Overview
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.
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Cast
 
                    Peter Lorre
Hans Beckert
 
                    Ellen Widmann
Frau Beckmann
 
                    Inge Landgut
Elsie Beckmann
 
                    Otto Wernicke
Inspector Karl Lohmann
 
                    Theodor Loos
Inspector Groeber
 
                    Gustaf Gründgens
Schränker
 
                    Friedrich Gnaß
Franz
 
                    Fritz Odemar
The Cheater
 
                    Paul Kemp
Pickpocket with Six Watches
 
                    Theo Lingen
Bauernfänger
 
                    Rudolf Blümner
Becker's 'Attorney'
 
                    Georg John
Blind Panhandler
Trailers & Videos
![M (1931) Original Trailer [FHD]](https://img.youtube.com/vi/DdR07aN3uoc/hqdefault.jpg) 
                    
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                    Reviews
Wiccaburr
The movie is classic and yet this is my first time watching this. Peter Lorre alone is worth seeing this movie as he always played such the great villain. No music keeps your focus on the image and dialogue throughout the movie. Camera work looks pretty awesome especially when they start doing the manhunt. This movie clocks in at almost two hours so there will be a lot of pacing and dialogue to go through. It will feel a bit dragging when Lorre isn't on the screen but it is well wort...
Oct 07, 2020badelf
So you say you want to enroll in film school? Don't bother. Just watch Fritz Lang's M and Metropolis.
May 31, 2023James
Random person: Nobody knows him (The murderer). Woman who lives with the murderer: Am I a joke to you?
Oct 20, 2023James
Stone cold classic. Certainly one of the best time films about orange peels being littered.
Oct 20, 2023Filipe Manuel Neto
**One of the masterpieces of classic German cinema.** There isn't much that can be said about this film that almost everyone hasn't already said or written. It is one of the great films of German cinema, one of the best productions that were made before the Second World War and one of the best films in the career of the renowned director Fritz Lang, who shortly afterward would leave Germany due to the rise of Nazism, refusing to deal with that political regime. The film is inspir...
Oct 28, 2023 
             
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                    