Now, Voyager (1942)
Drama | Romance
A frumpy spinster blossoms under therapy and becomes an elegant, independent woman.
Starring: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Gladys Cooper, Ilka Chase, Bonita Granville
Director: Irving Rapper
The Whales of August (1987)
Drama
Two elderly sisters spend a traditional August at their seaside home in Maine, for perhaps the last time. Their attitudes and outlook on life and death, both old and new, continually effect their relationship with each other, and with their distinguished and not so distinguished neighbors.
Starring: Bette Davis, Lillian Gish, Vincent Price, Ann Sothern, Harry Carey Jr., Frank Grimes
Director: Lindsay Anderson
Return from Witch Mountain (1978)
Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
The entire city of Los Angeles teeters on the brink of nuclear disaster when the greedy criminals manipulate a young boy's supernatural powers for their own devious gain.
Starring: Bette Davis, Christopher Lee, Kim Richards, Ike Eisenmann, Jack Soo, Anthony James
Director: John Hough
Mr. Skeffington (1944)
Drama | Romance
Whose face – ravaged, grotesque – is in the mirror? Surely it's not that of Fanny Skeffiington, the prettiest woman in New York. Fanny always used her beauty to manipulate her way through life. She's encouraged dozens of suitors, even after her marriage. But now diphtheria has robber her of her only attribute. And without her looks, she's lost.
Starring: Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel, Richard Waring, George Coulouris, Marjorie Riordan
Director: Vincent Sherman
The Great Lie / Far Horizon (1941)
Drama
Believing her husband to be dead, a flyer's wife bargains with his former love to adopt the woman's baby.
Starring: Bette Davis, George Brent, Mary Astor, Lucile Watson, Hattie McDaniel, Jerome Cowan
Director: Edmund Goulding
Death on the Nile / Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile (1978)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot has a set of murder suspects on a boat in the Nile after a rich heiress is killed. Can he find the culprit before they reach port?
Starring: Peter Ustinov, David Niven, Bette Davis, Simon MacCorkindale, Lois Chiles, Mia Farrow
Director: John Guillermin
All About Eve (1950)
Drama
In one of her "sharpest, truest, most sophisticated and titillating performances" (Los Angeles Examiner), screen legend Bette Davis plays stage legend Margo Channing. But as Margo's star is dimming, Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter), a young, ambitious ingenue, becomes her all-too-willing protege. Slowly, this dreamy-eyed kid spins a deceptively cunning web around Channing's inner-circle, including Margo's director boyfriend Bill Simpson (Gary Merrill), playwright Lloyd Richards (Hugh Marlowe) and his wife Karen (Celeste Holm) until she reaches her end goal – Margo's spotlight on Broadway!
Starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
The Petrified Forest (1936)
Crime | Drama
A waitress, a hobo and a bank robber get mixed up at a lonely diner in the desert.
Starring: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Genevieve Tobin, Dick Foran, Joe Sawyer
Director: Archie Mayo
Jezebel (1938)
Drama | Romance
Set in antebellum New Orleans during the early 1850's, this film follows Julie Marsden through her quest for social redemption on her own terms. Julie is a beautiful and free spirited, rapacious Southern belle who is sure of herself and controlling of her fiancé Preston Dillard, a successful young banker. Julie's sensitive but domineering personality–she does not want so much to hurt as to assert her independence–forces a wedge between Preston and herself. To win him back, she plays North against South amid a deadly epidemic of yellow fever which claims a surprising victim.
Starring: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Crisp
Director: William Wyler
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
Dark Victory (1939)
Drama | Romance
A young socialite is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour, and must decide whether she'll meet her final days with dignity.
Starring: Bette Davis, George Brent, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Humphrey Bogart, Henry Travers, Ronald Reagan
Director: Edmund Goulding
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Drama | Thriller
Jane Hudson found fame as child star 'Baby Jane', only to be eclipsed by her sister Blanche when the latter became a Hollywood glamour girl in the 1930s. Blanche's career was brought to an abrupt end by an accident for which Jane was seemingly responsible. Now the two ageing sisters live together in their Hollywood mansion. When Jane discovers that Blanche is planning to sell their home and have her put away, she begins a campaign of terror against her wheelchair-bound sibling.
Starring: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono, Anna Lee, Maidie Norman, Marjorie Bennett
Director: Robert Aldrich
