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Peter Lorre

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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A Physical History of 'M' (2015)

This documentary traces the "physical history" of Fritz Lang's M, from its production and original distribution to the digital restoration used as the basis for this edition. It includes a look at the French-language version of M but was produced before th ...

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Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film (2014)

Join foremost experts discussing true Horror Classics - Frankenstein, Dracula, The Black Cat, Wolfman, King Kong, Bride of Frankenstein, and more. Grab the popcorn and take a deep breath as we conjure up the thrills, chills and magic of Monster Madness! ...

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Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood (2009)

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 Berlin's vital filmmaking in the 1920s; then it follows a producer, directors, composers, editors, writers, ...

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Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman (2007)

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 the genre helped bring it into the mainstream and shape the way we view science fiction today. ...

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Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb (2007)

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. Ace Zucco has a new partner, reporter Fay Kendall, who is more than a match for the rowdy photographer. Dail ...

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Moto Is Missing (2007)

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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Cole Porter in Hollywood: Satin and Silk (2003)

This documentary short subject details the making of the 1957 MGM musical, "Silk Stockings". Hosted by its star Cyd Charisse, the film gives behind-the-scenes glimpses of how this film was made with interviews by musical director Andre Previn and supportin ...

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Heroes of Horror (2001)

A&E Comprehensive biographies of five of the greatest classic stars of the horror genre. Features lots or archive footage from some the greatest horror films committed to celluloid. ...

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Bogart: The Untold Story (1997)

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 and co-workers. ...

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Peter Lorre: The Master of Menace (1996)

Documentary overview of Peter Lorre's ascension to fame as a master purveyor of silky but disquieting peril. ...

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John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick (1988)

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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Creepy Classics (1987)

A compilation of trailers for various horror and sci-fi films, narrated and hosted by Vincent Price. ...

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The Double Face of Peter Lorre (1984)

Peter Lorre achieved international fame for his performance in the myth-making role in M. This character has held a peculiar fascination for generations of cinephiles. However, at the time, whilst such success meant recognition, it also weighed on the Hung ...

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The Horror of It All (1983)

A collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made them. ...

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The Hollywood Clowns (1979)

Glenn Ford narrates this hilarious look back at the greatest comedians in movie history. ...

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The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute (1974)

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 earliest beginnings all the way up to The Exorcist. Featuring clips from classic horror films and interviews wit ...

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The Movie Orgy (1968)

Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and ...

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The Dinosaur and the Baby (1967)

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 collaboration together, and much more. (Filmed in 1964 but released for TV in 1967. ...

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The Patsy (1964)

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 Stanley Belt (Lewis), can't do anything right. The TV show is getting closer, and Stanley is getting worse. ...

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Muscle Beach Party (1964)

Local beach-goers find that their beach has been taken over by a businessman training a stable of body builders. ...

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The Comedy of Terrors (1964)

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 absurd results. ...

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The Raven (1963)

A magician who has been turned into a raven turns to a former sorcerer for help. ...

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Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962)

Professor Fergusson plans to make aviation history by making his way across Africa by balloon. He plans to claim uncharted territories in West Africa as proof of his inventions worth. ...

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Tales of Terror (1962)

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 them, unresolved. 2) A derelict challenges the local wine-tasting champion to a competition, but finds the ...

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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)

The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction. ...

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Five Fingers : Thin Ice (1961)

Sebastian must either deliver a young Arab prince to Russia or get him back safely to his own country. ...

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Scent of Mystery (1960)

An Englishman and a cabby try to save an heiress from murder in Spain. ...

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The Big Circus (1959)

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 must not go on. ...

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Hell Ship Mutiny (1957)

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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Collector’s Item (1957)

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 collector, Van der Locken, when he receives an unwanted visit from Ivor Hager, who informs him of "The Left F ...

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The Sad Sack (1957)

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 tank, WAC Major Shelton, a psychologist, is assigned to make a good soldier out of him. She requests Corporal ...

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The Story of Mankind (1957)

The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil. ...

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Silk Stockings (1957)

After three bumbling Soviet agents fail in their mission to retrieve a straying Soviet composer from Paris, the beautiful, ultra-serious Ninotchka is sent to complete their mission and to retrieve them. She starts out condemning the decadent West, but grad ...

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The Buster Keaton Story (1957)

An inaccurate retelling of the life of silent filmmaker and comedian Buster Keaton. ...

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The Last Tycoon (1957)

Based off the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel of the same title, a movie producer is slowly working himself to death. ...

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Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)

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 very short period for those days. ...

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Congo Crossing (1956)

Congotanga, West Africa, has no extradition laws; the government is controlled by foreign gangsters, headed by Carl Rittner. The latest plane from Europe carries lovely Louise Whitman, fleeing a French murder charge, and Mannering, who pays resident hit ma ...

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Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956)

Chuck Rodwell is a gambling cowboy who discovers that he's lucky at the roulette wheel if he holds hands with dancer Marie. However, Marie doesn't like to hold hands with him, at least not in the beginning... ...

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No. 5 Checked Out (1956)

A young deaf women confronts desperate crooks who are using one of her remote resort cabins for a hideout. ...

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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)

A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo. ...

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The Disneyland Story (1954)

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 on the career of Mickey Mouse. ...

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Casino Royale (1954)

American spy James Bond must outsmart card wiz and crime boss LeChiffre while monitoring his actions. ...

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Beat the Devil (1953)

A group of con artists stake their claim on a bogus uranium mine. ...

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The Lost One (1951)

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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Double Confession (1950)

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 unsuccessful attempts on his life while the police clear up the mystery. ...

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Quicksand (1950)

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 money back before it is missed, but the garage's bookkeeper shows up earlier than scheduled. As Brady scrambl ...

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Rope of Sand (1949)

Story of a South African diamond mine watched over by a sadistic policeman tasked with looking out for smugglers. ...

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Casbah (1948)

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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My Favorite Brunette (1947)

Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness actually mistakes him for one and asks him to help locate her missing husband, Baron Montay, Ronnie finds himself agreeing. Several ...

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The Beast with Five Fingers (1947)

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: the pianist's severed hand. ...

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The Verdict (1946)

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 witness. ...

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The Chase (1946)

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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Black Angel (1946)

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 blonde singer, who is Martin's wife. ...

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Three Strangers (1946)

On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy philanderer; Jerome Artbutny, an outwardly respectable judge; and Johnny West, a seedy sneak thief, make a pact before a small statue of the Chinese goddess of D ...

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Confidential Agent (1945)

During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and counterspies. ...

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Hotel Berlin (1945)

An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany as the Third Reich falls. ...

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Hollywood Canteen (1944)

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 founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place. ...

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The Conspirators (1944)

A guerilla leader falls in love with a mysterious woman in World War II Lisbon. ...

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Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killin ...

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The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)

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. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, in order to learn more about the man. Along the ...

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Passage to Marseille (1944)

A freedom-loving French journalist sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny. ...

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The Cross of Lorraine (1943)

French soldiers (Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly) surrender to lying Nazis and are herded into a barbaric prison camp. ...

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Background to Danger (1943)

An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey. ...

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The Constant Nymph (1943)

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 grown daughter, who begins a romance with the composer which culminates in marriage but creates an emotio ...

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Casablanca (1943)

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications. ...

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Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines (1943)

A training film for OSS agents who are to be dropped behind enemy lines. ...

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The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942)

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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Invisible Agent (1942)

The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany in this comedy-thriller. ...

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All Through the Night (1942)

Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship. ...

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The Maltese Falcon (1941)

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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They Met in Bombay (1941)

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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Mr. District Attorney (1941)

An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case. ...

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The Face Behind the Mask (1941)

A sweet, enthusiastic, newly-arrived American immigrant from Hungary is forced to turn to a life of crime after his face is badly disfigured in a hotel fire. ...

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The Eternal Jew (1940)

A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of Jewish neighborhoods in recently-conquered Poland is combined with preexisting film clips and stills to defame the religion and advance Hitler's slurs that ...

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You'll Find Out (1940)

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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Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)

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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Island of Doomed Men (1940)

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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I Was an Adventuress (1940)

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! They mingle with Europe's high society, always looking for the next wealthy victim to fleece with their ...

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Strange Cargo (1940)

Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure. ...

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Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation (1939)

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 transported to America, Mr. Moto must race against time to unmask the cunning thief who will stop at nothing†...

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Mr. Moto in Danger Island (1939)

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 themselves involved in murders by thrown daggers, the frame-up of an overstressed Army colonel, and a pirate ...

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Mr. Moto's Last Warning (1939)

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 Egypt. The real Mr. Moto is already in Port Said, investigating a conspiracy against the British and French go ...

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Mysterious Mr. Moto (1938)

The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard. ...

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I'll Give a Million (1938)

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 kind to a tramp. ...

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Mr. Moto Takes a Chance (1938)

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 two insurgencies against the government. ...

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Mr. Moto's Gamble (1938)

Celebrated as supersleuth, Mr. Moto comes out fighting when a brutal boxing match turns into cold-blooded murder! Assisted by detective-in-training Lee Chan, Moto sets out to track down the killer based on a single ominous clue: a poisoned boxing glove! Bu ...

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Thank You, Mr. Moto (1937)

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! But Moto isn't the only one stalking the scrolls—so is a shadowy band of thieves. But when his ruthless ...

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Lancer Spy (1937)

An Englishman impersonates an imprisoned German officer and "returns" to Germany to become a national hero. A female German spy is assigned to check him out but falls in love with him. ...

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Think Fast, Mr. Moto (1937)

When his import/export business infiltrated by international diamond smugglers, Mr. Moto must follow a trail of clues littered with beautiful women, glittering gems and deadly assassins. Making his way from the mysterious streets of San Francisco's Chinato ...

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Nancy Steele Is Missing! (1937)

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 real father there's a job and a reward, but an old prisonmate gets in the way. ...

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Crack-Up (1936)

Betrayal and espionage abound as an experimental aircraft is readied for its maiden voyage. ...

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Secret Agent (1936)

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 the mission conflicts with their consciences. ...

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Crime and Punishment (1935)

A man is haunted by a murder he's committed. ...

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Mad Love (1935)

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 still have the urge to throw knives. ...

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The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been kidnapped to keep them quiet. ...

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High and Low (1933)

The intersecting lives of neighbors in a courtyard apartment building in Vienna,including a football player related to the concierge,a new blonde maid hired by the wife of a baron,whom both the athlete and a baron flirt with,and a deadbeat tenant who fakes ...

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The Oil Sharks (1933)

The plot revolves around an oil swindle in a South American country. ...

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What Women Dream (1933)

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 steals something, a mysterious man pays for it. A clumsy detective begins investigating and finds a crucia ...

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F.P.1 Doesn't Answer (1932)

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 technical wonder in this classic German science fiction film from 1932. The film was also created with English and ...

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Stupéfiants (1932)

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 her hooked. ...

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The White Demon (1932)

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 that Gerda will blow the whistle on him. Lorre kidnaps the woman, leading Albers on a frantic chase. ...

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A Shot at Dawn (1932)

A Berlin policeman tracks down a group of diamond thieves in the outskirts by posing as a gang member. ...

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Five from the Jazzband (1932)

By pure chance, Jessie and his four jazz musicians are hired to play at the cabaret theatre "Trocadero". Unfortunately, she knows nothing about music and it doesn't help that all four musicians are in love with her. Jessie doesn't reciprocate their feeli ...

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A Man's a Man (1931)

About a civilian who is press-ganged into a machine-gunner's squadron and transformed into the perfect soldier. ...

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The Thirteen Trunks of Mr. O.F. (1931)

In the very old-fashioned 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 (the hotel just has five). This event, probably the biggest in 300 years, starts a small wave of modernisa ...

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Bombs Over Monte Carlo (1931)

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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M (1931)

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 heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seed ...

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Movies Made By Peter Lorre (1)

The Lost One (1951)

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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