

М (M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder) [Sub: Eng]
Filmed in Germany, M was the film that solidified Fritz Lang's reputation with American audiences, and it also made a star out of Peter Lorre (previously a specialist in comedy roles!).



















November 1, 1883 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]

October 1, 1897 in Zürich-Hottingen, Switzerland









February 14, 1901 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]



11 May 1895, Des Moines, Iowa, USA


26 June 1904, Rózsahegy, Austria-Hungary [now Ruzomberok, Slovakia]


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September 04, 2014
You'll never look at a novelty balloon in the same way again.
September 02, 2013
The movie looms over our cinema like a hand of consequence, haunting us with its austerity and power long after others have faded from the mind.
March 28, 2013
Lang's film is a must-see for even a moderately ambitious film buff.
September 07, 2014
Lang's razor-sharp dissection of crime and punishment never puts a foot wrong.
March 12, 2013
This is a movie that dares to sympathize with a sick person, that risks making the monster real and us (in an era when Germany's cinema was still shellacked in canted angles and fanciful shadows).
March 11, 2015
[VIDEO ESSAY] A precursor to the serial killer and policier genres, "M" is first and foremost a suspense thriller made all the more gripping because the identity of the killer is revealed in the first act.
February 09, 2007
The moral issues are complex and deftly handled: Lorre is at once entirely innocent and absolutely evil. Lang's detached, modified expressionist style gives the action a plastic beauty.
April 07, 2016
Our identification with [Lorre] as a psychopath is so complete it's hard to believe that while appearing before Fritz Lang's cameras in the daytime, he was, at night, acting as a comedian in a farce.
September 04, 2014
It is a cousin to the early Hitchcock of The Lodger, and I have always found something even something faintly Ealingesque about its cynicism and satire.
April 11, 2013
Few films are gripping and effective 82 years after their original release, but this one surely is.
November 11, 2006
An extraordinary, good, impressive and strong talker. Again fine work by Fritz Lang, and his wife and helper, Thea von Harbou.
May 02, 2016
Lang's movie is that rare thing, a nail-biting soul-searcher. While M steers clear of analyzing deviance, it is startling in its musings on which punishment fits an inhuman crime.