Movies by Joseph Cotten
As part of the cast:
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Heaven's Gate (1980)
Cast: Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt …
Directed by: Michael Cimino
When wealthy cattlemen use brutal tactics to drive settlers off their land, Sheriff James Averill intervenes in this Western based on the true story of Wyoming's Johnson County War.…
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The Hearse (1980)
Cast: George Bowers, Trish Van Devere, Joseph Cotten …
Jane Hardy's (Trish Van DeVere) aunt has just passed away, bequeathing to Jane the summer home she loved. But in this eerie thriller, grief is the least of Jane's worries, as…
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Guyana: Crime of the Century (1979)
Cast: Stuart Whitman, Gene Barry, John Ireland …
Directed by: Rene Cardona Jr., René Cardona Jr.
Witness one of the greatest tragedies of the latter half of the 20th century -- the mass suicide in Guyana by the cultish followers of charismatic preacher Rev. Jim Jones (played by Stuart…
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Island of the Fishmen (1979)
Cast: Barbara Bach, Claudio Cassinelli, Richard Johnson …
Directed by: Sergio Martino
After their prison barge goes down in the middle of the Caribbean, the doctor on board, Claude de Ross (Claudio Cassinelli), and a group of convicts washes ashore a remote island where mad…
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Caravans (1978)
Cast: Anthony Quinn, Michael Sarrazin, Christopher Lee …
Directed by: James Fargo
An American diplomat heads into dangerous lands to retrieve the lovesick daughter of a famous politician in this adventure adapted from James Michener's novel. It's up to agent Mark…
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Concorde Affair (1978)
Cast: Dennis Hopper, James Franciscus, Joseph Cotten …
Directed by: Ruggero Deodato, Claude d'Anna
James Franciscus, Van Johnson, Mimsy Farmer and Joseph Cotten co-star in this high-flying thriller involving the supersonic Concorde aircraft. When the plane crashes off the island of…
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Airport '77 (1977)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Brenda Vaccaro …
Directed by: Jerry Jameson
After thieves hijack a luxury 747 carrying a priceless art collection to be delivered to a private estate, the plot goes terribly awry and the plane sinks in the Bermuda Triangle, stranding…
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Airport '77 / The Concorde: Airport '79 (1977)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Brenda Vaccaro …
Directed by: Jerry Jameson, David Lowell Rich, Olivia de Havilland …
The third film in the Airport series finds a jet full of people 50 feet below sea level in the Bermuda Triangle. The oxygen supply dwindles for an art collector (Jimmy Stewart), the pilot…
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Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Roscoe Lee Browne, Joseph Cotten …
Directed by: Robert Aldrich
When he's framed and sent to prison under false pretenses, a vengeful U.S. Air Force general mounts his escape with two willing accomplices, takes over an ill-guarded missile silo and…
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Syndicate Sadists (1976)
Cast: Tomas Milian, Joseph Cotten, Maria Fiorentino …
Directed by: Umberto Lenzi
Rambo (Tomas Milian) is a drifter who's made his way to Milan, Italy, where he's now unfortunately caught in a turf war between two dangerous clans. His problems only get worse when…
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A Whisper in the Dark (1976)
Cast: Joseph Cotten, John Phillip Law, Olga Bisera …
Directed by: Marcello Aliprandi
Based on Henry James's novella The Turn of the Screw, Marcello Aliprandi's Italo-Gothic horror flick is set amid the waterways of Venice, following the travails of a young mother…
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The Timber Tramps (1975)
Cast: Joseph Cotten, Tab Hunter, Leon Ames …
Directed by: Tay Garnett, Chuck D. Keen
Matt (Claude Akins) is a tough lumberjack who roams Alaska for work with his partner Deacon (Leon Ames). When these "timber tramps" finally find a gig, it's at a logging camp run by…
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A Delicate Balance (1973)
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Paul Scofield, Lee Remick …
Directed by: Tony Richardson
Part of the American Film Theatre series, Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play gets the star treatment with Katharine Hepburn and Paul Scofield playing a long-married couple…
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Soylent Green (1973)
Cast: Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors …
Directed by: Richard Fleischer
Set in a polluted, congested New York City in 2022, this sci-fi thriller stars Charlton Heston as Robert Thorn, a gumshoe looking into the murder of a corporate executive (Joseph Cotten)…
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F for Fake (1973)
Cast: Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, Joseph Cotten …
Directed by: Orson Welles
In this free-form documentary from the one and only Orson Welles -- his final major directorial effort -- the famed storyteller zigzags through a sardonic, fanciful tale of how art manages to…
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The Devil's Daughter (1973)
Cast: Shelley Winters, Belinda Montgomery, Robert Foxworth …
Directed by: Jeannot Szwarc
Teenager Diane Shaw (Belinda Montgomery) has no idea that the devil has purchased her soul, deliverable when she comes of age. When her mother dies and she's adopted by a family friend,…
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Baron Blood (1972)
Cast: Joseph Cotten, Elke Sommer, Massimo Girotti …
Directed by: Mario Bava
In search of his roots, American student Peter Kleist visits the Austrian castle of an ancestor. But some family histories are better left unknown, as Peter discovers when he resurrects the…
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Lady Frankenstein (1972)
Cast: Paul Muller, Joseph Cotten, Rosalba Neri …
Directed by: Mel Welles
After her father is killed by the monster he created, Tania Frankenstein (Rosalba Neri) conducts experiments to make an idealized -- and sexually robust -- man who will keep her warm at…
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Doomsday Voyage (1972)
Cast: Joseph Cotten, John Gabriel, Anne Randall …
Directed by: John Vidette
John Vidette's suspenseful film stars Charles Durning as a first mate aboard a ship that's been taken over by Wilson (John Gabriel), a stowaway who's kidnapped the daughter…
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Tormented / Lady Frankenstein (1971)
Cast: Richard Carlson, Juli Reding, Susan Gordon …
Directed by: Mel Welles, Bert I. Gordon, Aureliano Luppi …
Two macabre flicks are included in this horror double bill. In Tormented, Tom (Richard Carlson) gets a surprise visit from his difficult ex-wife (Juli Reding), who falls to her death when the…
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Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
Cast: Martin Balsam, Soh Yamamura, Joseph Cotten …
Directed by: Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasuka, Toshio Masuda …
Named for the Japanese phrase that signals the start of an attack, Tora! Tora! Tora! tells both the American and Japanese versions of the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor that catapulted the…
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Latitude Zero (1969)
Cast: Cesar Romero, Joseph Cotten, Akira Takarada …
Directed by: Ishirô Honda
When a volcanic eruption threatens a submarine full of Japanese scientists, the passengers are brought to safety by the valiant Capt. McKenzie (Joseph Cotten), who transports them to a…
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White Comanche (1968)
Cast: Perla Cristal, William Shatner, Rosanna Yanni …
Directed by: José Briz Méndez
William Shatner stars in a dual role as twin brothers of mixed ancestry -- sons of a white father and an American Indian mother -- whose different paths in life lead them to a violent…
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Petulia (1968)
Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Julie Christie, Arthur Hill …
Directed by: Richard Lester
At a San Francisco charity event, lovely socialite Petulia Danner (Julie Christie) sets her cap for newly divorced doctor Archie Bollen (George C. Scott) and embarks on a schizophrenic…
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Brighty of the Grand Canyon (1967)
Cast: Dick Foran, Karl Swenson, Joseph Cotten …
Directed by: Norman Foster
At the turn of the century in the Southwest, Brighty the wild burro accompanies his friend, a prospector named Old Timer, on a hunt for gold. A claim jumper robs the pair of their strike,…
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The Hellbenders (1967)
Cast: Joseph Cotten, Julián Mateos, Gino Pernice …
Directed by: Sergio Corbucci
In this gritty spaghetti Western helmed by Sergio Corbucci, Joseph Cotten headlines the cast as a bitter ex-Confederate officer named Jonas who hatches a scheme to reignite the Civil War by…
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Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
Cast: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten …
Directed by: Robert Aldrich
After her betrothed died from multiple ax wounds 40 years ago, everyone in town thought Charlotte Hollis (Bette Davis) was guilty. But with no evidence to convict her, she walked. Since that…
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The Last Sunset (1961)
Cast: Rock Hudson, Kirk Douglas, Dorothy Malone …
Directed by: Robert Aldrich
Pursued by flinty lawman Dana Stribling (Rock Hudson), philosophical fugitive outlaw Brendan O'Malley (Kirk Douglas) drops in on old flame Belle (Dorothy Malone). O'Malley finds her…
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Touch of Evil (1958)
Cast: Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, Janet Leigh …
Directed by: Orson Welles
Narcotics detective Mike Vargas (Charlton Heston) sees his honeymoon cut short when a car crossing the U.S.-Mexico border explodes before his eyes. Vargas forsakes his bride (Janet Leigh) to…
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The Killer is Loose (1956)
Cast: Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey …
Directed by: Budd Boetticher
Years after Det. Sam Wagner (Joseph Cotten) brought bank robber Leon "Foggy" Poole (Wendell Corey) to justice and accidentally killed the criminal's wife in the crossfire, the crazed…
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Niagara (1953)
Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters …
Directed by: Henry Hathaway
Marilyn Monroe's a shameless hussy who wears skin-tight sweaters and flirts with anybody in long pants. Joseph Cotten's her long-suffering husband who, nonetheless, remains obsessed…
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The Golden Blade / The Last Sunset (1953)
Cast: Rock Hudson, Piper Laurie, Gene Evans …
Directed by: Nathan Juran, Robert Aldrich
Rock Hudson's all-American good looks stand up equally well on foreign shores as the star travels to Arabia for The Golden Blade and then heads south of the border to Mexico in The Last…
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A Blueprint for Murder (1953)
Cast: Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Gary Merrill …
Directed by: Andrew L. Stone
There's no doubt that Lynne (Jean Peters) is beautiful, but could she also be deadly? This is the question her devoted brother-in-law Whitney (Joseph Cotten) must ask himself when first…
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Egypt by Three (1953)
Cast: Joseph Cotten, Ann Stanville, Jackie Craven …
Directed by: Victor Stoloff
Actor Joseph Cotten narrates these tales, which are set and filmed along the Nile River. Each atmospheric vignette offers an eye-opening take on the culture, attitudes and religion of the…
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Untamed Frontier (1952)
Cast: Joseph Cotten, Shelley Winters, Scott Brady …
Directed by: Hugo Fregonese
Powerful cattle baron Matt Denbow and his brood press their luck on the frontier by barring homesteaders from claiming government-granted access to the open range -- all this, while one of…
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September Affair (1950)
Cast: Joan Fontaine, Joseph Cotten, Françoise Rosay …
Directed by: William Dieterle
When they are mistakenly listed among the dead on a flight that crashes en route to Rome, married businessman David Lawrence (Joseph Cotten) and classical pianist Marianne Stuart (Joan…
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The Third Man (1949)
Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Trevor Howard …
Directed by: Carol Reed
After arriving in post-World War II Vienna, unemployed pulp novelist Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten) learns that his friend Harry (Orson Welles) has died in an accident. Compelled to…
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Under Capricorn (1949)
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding …
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
In this rare historical costume drama from master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock, the domestic life of a 19th century Australian couple (Joseph Cotten and Ingrid Bergman) is turned upside down…
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Portrait of Jennie (1948)
Cast: Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore …
Directed by: William Dieterle
Artist Eben Adams (Joseph Cotten) has never been able to impress infuential art dealer Henry Matthews with his work, until he meets a schoolgirl in Central Park named Jennie (Jennifer Jones).…
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The Farmer's Daughter (1947)
Cast: Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore …
Directed by: H.C. Potter
In this engaging comedy of manners, the radiant Loretta Young plays Katrin "Katie" Holstrom, a naïve Minnesota farm girl who leaves home to study nursing in the big city. Bilked out of…
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Duel in the Sun (1946)
Cast: Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck …
Directed by: King Vidor
Pearl Chavez (Jennifer Jones), a sultry half-breed who oozes sex, is taken in by distant relative Laura Belle McCanles (Lillian Gish), whose husband (Lionel Barrymore) is a rich Texas cattle…
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I'll Be Seeing You (1945)
Cast: William Dieterle, Ginger Rogers, Joseph Cotten …
Directed by: George Cukor
It's Christmas time, and convict Mary Marshall (Ginger Rogers) is on furlough from the state prison she calls home. Although she's not optimistic, she hopes the holiday will be…
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Since You Went Away (1944)
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Shirley Temple …
Directed by: John Cromwell
Anne Hilton (Claudette Colbert) is the wife of a businessman who becomes an officer during WWII. Fighting back her own fears and anxieties, Anne strives to maintain a normal, stable household…
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Gaslight (1944)
Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten …
Directed by: George Cukor
In this atmospheric murder mystery, beautiful, naive socialite Paula (Ingrid Bergman) disintegrates into a raving lunatic in the home in which her aunt was murdered. The suspect? Her devoted…
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Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Cast: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey …
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
In trademark style, master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock directs this taut and chilling tale about Charlie (Teresa Wright), a small-town girl consumed with finding out whether her unhinged…
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The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Cast: Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter …
Directed by: Orson Welles
Orson Welles's adaptation of the Booth Tarkington novel follows two upper-class Indianapolis families -- one whose glory is in decline, and another whose prosperity is only beginning --…
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Citizen Kane (1941)
Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore …
Directed by: Orson Welles
Orson Welles reinvented movies at the age of 26 with this audacious biography of newspaper baron Charles Foster Kane, which, in essence, was a thinly veiled portrait of publishing magnate…