FAME READS / SCREEN NOTES
M
Scores
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer100%as of 2026-01-16
- Rotten Tomatoes average9.2/10as of 2021-10-05
What it is
M is a 1931 German mystery thriller film directed by Fritz Lang and starring Peter Lorre as Hans Beckert, a serial killer who targets children, in his third screen role. Both Lang's first sound film and an early example of a procedural drama, M centres on the efforts of both a city's police force and its criminal syndicates to apprehend a serial child-murderer.
At a glance
- Genres
- Thriller / Crime / Drama
- Original language
- German
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