The Black Rose (1950)
Adventure | History | Romance | War
A disinherited 13th Century Saxon nobleman leaves Norman England with an archer friend to seek his fortune in the Far East.
Starring: Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Cécile Aubry, Jack Hawkins, Michael Rennie, Finlay Currie
Director: Henry Hathaway
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
The Other Side of the Wind (2018)
Comedy | Drama
A Hollywood director emerges from semi-exile with plans to complete work on an innovative motion picture.
Starring: John Huston, Robert Random, Peter Bogdanovich, Susan Strasberg, Oja Kodar, Bob Random, Mercedes McCambridge
Director: Orson Welles
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (2018)
Documentary
In the final fifteen years of the life of legendary director Orson Welles he pins his Hollywood comeback hopes on a film, The Other Side of the Wind ,in itself a film about an aging film director trying to finish his last great movie.
Starring: Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich, Frank Marshall, Oja Kodar, Beatrice Welles, Joseph McBride, Steve Ecclesine
Director: Morgan Neville
The Immortal Story / Une histoire immortelle / Histoire immortelle (1968)
Drama
A sailor bets he can seduce a wealthy man's wife, not knowing the man has hired a woman to play the role.
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Orson Welles, Roger Coggio, Norman Eshley
Director: Orson Welles
Waterloo (1970)
Action | Drama | History | War
The allies enter Paris and Napoleon (in Fontainbleau) is obliged to abdicate. After heartfelt farewells to his army he is led off to exile on Elba. But after only a few months he manages to elude his captors and return to power at the Tuileries. France once again has to prepare itself to confront the allied armies. And it is Waterloo which is finally chosen as the site of the final battle.
Starring: Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles, Jack Hawkins, Virginia McKenna, Dan O'Herlihy
Director: Sergey Bondarchuk
The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller
Orson Welles directs, produces, writes and stars in this maritime film noir. When unemployed Irishman Michael O'Hara (Welles) saves Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth) from some thugs, she obtains him a position on her invalid lawyer husband Arthur's (Everett Sloane) yacht, as a deckhand. It soon becomes clear that Elsa now has designs on O'Hara, and also wants her husband out of the way. O'Hara, although resisting Elsa's advances, finds himself becoming embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder. The famous hall of mirrors sequence is considered to be one of the greatest scenes in film history.
Starring: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders, Ted de Corsia, Erskine Sanford
Director: Orson Welles
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
Tepepa / Long Live the Revolution (1969)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Western
The Mexican guerilla leader Tepepa and his gang fight against the chief of police, Cascorro.
Starring: Tomas Milian, Orson Welles, John Steiner
Director: Giulio Petroni
Jane Eyre (1943)
Drama | Romance
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.
Starring: Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O'Brien, John Sutton, Peggy Ann Garner, Sara Allgood
Director: Robert Stevenson
Macbeth (1948)
Drama | History | War
In fog-dripping, barren and sometimes macabre settings, 11th-century Scottish nobleman Macbeth is led by an evil prophecy and his ruthless yet desirable wife to the treasonous act that makes him king.
Starring: Orson Welles, Jeanette Nolan, Dan O'Herlihy, Roddy McDowall, Alan Napier, Edgar Barrier
Director: Orson Welles
The V.I.P.s / International Hotel (1963)
Drama
Awaiting at London Airport for a flight to New York, Frances Andros, seen off by her tycoon husband, Paul Andros, plans to leave her spouse for the arms of an aging international playboy, Marc Champselle. Les Mangrum, a self-made Australian businessman traveling with his loyal secretary, Miss Mead, must be in New York the following day to arrange the loan that will help him repel a hostile takeover of his tractor company. Max Buba, a film mogul traveling with starlet Gloria Gritti, must get out of England immediately or face ruinous British income tax. The Duchess of Brighton has taken a job as a hostess at an American holiday resort, thinking she will be able to keep her family estate on her new income. Fog descends and blurs the future for them all, forced now to wait in the airport hotel for morning and fair weather.
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Louis Jourdan, Elsa Martinelli, Margaret Rutherford, Maggie Smith, Rod Taylor, Orson Welles
Director: Anthony Asquith
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
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
Biography | Drama
The story takes place in 16th century England. But men like Sir Thomas More, who love life yet have the moral fiber to lay down their lives for their principles, are found in every century. Concentrating on the last seven years of English chancellor's life, the struggle between More and his King, Henry VIII, hinges on Henry's determination to break with Rome so he can divorce his current wife and wed again, and good Catholic More's inability to go along with such heresy. More resigns as chancellor, hoping to be able to live out his life as a private citizen. But Henry will settle for nothing less than that the much respected More give public approval to his headstrong course.
Starring: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Robert Shaw, Leo McKern, Orson Welles, Susannah York, Nigel Davenport
Director: Fred Zinnemann
The Trial / Le procès (1962)
Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
Brilliantly capturing the opressive paranoia of Franz Kafka's classic novel, Orson Welles' THE TRIAL is the story of the young clerk, Josef K., who is arrested. All without ever knowing his crime. Welles filmed this baroque work of genius in a deserted belle epoque railway station in Paris. The strange setting perfectly captured the bizarre and nightmarish world of Kafka's mythical totalitarian state.
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider, Akim Tamiroff, Elsa Martinelli
Director: Orson Welles
The Long, Hot Summer (1958)
Drama
Accused barn burner and con man Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.
Starring: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Orson Welles, Lee Remick, Angela Lansbury
Director: Martin Ritt
Touch of Evil (1958)
Crime | Film-Noir | Thriller
After a murder is committed in a small town right on the US-Mexico border a rogue cop from the US tries to frame his Mexican counterpart for it.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Dennis Weaver, Orson Welles, Zsa Zsa Gabor
Director: Orson Welles
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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
Casino Royale (1966)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Thriller
In a chaotic send-up of the Bond franchise, Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH and Le Chiffre, Bond decides to name every agent "James Bond". One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble, is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but all the Bonds get more than they can handle, especially when the ultimate villain turns out to related to Sir James. Ursula Andress costars as Vesper, who has her own agenda, but who knows what it is? (Certainly none of the directors or screenwriters!)
Starring: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles, Woody Allen, Deborah Kerr
Director: Val Guest, Joseph McGrath, John Huston
