M

About M

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.

M is a 1931 crime thriller film directed by Fritz Lang. It runs 110 minutes and was released in May 1931.

Peter Lorre takes the lead as Hans Beckert, Ellen Widmann as Frau Beckmann, Inge Landgut as Elsie Beckmann, and Otto Wernicke as Inspector Karl Lohmann. Written by Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou.

Members will find film noir, criminal, organized crime, and pre-code in it. In the United States it streams on Criterion Channel, HBO Max, and HBO Max Amazon Channel.

Nosferatu, The Night of the Hunter, and Possession make useful companions to M, all filed under black and white, expressionism, and german expressionism. It scores 8.1 out of 10 from 2,584 TMDB voters.