Orson Welles Movies

A story of how World War II affected the lives of a German family and an American family, both of whom had sons and fathers fighting in the war.

A family setting out for a new life across the sea is shipwrecked on a deserted island. The family members collaborate to create a home for...

It's Christmas Eve 1944 in the small town of Bedford Falls, New York. A despondent and suicidal Mary Bailey Hatch is praying for guidance on what to...

A Roman noble, Cethegus, tries to start a war, setting the Ostrogoths and their Queen, Amalasuntha, against the Byzantine Emperor Justinian; Cethegus...

The famed dancer encounters various characters in a busy day at work on a movie studio lot.

George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning...

Series of rushes about cripples appearing in a Bible epic who are cured by a starlet playing Saint Anne.

At the end of the 50s, after assassinating the legendary capo Goncalves and dividing their domains, Ventura and Otálora, rival and old...

An unsold 1979 television talk-show pilot hosted by Orson Welles, blending interviews, audience interaction, staged segments, and magic performances,...

Hollywood celebrities assist magicians in a program of magic and illusion.

A parable about a family of cows which poses the problem of resistance to truth, the risks of individuality versus the pressure to conform, and the...

The headquarters of the Marshal Tito's Liberation Army are surrounded by Axis forces. The Partisans have no choice but to fight their way out of the...

An atmospheric British anthology film presenting three tales of murder and the supernatural. In “In the Picture,” a museum attendant is...

A celebration of 50 years of NBC broadcasting in radio and television, since first going on the airwaves on 15 November 1926.

An unfinished feature film directed by Orson Welles and based on Charles Williams’s Dead Calm (1963), filmed between 1966 and 1969 off the...

Comedy adventure based on a Jules Verne novel about the ups and downs of jewel thieves in the wilds of Africa circa 1900. George Segal is the...

A posthumous 1992 reconstruction of Orson Welles’s long-unfinished Don Quixote project, edited by Jesús Franco from footage shot between...

A film documenting the exorbitant 2,500-year celebration of the Persian Empire, held in October 1971, organized by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and...

A young sailor finds himself trapped in the labyrinthine mansion of his occultist uncle, along with a number of eccentric and mysterious relatives...