The best Orson Welles’s romance movies

Orson Welles

Orson Welles

06/05/1915- 10/10/1985
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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.

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 24/12/1943
  • Character: Edward Rochester
After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house to care for his young daughter.

The Long, Hot Summer

The Long, Hot Summer
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 03/04/1958
  • Character: Will Varner
Ben Quick arrives in Frenchman's Bend, MS after being kicked out of another town for allegedly burning a barn for revenge. Will Varner owns just about everything in Frenchman's Bend and he hires Ben to work in his store. Will thinks his own son, Jody, who manages the store, lacks ambition and despairs him getting his wife, Eula, pregnant. Will thinks his daughter, Clara, a schoolteacher, will never get married. He decides that Ben Quick might make a good husband for Clara to bring some new blood into the family.

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.

Othello

Othello
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 27/11/1951
  • Character: Othello
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.

Black Magic

Black Magic
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaMysteryRomance
  • Release: 19/08/1949
  • Character: Joseph Balsamo aka Count Cagliostro
Hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.

Tomorrow Is Forever

Tomorrow Is Forever
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomanceWar
  • Release: 20/02/1946
  • Character: John Andrew MacDonald
In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John has survived but is horribly disfigured and remains in Europe. Years later, on the eve of World War II, Elizabeth refuses to agree to her son's request to enlist and is stunned when an eerily familiar stranger named Kessler arrives from abroad and becomes involved.

The Sailor from Gibraltar

The Sailor from Gibraltar
6.1/10
Alan, after quarreling with his girlfriend Sheila, becomes intrigued by Anna, a mysterious widow who's searching for a sailor she had known many years before. Alan and Anna begin the search on board a yacht bound for Greece, but they don't find the sailor. After a stop in Africa, Louis de Mozambique joins the party and suggests that the sailor may never have existed other than in Anna's mind.

South Seas Adventure

South Seas Adventure
7/10
Cinerama takes you on a South Seas Adventure to tropical islands set like sparkling jewels in dreamy cerulean waters. Thrill to the lure of sunbrowned, luscious maidens and a paradise of coconut palms, coral strand and blue lagoons. Enchanted South Pacific archipelagos beckon with all the beauty and color of a painter’s palette. Stepping stones in the vast expanse of far-away seas, they promise romance, adventure, excitement—an irresistible blend of fascinating people and exotic places.

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