Orson Welles

Adapted from a celebrated novel by 'the Belgian Edgar Allen Poe', Jean Ray, Harry Kümel's film sees a young sailor return to his family home Malpertuis - a labyrinthine mansion of endless corridors and secret chambers - to find it rife with intrigue. Ailing uncle Cassavius (Orson Welles) has pledged to divide his estate to his heirs, but only if they promise to never again leave the house.

The crowning achievement of Orson Welles's extraordinary film career, Chimes at Midnight was the culmination of the filmmaker's lifelong obsession with Shakespeare's ultimate rapscallion, Sir John Falstaff.

A promotion snub following rumors of an affair with his wife inspire a vindictive ensign to plot revenge against his madly jealous military commander.

Orson Welles himself stars as Long John Silver in this seldom-seen 1972 adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of pirates and buried treasure! Join Jim Hawkins and his shipmates for an adventure of a lifetime in a swashbuckling spectacular that's fun for all the family!.

This collection of stories about the American experience explores the rise of Orson Welles alongside WWII, Japanese internment, and segregation.

With the future of Israel hanging in the balance, David, armed with only a slingshot, faces off against the giant Goliath in this biblical adaptation.

Seduced by a femme fatal, a wandering Irishman joins a yachting cruise from New York to San Francisco and gets trapped in its passengers’ murder plot.

Based on the life of the Yugoslavian electrical engineer who introduced the concept of alternating current.

A disinherited 13th Century Saxon nobleman leaves Norman England with an archer friend to seek his fortune in the Far East.

Genocide is a heartbreaking historical account of the turmoil, violence, and resistance that defined life during the Holocaust.

Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh and Orson Welles give unforgettable performances in this film noir masterpiece about a crooked police chief and the honorable investigator who tries to stop him.

Two wealthy law-school students go on trial for murder.

Un investigador de la Comisión de Crímenes de Guerra viaja a Connecticut para encontrar a un famoso nazi que planeó el Holocausto.

Napoleon's abduction and his exile to Elba: his dramatic escape, his reunion with his devoted troops and their generals. His last, desperate bid for ultimate power and glory, so narrowly defeated on the bloody fields of Waterloo. Waterloo is a film on an epic scale with a cast to match. Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles and Jack Hawkins all contribute fine portraits of great men...

With segments covering Bigfoot, Atlantis, and UFOs, this unique and captivating documentary examines the most unusual phenomena on our strange planet.

A pulp writer arrives in post-war Vienna to visit a friend, who he discovers is dead, with a trail of unanswered questions about his shady dealings.

Based on the Kafka novel, an unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial without ever being informed of the charges against him.

A drifter's arrival in a small Mississippi town has an unsettling effect on the members of a wealthy family, who decide that he is a potential suitor for their daughter.

Actors, crew members and others who were there discuss the tumultuous creation of Orson Welles's final, unfinished film, “The Other Side of the Wind.”

Mark Cousins dives deep into the visual world of legendary director and actor Orson Welles to reveal a portrait of the artist as he's never been seen before.