Gaslight (1944)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller
Years after her aunt was murdered in her home, a young woman moves back into the house with her new husband. However, he has a secret that he will do anything to protect, even if it means driving his wife insane.
Starring: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Dame May Whitty, Angela Lansbury, Barbara Everest
Director: George Cukor
A Delicate Balance (1973)
Drama
A well-to-do Connecticut family is upended when the grown daughter's godparents, seized by a nameless terror, decide to come live with them.
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Paul Scofield, Lee Remick, Kate Reid, Joseph Cotten, Betsy Blair
Director: Tony Richardson
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Drama | Romance
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
Starring: Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins
Director: Orson Welles
L'isola degli uomini pesce / The Fish Men / Screamers (1979)
Action | Horror
Aquatic creatures threaten the existence of a mysterious island.
Starring: Barbara Bach, Richard Johnson, Joseph Cotten, Mel Ferrer, Claudio Cassinelli, Beryl Cunningham
Director: Sergio Martino
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
Comedy | Horror
Doctors are being murdered in a bizarre manner: bats, bees, killer frog masks, etc., which represent the nine Biblical plagues. The crimes are orchestrated by a demented organ player with the help of his mute assistant. The detective is stumped until he finds that all of the doctors being killed assisted a Dr. Vesalius on an unsuccessful operation involving the wife of Dr. Phibes, but he couldn't be the culprit, could he? He was killed in a car crash upon learning of his wife's death…
Starring: Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten, Hugh Griffith, Terry-Thomas, Virginia North, Peter Jeffrey
Director: Robert Fuest
F for Fake / Vérités et mensonges (1973)
Comedy | Documentary
A documentary about fraud and fakery.
Starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Richard Wilson, Paul Stewart, Gary Graver, Peter Bogdanovich
Director: Orson Welles
Niagara (1953)
Film-Noir | Thriller
Marilyn Monroe and Joseph Cotten are an ill-suited couple staying in the cottage next to happy newlyweds Casey Adams and Jean Peters near Niagara Falls. While sightseeing, the newlyweds see Monroe kissing her young lover (Richard Allen) and hear them plot to kill her husband, making it look like suicide. When the latter goes missing, Monroe is asked to identify a body and discovers it's her lover. Her husband's vengeance threatens them all.
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Max Showalter, Denis O'Dea, Jean Peters, Don Wilson
Narrator: Joseph Cotten
Director: Henry Hathaway
The Third Man (1949)
Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lime–and thus begins this legendary tale of love, deception, and murder. Thanks to brilliant performances by Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, and Orson Welles; Anton Karas's evocative zither score; Graham Greene's razor-sharp dialogue; and Robert Krasker's dramatic use of light and shadow, The Third Man, directed by the inimitable Carol Reed, only grows in stature as the years pass.
Starring: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Paul Hoerbiger
Director: Carol Reed
Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
Drama | Horror | Thriller
Charlotte Hollis, an aging recluse deluded into a state of dementia by horrible memories and hallucinations, lives in a secluded house where, thirty-seven years before, John Mayhew her married lover, was beheaded and mutilated by an unknown assailant.
Starring: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Cecil Kellaway
Director: Robert Aldrich
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Thriller
A young girl fears her favorite uncle may be a killer.
Starring: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Henry Travers, Patricia Collinge, Macdonald Carey, Wallace Ford
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Citizen Kane (1941)
Drama | Mystery
A psychological study of Charles Foster Kane, a powerful newspaper tycoon whose idealism was corrupted as he rose to enourmous wealth and power. The story unfolds as a mystery: when Mr. Kane dies uttering cryptic last words, a magazine reporter interviews the tycoon's friends in an effort to uncover the significance of the word "Rosebud."
Starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Ruth Warrick, Dorothy Comingore
Director: Orson Welles
