays the law of hospitality and reveals their location to Prince Ramigani. The couple tries to escape but is hunted and captured by Ramigani and his men. Meanwhile Irene Rhode and her husband Walter Rhode suspect that Maharaja Chandra is not telling the truth about Harold's destiny. The conspirator Ramigani forces Seetha to accept to get married with Chandra to provoke the wrath of the priests and get the alliance of Prince Padhu and his army. In the meantime, Harold succeeds in escaping from the dungeon and seeks out Seetha to save her.

Spies

1928

German

7.5

♡ 13

95%

Fritz Lang Director

Heinrich Gotho as Burton Jason's Other Assistant

Paul Hörbiger as Chauffeur Franz

Heinrich Gretler as Spy in the Post Office scene

Paul Rehkopf as Strolch

The mastermind behind a ubiquitous spy operation learns of a dangerous romance between a Russian lady in his employ and a dashing agent from the government's secret service.

You and Me

1938

English

6.8

♡ 6

86%

Fritz Lang Director

Paul Newlan as Bouncer at Danceland

Joyce Compton as Curly Blonde

Sylvia Sidney as Helen Roberts

Barton MacLane as Mickey

Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.

The Woman in the Window

1944

English

7.6

♡ 23

83%

Fritz Lang Director

Joan Bennett as Alice Reed

Robert Blake as Dickie Wanley

Dan Duryea as Heidt / Tim, the Doorman

Edward G. Robinson as Professor Richard Wanley

A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

M

1931

German

8.3

♡ 70

100%

Fritz Lang Director

Peter Lorre as

Leonard Steckel as Man

Franz Stein as Minister

Paul Rehkopf as (uncredited)

In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.

Metropolis

1927

German

♡ 82

97%

Fritz Lang Director

Gustav Fröhlich as Freder - Joh Fredersen's Son

Rolf von Goth as Son in Eternal Gardens

Brigitte Helm as The Machine Man / Maria

Grete Berger as Working Woman

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

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The Tiger of Eschnapur

The Spiders - Episode 1: The Golden Sea

Scarlet Street

The Wandering Image

Die Nibelungen: Siegfried

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler

Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge

Cloak and Dagger

The Return of Frank James

House by the River

The Big Heat

The Indian Tomb

Spies

You and Me

The Woman in the Window

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Metropolis