Bette Davis Movies

A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.

A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered...

The career of Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, from his youth in Scotland through his service to Catherine the Great of Russia.

A woman, who had left home 20 years previously under acrimonious circumstances, finds out that she is terminally ill. She returns home and tries to...

A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift those veils, one by one, to find how images, at one...

An aspiring young artist breaks from his wealthy, possessive mother to live a bohemian existence in the artist's section of Rome and falls in love...

In 1926, celebrated evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson mysteriously disappeared. She turned up several weeks later and recounted the details of her...

A teenager lands in a brutal reform school for refusing to squeal on his bootlegger boss.

A CIA agent is used as a pawn in an insane woman's plan to steal a Polaris submarine.

Politicians go after a small-town librarian when she refuses to ban a book. She's quickly labeled a Communist.

Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.

Sir Walter Raleigh overcomes court intrigue to win favor with the Queen in order to get financing for a proposed voyage to the New World.

An ambitious Mexican-American gets mixed up with the neurotic wife of his casino boss.

Documentary about the famed Hollywood director.

When Miss Jane Marple arrives at palatial Stonygates, one thing is certain. Before there's time to lather a warm scone with marmalade and place a tea...

Bart is a clerk for a publishing company; he has written a novel. His wife Peggy and he have five children. Bart's former girlfriend Mildred is...

In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.

David gives his wife, Joyce, an unexpected—and unpleasant—surprise when he suddenly demands a divorce. When she then learns that David...