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Bette Davis has 19 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 2010s. 3 rank in the Top 10%, led by All About Eve.
Wuthering Heights
1939
Drama · Romance

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1962 · Movie · Actor
Top 4%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Pocketful of Miracles
1961 · Movie · Actor
Top 16%Prime Video · Included

The Little Foxes
1941 · Movie · Actor
Top 18%Prime Video · Included

Death on the Nile
1978 · Movie · Actor
Top 21%Prime Video · Included

Burnt Offerings
1976 · Movie · Actor
Top 24%MGM+ · Included

Listen to Me Marlon
2015 · Movie · Actor
Top 28%Paramount+ · Included

From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.
Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz · With Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders

A former vaudeville child star viciously torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.
Dir. Robert Aldrich · With Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono

An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.
Dir. Robert Aldrich · With Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten

A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and from an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.
Dir. Irving Rapper · With Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains

An aging American millionairess journeys to Rome each year with her chauffeur George to play the card game scopone with destitute Peppino and his wife Antonia.
Dir. Luigi Comencini · With Alberto Sordi, Silvana Mangano, Joseph Cotten

A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.
Dir. Frank Capra · With Glenn Ford, Bette Davis, Hope Lange

In 1900, a clan attempts to strike a deal with a Chicago industrialist to get him to build cotton mills in their Deep South town.
Dir. William Wyler · With Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright

As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board and every elegant passenger becomes a prime suspect.
Dir. John Guillermin · With Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin, Lois Chiles

After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.
Dir. William Wyler · With Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson

A family moves into a large old mansion in the countryside which seems to have a mysterious and sinister power over its new residents.
Dir. Dan Curtis · With Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Burgess Meredith

With exclusive access to his extraordinary unseen and unheard personal archive including hundreds of hours of audio recorded over the course of his life, this is the definitive Marlon Brando cinema documentary. Charting his exceptional career as an actor and his extraordinary life away from the stage and screen with Brando himself as your guide, the film will fully explore the complexities of the man by telling the story uniquely from Marlon's perspective, entirely in his own voice. No talking heads, no interviewees, just Brando on Brando and life.
Dir. Stevan Riley · With Marlon Brando, Stella Adler, Bette Davis

Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.
Dir. Archie Mayo · With Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart

In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.
Dir. William Wyler · With Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent
Nanny, a London family's live-in maid, brings morbid 10-year-old Joey back from the psychiatric ward he's been in for two years, since the death of his younger sister. Joey refuses to eat any food Nanny's prepared or take a bath with her in the room. He also demands to sleep in a room with a lock. Joey's parents -- workaholic Bill and neurotic Virgie -- are sure Joey is disturbed, but he may have good reason to be terrified of Nanny.
Dir. Seth Holt · With Bette Davis, Wendy Craig, Jill Bennett

The working class twin sister of a callous wealthy woman impulsively murders her out of revenge and assumes the identity of the dead woman. But impersonating her dead twin is more complicated and risky than she anticipated.
Dir. Paul Henreid · With Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford

Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love with her. Told she has a brain tumor by her doctor, Frederick Steele, Judith becomes distraught. After she decides to have surgery to remove the tumor, Judith realizes she is in love with Dr. Steele, but more troubling medical news may sabotage her new relationship, and her second chance at life.
Dir. Edmund Goulding · With Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart

A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both.
Dir. John Cromwell · With Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Frances Dee
After an American family moves to an old country manor in rural England, one of the daughters is tormented by the spirit of the owner's long lost daughter, who mysteriously disappeared 30 years ago during a solar eclipse.
Dir. John Hough, Vincent McEveety · With Bette Davis, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Kyle Richards
Tony and Tia are other-worldly twins endowed with telekinesis. When their Uncle Bene drops them off in Los Angeles for an earthbound vacation, a display of their supernatural skill catches the eye of the nefarious Dr. Gannon and his partner in crime, Letha, who see rich possibilities in harnessing the children's gifts. They kidnap Tony, and Tia gives chase only to find Gannon is using her brother's powers against her.
Dir. John Hough · With Bette Davis, Christopher Lee, Kim Richards
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