Joseph Cotten — Actor (59)
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The Hearse (1980) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Hearse
director: George Bowers actor: Trish Van Devere / Joseph Cotten …
other title: Incubo infernale / Der Leichenwagen …
A schoolteacher moves into her deceased aunt’s house in a small Californian town, and is harassed by unfriendly locals and a mysterious hearse.
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Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
Tora! Tora! Tora!
director: Toshio Masuda / Kinji Fukasaku … actor: Martin Balsam / Sō Yamamura …
other title: 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! Tora!", named after the code words used by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.
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Last In, First Out (1978) TMDB
L'Ordre et la sécurité du monde
director: Claude d'Anna actor: Bruno Cremer / Donald Pleasence …
other title: L'Ordre et la sécurité du monde
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.
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The Scopone Game (1972)
Lo scopone scientifico
director: Luigi Comencini actor: Alberto Sordi / Silvana Mangano …
other title: Lo scopone scientifico / Teuflisches Spiel …
An aging American millionairess journeys to Rome each year with her chauffeur George to play the card game scopone with destitute Peppino and his wife Antonia.
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Othello (1951) IMDb TMDB
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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Heaven's Gate (1980)
Heaven's Gate
director: Michael Cimino actor: Anna Thomson / Kris Kristofferson …
other title: I cancelli del cielo / As Portas do Céu …
Harvard graduate James Averill serves as the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyoming, standing at the center of a conflict between impoverished immigrants and affluent cattle farmers. Politically connected ranchers enlist mercenary Nathan Champion—who is also vying for the affections of local madam Ella Watson—to combat the immigrant uprising. As tensions escalate, both Averill and Champion start to question their decisions.
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Touch of Evil (1958)
Touch of Evil
director: Orson Welles actor: Charlton Heston / Janet Leigh …
other title: L'infernale Quinlan / Politiets blinde øje …
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.
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Under Capricorn (1949) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
Under Capricorn
director: Alfred Hitchcock actor: Ingrid Bergman / Joseph Cotten …
other title: Il peccato di Lady Considine / Sob o Signo de Capricórnio …
A British ex-convict in colonial Australia and his fragile wife, haunted by the past crime that binds them, struggle to rebuild their lives when a young newcomer stirs long-buried passions and secrets.
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F for Fake (1973)
Vérités et Mensonges
★ 7.7 (10 ratings) director: Orson Welles actor: Orson Welles / Oja Kodar …
other title: F come Falso / F wie Fälschung …
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.
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Airport '77 (1977)
Airport '77
director: Jerry Jameson actor: Jack Lemmon / Lee Grant …
other title: Aeroporto 77 / Airport '77 - Verschollen im Bermuda-Dreieck …
Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle after a hijacking gone wrong. Now the surviving passengers must brave panic, slow leaks, oxygen depletion, and more while attempting a daring plan, all while 200 feet underwater.
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Niagara (1953)
Niagara
director: Henry Hathaway actor: Marilyn Monroe / Joseph Cotten …
other title: Niágara
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 are honeymooning in the area. Polly begins to suspect that something is amiss between Rose and George, and her suspicions grow when she sees Rose in the arms of another man. While Ray initially thinks Polly is overreacting, things between George and Rose soon take a shockingly dark turn.
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Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Shadow of a Doubt
★ 8.0 (7 ratings) director: Alfred Hitchcock actor: Teresa Wright / Joseph Cotten …
other title: L'ombra del dubbio / I tvivlens skygge …
In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie arrives for a long visit. But as his behavior grows increasingly strange, she begins to suspect that her beloved uncle may be hiding a terrible secret—and that danger has quietly entered her home.
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Citizen Kane (1941)
Citizen Kane
★ 8.5 (24 ratings) director: Orson Welles actor: Orson Welles / Joseph Cotten …
other title: Quarto potere / Den Store Mand …
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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The Third Man (1949)
The Third Man
★ 8.3 (18 ratings) director: Carol Reed actor: Joseph Cotten / Alida Valli …
other title: Il terzo uomo / Den tredje mand …
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 has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.
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Soylent Green (1973)
Soylent Green
★ 6.9 (8 ratings) director: Richard Fleischer actor: Charlton Heston / Leigh Taylor-Young …
other title: 2022: I sopravvissuti / Fremtidens rædsel …
In the year 2022, overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Green.