The White Spider (German: Die weiße Spinne) is a 1963 West German crime thriller film directed by Harald Reinl and starring Joachim Fuchsberger, Karin Dor and Horst Frank.

[1] The film's sets were designed by the art director Ernst H. Albrecht.

When Muriel Irvine's husband is killed in an automobile accident after a night of gambling, she discovers that he had previously dramatically increased his life insurance coverage.

The insurance company alerts Scotland Yard to a recent rash of such deaths all affecting gamblers.

When the Yard's chief inspector is murdered while investigating the case, they bring in a mysterious detective to solve it.