Peter Lorre’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

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Peter Lorre has 14 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1960s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Casablanca.
Recurring themes

Mystery of the Wax Museum
1933
Horror · Mystery

Mark of the Vampire
1935
Mystery · Horror

A Haunting in Venice
2023
Mystery · Thriller

The Hound of the Baskervilles
1939
Mystery · Crime

The Girl Who Knew Too Much
1963
Horror · Thriller

House on Haunted Hill
1959
Horror · Mystery

The Brides of Dracula
1960
Horror

The Woman in Green
1945
Mystery · Crime

Casablanca
1943 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Max · Included

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1931 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%Max · Included

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1954 · Movie · Actor
Top 18%Disney+ · Included

Tales of Terror
1962 · Movie · Actor
Top 18%MGM+ · Included

The Man Who Knew Too Much
1934 · Movie · Actor
Top 34%Max · Included

The Comedy of Terrors
1964 · Movie · Actor
Top 44%MGM+ · Included
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
Dir. Michael Curtiz · With Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid
In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.
Dir. Fritz Lang · With Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut

A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
Dir. John Huston · With Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George

Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!
Dir. Frank Capra · With Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Josephine Hull

An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with those of a knife-throwing murderer.
Dir. Karl Freund · With Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive

A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.
Dir. Richard Fleischer · With Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas

Three stories adapted from the work of Edgar Allen Poe: 1) A man and his daughter are reunited, but the blame for the death of his wife hangs over them, unresolved. 2) A derelict challenges the local wine-tasting champion to a competition, but finds the man's attention to his wife worthy of more dramatic action. 3) A man dying and in great pain agrees to be hypnotized at the moment of death, with unexpected consequences.
Dir. Roger Corman · With Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone

While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been kidnapped to keep them quiet.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre

An undertaker who hasn't had any 'customers' in a long time is forced to pay one year's back-rent. To get money he starts to kill people, which brings absurd results.
Dir. Jacques Tourneur · With Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff

A magician who has been turned into a raven turns to a former sorcerer for help.
Dir. Roger Corman · With Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff

Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
Dir. Boris Ingster · With Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet

During World War I, a novelist declared dead is recruited by British intelligence and sent to Switzerland under a new identity to assassinate a German spy. Teamed with a fellow agent posing as his wife and an eccentric assassin known as “the General,” the trio close in on their target — until two of them grow ambivalent when their duty to the mission clashes with their consciences.
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Madeleine Carroll, John Gielgud, Peter Lorre

A group of con artists stake their claim on a bogus uranium mine.
Dir. John Huston · With Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida

as Comm. Lucius Emery
The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction.
Dir. Irwin Allen · With Walter Pidgeon, Robert Sterling, Barbara Eden
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