Fritz Lang: The Definitive Ranking

Fritz Lang is one of those directors who is largely known for a single film. For him, that’s Metropolis. Like many other directors, he had a much wider and deeper body of work than that one film implies. Where Lang is different is the direction his career had to take when he fled Germany in 1933.

Unlike others who fled Europe in the Interwar period, people like Ernst Lubitsch or Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang had real trouble finding how to make life in Hollywood work for him. He worked consist...