This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England Read More »
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Mr. Skeffington (1944) Vincent Sherman, Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel
It’s 1914 in New York City. Adult brother and sister Trippy Trellis and Fanny Trellis, whose parents are now deceased, were once wealthy Read More »
The Corn Is Green (1945) Irving Rapper, Bette Davis, John Dall, Nigel Bruce
Schoolteacher Lilly Moffat is dismayed by conditions in a Welsh mining town. Read More »
In This Our Life (1942) John Huston, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, George Brent
A young woman, Stanley Timberlake, dumps her fiance, Craig Fleming, and runs off with her sister Roy’s husband, Peter Kingsmill. Read More »
The Man Who Played God (1932) John G. Adolfi, George Arliss, Bette Davis, Violet Heming
Montgomery Royle is a famed pianist whose student, the much younger Grace Blair, believes herself to be in love with him. Read More »
La noia AKA The Empty Canvas (1963) Damiano Damiani, Bette Davis, Horst Buchholz, Catherine Spaak
The son of a wealthy American woman and a deceased Italian nobleman, Dino, dabbles away at painting. Read More »
Pocketful of Miracles (1961) Frank Capra, Glenn Ford, Bette Davis, Hope Lange
Boozy, brassy Apple Annie, a beggar with a basket of apples, is as much as part of downtown New York City as old Broadway itself. Read More »
Scream, Pretty Peggy (1973) Gordon Hessler, Ted Bessell, Bette Davis, Sian Barbara Allen
A sculptor hires young college girls to take care of his elderly mother Read More »
Juarez (1939) William Dieterle, Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Brian Aherne
The newly-named Emperor Maximillian, the only monarch of the Second Mexican Empire Read More »
The Letter (1940) William Wyler, Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson
The wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense. Read More »
Jezebel (1938) William Wyler, Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent
In one of her most renowned roles, Bette Davis portrays Julie Marsden Read More »
Wicked Stepmother (1989) Larry Cohen, Bette Davis, Barbara Carrera, Colleen Camp
A mother/daughter pair of witches descend on a yuppie family’s home and cause havoc Read More »
Hell’s House (1932) Howard Higgin, Bette Davis, Pat O’Brien, Junior Durkin
Jimmy Mason idolizes bootlegger Matt Kelly who is dating Peggy. Read More »
The Little Foxes (1941) William Wyler, Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright
The ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of the deep South at the turn of the 20th century. Read More »
Fashions of 1934 (1934) William Dieterle, William Powell, Bette Davis, Frank McHugh
Sherwood Nash is a swindler who bootlegs Paris fashions for sale at cut-rate prices. Read More »