Ranking All Of Director Fritz Lang’s Movies
“What are Fritz Lang’s Best Movies?” We looked at all of Lang’s directed filmography and ranked them against one another to answer that very question!
We took all of the movies directed by Fritz Lang and looked at their Rotten Tomato Critic, Rotten Tomato User, IMDB, and Letterboxd scores, ranking them against one another to see which movies came out on top. The movies are ranked in our list below based on which movies have the highest overall score between all 6 review sites in comparison with all of the other movies by the same director. The process is all very scientific with no flaws at all.
The full ranking chart is also included below the countdown on the bottom of the page.
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The Top Film’s Of Fritz Lang
45 ) Harakiri (1919)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 34
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 39
- IMDB User Review Score: 46
- Letterboxd User Score: 42
The Buddah priest wants the Daughter of the Daimyo to become a priest at the Forbidden Garden. The Daimyo thinks, if he was in Europe, that his daughter should decide on her own, but he is denuciated and has to comit harakiri. She meets Olaf, falls in love and marries him but after a few months he has to return to Europe. She gave birth to a child and is waiting for him, while he marries in Europe. When he comes back to Japan 4 years later, he is accompained by his European wife…
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45 ) Master of Love (1919)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 34
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 41
- IMDB User Review Score: 43
- Letterboxd User Score: 43
A man’s devotion for a woman brings about his ruin.
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44 ) Confirm or Deny (1941)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 34
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 41
- IMDB User Review Score: 40
- Letterboxd User Score: 43
Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn’t send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the blitz of London while falling in love.
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43 ) The Wandering Image (1920)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 34
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 41
- IMDB User Review Score: 43
- Letterboxd User Score: 37
A woman (Mia May) takes a train to escape from her lover, who is also the father of her daughter, but he has sent her a telegram ensuring that she will never get rid of him. Thus begins a chase that leads into the mountains. There she meets a monk who willgive her all the support she needs. Drama about repentance, guilt and the possibility to achieve redemption through sacrifice.
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42 ) American Guerrilla in the Philippines (1950)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 30
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 40
- IMDB User Review Score: 45
- Letterboxd User Score: 39
American soldiers stranded in the Philippines after the Japanese invasion form guerrilla bands to fight back.
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41 ) The Spiders – The Diamond Ship (1920)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 34
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 38
- IMDB User Review Score: 40
- Letterboxd User Score: 39
When last we 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.
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40 ) Four Around a Woman (1921)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 34
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 35
- IMDB User Review Score: 42
- Letterboxd User Score: 39
The merchant Yquem buys his dear wife a beautiful jewel with matching earnings in a place where the city’s underworld trades in fake and stolen jewelry. By chance, Yquem spots a man with whom his wife had an affair in the past. Yquem follows him to a hotel where he will write him a letter imitating his wife’s hand writing. The letter invites the man to a public place where Yquem can spy on them and try to discover whether there is still something between them.
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39 ) Journey to the Lost City (1960)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 34
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 41
- IMDB User Review Score: 31
- Letterboxd User Score: 43
An exotic dancing girl of India inflames the passions of a traveling draftsman.
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38 ) The Spiders – The Golden Sea (1919)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 34
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 34
- IMDB User Review Score: 39
- Letterboxd User Score: 36
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.
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37 ) Halbblut (1919)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 34
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 41
- IMDB User Review Score: 18
- Letterboxd User Score: 43
The story of a man destroyed by love.
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36 ) The Return of Frank James (1940)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 22
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 36
- IMDB User Review Score: 37
- Letterboxd User Score: 37
Farmer Frank (Henry Fonda) and his ward (Jackie Cooper) hunt brother Jesse’s killers, the back-shooting Fords.
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35 ) Cloak and Dagger (1946)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 25
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 37
- IMDB User Review Score: 37
- Letterboxd User Score: 31
In this Fritz Lang’s compelling World War II espionage thriller, Gary Cooper stars as Alvah Jasper, a shy and retiring physics professor at a midwestern university. When government agents press Jasper into joining them in an effort to curtail the Nazis’ efforts to attain atomic secrets, his life takes a dramatic turn.
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34 ) Secret Beyond the Door (1948)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 33
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 32
- IMDB User Review Score: 31
- Letterboxd User Score: 26
Fritz Lang’s psycho thriller tells the story of a woman who marries a stranger with a deadly hobby and through their love he attempts to fight off his obsessive-compulsive actions.
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33 ) Moontide (1942)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 34
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 25
- IMDB User Review Score: 30
- Letterboxd User Score: 31
After a drunken night out a longshoreman thinks he may have killed a man.
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31 ) Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 29
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 32
- IMDB User Review Score: 25
- Letterboxd User Score: 31
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.
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31 ) Western Union (1941)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 24
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 31
- IMDB User Review Score: 31
- Letterboxd User Score: 31
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.
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30 ) Moonfleet (1955)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 25
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 22
- IMDB User Review Score: 31
- Letterboxd User Score: 26
Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan, played by Jon Whiteley, who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old friend of his mother’s, Jeremy Fox. Fox, played by Stewart Granger, is a morally ambiguous character, an elegant gentleman involved with smugglers and pirates.
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29 ) The Blue Gardenia (1953)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 20
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 30
- IMDB User Review Score: 25
- Letterboxd User Score: 26
Norah Larkin is a single woman whose heart is broken after receiving a “Dear John” letter. After a night of drinking she passes out in the apartment of womaniser Harry Prebble, awaking to find herself accused of his murder.
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28 ) The Last Will of Dr. Mabuse
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 34
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 41
- IMDB User Review Score: 10
- Letterboxd User Score: 14
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27 ) House by the River (1950)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 31
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 22
- IMDB User Review Score: 19
- Letterboxd User Score: 26
Louis Hayward stars as a wealthy man who tries to seduce the family maid. She resists, and he kills her. Long jealous of his brother Lee Bowman, Hayward does his best to pin the blame for the murder on his sibling. Also affected by Hayward’s arrogant dementia is his long-suffering wife Jane Wyatt. Originally, director Lang had proposed that the unfortunate maid be a black woman, but was over ruled
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26 ) Human Desire (1954)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 32
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 17
- IMDB User Review Score: 19
- Letterboxd User Score: 20
Jeff Warren, a Korean War vet just returning to his railroad engineer’s job, boards at the home of co-worker Alec Simmons and is charmed by Alec’s beautiful daughter. He becomes attracted immediately to Vicki Buckley, the sultry wife of brutish railroad supervisor Carl Buckley, an alcoholic wife beater with a hair trigger temper and penchant for explosive violence. Jeff becomes reluctantly drawn into a sordid affair by the compulsively seductive Vicki. After Buckley is fired for insubordination, he begs her to intercede on his behalf with John Owens, a rich and powerful businessman whose influence can get him reinstated.
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25 ) While the City Sleeps (1956)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 17
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 25
- IMDB User Review Score: 25
- Letterboxd User Score: 20
Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed “The Lipstick Killer”
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24 ) Clash by Night (1952)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 27
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 19
- IMDB User Review Score: 19
- Letterboxd User Score: 20
An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend.
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22 ) The Indian Tomb (1959)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 27
- IMDB User Review Score: 31
- Letterboxd User Score: 20
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.
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22 ) The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 27
- IMDB User Review Score: 31
- Letterboxd User Score: 20
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.
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21 ) The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 20
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 19
- IMDB User Review Score: 23
- Letterboxd User Score: 14
A reporter is murdered while driving to his job. The Police are contacted by a clairvoyant who saw the death in a vision, but some dark force is preventing him from seeing the man behind the crime…
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20 ) Woman in the Moon (1929)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 28
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 18
- IMDB User Review Score: 15
- Letterboxd User Score: 14
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 sucessful expedition.
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18 ) Hangmen Also Die! (1943)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 22
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 22
- IMDB User Review Score: 14
- Letterboxd User Score: 14
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.
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18 ) Man Hunt (1941)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 16
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 15
- IMDB User Review Score: 15
- Letterboxd User Score: 26
British hunter 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 German agents and aided by a young woman.
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17 ) Liliom (1934)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 14
- IMDB User Review Score: 25
- Letterboxd User Score: 31
Two women love the same man in a world of few prospects. In Budapest, Liliom is a “public figure,” a rascal who’s a carousel barker, loved by the experienced merry-go-round owner and by a young, innocent maid. The maid, Julie, loses her job after going out with Liliom; he’s fired by his jealous employer for going out with Julie. The two lovers move in with Julie’s aunt; unemployment emasculates him and a local weasel tempts him with crime. Julie, now wan, is true to Liliom even in his bad temper. Meanwhile, a stolid widower, a carpenter, wants to marry Julie. Is there any future on this earth for Julie and Liliom, whose love is passionate rather than ideal?
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16 ) Ministry of Fear (1944)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 15
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 15
- IMDB User Review Score: 19
- Letterboxd User Score: 20
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.
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15 ) You and Me (1938)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 27
- IMDB User Review Score: 23
- Letterboxd User Score: 14
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.
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14 ) Rancho Notorious (1952)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 21
- IMDB User Review Score: 25
- Letterboxd User Score: 14
A cowboy infiltrates a bandit hideout in search of his girlfriend’s killer.
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13 ) Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild’s Revenge (1924)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 34
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 10
- IMDB User Review Score: 5
- Letterboxd User Score: 3
After Siegfried’s death, Kriemhild marries Etzel, the King of the Huns. She gives birth to a child, and invites her brothers for a party. She tries to persuade Etzel and the other Huns to kill Hagen, the murderer of Siegfried, but he is protected by her brothers. A fierce battle begins to force her brothers to give Hagen to her.
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11 ) Destiny (1921)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 17
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 7
- IMDB User Review Score: 12
- Letterboxd User Score: 10
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. In each story, a woman, trying to save her lover from his ultimate tragic fate, fails. The young lady realizes the meaning of the tales and takes the only step she can to reunite herself with her lover.
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11 ) Spies (1928)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 13
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 11
- IMDB User Review Score: 12
- Letterboxd User Score: 10
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.
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10 ) The Woman in the Window (1944)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 12
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 11
- IMDB User Review Score: 10
- Letterboxd User Score: 12
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
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9 ) Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 34
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 3
- IMDB User Review Score: 3
- Letterboxd User Score: 3
Siegfried, son of King Sigmund, hears of the beautiful sister of Gunter, King of Worms, Kriemhild. On his way to Worms, he kills a dragon and finds a treasure, the Hort. He helps Gunther to win Brunhild, by using a mask that makes him invisible. But because Brunhild is cursing Kriemhild, she tells her what really happened. Now Brunhild wants Siegfried’s head.
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8 ) You Only Live Once (1937)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 13
- IMDB User Review Score: 15
- Letterboxd User Score: 12
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor (Henry Fonda) 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 (Sylvia Sidney) 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.
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7 ) Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 14
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 7
- IMDB User Review Score: 5
- Letterboxd User Score: 7
Arch-criminal Dr. Mabuse, who is a master of disguise and has been hypnotising people into doing his bidding, sets out to make a fortune and run Berlin. Detective Wenk sets out to stop him.
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6 ) The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 17
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 4
- IMDB User Review Score: 5
- Letterboxd User Score: 3
Fritz Lang directed this sequel to his nearly four-hour Dr. Mabuse silent of 1922. The film opens with Detective Hofmeister spying on the activities of a criminal syndicate. Not realizing he has been seen, Hofmeister is attacked by the thugs and later turns up out of his mind.
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5 ) Scarlet Street (1945)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 9
- IMDB User Review Score: 5
- Letterboxd User Score: 7
A man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman after rescuing her from an attack. She believes he is rich and her boyfriend persuades her to con him out of his fortune.
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4 ) Fury (1936)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 6
- IMDB User Review Score: 5
- Letterboxd User Score: 7
When a prisoner barely survives a lynch mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to frame the mob for his murder.
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3 ) Metropolis (1927)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 11
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 2
- IMDB User Review Score: 2
- Letterboxd User Score: 2
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city’s mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
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2 ) The Big Heat (1953)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 4
- IMDB User Review Score: 4
- Letterboxd User Score: 3
Dave Bannion is an upright cop on the trail of a vicious gang he suspects holds power over the police force. Bannion is tipped off after a colleague’s suicide and his fellow officers’ suspicious silence lead him to believe that they are on the gangsters’ payroll. When a bomb meant for him kills his wife instead, Bannion becomes a furious force of vengeance and justice, aided along the way by the gangster’s spurned girlfriend Debbie. As Bannion and Debbie fall further and further into the Gangland’s insidious and brutal trap, they must use any means necessary (including murder) to get to the truth.
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1 ) M (1931)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 1
- IMDB User Review Score: 1
- Letterboxd User Score: 1
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.
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