Peter Lorre
Series
Criterion collection volume 643
Language
English
Formats
Description
An ordinary British couple vacationing in Switzerland suddenly find themselves embroiled in a case of international intrigue when their daughter is kidnapped by spies plotting a political assassination. This fleet and gripping early thriller from the Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, was the first film the director made after signing to the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Reunite with the 'Master of Suspense,' Alfred Hitchcock, for more of the mind-boggling twists and devious thrills synonymous with one of TV's greatest shows. In the fifth season, delve into 38 stories of greed, larceny, revenge, and murder where every character holds a guilty secret and a misleading 'MacGuffin' lurks in every corner. Featuring some of Hollywood's brightest guest stars.
6) Road to Bali
Series
Language
English
Description
In Road to Bali, Hope and Crosby are vaudeville performers hired as deep sea divers by an unscrupulous South Sea island prince. In My favorite brunette, Hope plays a photographer who substitutes for a private eye and gets involved in a murder mystery.
8) Casablanca
Language
English
Formats
Description
Casablanca: easy to enter, but much harder to leave, especially if you're wanted by the Nazis. Such a man is Resistance leader Victor Laszlo, whose only hope is Rick Blaine, a cynical American who sticks his neck out for no one - especially Victor's wife Ilsa, the ex-lover who broke his heart. Ilsa offers herself in exchange for Laszlo's transport out of the country and bitter Rick must decide what counts more - personal happiness or countless lives...
Language
English
Description
"Frank Capra adapted a hit stage play for this marvelous screwball meeting of the madcap and the macabre. On Halloween, newly married drama critic Mortimer Brewster returns home to Brooklyn, where his adorably dotty aunts greet him with love, sweetness ... and a grisly surprise: the corpses buried in their cellar. A bugle-playing brother who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt, a crazed criminal who's a dead ringer for Boris Karloff, and a seriously slippery...
Language
English
Description
Sam Spade is a partner in a private-eye firm who finds himself hounded by police when his partner is killed while tailing a man. The woman who asked his partner to follow the man turns out to be someone who is not what she says she is, and is really involved in something to do with the 'Maltese Falcon', a gold-encrusted life-sized statue of a falcon, the only one of its kind.
11) M
Series
Criterion collection volume 30
Language
Deutsch
Formats
Description
When a serial killer is stalking the children of the city, everyone, including the criminal underworld, wants to see him brought down.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Special edition ; Widescreen version (2.55:first).
Language
English
Description
A trouble-shooting 19th century seaman is trying to discover why so many whaling ships have been disappearing of late. Teaming with a scientist and a diver, they set sail to investigate. They are promptly captured by the megalomaniac Captain Nemo, who skippers a lavish, scientifically advanced submarine.
13) Secret agent
Series
Alfred Hitchcock collection volume 4
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
An espionage thriller set in Geneva, seasoned with romance. Two British Intelligence Service agents pose as husband and wife in an attempt to eliminate an agent for the Central Powers.
14) Silk stockings
Pub. Date
©2003, ©1957.
Language
English
Description
A stern lady communist comes to Paris to retrieve three wayward comrades and a Russian composer, but instead warms up to capitalist attractions.
17) Tales of terror
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Morella: When Doctor Patricia Morella becomes terminally ill and turns all her energies to a bizarre embryonic experiment, not even Dr. Lynden, her lover and collaborator, suspects her true intentions.
The black cat: A detective arrives to investigate a series of murders and finds a few tell-tale paw prints here and there.
The case of M. Valdemar: A sorcerer's spell backfires when he sentences an innocent man to living hell.
Language
English
Description
Tales of terror (1962): Three stories adapted from the works of Edgar Allan Poe. In "Morella," a dying young woman tries to reconcile with her father, who has always blamed her for her mother's death during childbirth. In "The black cat," a man discovers his wife's affair and takes steps to remove his rival, only to have his wife's black cat reveal his evil deed. And In "The facts in the case of M. Valdemar," the dying M. Valdemar employs a hypnotist...
20) M
Series
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
Deutsch
Description
A psychopathic murderer of young girls terrorizes a German city causing public hysteria and intense police investigations, which in turn disrupts organized crime. The contrasting worlds of the police and the underworld are juxtaposed as they both resolve to hunt, capture, and try the murderer.