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Bringing to the screen an obsessive and fatalistic world populated by a rogues' gallery of strange and twisted characters, former architecture student Fritz Lang staked out a uniquely hostile corner of the cinematic universe; despair, isolation, corruption, alienation and helplessness all found life in the shadows and contrasts of his work. A product of German Expressionist thought, he explored humanity at its lowest ebb, with a distinctively rich and bold visual sensibility which virtually defined film noir long before that term was coined.
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. (Germany, 1926, 118m., d. Fritz Lang, w/Brigitte Helm & Alfred Abel, Silent)
When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt. (Germany, 1931, B&W, 117 mins, dir. Fritz Lang, with Peter Lorre & Ellen Widmann, German with English subtitles)
Agent No 326 is ordered to stop a spy-ring, but he falls in love with one of the spies, Sonja. (Germany, 1928, 142 mins, dir. Fritz Lang, with Rudolph Klein-Rogge & Gerda Maurus, Silent)
Tragedy about how a painter in a mid-life crisis befriends a young woman kitty, and how her crooked fiancé persuades her to con the painter out of his paintings. (USA, 1945, B&W, 103 mins, dir. Fritz Lang, with Edward G. Robinson & Joan Bennett)