Joseph Cotten
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1905-05-15
Locus Natus: Petersburg, Virginia, USA
Et ut: Joseph Cheshire Cotten, Jr., Джозеф Коттен, Joseph Cheshire Cotten
Citizen Kane
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,...
release : 1941.04.17popularis : 38.943
The Magnificent Ambersons
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
release : 1942.07.10popularis : 10.439
The Third Man
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...
release : 1949.08.31popularis : 38.891
Touch of Evil
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...
release : 1958.03.30popularis : 23.471
Lady Frankenstein
When Dr. Frankenstein is killed by a monster he created, his daughter and his lab assistant continue his experiments.
release : 1971.10.22popularis : 7.792
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.
release : 1964.12.15popularis : 13.593
Under Capricorn
A native Briton banished to Australia for murder, and his wife, Henrietta, the disturbed sister of the man he was convicted on killing, set out to...
release : 1949.09.08popularis : 10.723
Heaven's Gate
Harvard graduate James Averill is the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyo., when a battle erupts between the area's poverty-stricken immigrants...
release : 1980.11.19popularis : 20.719
Seeing the World, Part One: A Visit to New York, N.Y.
A sightseeing portrait of New York, with lively narration taking the viewer aboard the New York elevated and subway trains. Then the view from the...
release : 1937.12.31popularis : 1.732
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
Welcome behind the closed doors of a Hollywood that only a select few will ever get to see -- a Hollywood of tragic lives and tragic deaths. Some of...
release : 1990.01.01popularis : 4.343
Tora! Tora! Tora!
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora!...
release : 1970.01.26popularis : 19.486
Baron Blood
A young man, Peter, returns to Austria in search of his heritage. There he visits the castle of an ancestor, a sadistic Baron who was cursed to a...
release : 1972.02.25popularis : 6.811
Journey into Fear
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...
release : 1943.01.07popularis : 7.334
I'll Be Seeing You
Mary Marshall, serving a six year term for accidental manslaughter, is given a Christmas furlough from prison to visit her closest relatives, her...
release : 1944.12.31popularis : 3.382
Shadow of a Doubt
Just when Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Newton, is feeling especially frustrated by the lack of excitement in her small town in California, she...
release : 1943.01.15popularis : 15.142
The Steel Trap
Joseph Cotten plays an assistant bank manager who steals $1,000,000 from the safe late on a Friday and then plans to flee to Brazil over the weekend.
release : 1952.11.12popularis : 4.376
A Blueprint for Murder
Whitney Cameron is in a quandary: he's attracted to his beautiful sister-in-law, Lynn, but also harbors serious suspicions about her. Her husband,...
release : 1953.07.24popularis : 5.763
Airport '77
Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle after a hijacking gone wrong. Now the surviving passengers must brave panic, slow leaks, oxygen...
release : 1977.03.11popularis : 12.759
Soylent Green
In the year 2022, overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The...
release : 1973.04.18popularis : 17.974
Duel in the Sun
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other...
release : 1946.12.31popularis : 11.28
Portrait of Jennie
A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.
release : 1948.12.25popularis : 9.727
The Halliday Brand
Sheriff Halliday doesn't approve of his children dating or marrying half-breeds and his blind hate threatens to alienate his whole family.
release : 1957.01.01popularis : 3.479
Island of the Fishmen
After their prison ship sinks in the Caribbean, a group of prisoners and a doctor wash ashore on a seemingly deserted island. They soon discover a...
release : 1979.01.18popularis : 8.201
The Killer Is Loose
A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam...
release : 1956.02.03popularis : 3.934
Gaslight
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
release : 1944.05.04popularis : 15.741
Guyana: Crime of the Century
This horrific dramatization of the Guyana tragedy traces the steps of Reverend Jim Jones, a highly charismatic, but profoundly paranoid clergyman,...
release : 1979.09.20popularis : 2.499
Syndicate Sadists
A biker's brother is killed while investigating the kidnapping of a young boy, the byproduct of a war between two crime families. The biker vows to...
release : 1975.08.16popularis : 2.379
Beyond the Forest
Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead....
release : 1949.10.21popularis : 3.888
Caravans
This epic adventure-drama based on James Michener's best-selling novel concerns a young American embassy official who is sent into the Middle-Eastern...
release : 1978.11.02popularis : 3.746
Since You Went Away
In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose patriarch has been called up to war, leaving behind...
release : 1944.06.30popularis : 4.588
F for Fake
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...
release : 1973.09.01popularis : 5.944
The Farmer's Daughter
After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.
release : 1947.03.26popularis : 3.942
The Money Trap
When half a million dollars disappears from a doctor office's safe, the cops assigned to the burglary case, Joe and Pete, decide to find the money...
release : 1965.09.07popularis : 3.349
From the Earth to the Moon
Set just after the American civil war, businessman and inventor Victor Barbicane invents a new source of power called Power X. He plans to use it to...
release : 1958.11.26popularis : 5.173
Hollywood and the Stars
NBC's pioneering documentary series, produced by the David L. Wolper Production Company, in association with United Artists Television. Each...
release : 1964.05.04popularis : 1.653
A Delicate Balance
In their finely appointed Connecticut home, Agnes and Tobias have grown used to the imperfection and fragility of their marriage. Quietly nursing...
release : 1973.11.12popularis : 7.309
The Last Sunset
Brendan O'Malley arrives at the Mexican home of old flame Belle Breckenridge to find her married to a drunkard getting ready for a cattle drive to...
release : 1961.06.08popularis : 8.835
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
After a team of surgeons botches his beloved wife's operation, the distraught Dr. Phibes unleashes a score of Old-Testament atrocities on his enemies.
release : 1971.05.18popularis : 24.959
The Grasshopper
A British Columbia teenager dreams of show business but winds up as a call girl in Las Vegas.
release : 1970.05.27popularis : 3.862
White Comanche
William Shatner plays two roles: cowboy Johnny Moon and his ruthless Indian twin brother, Notah. Notah likes peyote and gets the crazy idea that he's...
release : 1968.06.21popularis : 6.342
Latitude Zero
A massive underwater volcano erupts and puts a group of investigative scientists in danger. They are rescued by an atomic super submarine named The...
release : 1969.07.26popularis : 2.733
City Beneath the Sea
A group of 21st-century colonists inhabit an underwater city called Pacifica. Originally intended as a purely scientific installation, the U. S....
release : 1971.07.16popularis : 2.17
Niagara
Rose Loomis and her older, gloomier husband, George, are vacationing at a cabin in Niagara Falls, N.Y. The couple befriend Polly and Ray Cutler, who...
release : 1953.01.26popularis : 20.108
The Hearse
A schoolteacher moves into her deceased aunt’s house in a small Californian town, and is harassed by unfriendly locals and a mysterious hearse.
release : 1980.06.01popularis : 4.571
The Man with a Cloak
Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of Napoleon's former marshals. The alcoholic man is...
release : 1951.11.27popularis : 6.863
The Hellbenders
A Southern Colonel, his three sons, and a card shark embark on an odyssey through the Southwest carrying a coffin full of stolen money with which the...
release : 1967.02.02popularis : 6.521
September Affair
An industrialist and a pianist meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they are reported dead in a crash though they weren't on the...
release : 1950.10.18popularis : 4.558
Lydia
Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young...
release : 1941.09.18popularis : 3.946
The Oscar
An amoral lowlife accidentally stumbles into an acting career that sets him on a trajectory to Hollywood stardom. But everyone on whom he steps on...
release : 1966.03.04popularis : 2.985
The Scopone Game
An aging American millionairess journeys to Rome each year with her chauffeur George to play the card game scopone with destitute Peppino and his...
release : 1972.08.28popularis : 7.281
The Survivor
When a 747 crashes shortly after take-off, the sole survivor is the pilot. Virtually unhurt, he and the investigators look for the answers to the...
release : 1981.07.09popularis : 6.646
Twilight's Last Gleaming
A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3...
release : 1977.02.09popularis : 5.81
Casino
Mike Connors is a suave gambler who owns a floating hotel/casino which takes a turn when the passengers are stalked by a saboteur during the casino...
release : 1980.08.01popularis : 2.911
Walk Softly, Stranger
A petty crook moves to an Ohio town and courts a factory owner's disabled daughter.
release : 1950.10.14popularis : 2.714
Two Flags West
A group of confedarate prisoners is sent to a unionist fort in the west to help the local garrison to fight the indians.
release : 1950.10.12popularis : 4.669
The Perfect Crime
The death of a multinational company’s chairman induces the three candidates for the chairmanship to plot against one another for control of...
release : 1978.11.24popularis : 1.537
The Devil's Daughter
A young girl whose mother had sold her soul to Satan when she was born is told by Satan that she must marry a fellow demon.
release : 1973.01.09popularis : 4.613
Love Letters
When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. The man with no talent for writing...
release : 1945.10.26popularis : 6.634
Assault on the Wayne
The U.S. submarine Anthony Wayne is underway for a top-secret mission. Onboard is a highly classified device that will give the Americans a decided...
release : 1971.01.12popularis : 6.424
The Bottom of the Bottle
An alcoholic escaped convict asks his Arizona lawyer brother to help him cross the Mexican border.
release : 1956.02.01popularis : 3.053
Jack of Diamonds
The protégé of a famous cat burglar reluctantly agrees to join forces with a lesser criminal in the daring heist of several famous...
release : 1967.11.10popularis : 12.398
Half Angel
Nurse Nora Gilpin plans are to marry building contractor Tim McCarey and settle down. But one night a sleepwalking Nora slips into a provocative...
release : 1951.05.05popularis : 2.747
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Documentary with a treasure trove of rare footage and vintage trailers, offering a rich and unusual look at the history of Frankenstein on the screen.
release : 1991.01.01popularis : 2.156
The Screaming Woman
A wealthy former mental patient goes home to her estate to rest and recuperate. While walking the grounds one day she hears the screams of a woman...
release : 1972.01.29popularis : 3.584
The Tramplers
After the war of secession, the aging Cordeen, who owns thousands of acres in Texas, rules his numerous and quarrelsome sons with an iron hand. He...
release : 1965.12.31popularis : 3.854
Gangsters '70
An elderly gangster just released from prison plans one last job, and gathers a small crew to do the job, but the plan goes sour when one of the crew...
release : 1968.04.29popularis : 6.045
A Whisper in the Dark
Martino is a young child who claims to have an invisible friend called Luca. His parents assume it is just a game, but strange things start to happen.
release : 1976.08.12popularis : 1.101
The Angel Wore Red
A clergyman travels to Spain to join the Loyalist side during the Spanish Civil War and finds himself attracted to a beautiful entertainer.
release : 1960.04.14popularis : 1.998
Peking Express
A group of refugees fleeing Chinese Communist rule via train are beset by a gang of terrifying outlaws.
release : 1951.08.01popularis : 1.651
Too Much Johnson
This film was not intended to stand by itself, but was designed as the cinematic aspect of Welles' Mercury Theatre stage presentation of William...
release : 2013.10.09popularis : 3.386
Untamed Frontier
The Denbow family denies access across their land to homesteaders. To evade a murder charge, Glenn Denbow marries Jane, the only witness who's in...
release : 1952.07.23popularis : 9.822
Hers to Hold
Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" films of the 1930s. Durbin plays Penelope Craig, the...
release : 1943.07.16popularis : 1.693
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
Fact-based story of the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh Jr., son and namesake of the famed pilot, and ensuing trial of accused and convicted killer,...
release : 1976.02.26popularis : 3.702
Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film
A short documentary about the Making Of Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt" (1943).
release : 2000.01.03popularis : 2.873
Hollywood: The Selznick Years
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in...
release : 1961.12.31popularis : 3.001
Our American Heritage
Public service featurette shown in connection with the 1947-1949 biannual nation-wide tour of the Foundation Freedom Train, a government-endorsed...
release : 1947.08.01popularis : 0.568
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
As his life comes to its end, famous Hollywood director Orson Welles puts it all on the line at the chance for renewed success with the film The...
release : 2018.08.31popularis : 4.567
Last In, First Out
A woman on a train becomes the center of attention when she is mistaken for a spy by opposing factions who are traveling on the same line.
release : 1978.08.30popularis : 1.523
Alexander The Great
An historical film that follows the life of Alexander the Great, the Macedonian king that united all ancient Greek tribes and led them against the...
release : 1968.01.26popularis : 2.453
Petulia
An unhappily married socialite finds solace in the company of a recently divorced doctor.
release : 1968.06.10popularis : 5.414
Return to Fantasy Island
A second feature-length pilot film for the wish-fulfillment series sees six lucky people having their dreams fulfilled on the luxury resort island....
release : 1978.01.20popularis : 1.445
Special Delivery
Complications ensue when a U.S. diplomat discovers that he has a baby on his hands and an undercover gal in his arms.
release : 1955.04.07popularis : 3.922
Delusion
Meredith Stone, a home care nurse, has been assigned the duty of looking after a wealthy invalid named Ivar Langrock. Cooped up in Langrock's stately...
release : 1981.01.23popularis : 2.159
Do You Take This Stranger?
A social climber/con artist schemes to inherit one million dollars by trading identities with a dying man.
release : 1971.01.17popularis : 1.508
Timber Tramps
A tough, hard-drinking Alaska logging foreman likes fighting only slightly less than working.
release : 1975.12.31popularis : 2.534
Journey to Murder
Television movie that consists of two episodes from the UK TV series Journey to the Unknown (1968): Do Me a Favor and Kill Me (1968) and The Killing...
release : 1971.01.01popularis : 4.361
Some May Live
During the Vietnam War U.S. decoder Kate Meredith is plagued with guilt when her husband coerces her to pass information to him and the Viet Cong.
release : 1967.01.01popularis : 0.72
The Great Sioux Massacre
Colonel Custer (Philip Carey), an outspoken believer in fair treatment for the Indians, is ousted from his post and forced into retirement. Fueled by...
release : 1965.04.25popularis : 4.051
Othello
When a secret marriage is planned between Othello, a Moorish general, and Desdemona, the daughter of Senator Brabantio, her old suitor Roderigo takes...
release : 1951.11.28popularis : 13.567
Concorde Affair
A reporter tries to stop the crash of an aircraft after uncovering an airline's plot to save their business by sabotaging Concorde flights and have...
release : 1979.03.23popularis : 4.197
Brighty of the Grand Canyon
At the turn of the century in the Southwest, Brighty the wild burro accompanies his friend, a prospector named Old Timer, on a hunt for gold. A claim...
release : 1966.11.24popularis : 1.931
Doomsday Voyage
A political extremist on the run after assassinating a corrupt politician, poses as a French sailor in hopes of fleeing the country.
release : 1972.02.01popularis : 1.502
Churchill and the Generals
The complicated relationship between Winston Churchill and the leaders of the British army during World War II.
release : 1979.09.23popularis : 2.428
The Edge of Innocence
An unscrupulous criminal lawyer falls in love with a wealthy widow and becomes involved with her brother's disappearance and murder.
release : 1957.10.31popularis : 1.984
Egypt by Three
Three tales of life on the Nile River reveal love and vengeance, religion and deception. Each atmospheric vignette offers an eye-opening take on the...
release : 1953.03.31popularis : 2.384
The Lonely Profession
Private investigator Leo Gordon is hired to trail Karen Mendaros, the mistress of a reclusive billionaire. When they meet, Gordon and Mendaros hit it...
release : 1969.10.21popularis : 1.84
Split Second to an Epitaph
In the second "Ironside" movie, the Chief has his spine jolted during a hospital encounter with a narcotics pusher, not only raising the possibility...
release : 1968.09.26popularis : 1.995
Cutter's Trail
The Marshal of Santa Fe returns home to find his town almost wiped out by Mexican bandits and enlists the help of a young Mexican boy and his mother...
release : 1970.02.10popularis : 0.994
Mysteries of the Gods
William Shatner explores the theory that the U.S. government is involved in a cover-up of visiting alien spacecraft. Based on a book by Erich von...
release : 1976.03.17popularis : 1.621
Police Dog
Narrated by Joseph Cotten, this two-part film shows how police dogs are trained and how they help police officers in many ways from cornering...
release : 1973.01.01popularis : 0.312