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Fritz Lang's classic early talkie crime melodrama is set in 1931 Berlin. The police are anxious to capture an elusive child murderer (Peter Lorre), and they begin rounding up every criminal in town. The underworld leaders decide to take the heat off their activities by catching the child killer themselves. Once the killer is .. Read more

Starring	Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke, Inge Landgut, Josef Almas
Director	Fritz Lang
Genres	Thriller, World Cinema

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- Lang's first sound film was based on the real-life manhunt for the DÃsseldorf child-murderer (an extraordinary... read more on Time Out
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  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:16
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  Fantastic
  
  This is truly a fantastic film.
  
  The plot meanders along giving you the sense of a spectre haunting sets as the story slowly ... read more »
  
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  - AlexPhillips
  - 37 reviews
  - UK
  - 16 Jan 2007 at 00:38
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  Scary - and not always in a nice way.
  
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  Beware of the subtitles, sometimes they're a bit obscure. But for those with a grasp of the original German there's no distraction from the unusual ... read more »
  
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  - 02 Nov 2011 at 14:49
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  Irrationality and double-think
  
  M is doubly chilling: first because the vicious irrationality of the fear and hatred aroused by a series of child murders reminds us of the tabloid reaction ... read more »
  
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- - Stogumbrian
  - 3 reviews
  - 27 Aug 2011 at 19:23
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  characterful thriller
  
  Chillingly good,for its time a revelation in composition and ensemble acting. peter Lorre's speech when captured is a terrifying defence of his crime that ... read more »
  
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  - 04 Jul 2011 at 09:50
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  Story told brilliantly
  
  I'm 22 and being such haven't grown up with access to such classic films, however due to the assertations of pop culture i can usually guess what is ... read more »
  
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- - Louis4
  - 3 reviews
  - 30 Apr 2011 at 10:08
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  Ahead of Its Time...
  
  ....but behind ours. I can appreciate this was a ground breaking film in its day, but other than that did not get much out of watching it.
  
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  - Glossop
  - 28 Feb 2011 at 11:35
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  An Early German Film Noir Classic
  
  This is an intelligent movie about a child serial killer (played by Peter Lorre), and here in his first major role, his acting is measured, apart from one scene... read more »
  
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  - London
  - 16 Oct 2010 at 21:40
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  M is Marvellous
  
  Years ahead of its time, Fritz Lang's seminal serial killer thriller (and probably one of the cinema's very first police procedurals) hasn't lost ... read more »
  
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- - RJNeb2
  - 773 reviews
  - London
  - 08 Aug 2010 at 23:45
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  A classic
  
  This film confirms why Fritz Lang is one of the great directors. Dramatic camera angles and moody lighting add to the sense of menace pervading the film. The ... read more »
  
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  - Innerleithen
  - 25 Jul 2010 at 08:56
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  No Metropolis.
  
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  Let’s get one thing clear: M is no Metropolis. I can usually withstand the slow pace of most ‘old’ films and pretend I wasn’t the product of... read more »
  
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- - Jacob3057
  - 3 reviews
  - Newport, England
  - 16 Jul 2010 at 11:58
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  M (directed by Fritz Lang)
  
  This early 1930s film is about a child murderer being pursued by police and an unholy alliance of criminals and beggars. It is a highly dramatic piece, full of ... read more »
  
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  - 16 Jun 2010 at 12:18
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  Fantastic
  
  This is truly a fantastic film.
  
  The plot meanders along giving you the sense of a spectre haunting sets as the story slowly ... read more »
  
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  - AlexPhillips
  - 37 reviews
  - UK
  - 16 Jan 2007 at 00:38
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  M for Masterly-in no way dated
  
  If you are in no way interested in history and you like your thrills cheap and visceral, please avoid this cracking film. The fearful, doomed atmosphere of ... read more »
  
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- - QPR Olly
  - Shepherds Bush,England
  - 01 Mar 2007 at 21:45
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  Creepy Stuff ...
  
  Honestly, I'm still kind of surprised that a film like this actually existed back in 1931. Because of the extremely dark subject matter, even today the ... read more »
  
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- - Noel Clay
  - Bromsgrove, England
  - 02 Apr 2004 at 17:08
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  Two very different DVD releases
  
  It seems that there are two different releases of this movie and which one you watch will greatly affect your enjoyment.
  
  When I selected just the ... read more »
  
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- - SimonB
  - 9 reviews
  - Southampton
  - 20 Dec 2007 at 12:56
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  The missing link between Expressionism and Film Noir
  
  Fritz Lang's 'M' is one of the most powerful yet frightening films ever made. The plot, focusing around a community's attempts to capture a ... read more »
  
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- - Lionel Laurent
  - London
  - 20 Jul 2004 at 00:04
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  Balsa
  
  Apart from the dramatic last part of the film where Lorre does a... read more »
  
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  - Wallasey. Wirral
  - 06 Dec 2006 at 09:27
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  One of the finest European films ever!
  
  This was Fritz Lang's first talking picture and on seeing it you would think he had been making them for years.
  
  A truly terrifying film that ... read more »
  
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- - Dayofthedead33
  - DERBYSHIRE
  - 15 May 2005 at 02:14
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  - 2
  Incredible !
  
  Starts of a little ropey although extremely sophisticated for its time, dealing with multiple ideas and themes of human nature. Once the courtroom scene begins ... read more »
  
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  - Scotland
  - 20 Nov 2004 at 13:30
- - 4
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  Unwatchable due to poor subtitles
  
  Although the images are vert engaging, it was impossible to follow the story due to the very poor quality of the subtitles.
  
  They are the 'burned ... read more »
  
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  - London
  - 18 Feb 2008 at 13:02
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  Everyone should watch it!
  
  This is an incredible film that, I think, everyone could relate to especially in contemporary society where such a profound reaction in the way we keep our ... read more »
  
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- - Great Expectations
  - Leeds, West Yorkshire
  - 11 May 2007 at 15:21

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  Fritz Lang's classic early talkie crime melodrama is set in 1931 Berlin. The police are anxious to capture an elusive child murderer (Peter Lorre), and they begin rounding up every criminal in town. The underworld leaders decide to take the heat off their activities by catching the child killer ...