# The best Fritz Lang films

From Metropolis to The Big Heat: the Fritz Lang films that critics and audiences rate highest (BFI, Moviepilot, Letterboxd).

- 1 vote · 16 items
- Jan 27, 2020 · Thorsten Klein
- https://even.best/en/l/2042/the-best-fritz-lang-films

## Top 15

1. **Ministry of Fear (1944)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — From Graham Greene: a cake full of secrets.
2. **M (1931)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Peter Lorre as a hunted child killer, Lang's first sound film.
3. **Metropolis (1927)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The city of the future, robot Maria included.
4. **The Big Heat (1953)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Glenn Ford as a cop taking on the mob, pure film noir.
5. **The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Mabuse runs his gang even from the asylum.
6. **Scarlet Street (1945)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Edward G. Robinson as a cashier and amateur painter who walks into a trap.
7. **Fury (1936)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Spencer Tracy barely survives a lynch mob; Lang's first Hollywood film.
8. **Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The criminal with a thousand faces, in two parts.
9. **Destiny (1921)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A young woman bargains with Death for her lover.
10. **Die Nibelungen (1924)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Siegfried and Kriemhild's revenge as a silent epic.
11. **The Woman in the Window (1944)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A professor, a portrait and a killing.
12. **You Only Live Once (1937)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney on the run.
13. **Spies (1928)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A spy thriller with a wheelchair-bound master villain.
14. **Woman in the Moon (1929)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A Moon rocket, for which Lang invented the countdown.
15. **Rancho Notorious (1952)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Marlene Dietrich in an unusual western.
16. **The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Lang's last film, back in Germany.

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