Filming 'Othello'

1978

English

7.4

♡ 9

100%

Action

Documentary

movie business

Orson Welles Director

Suzanne Cloutier as Desdemona

Hilton Edwards as Himself / Brabantio

Orson Welles as Host / Othello

Robert Coote as Roderigo

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 television, was the last completed feature film directed by Welles.

Three Cases of Murder

1954

English

6.5

♡ 5

76%

Orson Welles Director

Arthur Wontner as Leader of the House

Wallace Bosco as Member of Parliament

Maurice Kaufmann as Pemberton

Eddie Byrne as Snyder

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 the same woman and she is killed, they are obvious suspects. Is their friendship strong enough for them to alibi each other? When a young politician is hurt by the arrogant Secretary for Foreign Affairs Lord Mountdrago, he uses Mountdrago's dreams to get revenge.

Black Magic

1949

English

6.4

♡ 3

67%

king louis xv of france

Mystery

power madness

Romance

Orson Welles Director

Leonardo Scavino as Gaston / Beniamino Balsamo

Frank Latimore as Gilbert de Rezel

Silvana Mangano as (uncredited)

Valentina Cortese as Zoraida

A hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.

It's All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles

1993

English

7.1

♡ 4

83%

70%

Documentary

Orson Welles Director

Miguel Ferrer as Narrator

Carmen Miranda as Self

Francisca Moreira da Silva as Self

Orson Welles as Self - Interview

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

The Trial

1962

English

7.6

♡ 21

84%

87%

Action

based on novel or book

Orson Welles Director

Anthony Perkins as Josef K.

Carl Studer as Man in Leather

Michael Lonsdale as Priest

Max Haufler as Uncle Max

The surreal tale of an unassuming man who is accused of a never-specified crime and shambles through bizarre encounters to escape this nightmare.

F for Fake

1973

French

7.7

♡ 18

88%

Orson Welles Director

Laurence Harvey as Himself

Don Ameche as Himself

Paul Stewart as Himself - Special Participant

Joseph Cotten as Himself - Special Participant

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 of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others.

Othello

1951

English

7.5

♡ 19

Action

based on play or musical

Drama

History

husband wife relationship

Orson Welles Director

Doris Dowling as Bianca

Joan Fontaine as Page

Robert Coote as Roderigo

Joseph Cotten as Senator

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, who has his own grudge against Othello, and the two conspire to bring Othello down. When their first plan, to have him accused of witchcraft, fails, they plant evidence intended to make him believe Desdemona is unfaithful.

Macbeth

1948

English

7.4

♡ 10

86%

Orson Welles Director

Edgar Barrier as Banquo

Lurene Tuttle as Gentlewoman / The Three

Keene Curtis as Lennox

Roddy McDowall as Malcolm

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

Confidential Report

1955

English

7.1

♡ 8

Orson Welles Director

Michael Redgrave as Burgomil Trebitsch

Robert Arden as Guy Van Stratten

Jack Watling as Marquis of Rutleigh

Eduard Linkers as Second Policeman - Munich

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 late 1920s, and convict Guy Van Stratten is happy to take the job of exploring his new acquaintance's life story. Guy's research turns up stunning details about his employer's past, and as his work seems linked to untimely deaths, the mystery surrounding Mr. Arkadin deepens.

The Stranger

1946

English

7.3

♡ 26

97%

Orson Welles Director

Edward G. Robinson as Mr. Wilson

Richard Long as Noah Longstreet

Ruth Lee as Undetermined Role

Lillian Molieri as Undetermined Role

An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi, who may be hiding out in a small town in the guise of a distinguished professor engaged to the Supreme Court Justice’s daughter.

The Magnificent Ambersons

1942

English

7.6

♡ 20

89%

Orson Welles Director

Joseph Cotten as Eugene Morgan

Agnes Moorehead as Fanny Minafer

Tim Holt as George Minafer

Dolores Costello as Isabel Amberson Minafer

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

The Lady from Shanghai

1947

English

7.5

♡ 39

san francisco, california

shanghai, china

Thriller

Orson Welles Director

Everett Sloane as Arthur Bannister

John Elliott as Court Clerk

Errol Flynn as Man in Background Outside of Cantina

Ted de Corsia as Sidney Broome

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

Journey Into Fear

1943

English

6.5

♡ 5

Orson Welles Director

Irene Tedrow as Greek Woman

Joseph Cotten as Howard Graham

Everett Sloane as Kopeikin

Agnes Moorehead as Mrs. Mathews

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 on board.

Chimes at Midnight

1965

English

7.6

♡ 9

96%

Orson Welles Director

Tony Beckley as Ned Poins

Patrick Bedford as Nym

Julio Peña as Vassall

Fernando Rey as Worcester

Henry IV usurps the English throne, sets in motion the factious War of the Roses and now faces a rebellion led by Northumberland scion Hotspur. Henry's heir, Prince Hal, is a ne'er-do-well carouser who drinks and causes mischief with his low-class friends, especially his rotund father figure, John Falstaff. To redeem his title, Hal may have to choose between allegiance to his real father and loyalty to his friend.

The Other Side of the Wind

2018

English

6.7

♡ 15

82%

Orson Welles Director

Peter Jason as Grover

Henry Jaglom as Himself

Susan Strasberg as Julie Rich

Cameron Mitchell as Zimmer

Surrounded by fans and sceptics, 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. This film was started in 1970 by Orson Welles but never completed during his lifetime.

The Immortal Story

1968

English

7.0

♡ 9

92%

Orson Welles Director

Fernando Rey as Merchant telling Clay's history

Orson Welles as Mr. Charles Clay

Norman Eshley as Paul, the sailor

Jeanne Moreau as Virginie Ducrot

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

Touch of Evil

1958

English

7.9

♡ 51

96%

Orson Welles Director

Keenan Wynn as Bartender

Joseph Cotten as Coroner

Joanna Moore as Marcia Linnekar

Valentin de Vargas as Pancho

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 Vargas begins to suspect that Quinlan and his shady partner, Menzies, are planting evidence to frame an innocent man, his investigations into their possible corruption quickly put himself and his new bride, Susie, in jeopardy.

Citizen Kane

1941

English

8.2

♡ 150

99%

Orson Welles Director

Agnes Moorehead as Mary Kane

Everett Sloane as Mr. Bernstein

Paul Stewart as Raymond

Arthur O'Connell as Reporter

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 he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

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Filming 'Othello'

Three Cases of Murder

Black Magic

It's All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles

The Trial

F for Fake

Othello

Macbeth

Confidential Report

The Stranger

The Magnificent Ambersons

The Lady from Shanghai

Journey Into Fear

Chimes at Midnight

The Other Side of the Wind

The Immortal Story

Touch of Evil

Citizen Kane