Joseph Cotten — Actor (59)
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City Beneath the Sea (1971) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
City Beneath the Sea
director: Irwin Allen actor: Stuart Whitman / Robert Wagner …
other title: La città degli acquanauti / Um 9 Uhr geht die Erde unter …
A group of 21st-century colonists inhabit an underwater city called Pacifica. Originally intended as a purely scientific installation, the U. S. government wants to stash all its gold reserves from Fort Knox there, along with a fantastic new radioactive element. The brother of Pacifica's returning former commander plans to steal the gold and on top of that, the city faces destruction by an asteroid from outer space!
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Jack of Diamonds (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Jack of Diamonds
director: Don Taylor actor: George Hamilton / Joseph Cotten …
other title: La gang dei diamanti / Der Diamantenprinz
The protégé of a famous cat burglar reluctantly agrees to join forces with a lesser criminal in the daring heist of several famous jewels from a seemingly impenetrable vault.
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From the Earth to the Moon (1958) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
From the Earth to the Moon
director: Byron Haskin actor: Joseph Cotten / George Sanders …
other title: Dalla Terra alla Luna / Von der Erde zum Mond …
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 power rockets, and to show its potential he plans to send a projectile to the moon. Joining him for the trip are his assistant Ben Sharpe, Barbicane's arch-rival Stuyvesant Nicholl, and Nicholl's daughter Virginia. Nicholl believes that Power X goes against the will of God and sabotages the projectile so that they cannot return to earth, setting up a suspenseful finale as they battle to repair the projectile.
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Gangster sterben zweimal (1968) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Gangsters '70
director: Mino Guerrini actor: Joseph Cotten / Franca Polesello …
other title: Gangsters '70
Ein Gangsterboss sitzt seine zehn Jahre im Knast ab. In dieser Zeit plant er den Supercoup, der ihn unvergesslich machen soll. Das Ziel seines Raubzugs ist ein Flugzeug, das Brillanten transportiert, gesichert von Spezialeinheiten der Polizei und einer Armee von Sicherheitskräften. Er stellt eine Truppe von "Experten" zusammen, die garantieren sollen, dass der Überfall reibungslos klappt. Doch er ist nicht der einzige, den die funkelnden Steine interessieren.
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Delusion (1981) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Delusion
director: Alan Beattie actor: Patricia Pearcy / Joseph Cotten …
other title: Wo der Schrecken wohnt
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 country mansion, Meredith quickly suspects that someone sinister is lurking in the manor's dark halls only to discover that Ivar's demented and violent son has been locked away in a hidden room. Shortly thereafter, Ivar's grandson Gabriel also moves into the house and with his arrival a mysterious killer soon begins murdering members of the Langrock family along with their live-in staff.
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The Last Sunset (1961) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Last Sunset
director: Robert Aldrich actor: Rock Hudson / Kirk Douglas …
other title: L'occhio caldo del cielo / O Último Pôr-Do-Sol …
At a Mexican ranch, fugitive O'Malley and pursuing Sheriff Stribling agree to help rancher Breckenridge drive his herd into Texas where Stribling could legally arrest O'Malley, but Breckenridge's wife complicates things.
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The Money Trap (1965) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Money Trap
director: Burt Kennedy actor: Glenn Ford / Elke Sommer …
other title: La trappola mortale / Goldfalle …
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 and keep it for themselves.
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Concorde Affair (1979) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Concorde Affaire '79
director: Ruggero Deodato actor: James Franciscus / Mimsy Farmer …
other title: Concorde Affaire '79 / Concorde 820 forsvinder …
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 them decommissioned.
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The Man with a Cloak (1951) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Man with a Cloak
director: Fletcher Markle actor: Joseph Cotten / Barbara Stanwyck …
other title: La casa del corvo / Der Mann in Schwarz …
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 badly crippled and slowly dying, but this doesn't stop the forthright lady from pushing him to change his will to include his estranged grandson so that he can help out the struggling French Republic. Unfortunately, the dying man's conniving housekeeper and butler, already planning murder to get the money themselves, overhear her and begin plotting her demise.
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The Oscar (1966) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Oscar
director: Russell Rouse actor: Stephen Boyd / Elke Sommer …
other title: Tramonto di un idolo / Confidências de Hollywood …
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 the way to the top remembers when he is nominated for an Oscar and he runs a dirty campaign in an attempt to win.
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Walk Softly, Stranger (1950) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Walk Softly, Stranger
director: Robert Stevenson actor: Joseph Cotten / Alida Valli …
other title: Ormai ti amo / Geh leise, Fremder …
Fugitive Chris Hale starts over in a small Midwestern town in Ohio, where he befriends Elaine Corelli, a kind-hearted heiress left disabled after a skiing accident. As love blossoms, Hale vows to change his ways, but escaping his past may mean one last job.
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A Blueprint for Murder (1953) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
A Blueprint for Murder
director: Andrew L. Stone actor: Joseph Cotten / Jean Peters …
other title: Assassinio premeditato / Meurtre prémédité …
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, Cameron's brother, died under mysterious circumstances, and now that the death of her stepchild, Polly, has been attributed to poisoning, he suspects that Lynn is after his late brother's estate, and killing everyone in her way.
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Island of the Fishmen (1979) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
L'isola degli uomini pesce
director: Sergio Martino actor: Barbara Bach / Claudio Cassinelli …
other title: L'isola degli uomini pesce / Insel der neuen Monster …
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 strange couple, who invite them to stay at their house. While the prisoners plan an escape, the doctor does some investigating, and soon finds out just what the pair are really doing, and why the prisoners keep disappearing mysteriously.
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White Comanche (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Comanche blanco
director: José Briz Méndez actor: Joseph Cotten / William Shatner …
other title: O Ódio É Minha Lei / Rio Hondo …
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 the Comanche messiah sent to lead the Comanche nation against the white man but more specifically the dusty desert town of Rio Hondo. Moon, estranged from his brother, decides to stop Notah either by words or by bullets.