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2) Spies
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Spies: First "modern" spy film. A power-hungry banker with many disguises marshals his forces to steal the secrets of an important treaty.-- M: Perhaps the greatest example of German expressionism on the screen. Drama, social commentary, satire, and an anatomy of a crime are some of the elements of this dark masterpiece. Peter Lorre plays a psychopathic killer of children who successfully evades police but is eventually confronted by the code of the...
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A criminal discovers that stealing from a child isn't as simple -- or as easy to get away with -- as he thought. Emil is a 12-year-old boy who lives in Germany with his father after his parents were divorced. While taking the train to Berlin, Emil's money is stolen by a con artist. With the help of a group of streetwise youngsters, Emil soon has dozens of kids in Berlin acting as his eyes and ears as they scheme to get Emil's money back.