Peter Lorre
Peter Lorre (26 June 1904 – 23 March 1964) was an Austrian-American actor frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner.
He caused an international sensation in 1931 with his portrayal of a serial killer who preys on little girls in the German film M. Later he became a popular featured player in Hollywood crime films and mysteries, notably alongside Humphrey Bogart and Sydney Greenstreet, and as the star of the successful Mr. Moto detective series.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.96 |
| Birthday | 1904-06-26 |
| Place of Birth | Rózsahegy (now Ružomberok), Austria-Hungary (now Slovakia) |
| Also Known As | László Löwenstein, Пітер Лорре, Петер Лорре, Πίτερ Λόρε, Питър Лори, Pīters Lorre, |
1944
Arsenic and Old Lace
7.645/886
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married;...
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Arsenic and Old Lace
1954
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
7.04/834
A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1943
Casablanca
8.16/5201
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
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Casablanca
1932
F.P.1 Doesn't Answer
5.9/7
F.P.1 is a huge airplane landing dock in the Atlantic where pilots making the transatlantic flight can stop. Yet a saboteur tries to sink the technica...
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F.P.1 Doesn't Answer
1931
M
8.09/2067
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...
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1941
The Maltese Falcon
7.72/1591
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
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The Maltese Falcon
1961
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
5.719/121
The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction.
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
1936
Secret Agent
6.1/140
After three British agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to th...
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Secret Agent
1956
Around the World in Eighty Days
6.636/480
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a ve...
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Around the World in Eighty Days
1946
Black Angel
6/49
A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a...
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Black Angel
1942
The Boogie Man Will Get You
6.3/27
A young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants and dead bodies in the cellar.
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The Boogie Man Will Get You
1953
Beat the Devil
6.2/135
A group of con artists stake their claim on a bogus uranium mine.
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Beat the Devil
1950
Quicksand
6.1/34
Young auto mechanic Dan Brady takes $20 from a cash register at work to go on a date with blonde femme fatale Vera Novak. Brady intends to put the mon...
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Quicksand
1933
What Women Dream
8.8/4
In this pre-WWII German mystery-comedy, a lovely kleptomaniac with a taste for fine jewelry is unable to resist temptation. Strangely, every time she...
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What Women Dream
1964
The Patsy
6.112/49
When a star comedian dies, his comedy team decides to train a 'nobody' to play the Star in a big TV show (a Patsy). But the man chosen, bellboy Stanle...
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The Patsy
1934
The Man Who Knew Too Much
6.441/372
While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been kidn...
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
1943
Background to Danger
6.6/23
An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
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Background to Danger
1941
The Face Behind the Mask
6.4/41
In this low-budget thriller, Peter Lorre plays Janos Szabo, an immigrant from Hungary who is a skilled craftsman. After he's caught in a fire, his fac...
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The Face Behind the Mask
1944
The Conspirators
6/11
A guerilla leader falls in love with a mysterious woman in World War II Lisbon.
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The Conspirators
1935
Mad Love
7/106
An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which...
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2001
Heroes of Horror
9/2
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Heroes of Horror
1944
The Mask of Dimitrios
6.979/48
A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. H...
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The Mask of Dimitrios
1946
Three Strangers
6.3/33
On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy philanderer; Jerome Artbutny, an outwardly respectable...
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Three Strangers
1942
Invisible Agent
5.886/44
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany in this comedy-thriller.
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Invisible Agent
1946
The Verdict
6.5/42
After an innocent man is executed in a case he was responsible for, a Scotland Yard superintendent finds himself investigating the murder of his key w...
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The Verdict
1947
The Beast with Five Fingers
6.3/44
Locals in an Italian village believe evil has taken over the estate of a recently deceased pianist where murder has taken place. The alleged killer: t...
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The Beast with Five Fingers
1963
The Raven
6.3/225
A magician who has been turned into a raven turns to a former sorcerer for help.
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The Raven
1962
Tales of Terror
6.648/162
Three stories adapted from the work of Edgar Allen Poe: 1) A man and his daughter are reunited, but the blame for the death of his wife hangs over th...
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Tales of Terror
1946
The Chase
6.17/56
Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's fearful wife becomes a nightmare.
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The Chase
1950
Double Confession
6.1/13
The hero discovers his estranged wife dead and tries to frame her lover for the murder. He becomes involved with the criminals who make various unsucc...
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Double Confession
1964
The Comedy of Terrors
6.467/138
An undertaker who hasn't had any 'customers' in a long time is forced to pay one year's back-rent. To get money he starts to kill people, which brings...
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The Comedy of Terrors
1940
Stranger on the Third Floor
6.5/91
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
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Stranger on the Third Floor
1938
Mysterious Mr. Moto
5.7/16
The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard.
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Mysterious Mr. Moto
1942
All Through the Night
7/55
Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.
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All Through the Night
1962
Five Weeks in a Balloon
5.5/26
Professor Fergusson plans to make aviation history by making his way across Africa by balloon. He plans to claim uncharted territories in West Africa...
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Five Weeks in a Balloon
1957
Silk Stockings
6.7/55
After three bumbling Soviet agents fail in their mission to retrieve a straying Soviet composer from Paris, the beautiful, ultra-serious Ninotchka is...
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Silk Stockings
1957
The Story of Mankind
4.476/21
The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.
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The Story of Mankind
1957
The Sad Sack
5.7/30
Private Meredith Bixby is so out of step in the Army that his six weeks of planned basic training has now stretched to 17 months. After he loses a tan...
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The Sad Sack
1949
Rope of Sand
5.6/26
Story of a South African diamond mine watched over by a sadistic policeman tasked with looking out for smugglers.
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Rope of Sand
1935
Crime and Punishment
6.5/50
A man is haunted by a murder he's committed.
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Crime and Punishment
1933
High and Low
5/5
The intersecting lives of neighbors in a courtyard apartment building in Vienna,including a football player related to the concierge,a new blonde maid...
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High and Low
1948
Casbah
5.7/14
Pepe Le Moko leads a gang of jewel thieves in the Casbah of Algiers, where he has exiled himself to escape imprisonment in his native France.
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Casbah
1944
Hollywood Canteen
7.3/26
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club...
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Hollywood Canteen
1938
Mr. Moto Takes a Chance
5.8/16
In the jungle near Angkor Wat in Cambodia, Mr. Moto poses as an ineffectual archaeologist and a venerable holy man with mystical powers to help foil t...
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Mr. Moto Takes a Chance
1944
Passage to Marseille
6.684/57
A freedom-loving French journalist sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny.
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Passage to Marseille
1947
My Favorite Brunette
6.7/51
Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness actually mistakes him for...
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My Favorite Brunette
1939
Mr. Moto's Last Warning
5.8/25
A Japanese man claiming to be Mr. Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon after disembarking from a ship at Port Said in Egyp...
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Mr. Moto's Last Warning
1940
Strange Cargo
7/50
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.
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Strange Cargo
1940
You'll Find Out
5.4/23
The manager of Kay Kyser’s band books them for a birthday party bash for an heiress at a spooky mansion, where sinister forces try to kill her.
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You'll Find Out
1943
The Constant Nymph
5.8/20
The daughter of a musical mentor adores a promising composer, who is quite fond of the adolescent. When her father dies, an uncle arrives with his own...
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The Constant Nymph
1937
Think Fast, Mr. Moto
6.1/23
When his import/export business infiltrated by international diamond smugglers, Mr. Moto must follow a trail of clues littered with beautiful women, g...
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Think Fast, Mr. Moto
1937
Thank You, Mr. Moto
6.2/17
Mr. Moto Heads to China on a quest for seven ancient scrolls that reveal the location of Genghis Khan's tomb—a crypt filled with fabulous treasure! Bu...
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Thank You, Mr. Moto
1939
Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
6.9/15
Mr. Moto is in Egypt to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to steal the priceless crown of the Queen of Sheba. When the precious treasure is tran...
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Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
1938
Mr. Moto's Gamble
6.3/16
Celebrated as supersleuth, Mr. Moto comes out fighting when a brutal boxing match turns into cold-blooded murder! Assisted by detective-in-training Le...
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Mr. Moto's Gamble
1939
Mr. Moto in Danger Island
7/17
In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market, Mr. Moto and his sidekick, a wrestler, find th...
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Mr. Moto in Danger Island
1943
The Cross of Lorraine
6.2/20
French soldiers (Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly) surrender to lying Nazis and are herded into a barbaric prison camp.
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The Cross of Lorraine
1941
They Met in Bombay
7.5/14
A jewel thief and a con artist are rivals in the theft of a valuable diamond and gem necklace in Bombay and as the Japanese Army invades China.
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They Met in Bombay
1951
The Lost One
6.9/28
A German scientist murders his fiancée during World War II when he learns that she has been selling the results of his secret research to the enemy.
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The Lost One
1940
Island of Doomed Men
5.3/13
An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner.
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Island of Doomed Men
1937
Lancer Spy
6/4
An Englishman impersonates an imprisoned German officer and "returns" to Germany to become a national hero. A female German spy is assigned to check h...
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Lancer Spy
1931
Bombs Over Monte Carlo
7.3/3
The captain of a battleship of a small Balkan country is fed up with following strange orders from the country's queen.
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Bombs Over Monte Carlo
1960
Scent of Mystery
5.6/7
An Englishman and a cabby try to save an heiress from murder in Spain.
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Scent of Mystery
1957
The Buster Keaton Story
4.9/8
An inaccurate retelling of the life of silent filmmaker and comedian Buster Keaton.
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The Buster Keaton Story
1959
The Big Circus
6.5/14
A circus owner tries to keep his financially troubled circus on the road, despite the efforts of a murderous saboteur who has decided that the show mu...
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The Big Circus
1941
Mr. District Attorney
6.2/5
An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case.
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Mr. District Attorney
1945
Confidential Agent
5.8/24
During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and counterspies.
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Confidential Agent
1956
Congo Crossing
5.2/10
Congotanga, West Africa, has no extradition laws; the government is controlled by foreign gangsters, headed by Carl Rittner. The latest plane from Eur...
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Congo Crossing
1945
Hotel Berlin
6.1/12
An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany as the Third Reich falls.
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Hotel Berlin
1957
Hell Ship Mutiny
4/3
A ship's captain in the South Seas battles a villainous pearl trader who uses island natives as slaves for his business.
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Hell Ship Mutiny
1936
Crack-Up
5.7/9
Betrayal and espionage abound as an experimental aircraft is readied for its maiden voyage.
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Crack-Up
1931
The Thirteen Trunks of Mr. O.F.
0/0
In the very oldfashioned town of Ostend suddenly 13 suitcases are delivered to the hotel, with a note, that O.F. will be here soon and needs 6 rooms (...
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The Thirteen Trunks of Mr. O.F.
1932
A Shot at Dawn
0/0
A Berlin policeman tracks down a group of diamond thieves in the outskirts by posing as a gang member.
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A Shot at Dawn
1932
The White Demon
0/0
When Albers takes his drug-addicted opera star sister Gerda to a sanitarium, they both become targets of slimy dope peddler Peter Lorre, who fears tha...
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The White Demon
1954
Casino Royale
5.264/36
American spy James Bond must outsmart card wiz and crime boss LeChiffre while monitoring his actions.
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Casino Royale
1938
I'll Give a Million
5.7/6
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is k...
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I'll Give a Million
1940
I Was an Adventuress
6.4/8
Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two accomplices are really a team of skilled con artists...
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I Was an Adventuress
1937
Nancy Steele Is Missing!
0/0
After being in jail for seventeen years a crook is met by the girl he kidnapped as a baby. She now thinks he's her father. When he returns her to her...
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Nancy Steele Is Missing!
2007
Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb
0/0
Our intrepid adventurers Ace Zucco and Mike Flannigan from Terror in the Tropics return for another exciting quest in Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb. Ac...
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Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb
1932
Stupéfiants
7/1
When an up-and-coming singer's career is jeopardized by morphine addiction, her brother takes on the ruthless dope pushers who are intent on keeping h...
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Stupéfiants
1940
The Eternal Jew
4.667/45
A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of Jewish neighborhoods in recently-conquered Poland...
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The Eternal Jew
1933
The Oil Sharks
0/0
The plot revolves around an oil swindle in a South American country.
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The Oil Sharks
1996
Peter Lorre: The Master of Menace
6/1
Documentary overview of Peter Lorre's ascension to fame as a master purveyor of silky but disquieting peril.
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Peter Lorre: The Master of Menace
1943
Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines
5.7/13
A training film for OSS agents who are to be dropped behind enemy lines.
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Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines
1964
Muscle Beach Party
5.6/31
Local beach-goers find that their beach has been taken over by a businessman training a stable of body builders.
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Muscle Beach Party
1933
Unsichtbare Gegner
6/1
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Unsichtbare Gegner
1956
No. 5 Checked Out
5/1
A young deaf women confronts desperate crooks who are using one of her remote resort cabins for a hideout.
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No. 5 Checked Out
1997
Bogart: The Untold Story
0/0
Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of film clips, written material and interviews of friends a...
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Bogart: The Untold Story
1967
The Dinosaur and the Baby
6/5
An hour-long discussion between Fritz Lang and Jean-Luc Godard in which they discuss a variety of art forms, the role of the cinema, their collaborati...
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The Dinosaur and the Baby
2009
Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood
6/1
Eight hundred German filmmakers (cast and crew) fled the Nazis in the 1930s. The film uses voice-overs, archival footage, and film clips to examine Be...
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Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood
2015
A Physical History of 'M'
0/0
This documentary traces the "physical history" of Fritz Lang’s M, from its production and original distribution to the digital restoration used as the...
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A Physical History of 'M'
1931
A Man's a Man
5.8/4
About a civilian who is press-ganged into a machine-gunner's squadron and transformed into the perfect soldier.
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A Man's a Man
1954
The Disneyland Story
7.5/2
Walt Disney presents a preview for both his upcoming park called Disneyland and several episodes of the show to come. Then the show focuses primarily...
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The Disneyland Story
2007
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
9/2
Famous Monster takes a fast-paced, colorful look at the life of science fiction's greatest fan - Forrest J. Ackerman, whose 85 year love affair with t...
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Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
1984
The Double Face of Peter Lorre
5.3/3
Peter Lorre achieved international fame for his performance in the myth-making role in M. This character has held a peculiar fascination for generatio...
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The Double Face of Peter Lorre
1968
The Movie Orgy
5.8/8
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and gov...
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The Movie Orgy
1979
The Hollywood Clowns
0/0
Glenn Ford narrates this hilarious look back at the greatest comedians in movie history.
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The Hollywood Clowns
1974
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
7.7/3
In this made-for-TV production, Vincent Price and his hunchback sidekick (Billy Van) host a pun-filled salute to the horror film genre from its earlie...
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The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
1957
Collector’s Item
0/0
Mr. Prentiss is an appraiser at his firm, the House of Prentiss. He is about to go to Florida to appraise a vast collection of a recently deceased col...
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Collector’s Item
2007
Moto Is Missing
7/1
Featurette about the demise, during the early 1940s, of the once-popular Mr. Moto B-films series that starred Peter Lorre.
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Moto Is Missing
1929
The Missing Wife
0/0
An Austrian silent comedy crime film.
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The Missing Wife
1983
The Horror of It All
8/5
A collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made them.
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The Horror of It All
1961
Five Fingers : Thin Ice
0/0
Sebastian must either deliver a young Arab prince to Russia or get him back safely to his own country. The episode aired in the US in 1959, and in th...
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Five Fingers : Thin Ice
1954
Operation Undersea
2/1
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Operation Undersea
1957
The Last Tycoon
0/0
Based off the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel of the same title, a movie producer is slowly working himself to death.
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The Last Tycoon
1932
Five from the Jazzband
7/1
By pure chance, Jessie and his four jazz musicians are hired to play at the cabaret theatre “Trocadero”. Unfortunately, she knows nothing about music...
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Five from the Jazzband
1989
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
5.9/11
Biography of risk-taker and raconteur John Huston from his childhood to become one of the most highly respected filmmakers in the world.
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John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
1956
Meet Me in Las Vegas
4.7/10
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Meet Me in Las Vegas
1987
Creepy Classics
6.3/6
A compilation of trailers for various horror and sci-fi films, narrated and hosted by Vincent Price.
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1979
(Sin título) Descartes Arrebato
10/1
Recovered Zulueta short.
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(Sin título) Descartes Arrebato
2014
Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
7.5/4
Join foremost experts discussing true Horror Classics - Frankenstein, Dracula, The Black Cat, Wolfman, King Kong, Bride of Frankenstein, and more. Gra...
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2003
Cole Porter in Hollywood: Satin and Silk
0/0
This documentary short subject details the making of the 1957 MGM musical, "Silk Stockings". Hosted by its star Cyd Charisse, the film gives behind-th...
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