The best Joseph Cotten’s romance movies

Joseph Cotten

Joseph Cotten

15/05/1905- 06/02/1994
We present our ranking of the best Joseph Cotten’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 Joseph Cotten.
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The Magnificent Ambersons

The Magnificent Ambersons
7.6/10
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

Duel in the Sun

Duel in the Sun
6.7/10
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.

Portrait of Jennie

Portrait of Jennie
7.6/10
A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.

Othello

Othello
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 27/11/1951
  • Character: Senator (uncredited)
When a secret marriage is planned between Othello, a Moorish general, and Desdemona, the daughter of Senator Brabantio, her old suitor Roderigo takes it hard. He allies himself with Iago, who has his own grudge against Othello, and the two conspire to bring Othello down. When their first plan, to have him accused of witchcraft, fails, they plant evidence intended to make him believe Desdemona is unfaithful.

Under Capricorn

Under Capricorn
6.2/10
In 1831, Irishman Charles Adare travels to Australia to start a new life with the help of his cousin who has just been appointed governor. When he arrives he meets powerful landowner and ex-convict, Sam Flusky, who wants to do a business deal with him. Whilst attending a dinner party at Flusky's house, Charles meets Flusky's wife Henrietta who he had known as a child back in Ireland. Henrietta is an alcoholic and seems to be on the verge of madness.

Caravans

Caravans
5.9/10
This epic adventure-drama based on James Michener's best-selling novel concerns a young American embassy official who is sent into the Middle-Eastern desert to find the missing daughter of a US Senator. The young woman has left her husband, a Colonel in the Shadom - she was his number two wife - and has opted for the lifestyle of a nomadic tribe. When the diplomat locates the girl he joins the caravan and attempts to persuade the girl to return.

The Farmer's Daughter

The Farmer's Daughter
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/01/1947
  • Character: Glenn Morley
After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.

Petulia

Petulia
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 10/06/1968
  • Character: Mr. Danner
An unhappily married socialite finds solace in the company of a recently divorced doctor.

Since You Went Away

Since You Went Away
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomanceWar
  • Release: 30/06/1944
  • Character: Lieutenant Tony Willett
While husband Tim is away during World War II, Anne Hilton copes with problems on the homefront. Taking in a lodger, Colonel Smollett, to help make ends meet and dealing with shortages and rationing are minor inconveniences compared to the love affair daughter Jane and the Colonel's grandson conduct.

Lydia

Lydia
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 18/09/1941
  • Character: Michael Fitzpatrick
Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young and courted her. In memory, each romance seemed splendid and destined for happiness, but in each case, Lydia realizes, the truth was less romantic, and ill-starred.

I'll Be Seeing You

I'll Be Seeing You
7.1/10
Mary Marshall, serving a six year term for accidental manslaughter, is given a Christmas furlough from prison to visit her closest relatives, her uncle and his family in a small Midwestern town. On the train she meets Zach Morgan, a troubled army sergeant on leave for the holidays from a military hospital. Although his physical wounds have healed, he is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and is subject to panic attacks. The pair are attracted to one another and in the warm atmosphere of the Christmas season friendship blossoms into romance, but Mary is reluctant to tell him of her past and that she must shortly return to prison to serve the remainder of her sentence.

Walk Softly, Stranger

Walk Softly, Stranger
6.5/10
A petty crook (Joseph Cotten) moves to an Ohio town and courts a factory owner's disabled daughter (Valli).

Love Letters

Love Letters
7/10
When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. The man with no talent for writing marries the girl, confesses one night he didn't write the letters and ends up with a knife in his back. The writer of the letters fell in love with the woman he wrote to and wants to become her second husband even if she did murder husband number one. Singleton doesn't remember the murder or anything about the first 22 years of her life as Victoria Remington. Then at her second wedding she wonders why she said "I take you, Roger," instead of "I take you, Allen."

September Affair

September Affair
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 18/10/1950
  • Character: David Lawrence
An industrialist and a pianist meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they are reported dead in a crash though they weren't on the plane. This gives them the opportunity to live together free from their previous lives. Unfortunately, this artificial arrangement leads to greater and greater stress. Eventually the situation collapses when they come to pursue their original, individual interests without choosing a common path.

The Grasshopper

The Grasshopper
5.7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 27/05/1970
  • Character: Richard Morgan
A British Columbia teenager dreams of show business but winds up as a call girl in Las Vegas.

The Angel Wore Red

The Angel Wore Red
5.8/10
A clergyman travels to Spain to join the Loyalist side during the Spanish Civil War and finds himself attracted to a beautiful entertainer.

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