Joan Fontaine — Actor (13)
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Rebecca (1940) [Movie] Douban TMDB NeoDB IMDb KevGa-NeoDB WikiData
Rebecca
8.3 (7 ratings) director: Alfred Hitchcock actor: Laurence Olivier / Joan Fontaine …
other title: Rebecca - La prima moglie / Rebeca
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.
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Suspicion (1941) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB
Suspicion
director: Alfred Hitchcock actor: Cary Grant / Joan Fontaine …
other title: Il sospetto / Suspeita …
Wealthy, sheltered Lina McLaidlaw is swept off her feet by charming ne'er-do-well Johnnie Aysgarth. Though warned that Johnnie is little more than a fortune hunter, Lina marries him anyway and remains loyal to her irresponsible husband as he plows his way from one disreputable business scheme to another. Gradually Lina comes to the conclusion that Johnnie intends to kill her in order to collect her inheritance.
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Othello (1951) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Othello
director: Orson Welles actor: Orson Welles / Micheál Mac Liammóir …
other title: Otello / Otelo - O Mouro de Veneza …
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.
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Jane Eyre (1943) [Movie] TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Jane Eyre
director: Robert Stevenson actor: Orson Welles / Joan Fontaine …
other title: La porta proibita / Die Waise von Lowood …
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
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The Bigamist (1953) [Movie] TMDB
The Bigamist
director: Ida Lupino actor: Joan Fontaine / Ida Lupino …
other title: La grande nebbia / Der Mann mit zwei Frauen …
San Francisco businessman Harry Graham and his wife and business partner, Eve, are in the process of adopting a child. When private investigator Mr. Jordan uncovers the fact that Graham has another wife, Phyllis, and a small child in Los Angeles, he confesses everything.
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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
director: Fritz Lang actor: Dana Andrews / Joan Fontaine …
other title: L'alibi era perfetto / Den hårdeste straf …
A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub dancer. Once Tom is found guilty, he is to reveal the setup and humiliate the DA.
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Songs for After a War (1976) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Canciones para después de una guerra
director: Basilio Martín Patino actor: Francisco Franco / Philippe Pétain …
other title: Canciones para después de una guerra
A particular reading of the hard years of famine, repression and censorship after the massacre of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), through popular culture: songs, newspapers and magazines, movies and newsreels.
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The Witches (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Witches
director: Cyril Frankel actor: Joan Fontaine / Kay Walsh …
other title: Creatura del diavolo / Der Teufel tanzt um Mitternacht …
Following a nervous breakdown, Gwen takes up the job of head teacher in the small village of Haddaby. There she can benefit from the tranquillity and peace, enabling her to recover fully. But under the facade of idyllic country life she slowly unearths the frightening reality of village life in which the inhabitants are followers of a menacing satanic cult with the power to inflict indiscriminate evil and death if crossed.
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Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands
director: Norman Foster actor: Joan Fontaine / Burt Lancaster …
other title: Per te ho ucciso / Kærlighedens magt …
Bill Saunders, a former prisoner of war living in England, whose experiences have left him unstable and violent, gets into a bar fight in which he kills a man and then flees. He hides out with the assistance of a nurse, Jane Wharton, who believes his story that the killing was an accident.
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Island in the Sun (1957) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Island in the Sun
director: Robert Rossen actor: James Mason / Joan Fontaine …
other title: L'isola nel sole / Heiße Erde …
A scandalous tale of politics, social inequality, interracial romance, and murder set on a fictitious British-owned Caribbean island.
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Gunga Din (1939) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Gunga Din
director: George Stevens actor: Cary Grant / Victor McLaglen …
other title: Aufstand in Sidi Hakim
British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they unearth evidence of the suppressed Thuggee cult. When Gunga Din tells the sergeants about a secret temple made of gold, the fortune-hunting Cutter is captured by the Thuggees, and it's up to his friends to rescue him.