Joseph Cotten

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

Dir. Orson Welles · With Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore

In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.

Dir. Carol Reed · With Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard

In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie arrives for a long visit. But as his behavior grows increasingly strange, she begins to suspect that her beloved uncle may be hiding a terrible secret—and that danger has quietly entered her home.

Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey

A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.

Dir. George Cukor · With Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten

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

After a team of surgeons botches his beloved wife's operation, the distraught Dr. Phibes unleashes a score of Old-Testament atrocities on his enemies.

Dir. Robert Fuest · With Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten, Hugh Griffith

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

In the year 2022, overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Green.

Dir. Richard Fleischer · With Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors

The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

Dir. Orson Welles · With Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words used by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.

Dir. Toshio Masuda, Kinji Fukasaku, Richard Fleischer · With Martin Balsam, So Yamamura, Jason Robards

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 of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others.

Dir. Orson Welles, François Reichenbach · With Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, Elmyr de Hory

A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.

Dir. William Dieterle · With Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore

A young man, Peter, returns to Austria in search of his heritage. There he visits the castle of an ancestor, a sadistic Baron who was cursed to a violent death by a witch whom the Baron had burned at the stake. Peter reads aloud the incantation that causes Baron Blood to return and continue his murderous tortures.

Dir. Mario Bava · With Joseph Cotten, Elke Sommer, Massimo Girotti

Rose Loomis and her older, gloomier husband, George, are vacationing at a cabin in Niagara Falls. The couple befriend Polly and Ray Cutler, who are honeymooning in the area. Polly begins to suspect that something is amiss between Rose and George, and her suspicions grow when she sees Rose in the arms of another man. While Ray initially thinks Polly is overreacting, things between George and Rose soon take a shockingly dark turn.

Dir. Henry Hathaway · With Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters

Harvard graduate James Averill serves as the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyoming, standing at the center of a conflict between impoverished immigrants and affluent cattle farmers. Politically connected ranchers enlist mercenary Nathan Champion—who is also vying for the affections of local madam Ella Watson—to combat the immigrant uprising. As tensions escalate, both Averill and Champion start to question their decisions.

Dir. Michael Cimino · With Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt

An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by Nazi agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board.

Dir. Norman Foster · With Joseph Cotten, Dolores del Río, Ruth Warrick

Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.

Dir. King Vidor · With Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck

Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle after a hijacking gone wrong. Now the surviving passengers must brave panic, slow leaks, oxygen depletion, and more while attempting a daring plan, all while 200 feet underwater.

Dir. Jerry Jameson · With Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Brenda Vaccaro

A British ex-convict in colonial Australia and his fragile wife, haunted by the past crime that binds them, struggle to rebuild their lives when a young newcomer stirs long-buried passions and secrets.

Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding