Joseph Cotten films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 15 films on Boxlist

Known for Citizen Kane, The Third Man and Touch of Evil.

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Starring Joseph Cotten

Citizen Kane
1941 · Film
8.0/10 · TMDB
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...
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The Third Man
1949 · Film
8.0/10 · TMDB
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...
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Touch of Evil
1958 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
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...
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Shadow of a Doubt
1943 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
A bored teen living in Santa Rosa, California, Charlotte "Charlie" Newton, is frustrated because nothing seems to be happening in her life and that of her family. Then, she receives wonderful news: her uncle (for whom she was named)...
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Gaslight
1944 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
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The Magnificent Ambersons
1942 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
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Othello
1951 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
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...
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F for Fake
1973 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
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...
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Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
1964 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.
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Soylent Green
1973 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
In an overpopulated futuristic Earth, a New York police detective finds himself marked for murder by government agents when he gets too close to a bizarre state secret involving the origins of a revolutionary and needed new foodstuff.
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The Abominable Dr. Phibes
1971 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Famous organist Anton Phibes is horribly disfigured in an automobile accident while rushing to the side of his sick wife and presumed to be dead. Once Phibes learns that his wife died on the operating table, he is convinced the doctors are...
Niagara
1953 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
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...
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Heaven's Gate
1980 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Harvard graduate James Averill is the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyo., when a battle erupts between the area's poverty-stricken immigrants and its wealthy cattle farmers. The politically connected ranch owners fight the...
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
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 use by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had...
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Airport '77
1977 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
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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