Peter Lorre

When a police crackdown puts their livelihoods under pressure, Berlin's criminals take the hunt for a depraved child murderer into their own hands.

When Parisian actress Yvonne Orlac (Frances Drake) announces that she is leaving the stage to be a full-time wife to her concert pianist husband, Stephen (Colin Clive), brilliant surgeon Dr. Gogol (Peter Lorre), who is obsessed with Yvonne, is crushed. So when Stephen loses his hands in a train wreck, Gogol agrees to Yvonne's request to graft another pair of hands onto Stephen. But before long, Stephen realizes that his hands seem to have a mind of their own. He can no longer play the piano -- but he can throw knives with deadly accuracy! It turns out the hands belonged to an executed murderer, and they never lost the desire to kill. As Stephen slowly goes insane, Gogol professes his love for Yvonne, but she rejects him. Gogol vows to hasten Stephen's demise to drive Yvonne into his own arms.

A meek novelist investigates the mysterious death of a notorious scoundrel.

The testimony of an ambitious reporter helps to convict a young man of murder, but the newspaper man has second thoughts about his contribution when he finds himself in the dock while a homicidal maniac is on the loose.

Mr. 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.

A haunted widower, a jealous drunk on a revenge mission, and an evil mesmerist make up this gothic trilogy adapted from the works of Edgar Allan Poe.

More than two years after his wife's death, a sorcerer is visited by a raven who claims she is still alive and at the castle of another sorcerer.

A lazy undertaker facing eviction and a mound of debt devises a wicked plan with his assistant to speed up the demise of their unsuspecting customers.

The first screen appearance of the James Bond character, portrayed by American actor Barry Nelson. Bond, Jimmy Bond, is a CIA agent not a special agent in her majesty's secret service. Peter Lorre plays the villain, Le Chiffre, a ruthless Russian agent.

An ordinary couple vacationing in Switzerland get embroiled in international intrigue when their daughter is kidnapped to cover up a nefarious plot.

A wannabe gumshoe finds himself framed for murder while working for a beautiful brunette in this uproarious send-up of hard-boiled detective films.

The master of suspense directs top actors in the gripping spy tale about a "dead man” on a secret mission in Switzerland with his assassin assistant.

Three strangers, three incredibly dangerous people drawn together by their greed. Each ready to kill for the riches of ...Kwan Yin. Jean Negulesco was truly hitting his stride with his classic run of film noirs when he crafted this stylish thriller in which three strangers find their destinies entwined with a mysterious, foreign idol, "The Masters of Mystery," Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet, play two of the strangers, while Geraldine Fitzgerald proves more than a match for the two screen greats as the third. According to a legend, if three strangers gather before the fables idol of Kwan Yin and make a common wish, the wish shall be granted. Spurned spouse Crystal Shackleford (Fitzgerald) has the idol and enlists a sleazy solicitor (Greenstreet) and a drunken thief (Lorre) in her plans for riches and revenge. But the two strangers have dreams of their own that collide with hers when the idol's powers prove to be real.

Fresh out of law school and in his first job as a deputy district attorney, P. Cadwallader Jones is assigned an old embezzler’s case with a new twist.

Based on the Jules Verne novel, experience the fantastic exploits of Captain Nemo, a genius turned bitter who wages war from his nuclear-powered submarine against a country he perceives as evil.

Negulesco and noir - a heady brew. Jean Negulesco proved his stunning noir debut The Mask of Dimitrios was no fluke by following up with an astonishing run of film noir classics.

After borrowing $20 from his employer's cash register, an auto mechanic is plunged into a series of increasingly disastrous circumstances.

A veteran-turned-chauffeur is forced on the run in Cuba after he makes off with the wife of his sadistic millionaire boss and she winds up dead.

An inept soldier stationed in North Africa loses a tank and runs up against a band of Arab thieves.