Peter Lorre

All Movies of Peter Lorre

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  7.1
  Istanbul Beneath My Wings
  The story takes us back to the 17th century Istanbul, and the powerful times of the Ottoman Empire under the rule of Sultan Murad IV. Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi, Logari Celebi, Bekri Mustafa and Evliya Celebi are four good friends who ...
   1996

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  6.5
  The Raven
  In this tongue-in-cheek movie inspired by Poe's poem, Dr. Craven is the son of a great sorcerer (now dead) who was once himself quite skilled at that profession, but has since abandoned it. One evening, a cowardly fool of a magici...
  Character: Dr. Adolphus Bedlo

   1963

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  Hollywood: The Great Stars
  Host Henry Fonda follows the creation of the star system with Mary Pickford in the Silent Era through its demise in the early Sixties.
  Character: Joel Cairo (archive footage)

   1963

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  The Comedy of Terrors
  Alcoholic, wife-beater Waldo Trumbull has run the funeral business he inherited from his father-in-law into the ground. His landlord John F. Black demands a year's unpaid rent or else he will foreclose. And so Trumbull and his ass...
   1963

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  6.0
  Tales of Terror
  Three stories adapted from the work of Edgar Allen Poe. A man and his daughter are reunited, but the blame for the death of his wife hangs over them, unresolved. A derelict challenges the local wine-tasting champion to a competiti...
   1962

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  Scent of Mystery
  A vacationing Englishman (Denholm Elliott) stumbles upon a plot to kill a young American tourist (Beverly Bentley) in Spain.
  Character: Smiley

   1960

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  7.0
  Silk Stockings
  Fred Astaire took one of his final musical turns in this delightful 1957 comedy, a cold war update of the classic Ninotchka. Cyd Charisse, having previously wrapped her endless legs around Fred in The Band Wagon, plays the Greta G...
   1957

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  The Story of Mankind
  The council of elders of outer space is deliberating on a very important subject: Must mankind be allowed to survive, or is it so esentially evil that it must be destroyed? A devil and an angel act as prosecutor and defense for th...
   1957

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  9.0
  The Buster Keaton Story
  An inaccurate retelling of the life of silent filmmaker and comedian Buster Keaton.
  Character: Kurt Bergner

   1957

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  Playhouse 90 (TV Series)
  Playhouse 90 is a 90-minute dramatic television anthology series, telecast on CBS from 1956 to 1961 for a total of 133 episodes. 'Playhouse 90' was an exceptionally good anthology series, which consistently offered the most presti...
  Character:  Café Owner / ... 6 episodes, 1956-1960

   1956

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  7.0
  Meet Me in Las Vegas
  Chuck Redwell 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...
  Character: Peter Lorre

   1956

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  7.0
  Around the World in 80 Days
  English nobleman Phileas Fogg, a very strict and emotionless man, gets wound up in a bet at his gentlemen's club: He has to prove that it is possible to travel around the whole world in only 80 days. Together with his new butler P...
  Character: Japanese Steward - S.S. Carnatic

   1956

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  7.0
  20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
  It is the 1860s and the seas are being terrorized by reports of a monster that is destroying shipping. The US government dispatches marine-life specialist Pierre Arronax to investigate aboard the warship Abraham Lincoln. They are ...
  Character: Conseil

   1954

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  7.0
  Beat the Devil
  The last of five joint efforts between director John Huston and Humphrey Bogart, Beat The Devil has become a cinema classic. Truman Capote´s witty script sends Bogart into a complex scheme to gain control of a stretch of East Afr...
   1953

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  Double Confession
  When his wife is murdered, the husband tries to divert suspicion from himself to someone else. Unfortunately, his scheme winds up getting him mixed up with some real murderers.
   1950

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  6.4
  Rope of Sand
  Two years ago, hunting guide Mike Davis was with a client who trespassed on diamond company land and found a rich lode; Paul Vogel, sadistic commandant of company police, beat Mike nearly to death but failed to learn the location....
  Character: Toady

   1949

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  5.9
  Casbah
  Pepe Le Moko (Tony Martin) leads a gang of jewel thieves in the Casbah of Algiers, where he has exiled himself to escape imprisonment in his native France. Inez (Yvonne DeCarlo), his girl friend, is infiriated when Pepe flirts wit...
  Character: Slimane

   1948

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  My Favorite Brunette
  A private eye asks photographer Ronnie Jackson to keep an eye on his office while he's away. Ronnie agrees, but gets more than he bargained for when he meets beautiful client Carlotta Montay. Her uncle is missing, and while trying...
   1947

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  Black Angel
  Singing star Mavis Marlowe is murdered just after receiving a heart shaped ruby brooch. Before Kirk Bennett, who discovers the body, can call the police, the brooch is taken by someone he can't see, and he flees in panic. Of cours...
   1946

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  7.9
  Arsenic and Old Lace
  Mortimer Brewster stops off in Brooklyn to visit his two favourite aunts Abby and Martha to tell them that he has just gotten married. However, he discovers the dotty old dears have been feeding their boarders poisoned elderberry ...
  Character: Dr. Einstein

   1944

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  7.0
  The Conspirators
  Vincent Van Der Lyn, a Dutch freedom fighter in WWII, is forced to neutral Lisbon to escape the Nazis. There he meets a small band of underground conspirators. The group's leader, Ricardo Quintanilla, knows that one of their numbe...
   1944

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  7.0
  Passage to Marseille
  As French bomber crews prepare an air raid from a base in England, we learn the story of Matrac, a French journalist who opposed the Munich Pact. Framed for murder and sent to Devil's Island, he and four others escape. They are on...
  Character: Marius

   1944

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  6.9
  Hollywood Canteen
  Two soldiers on sick leave spend three nights at the Hollywood Canteen before going back to active duty. With a little friendly help from John Garfield, Slim gets to kiss Joan Leslie, who he has been dreaming about while in the Pa...
   1944

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  7.1
  The Constant Nymph
  Fourteen-year-old Tessa is hopelessly in love with handsome composer Lewis Dodd, a family friend. Lewis adores Tessa, but has never shown any romantic feelings toward her. When Tessa's father dies, Lewis contacts her late mother's...
  Character: Fritz Bercovy

   1943

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  6.0
  Invisible Agent
  Frank Raymond changed his name and took up a life as the owner of a printing shop in order to distance himself from his former identity: as the grandson of the man who invented the formula for invisibility but ended up shot down b...
   1942

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  9.1
  Casablanca
  Humphrey Bogart plays Richard "Rick" Blaine, a cynical but good-hearted American whose café is the gathering place for everyone from the French Police to the black market to the Nazis. When his long-lost love, Ilsa (Ingrid Bergma...
  Character: Ugarte

   1942

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  7.5
  The Maltese Falcon
  Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) is a private eye who gets involved in the hunt for a statuette while searching for the murderer of his partner, Miles Archer (Jerome Cowan). His fellow treasure hunters include a sinister 'little and la...
   1941

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  5.0
  They Met in Bombay
  The best-laid plans of jewel thief Gable and lady crook Russell fall apart when the thief unintentionally becomes a hero while posing as a British officer.
  Character: Captain Chang

   1941

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  6.0
  Strange Cargo
  Verne wants nothing more than to escape from a penal colony located off the northern coast of South America. He tries to involve Julie, a saloon girl, in his plans but she turns him in to the authorities. On Verne's next try, he p...
  Character: M'sieu Pig

   1940

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  6.7
  Stranger on the Third Floor
  Reporter Michael Ward is the key witness in a murder trial. His evidence - that he saw the accused Briggs standing over the body of a man in a diner - is instrumental in having Briggs deemed guilty. But afterwards Ward's fiancée ...
  Character: The Stranger

   1940

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  6.1
  You'll Find Out
  Kay Kyser and his orchestra are hired to entertain at the birthday party of a young heiress at a creepy old mansion, where they uncover a plot against her life. Who is the villain? The sinister judge? The phony medium? The skeptic...
  Character: Karl Fenninger

   1940

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  6.3
  Mr. Moto's Last Warning
  Moto thwarts a ruthless band of international agents who try to foment an international incident by mining the entrance to the Suez Canal and blaming the British.
  Character: Mr. Moto

   1939

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  6.0
  Mr. Moto's Gamble
  Character: Mr. Moto

   1938

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  6.8
  Nancy Steele Is Missing!
  Character: Prof. Sturm

   1937

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  6.5
  Secret Agent
  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.
  Character: The General

   1936

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  7.3
  The Man Who Knew Too Much
  Hitchcocks first and arguably superior production of the same story he retold in 1956 with James Stewart and Doris Day, and critics continue to argue the films merits versus its successor. An English couple on holiday in Switzerla...
  Character: Abbott

   1934

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  7.1
  What Women Dream
  Character: Otto Fuessli

   1933

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  Bomben auf Monte Carlo
  The captain of a battleship of a small Balkan country is fed up with following strange orders from the country's queen, who wants to make a cruise to the Med inspite of the fact that the country is broke and the crew didn't get it...
   1931

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  Die Koffer des Herrn O.F.
   1931

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  7.3
  M
  In Fritz Langs startling and exquisite film M, fear stalks the streets of Berlin in the form of a serial child murderer whose grisly accomplishments are so heinous even the criminal minds of the underworld want him dead. Filmed in...
   1931