Search results for "Orson Welles"
Macbeth

Macbeth

Macbeth
IMDb: 7.5
107

A Scottish warlord and his wife murder their way to a pair of crowns.

Genre: Drama
The Trial

The Trial

The Trial
IMDb: 7.8
118

An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Mr. Arkadin

Mr. Arkadin

Mr. Arkadin
IMDb: 7.2
99

Claiming that he doesn’t know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can’t remember anything before the…

Filming Othello

Filming Othello

Filming Othello
IMDb: 7.4
84

Filming Othello is a 1978 documentary film directed by and starring Orson Welles about the making of his award-winning 1952 production Othello. The film, which was produced for West German…

F for Fake

F for Fake

F for Fake
IMDb: 7.8
89

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…

Genre: Documentary
The Other Side of the Wind

The Other Side of the Wind

The Other Side of the Wind
IMDb: 6.8
122

Surrounded by fans and skeptics, grizzled director J.J. “Jake” Hannaford returns from years abroad in Europe to a changed Hollywood, where he attempts to make his innovative comeback film.

Genre: Drama
Touch of Evil

Touch of Evil

Touch of Evil
IMDb: 8
111

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…

Genre: Crime, Thriller
Othello

Othello

Othello
IMDb: 7.6
93

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
The Magnificent Ambersons

The Magnificent Ambersons

The Magnificent Ambersons
IMDb: 7.7
88

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

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Stranger

The Stranger

The Stranger
IMDb: 7.4
96

A man working for the War Crimes Commission suspects that an important Nazi official has folded himself into a quaint Connecticut town.

Too Much Johnson

Too Much Johnson

Too Much Johnson
IMDb: 5.8
66

This film was not intended to stand by itself, but was designed as the cinematic aspect of Welles’ Mercury Theatre stage presentation of William Gillette’s 1894 comedy about a New…

Genre: Comedy
The Immortal Story

The Immortal Story

The Immortal Story
IMDb: 7.1
63

An aged, wealthy trader plots with his servant to recreate a maritime tall tale, using a local woman and an unknown sailor as actors.

Genre: Drama
Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane
IMDb: 8.3
119

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…

Genre: Drama, Mystery
The Lady from Shanghai

The Lady from Shanghai

The Lady from Shanghai
IMDb: 7.6
87

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

Chimes at Midnight

Chimes at Midnight

Chimes at Midnight
IMDb: 7.8
115

The culmination of Orson Welles’s lifelong obsession with Shakespeare’s robustly funny and ultimately tragic antihero, Sir John Falstaff; the often soused friend of King Henry IV’s wayward son Prince Hal….

Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Three Cases of Murder

Three Cases of Murder

Three Cases of Murder
IMDb: 6.5
99

Three stories of murder and the supernatural: A museum worker is introduced to a world behind the pictures he sees every day. When two lifelong friends fall in love with…

Genre: Horror, Mystery