The best Bette Davis’s drama movies on Google Play Movies

Bette Davis

Bette Davis

05/04/1908- 06/10/1989
We present our ranking of the best Bette Davis’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Bette Davis.
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Dead Ringer

Dead Ringer
7.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 19/02/1964
  • Character: Margaret DeLorca / Edith Phillips
The working class twin sister of a callous wealthy woman impulsively murders her out of revenge and assumes the identity of the dead woman. But impersonating her dead twin is more complicated and risky than she anticipated.

The Little Foxes

The Little Foxes
7.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 29/08/1941
  • Character: Regina Hubbard Giddens
The ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of the deep South at the turn of the 20th century. Regina Giddons née Hubbard has her daughter under her thumb. Mrs. Giddons is estranged from her husband, who is convalescing in Baltimore and suffers from a terminal illness. But she needs him home, and will manipulate her daughter to help bring him back. She has a sneaky business deal that she's cooking up with her two elder brothers, Oscar and Ben. Oscar has a flighty, unhappy wife and a dishonest worm of a son. Will the daughter have to marry this contemptible cousin? Who will she grow up to be - her mother or her aunt? Or can she escape the fate of both?

Jezebel

Jezebel
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 26/03/1938
  • Character: Julie Marsden
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
8/10
Two aging film actresses live as virtual recluses in an old Hollywood mansion. Jane Hudson, a successful child star, cares for her crippled sister Blanche, whose career in later years eclipsed that of Jane. Now the two live together, their relationship affected by simmering subconscious thoughts of mutual envy, hate and revenge.

Marked Woman

Marked Woman
7.1/10
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.

All About Eve

All About Eve
8.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/10/1950
  • Character: Margo Channing
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
7.5/10
An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
7/10
This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.

Mr. Skeffington

Mr. Skeffington
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 25/05/1944
  • Character: Fanny Trellis
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.

Jimmy the Gent

Jimmy the Gent
6.6/10
An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.

Of Human Bondage

Of Human Bondage
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/07/1934
  • Character: Mildred Rogers
Club-footed medical school student Philip Carey falls in love with cynical waitress Mildred Rogers. She rejects him and runs off with a salesman, later returning pregnant and unmarried. Philip takes her in, though "happily ever after" is not to be.

Deception

Deception
7/10
Davis and Rains shine in a romantic melodrama set in the world of concert music. Davis is a pianist torn between her wealthy, jealous patron and her cellist husband.

Now, Voyager

Now, Voyager
7.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 22/10/1942
  • Character: Charlotte Vale
A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.

Dark Victory

Dark Victory
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 20/04/1939
  • Character: Judith Traherne
A flighty heiress discovers inner strength when she develops a brain tumor.

The Old Maid

The Old Maid
7.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/08/1939
  • Character: Charlotte Lovell
The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.

The Letter

The Letter
7.5/10
After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.

Juarez

Juarez
6.9/10
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.

The Petrified Forest

The Petrified Forest
7.5/10
Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.

In This Our Life

In This Our Life
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 08/05/1942
  • Character: Stanley Timberlake Kingsmill
A young woman dumps her fiancée and runs off with her sister's husband. They marry, settle in Baltimore, and Stanley ultimately drives Peter to drink and suicide. Stanley returns home to Richmond only to learn that her sister Roy and old flame Craig have fallen in love and plan to marry. The jealous and selfish Stanley attempts to win back Craig's affections, but her true character is revealed when, rather than take the rap herself, she attempts to pin a hit and run accident on the young black clerk who works in Craig's law office.

Old Acquaintance

Old Acquaintance
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 27/11/1943
  • Character: Kit Marlowe
Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.

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