Orson Welles Movies

Paolino, a teacher at an elementary school near Naples, appears nervous for a few days and his friends do not know why. The man is the lover of...

Misunderstood genius, superstar, Hollywood’s fallen angel... Orson Welles left his indelible mark on the 20th century.

Excerpts and fragments from different interviews with Orson Welles making a statement to journalists in fluent French about his career and his...

On April 24th, 1982, when Orson Welles was invited to Paris to receive the Légion d'honneur from François Mitterand, a lively filmed...

Welles had a lifelong interest in magic, having been taught his first magic tricks by Harry Houdini in the 1920s, when Welles was still a boy. In...

A 1978 filmed conversation between Orson Welles and his lifelong mentor Roger “Skipper” Hill, shot at Welles’s home in Sedona by...

The earliest surviving film of Orson Welles—a vignette of his and Roger Hill's production of "Twelfth Night" at the Todd School for Boys.

A dramatization of the heroic jangada voyage, from Fortaleza to Rio de Janeiro, undertaken by four impoverished fishermen to file grievances in...

Pier Paolo Pasolini's contribution to the omnibus film "RO.GO.PA.G" casts Orson Welles as a director attempting to make a film of the crucifixion of...

A secret government lab run by Dr. Hess (Art LaFleur) has been trying to create the ultimate killer using the DNA of infamous killers Jeffrey Dahmer...

Orson Welles presents a proposed film project to prospective investors in Spain. Speaking to an audience of wealthy arts patrons, Welles outlines his...

The mass murder of Jewish people by the Nazi regime is chronicled, with a warning that anti-Semitism is on the rise and the events of the Holocaust...

An essay on how could Welles' Touch of Evil and his story about the border between USA and Mexico influence Trump's imagination.

During the 70s, top scientists and astronomers sent coded messages into space with the hopes of getting a response from an extraterrestrial...

Profile of Orson Welles, looking at his life and career in theatre, radio and particularly film.

Orson Welles sits in his chair behind his typewriter where he sends a message out to his dying friend Bill Cronshaw: a passage from the journal of...

How the cinema industry does not respect the author's work as it was conceived, how manipulates the motion pictures in order to make them easier to...

Mario, a young philanderer, receives 13 antique chairs in a bad state by inheritance and decides to sell off them to get some money. Afterwards he...

An unbroadcast 1958 essay-film by Orson Welles, blending documentary, personal reflection, and cultural portraiture in a subjective study of Italy...