Where to Watch Peeping Tom (1960) in the US

What it's about

Mark Lewis, works as a focus puller in a British film studio. On his off hours, he supplies a local porno shop with cheesecake photos and also dabbles in filmmaking. A lonely, unfriendly, sexually repressed fellow, Mark is obsessed with the effects of fear and how they are registered on the face and behavior of the frightened. This obsession dates from the time when, as a child, he served as the subject of some cold-blooded experiments in terror conducted by his own scientist father. As a grown man, Mark becomes a compulsive murderer who kills women and records their contorted features and dying gasps on film. His ongoing project is a documentary on fear. With 16mm camera in hand, he accompanies a prostitute to her room and stabs her with a blade concealed in his tripod, all the while photographing her contorted face in the throes of terror and death. Alone in his room, he surrounds himself with the sights and sounds of terror: taped screams, black-and-white "home movies" of convulsed faces. At his house, he meets Helen Stephens, a young woman who lives with her blind mother in a downstairs flat. She visits his flat, where he shows her black-and-white films that were taken of him when he was a child. She is horrified to see that his father used him as a guinea pig in various experiments, taking movies of his reactions of fear.

Cast and crew

Director

Michael Powell

Writer

Leo Marks

Starring

Karlheinz Böhm, Anna Massey, Moira Shearer

Details

Release date

May 16, 1960

Language

English

Country

United Kingdom

Box office

$36,598

Awards

1 win total

Where to Watch Peeping Tom (1960) in the US — common questions

Where to watch Peeping Tom in the United States?

Peeping Tom is available with a subscription, free with ads, free with a participating library card, or to rent in the United States. Watch the movie with a subscription on BFI Player (HD), Chilling (HD), and Cultpix. Watch the movie free with ads on Tubi TV. Watch the movie free with a participating library card on Fawesome (HD) and Kanopy (HD). Rent the movie on Apple TV Store and Prime Video.

Can I stream Peeping Tom or do I have to rent it in the United States?

Watch the movie with a subscription on BFI Player (HD), Chilling (HD), and Cultpix. Rent the movie on Apple TV Store and Prime Video.

Can I watch Peeping Tom for free in the United States?

Watch the movie free with ads on Tubi TV. Watch the movie free with a participating library card on Fawesome (HD) and Kanopy (HD).