A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub dancer. Once Tom is found guilty, he is to reveal the setup and humiliate the DA.

Human Desire

1954

English

7.1

♡ 20

60%

dysfunctional marriage

Fritz Lang Director

Edgar Buchanan as Alec Simmons

Paul Brinegar as Brakeman

Grandon Rhodes as John Owens

Gloria Grahame as Vicki Buckley

A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in a sordid affair with a co-worker's wife and murder. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment, in 1997.

Moonfleet

1955

English

6.6

♡ 7

69%

Fritz Lang Director

Sean McClory as Elzevir Block

Jean Del Val as French Captain

Richard Hale as Starkill

Ian Wolfe as Tewkesbury

Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old friend of his mother's, Jeremy Fox. Fox is a morally ambiguous character, an elegant gentleman involved with smugglers and pirates.

You Only Live Once

1937

English

7.2

♡ 30

100%

77%

Action

based on a true story

Fritz Lang Director

Jack Carson as Attendant in First Gas Station

Sylvia Sidney as Joan Graham

Barton MacLane as Stephen Whitney

Amzie Strickland as Young Woman

Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.

The Spiders - Episode 2: The Diamond Ship

1920

German

6.1

♡ 5

Fritz Lang Director

Thea Zander as Ellen Terry

Paul Morgan as Jewish Spider

Ressel Orla as Lio Sha

Paul Rehkopf as Underworld Figure

When we last saw Kay Hoog (millionaire adventurer, courageous hunk), he’d been beset with tragedy. Having escaped an ancient Incan city by the skin of his gleaming teeth, Hoog looked forward to a few years of settled life with his (amicably) captured Incan lovely, Naela. But the past struck quickly. Hoog’s arch-nemesis, the homicidal femme Lio Sha, murdered Naela on the very grounds of Hoog’s estate, prompting him to swear revenge upon her and her criminal organization, the Spiders. Now he must find them, as the Spiders continue their global quest for the Buddha-head Diamond. The head, it’s said, has the power to restore Asia to world dominance.

Man Hunt

1941

English

7.2

♡ 8

87%

Fritz Lang Director

Joan Bennett as Jerry Stokes

Lester Matthews as Major

William Haade as Third Sentry

Roddy McDowall as Vaner

Shortly before the start of WW2, renowned British big-game hunter Alan Thorndike, vacationing in Bavaria, has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by Nazi agents and aided by a young woman.

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

1933

German

7.9

♡ 17

86%

Fritz Lang Director

Georges Tourreil as

Paul Rehkopf as

Franz Stein as

Oscar Beregi Sr. as Prof. Dr. Baum

After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professor's preoccupation with another patient, the criminal genius Dr. Mabuse the hypnotist. When Mabuse's notes are found to be connected with a rash of recent crimes, Commissioner Lohmann must determine how Mabuse is communicating with the criminals, despite conflicting reports on the doctor's whereabouts, and capture him for good.

Four Around the Woman

1921

German

5.9

♡ 2

Action

Drama

silent film

Fritz Lang Director

Paul Rehkopf as 2. Gauner

Lilli Lohrer as Dienerin von Florence

Lisa von Marton as Margot

Robert Forster-Larrinaga as Meunier

Harry Yquem buys his beloved wife some jewelry in a place where underworld middlemen trade in fake and stolen goods. By chance, he spots a man with whom his wife had an affair in the past.

Ministry of Fear

1944

English

7.1

♡ 5

85%

Fritz Lang Director

Dan Duryea as Cost / Travers the Tailor

Mary Field as Martha Penteel

Hillary Brooke as Mrs. Bellane #2

Ray Milland as Stephen Neale

Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so sane outside either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization, he stumbles across a murderous spy ring and doesn't quite know to whom to turn.

Woman in the Moon

1929

German

7.3

♡ 8

80%

Fritz Lang Director

Heinrich Gotho as Der Mieter vom II. Stock

Gerhard Dammann as Der Werkmeister der Helius-Flugwerften

Tilla Durieux as Fünf Gehirne und Scheckbücher

Gustav von Wangenheim as Hans Windegger - Engineer

A scientist discovers that there's gold on the moon. He builds a rocket to fly there, but there's too much rivalry among the crew to have a successful expedition.

American Guerrilla in the Philippines

1950

English

5.9

♡ 3

60%

general douglas macarthur

philippines

preserved film

War

Fritz Lang Director

Carleton Young as Col. Elliott M. Phillips

Micheline Presle as Jeanne Martinez

Tom Ewell as Jim Mitchell

Robert Patten as Lovejoy

American soldiers stranded in the Philippines after the Japanese invasion form guerrilla bands to fight back. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2001.

Moontide

1942

English

6.8

♡ 4

66%

san francisco, california

Thriller

Fritz Lang Director

Ida Lupino as Anna

Victor Sen Yung as Takeo

Thomas Mitchell as Tiny

William Forrest as Well-Dressed Man in Bar

After a drunken night out, a longshoreman thinks he may have killed a man.

Hangmen Also Die!

1943

English

7.4

♡ 10

Fritz Lang Director

Gene Lockhart as Emil Czaka

John Abbott as Hostage

Margaret Bert as Market Woman

Edward Earle as Professor

During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.

Destiny

1921

German

7.6

♡ 11

79%

Fritz Lang Director

Marie Wismar as Alte Frau

Károly Huszár as China's Emperor / Kaiser

Paul Rehkopf as Grave-Digger / Küster

Lothar Müthel as Messenger / Vertrauter

As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and is sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall. The woman finds a mystic entrance and is met by Death, who tells her three separate stories set in exotic locales, all involving circumstances similar to hers.

Rancho Notorious

1952

English

6.8

♡ 4

100%

68%

Drama

Western

Fritz Lang Director

Frank McGrath as Cowboy in the dark

Paul Newlan as Deputy in Gunsight

Tom London as Deputy in Gunsight

William Haade as Sheriff Sam Bullock

A man in search of revenge infiltrates a ranch, hidden in an inhospitable region, where its owner, Altar Keane, gives shelter to outlaws fleeing from the law in exchange for a price.

Fury

1936

English

7.8

♡ 11

94%

Fritz Lang Director

Raymond Hatton as Hector - Barber

Harry Harvey as Jasper Anderson - Defendant

Sylvia Sidney as Katherine Grant

George Chandler as Milton Jackson

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.

Western Union

1941

English

6.7

♡ 14

75%

Fritz Lang Director

Irving Bacon as Barber

Addison Richards as Captain Harlow

Chief John Big Tree as Chief Spotted Horse

Barton MacLane as Jack Slade

When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2000.

Secret Beyond the Door...

1947

English

6.6

♡ 10

post traumatic stress disorder

post-traumatic stress disorder

Romance

Thriller

Fritz Lang Director

Joan Bennett as Celia Lamphere

Natalie Schafer as Edith Potter

Michael Redgrave as Mark Lamphere

Virginia Brissac as Sarah

After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full of his strange relations, and macabre rooms that are replicas of famous murder sites. One locked room contains the secret to her husband's obsession, and the truth about what happened to his first wife.