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Directed by Orson Welles
Citizen Kane, Orson Welles' first publicly screened film, has repeatedly been chosen in polls as the greatest film ever made. However, Welles' career as a director was constantly hindered by budgetary constraints having failed to get in with the big studios of the time, and many of his projects never got off the ground. It was not until after hi... show more > Recommended Films directed by Orson Welles
 
The Magnificent Ambersons1942, Orson Welles, DVD Resplendent period drama that brilliantly recreates a bygone age. Although chopped about on its release by RKO who removed then destroyed a third of the original footage and then tacked on an optimistic ending, what remains is still an innovative,...
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 Othello (Welles, 1952)1952, Orson Welles, DVD Some sequences in 'Othello' would work just as effectively as silent film, such is Welles' genius for evoking moods through the stark contrasts between light and shade, windswept exteriors and shadowy citadel corridors. Welles uses less than half ...
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 Citizen Kane1941, Orson Welles, DVD One of the truly great films, Welles' study of the nature of power in the person of Charles Foster Kane (based on newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst) has had a profound and lasting effect. Its inventive and sometimes bravura cinematography i...
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 Macbeth (Welles, 1948)1948, Orson Welles, DVD A dark, almost expressionist version that had the sense to work with, rather than against, its low budget and 23 day shooting schedule. Magnificent in some ways, and even in those moments that don't quite come off, a piece of pure cinema. You feel...
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 The Lady from Shanghai1948, Orson Welles, DVD 1940s classic with its murders, intrigues and plot twists, and the famous hall of mirrors sequence.
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 Touch of Evil (1998 restored cut)1958, Orson Welles, DVD Set in a squalid Mexican border town, Welles plays Hank Quinlan, a crooked police chief who frames a youth as part of a criminal plot. Heston is the upright Mexican narcotics investigator who smells a rat. However, he's also on his honeymoon with ...
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F For Fake (Masters Of Cinema)1974, Orson Welles, DVD A quintessentially Wellesian meditation on illusionism in all its forms. Portraits of art forger Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving - forger of an autobiography by Howard Hughes, intermingle with Welles' own reflections on artistic originality and ...
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 Orson Welles Collection1946-62, Orson Welles, DVD A collection of four films directed by or starring Orson Welles. Features The Stranger (1946), King Lear (Andrew McCullough, 1953), David And Goliath (Ferdinando Baldi & Richard Pottier, 1960) and The Trial (1962). Also includes two documentaries,...
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 Confidential Report1955, Orson Welles, VHSPAL AKA Mr Arkadin. A convicted American smuggler leaves an Italian prison with one asset - a dying man's words about the mysterious and wealthy Gregory Arkadin. He sets out to find him, and then sets out on the much harder task of finding out who he ...
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 The Trial (Welles, 1962)1962, Orson Welles, DVD AKA Le Proces. With a tiny budget Welles managed to produce a minimalist film which does a fine job of capturing the atmosphere of Kafka's story of Josef K. Welles's best post-Kane films are small-scale masterpieces and this is no exception. The d...
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 Citizen Kane1941, Orson Welles, DVD One of the truly great films, Welles' study of the nature of power in the person of Charles Foster Kane (based on newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst) has had a profound and lasting effect. Its inventive and sometimes bravura cinematography i...
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 Confidential Report1955, Orson Welles, DVD AKA Mr Arkadin. A convicted American smuggler leaves an Italian prison with one asset - a dying man's words about the mysterious and wealthy Gregory Arkadin. He sets out to find him, and then sets out on the much harder task of finding out who he ...
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 Mister Arkadin (aka Confidential Report)1955, Orson Welles, DVD AKA Mr Arkadin. A convicted American smuggler leaves an Italian prison with one asset - a dying man's words about the mysterious and wealthy Gregory Arkadin. He sets out to find him, and then sets out on the much harder task of finding out who he ...
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 The Stranger (Welles, 1946)1946, Orson Welles, VHSPAL The chilling tale of a postwar Nazi hunt that gave Orson Welles his first chance to direct in four years following Citizen Kane. Welles responded to the challenge by bringing the film in on time and within budget. It was his biggest commercial suc...
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 Confidential Report1955, Orson Welles, DVD AKA Mr Arkadin. A convicted American smuggler leaves an Italian prison with one asset - a dying man's words about the mysterious and wealthy Gregory Arkadin. He sets out to find him, and then sets out on the much harder task of finding out who he ...
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