Peter Lorre

Peter Lorre

June 26, 1904 · 122 years old

Peter Lorre (June 26, 1904 – March 23, 1964) was a Hungarian-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 Ho…

Known For

30 titles
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Casablanca

Casablanca

1943 · 1h 42m · Movie

A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.

8.5
2
M

M

1931 · 1h 39m · Movie

When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.

8.3
3
The Maltese Falcon

The Maltese Falcon

1941 · 1h 40m · Movie

San Francisco private detective Sam Spade takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar and their quest for a priceless statuette, with the stakes rising after his partner is murdered.

7.9
4
Arsenic and Old Lace

Arsenic and Old Lace

1944 · 1h 58m · Movie

Mortimer Brewster, a Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage, risks his reputation after he decides to tie the knot. Things grow complicated when he learns that his beloved maiden aunts Abby and Martha are serial murd...

7.9
5
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

1954 · 2h 7m · Movie

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

7.2
6
Around the World in 80 Days

Around the World in 80 Days

1956 · 2h 55m · Movie

A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.

6.7
7
The Man Who Knew Too Much

The Man Who Knew Too Much

1934 · 1h 15m · Movie

An ordinary British couple vacationing in Switzerland suddenly find themselves embroiled in a case of international intrigue when their daughter is kidnapped by spies plotting a political assassination.

6.7
8
The Raven

The Raven

1963 · 1h 26m · Movie

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

6.5
9
Beat the Devil

Beat the Devil

1953 · 1h 29m · Movie

On their way to Africa are a group of rogues who hope to get rich there, and a seemingly innocent British couple. They meet and things happen...

6.4
10
Secret Agent

Secret Agent

1936 · 1h 26m · Movie

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.

6.4
11
Tales of Terror

Tales of Terror

1962 · 1h 29m · Movie

Three tales of terror involve a grieving widower and the daughter he abandoned; a drunkard and his wife's black cat; and a hypnotist who prolongs the moment of a man's death.

6.8
12
The Comedy of Terrors

The Comedy of Terrors

1964 · 1h 24m · Movie

Dishonest undertaker Waldo Trumbull and his sidekick Felix Gillie are creating their own customers when they cannot find willing ones.

6.5
13
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

1961 · 1h 45m · Movie

When the Earth is threatened by a burning Van Allen Radiation Belt, U.S. Navy Admiral Harriman Nelson plans to shoot a nuclear missile at the Belt, using his experimental atomic submarine, the Seaview.

6.0
14
All Through the Night

All Through the Night

1942 · 1h 47m · Movie

Runyonesque Broadway gamblers turn patriotic when they stumble onto a cell of Nazi saboteurs.

7.1
15
Passage to Marseille

Passage to Marseille

1944 · 1h 49m · Movie

Five patriotic convicts are helped to escape imprisonment in Devil's Island so they can fight for occupied Free French forces against the Nazis.

6.8
16
Stranger on the Third Floor

Stranger on the Third Floor

1940 · 1h 4m · Movie

An aspiring reporter is the key witness at the murder trial of a young man accused of cutting a café owner's throat, and is soon accused of a similar crime himself.

6.8
17
Black Angel

Black Angel

1946 · 1h 21m · Movie

When Kirk Bennett is convicted of a singer's murder, his wife tries to prove him innocent...aided by the victim's ex-husband.

6.9
18
The Mask of Dimitrios

The Mask of Dimitrios

1944 · 1h 35m · Movie

Mystery writer Cornelius Leyden becomes intrigued after the murdered body of a vicious career criminal washes up in the Bosphorus.

7.2
19
My Favorite Brunette

My Favorite Brunette

1947 · 1h 27m · Movie

Shortly before his execution on the death row in San Quentin, amateur sleuth and baby photographer Ronnie Jackson tells reporters how he got there.

6.7
20
The Beast with Five Fingers

The Beast with Five Fingers

1947 · 1h 28m · Movie

In a turn-of-the-century Renaissance Italian mansion, its tyrannical owner, a wheelchair-bound one-handed pianist with a strong belief in the occult is murdered.

6.5
21
The Chase

The Chase

1946 · 1h 26m · Movie

Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's fearful wife becomes a nightmare.

6.4
22
Strange Cargo

Strange Cargo

1940 · 1h 53m · Movie

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

6.9
23
Invisible Agent

Invisible Agent

1942 · 1h 21m · Movie

The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany.

5.9
24
The Verdict

The Verdict

1946 · 1h 26m · Movie

After an innocent man is executed in a case for which he was not responsible, a Scotland Yard superintendent finds himself investigating the murder of his key witness.

7.2
25
The Patsy

The Patsy

1964 · 1h 41m · Movie

An incompetent bellhop is recruited to fill in for a deceased comedian.

6.2
26
Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

1935 · 1h 28m · Movie

A young man is haunted by the murder of a neighborhood pawn broker and hounded by the local police inspector who suspects that he is guilty.

6.9
27
The Constant Nymph

The Constant Nymph

1943 · 1h 52m · Movie

The daughter (Joan Fontaine) of a musical mentor (Montagu Love) is hopelessly in love with her cousin's husband (Charles Boyer), a handsome composer.

6.7
28
The Boogie Man Will Get You

The Boogie Man Will Get You

1942 · 1h 6m · Movie

A young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants and dead bodies in the cellar.

5.8
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Island of Doomed Men

Island of Doomed Men

1940 · 1h 8m · Movie

Undercover agent Mark Sheldon gets paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine manned by slave labor run by sadistic Stephen Danel.

5.8
30
Casbah

Casbah

1948 · 1h 34m · Movie

The life, loves and adventures of a classic Casbah thief.

6.0