Search results for "Orson Welles"
Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane
IMDb: 8.3
119 min

An assortment of journalists are trying to figure out the final word Charles Foster Kane ever spoke: Rosebud. A news reel about Kane’s childhood is shown, followed by flashbacks of…

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Genre: Drama, Mystery
The Third Man

The Third Man

The Third Man
IMDb: 8.1
93 min

Holly Martins is a retired pulp fiction author who arrives in Vienna after the war. The city has been divided by victorious allies into different sectors, which leads to an…

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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
A Man for All Seasons

A Man for All Seasons

A Man for All Seasons
IMDb: 7.7
120 min

A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas More, who refuses to swear the Oath of Supremacy declaring Henry Supreme Head…

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Genre: Drama, History
Touch of Evil

Touch of Evil

Touch of Evil
IMDb: 8.0
95 min

When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas begins his investigation, along with American police captain Hank Quinlan. When…

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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Casino Royale

Casino Royale

Casino Royale
IMDb: 5.1
131 min

Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan – that every agent will be named…

Waterloo

Waterloo

Waterloo
IMDb: 7.2
123 min

After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from…

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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
F for Fake

F for Fake

F for Fake
IMDb: 7.7
89 min

Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works…

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Genre: Documentary
The Lady from Shanghai

The Lady from Shanghai

The Lady from Shanghai
IMDb: 7.5
87 min

A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.

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Jane Eyre (1943)

Jane Eyre (1943)

Jane Eyre (1943)
IMDb: 7.5
97 min

After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house to care for his young daughter.

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Genre: Drama, Romance
Othello (1951)

Othello (1951)

Othello (1951)
IMDb: 7.6
90 min

When a secret marriage is planned between Othello, a Moorish general, and Desdemona, the daughter of Senator Brabantio, her old suitor Roderigo takes it hard. He allies himself with Iago,…

Genre: Drama, Romance
They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead

They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead

They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead
IMDb: 7.4
98 min

As his life comes to its end, famous Hollywood director Orson Welles puts it all on the line at the chance for renewed success with the film The Other Side…

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Genre: Documentary
Compulsion

Compulsion

Compulsion
IMDb: 7.4
103 min

Two close friends kidnap and murder a young boy and are defended in court by a renowned attorney who makes an impassioned plea against capital punishment.

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Genre: Crime, Drama
Treasure Island (1972)

Treasure Island (1972)

Treasure Island (1972)
IMDb: 5.9
94 min

Young Jim Hawkins finds himself serving with pirate captain Long John Silver in search of a buccaneer’s treasure, in this short adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale.

Genre: Adventure, Family
The Stranger (1946)

The Stranger (1946)

The Stranger (1946)
IMDb: 7.4
95 min

Wilson of the War Crimes Commission is seeking Franz Kindler, mastermind of the Holocaust, who has effectively erased his identity. Wilson releases Kindler's former comrade Meinike and follows him to…

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Prince of Foxes

Prince of Foxes

Prince of Foxes
IMDb: 7.0
107 min

In 1500, Duke Cesare Borgia hopes to marry his sister (widowed by poison) to the heir apparent of Ferrara, which impedes his conquest of central Italy. On this delicate mission…

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The Trial (1962)

The Trial (1962)

The Trial (1962)
IMDb: 7.7
119 min

Josef K wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his room. They tell him that he is on trial but nobody tells him what he is accused…

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Genre: Crime, Drama
Tomorrow Is Forever

Tomorrow Is Forever

Tomorrow Is Forever
IMDb: 7.4
104 min

Elizabeth and John say goodbye as John leaves to go to war. When World War I ends, Elizabeth receives a telegram that John has been killed in action. She finds…

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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Filming Othello

Filming Othello

Filming Othello
IMDb: 7.4
84 min

Filming Othello begins with Welles standing behind a moviola. He directly addresses the camera and announces: "This is to be a conversation, certainly not anything so formal as a lecture,…

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The Long, Hot Summer

The Long, Hot Summer

The Long, Hot Summer
IMDb: 7.4
115 min

Sixty-one year old widower Will Varner (Orson Welles), in ill health, owns many businesses and property in Frenchman's Bend, Mississippi, including a plantation. To him, his children are a disappointment,…

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Genre: Drama, Romance
The Black Rose

The Black Rose

The Black Rose
IMDb: 6.3
120 min

In the 13th century, Walter of Gurnie, a disinherited Saxon youth, is forced to flee England. With his friend, the master archer Tris, he falls in with the army of…

Genre: History, War
Mr. Arkadin

Mr. Arkadin

Mr. Arkadin
IMDb: 7.2
93 min

From the lips of a dying man at a dimly-lit Italian dock, Guy Van Stratten, the disreputable American fortune hunter, receives invaluable information about the powerful financial titan, Gregory Arkadin….

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Three Cases of Murder

Three Cases of Murder

Three Cases of Murder
IMDb: 6.5
99 min

Three stories of murder and the supernatural. In the first, a museum worker is introduced to a world behind the pictures he sees every day. Second, when two lifelong friends…

Genre: Mystery
Man in the Shadow

Man in the Shadow

Man in the Shadow
IMDb: 6.8
80 min

In effect, modern cow town Spurline is run by Virgil Renchler, owner of the Golden Empire Ranch. One night, two of Virgil's henchmen go a little too far and beat…

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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Chimes at Midnight

Chimes at Midnight

Chimes at Midnight
IMDb: 7.8
115 min

Sir John Falstaff (Orson Welles) is the hero in this compilation of extracts from Shakespeare's "Henry IV" and other plays, made into a connected story of Falstaff's career as young…

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Genre: Drama, History
Slapstick (Of Another Kind)

Slapstick (Of Another Kind)

Slapstick (Of Another Kind)
IMDb: 2.6
82 min

Caleb Swain and his wife Lutetia are a rich couple deemed to be the most beautiful of all the beautiful people by the press. This changes when Lutetia gives birth…

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The Roots of Heaven

The Roots of Heaven

The Roots of Heaven
IMDb: 6.4
126 min

In Fort Lamy, French Equatorial Africa, idealist Morel launches a one-man campaign to preserve the African elephant from extinction, which he sees as the last remaining "roots of Heaven." At…

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Genre: Drama
The Eyes of Orson Welles

The Eyes of Orson Welles

The Eyes of Orson Welles
IMDb: 6.7
115 min

Mark Cousins dives deep into the visual world of legendary director and actor Orson Welles to reveal a portrait of the artist as he's never been seen before.

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Genre: Documentary
House of Cards

House of Cards

House of Cards
IMDb: 5.9
105 min

Leschenhaut and Morillon are trying to organize a plot to overthrow the French government and set up a new fascist organization. Their plans are interrupted by Davis, an American boxer,…

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Genre: Thriller
The Immortal Story

The Immortal Story

The Immortal Story
IMDb: 7.1
58 min

The Portuguese colony of Macao in the 19th century. Mr. Clay is a very rich merchant and the subject of town gossip. He has spent many years in China and…

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Genre: Drama
The Road to Bresson

The Road to Bresson

The Road to Bresson
IMDb: 7.2
54 min

A Dutch documentary about legendary French filmmaker Robert Bresson.

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Genre: Documentary
South Seas Adventure

South Seas Adventure

South Seas Adventure
IMDb: 7.2
120 min

The fifth in a series of Cinerama travelogues—and not a Documentary since the vast majority of the film, aside from the scenery, is comprised of fictional stories. The first one…

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Genre: Romance
Black Magic

Black Magic

Black Magic
IMDb: 6.4
105 min

Novelist Alexander Dumas tells his writer-son of Joseph Balsamo, a gypsy boy in southern France who was embittered because his parents were wrongfully hanged and he himself was tortured by…

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Genre: Mystery, Romance
A Safe Place

A Safe Place

A Safe Place
IMDb: 5.1
94 min

A disturbed young woman – a former for child of the 60's, named Noah lives alone in New York, where she's retreated into her past, yearning for lost innocence., searching…

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Necromancy

Necromancy

Necromancy
IMDb: 4.7
83 min

Mr. Cato is the head of a witches' coven in the town of Lilith, where he needs the powers of Lori Brandon to raise his son from the dead.

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Genre: Horror