A new era is born.

German-born director Fritz Lang was a master at painting dark portraits of the common man who, while under the corrupting influences of evil, succumbs first to vice and then to murder. An example of ...

Masterfully directed by Fritz Lang, Scarlet Street is a bleak film in which an ordinary man succumbs first to vice and then to murder. Christopher Cross (Edward G. Robinson) is a lonely man married to ...

German-born director Fritz Lang was a master at painting dark portraits of men who, under corrupting influences, succumb first to vice and then to murder. An example of this is found in Scarlet Street ...

Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.

The auteur theory was designed to recognize the covert artistry of Hollywood directors like Howard Hawks and Nicholas Ray, whose work on programmatic studio fare was unified by recurring themes and ...

Nobody said that to Fritz Lang when he had the nerve to direct two American remakes of Renoir films, both largely inferior. The better one is Scarlet Street (1945), Lang’s version of La Chienne (The ...

Ridley Scott rejuvenates an old genre: Roman heroes are back and the greatest of all is Russell Crowe. A family implodes after an extraordinary event during their Alpine vacation. Winner of the Un ...