# Fritz Lang filmography

Fritz Lang (1890–1976) was an Austrian film director, producer and screenwriter. In Lang's early career he worked primarily as a screenwriter, finishing film scripts in four to five days. Lang directed major German films of the silent and early sound eras including Metropolis (1927) and M (1931) respectively. After fleeing from the Nazi regime, Lang directed some of the most important American crime and film noir motion pictures of the studio era, such as The Big Heat (1953). Lang appeared as himself in Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt (Le Mépris, 1963).

## Filmography
### Films

| Year | Film | Functioned as | Functioned as | Functioned as | Functioned as | Notes |
| Year | Film | Director | Producer | Writer | Actor | Notes |
| 1919 | Halbblut | | | | | silent lost film |
| 1919 | Master of Love | | | | | silent lost film |
| 1919 | The Spiders – Part 1: The Golden Sea | | | | | silent |
| 1919 | Harakiri | | | | | silent |
| 1920 | The Spiders – Part 2: The Diamond Ship | | | | | silent |
| 1920 | The Wandering Image | | | | | silent |
| 1921 | Four Around a Woman | | | | | silent |
| 1921 | Destiny | | | | | silent |
| 1922 | Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler – Part 1: The Great Gambler | | | | | silent |
| 1922 | Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler – Part 2: Inferno | | | | | silent |
| 1924 | Die Nibelungen – Part 1: Siegfried | | | | | silent |
| 1924 | Die Nibelungen – Part 2: Kriemhild's Revenge | | | | | silent |
| 1927 | Metropolis | | | | | silent |
| 1928 | Spies | | | | | silent |
| 1929 | Woman in the Moon | | | | | silent |
| 1931 | M | | | | | |
| 1933 | The Testament of Dr. Mabuse | | | | | |
| 1934 | Liliom | | | | | |
| 1936 | Fury | | | | | |
| 1937 | You Only Live Once | | | | | |
| 1938 | You and Me | | | | | |
| 1940 | The Return of Frank James | | | | | |
| 1941 | Western Union | | | | | |
| 1941 | Man Hunt | | | | | |
| 1943 | Hangmen Also Die! | | | | | |
| 1944 | Ministry of Fear | | | | | |
| 1944 | The Woman in the Window | | | | | |
| 1945 | Scarlet Street | | | | | |
| 1946 | Cloak and Dagger | | | | | |
| 1947 | Secret Beyond the Door | | | | | |
| 1950 | House by the River | | | | | |
| 1950 | American Guerrilla in the Philippines | | | | | |
| 1952 | Rancho Notorious | | | | | |
| 1952 | Clash by Night | | | | | |
| 1953 | The Blue Gardenia | | | | | |
| 1953 | The Big Heat | | | | | |
| 1954 | Human Desire | | | | | |
| 1955 | Moonfleet | | | | | |
| 1956 | While the City Sleeps | | | | | |
| 1956 | Beyond a Reasonable Doubt | | | | | |
| 1959 | The Tiger of Eschnapur | | | | | |
| 1959 | The Indian Tomb | | | | | |
| 1960 | The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse | | | | | |

### Contributions

| Year | Film | Functioned as | Functioned as | Functioned as | Notes |
| Year | Film | Writer | Actor | Other | Notes |
| 1916 | Die Peitsche [de] | | | | |
| 1917 | Wedding in the Eccentric Club | | | | |
| 1917 | Hilde Warren und der Tod | | | | |
| 1918 | Lilith und Ly | | | | |
| 1919 | Revenge Is Mine | | | | |
| 1919 | Bettler GmbH | | | | |
| 1919 | Wolkenbau und Flimmerstern | | | | |
| 1919 | The Woman with Orchids | | | | |
| 1919 | The Dance of Death | | | | Lost film |
| 1919 | The Plague of Florence | | | | |
| 1920 | The Mistress of the World | | | | |
| 1921 | The Indian Tomb | | | | |
| 1942 | Moontide | | | | Lang left early in shooting, film direction is credited to Archie Mayo |
| 1963 | Contempt | | | | Lang plays himself |