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Peter Sellers has 15 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1980s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
1965
Comedy · Crime

Koyaanisqatsi
1983 · Movie · Actor
Top 8%Prime Video · Included

Murder by Death
1976 · Movie · Actor
Top 15%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

A Shot in the Dark
1964 · Movie · Actor
Top 15%Prime Video · Included

The Pink Panther
1963 · Movie · Actor
Top 25%Prime Video · Included

The Pink Panther Strikes Again
1976 · Movie · Actor
Top 26%MGM+ · Included

The Return of the Pink Panther
1975 · Movie · Actor
Top 29%MGM+ · Included

as Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake / President Merkin Muffley / Dr. Strangelove
After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop it.
Dir. Stanley Kubrick · With Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden

A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.
Dir. Hal Ashby · With Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas

Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass.
Dir. Godfrey Reggio · With Ed Asner, Pat Benatar, Johnny Carson

Hrundi V. Bakshi, an accident-prone actor from India, is accidentally put on the guest list for an upcoming party at the home of a Hollywood film producer. Unfortunately, from the moment he arrives, one thing after another goes wrong with compounding effect.
Dir. Blake Edwards · With Peter Sellers, Claudine Longet, Natalia Borisova

Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
Dir. Alexander Mackendrick · With Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom

Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.
Dir. Robert Moore · With Truman Capote, Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers

Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a straightforward murder investigation into a comedic series of mishaps, testing the patience of his irritable boss Charles Dreyfus as casualties mount.
Dir. Blake Edwards · With Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders

The trademark of The Phantom, a renowned jewel thief, is a glove left at the scene of the crime. Inspector Clouseau, an expert on The Phantom's exploits, feels sure that he knows where The Phantom will strike next and leaves Paris for the Tyrolean Alps, where the famous Lugashi jewel 'The Pink Panther' is going to be. However, he does not know who The Phantom really is, or for that matter who anyone else really is...
Dir. Blake Edwards · With David Niven, Peter Sellers, Claudia Cardinale

Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.
Dir. Blake Edwards · With Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Leonard Rossiter

The famous Pink Panther jewel has once again been stolen and Inspector Clouseau is called in to catch the thief. The Inspector is convinced that 'The Phantom' has returned and utilises all of his resources – himself and his Asian manservant – to reveal the identity of 'The Phantom'.
Dir. Blake Edwards · With Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Catherine Schell

Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world—and Charles Dreyfus—believe when a dead body is discovered in Clouseau's car after being shot off the road. Naturally, Clouseau knows differently and, taking advantage of not being alive, sets out to discover why an attempt was made on his life.
Dir. Blake Edwards · With Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Dyan Cannon

as Grand Duchess Gloriana XII / Prime Minister Count Rupert Mountjoy / Tully Bascombe
The Duchy of Grand Fenwick decides that the only way to get out of their economic woes is to declare war on the United States, lose and accept foreign aid. They send an invasion force (in chain mail, armed with bows and arrows) to New York and they arrive during a nuclear drill that has cleared the streets.
Dir. Jack Arnold · With Peter Sellers, Jean Seberg, William Hartnell

A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.
Dir. Clive Donner · With Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, Romy Schneider

as Chief Insp. Jacques Clouseau (archive footage)
The Pink Panther diamond is stolen once again from Lugash and the authorities call in Chief Inspector Clouseau from France. His plane disappears en-route. This time, famous French TV reporter Marie Jouvet sets out to solve the mystery and starts to interview everybody connected to Clouseau.
Dir. Blake Edwards · With David Niven, Peter Sellers, Capucine
Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be named 'James Bond'. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but all the Bonds get more than they can handle.
Dir. Robert Parrish, Val Guest, Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath · With David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress
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