Search results for "Orson Welles"
Journey into Fear

Journey into Fear

Journey into Fear
IMDb: 6.5
68

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…

Genre: Thriller, War
Jim Henson Idea Man

Jim Henson Idea Man

Jim Henson Idea Man
IMDb: 8.2
108

Featuring unprecedented access to Jim Henson’s personal archives, filmmaker Ron Howard brings us a fascinating and insightful look at a complex man whose boundless imagination inspired the world.

Genre: Documentary
Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend

Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend

Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend
IMDb: 7
78

The portrait of the last cowboy Hollywood legend dives into the 65 years of an extraordinary career in Hollywood, highlighted iconic films like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,…

Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues

Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues

Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues
IMDb: 7.4
104

An intimate and revealing look at the world-changing musician, presented through a lens of archival footage and never-before-heard home recordings and personal conversations. This definitive documentary honors Armstrong’s legacy as…

Genre: Documentary
It Happened One Christmas

It Happened One Christmas

It Happened One Christmas
IMDb: 6
109

It’s Christmas Eve 1944 in the small town of Bedford Falls, New York. A despondent and suicidal Mary Bailey Hatch is praying for guidance on what to do about an…

Genre: Comedy, TV Movie
This Is Orson Welles

This Is Orson Welles

This Is Orson Welles
IMDb: 7
52

Misunderstood genius, superstar, Hollywood’s fallen angel… Orson Welles left his indelible mark on the 20th century.

Genre: Documentary
The New Deal for Artists

The New Deal for Artists

The New Deal for Artists
IMDb: 7.3
90

The Arts Project of the Work Projects Administration (1935-1942) was a USA government agency established to support writers, theater people, painters, sculptors, and photographers.

Genre: Documentary
Butterfly

Butterfly

Butterfly
IMDb: 4.7
107

Jess Tyler lives a quiet life next to an abandoned mining factory by himself in the desert. His life is turned upside down when a sexually provocative young woman comes…

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Biggest Battle

The Biggest Battle

The Biggest Battle
IMDb: 4.7
102

A story of how World War II affected the lives of a German family and an American family, both of whom had sons and fathers fighting in the war.

Genre: Drama, War
Marco the Magnificent

Marco the Magnificent

Marco the Magnificent
IMDb: 5.3
112

Young Marco Polo travels to China to help Kublai Khan fight against rebels, headed by his own son, with a new invention: gunpowder.

Genre: Adventure
The Spanish Earth

The Spanish Earth

The Spanish Earth
IMDb: 6.5
53

A propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War in support of the Republican government against the rebellion by Gen. Francisco Franco’s forces who were backed by Nazi Germany and…

Genre: Documentary
The Finest Hours

The Finest Hours

The Finest Hours
IMDb: 7.3
116

A biography of Winston Churchill, shown through re-creations and actual film footage and told by Orson Welles.

Genre: Documentary, War
The Blinding of Isaac Woodard

The Blinding of Isaac Woodard

The Blinding of Isaac Woodard
IMDb: 7.9
112

In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in WWII, was pulled from a bus for arguing with the driver. The…

Genre: Documentary
Genocide

Genocide

Genocide
IMDb: 7.3
90

The mass murder of Jewish people by the Nazi regime is chronicled, with a warning that anti-Semitism is on the rise and the events of the Holocaust could happen again….

The Tartars

The Tartars

The Tartars
IMDb: 4.6
83

The Tartars and the Vikings maintain a fragile peace in the harsh landscape of the Russian Steppe. When the leader of the Vikings, Oleg, declines to accompany the Tartars on…

Ro.Go.Pa.G.

Ro.Go.Pa.G.

Ro.Go.Pa.G.
IMDb: 6.9
117

Four short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
A Woman Called Moses

A Woman Called Moses

A Woman Called Moses
TMDb: 7.4
120 min

A Woman Called Moses is a television miniseries based on the life of Harriet Tubman, the escaped African American slave who helped to organize the Underground Railroad, and who led…

Status: Ended
Genre: Drama
House of Cards

House of Cards

House of Cards
IMDb: 5.9
105

In 1960s Paris, an American boxer stumbles upon an international fascist conspiracy that aims to create a new world order.

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Trent’s Last Case

Trent’s Last Case

Trent’s Last Case
IMDb: 6
90

When a wealthy business man is found dead reporter Philip Trent is sent to investigate. Against the police conclusions, he suspects the assumed suicide is really a murder, and becomes…

Genre: Mystery
Macbeth

Macbeth

Macbeth
IMDb: 7.5
107

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

Genre: Drama
It’s All True

It’s All True

It’s All True
IMDb: 7.1
89

A documentary about Orson Welles’s unfinished three-part film about South America.

Genre: Documentary
Someone to Love

Someone to Love

Someone to Love
IMDb: 5.9
111

A Hollywood film director assembles a group of friends and strangers for a social gathering on Valentines Day in a deserted movie theater where he interviews each one on their…

Genre: Comedy
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…

Man in the Shadow

Man in the Shadow

Man in the Shadow
IMDb: 6.8
80

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…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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
Necromancy

Necromancy

Necromancy
IMDb: 4.7
83

After Lori Brandon suffers a stillbirth, her husband Frank obtains a job with a toy company in northern California. Frank’s new boss, the mysterious Mr. Cato, explains that Frank’s position…

Genre: Horror
Treasure Island

Treasure Island

Treasure Island
IMDb: 5.9
94

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
Waterloo

Waterloo

Waterloo
IMDb: 7.3
128

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…

Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
A Man for All Seasons

A Man for All Seasons

A Man for All Seasons
IMDb: 7.7
120

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…

Genre: Drama, History
Casino Royale

Casino Royale

Casino Royale
IMDb: 5.1
131

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…

Compulsion

Compulsion

Compulsion
IMDb: 7.4
103

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.

Genre: Crime, 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
Tomorrow Is Forever

Tomorrow Is Forever

Tomorrow Is Forever
IMDb: 7.4
105

In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John’s son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John…

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
The Third Man

The Third Man

The Third Man
IMDb: 8.1
104

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…

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
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.

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre
IMDb: 7.5
97

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.

Genre: Drama, Romance