Cast: Bette Davis

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Bette Davis. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


All About Eve

1950 · Movie · 138 min. · United States

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Bette Davis · Anne Baxter · George Sanders · Celeste Holm

Plot Margo Channing (Bette Davis), leading dame of the New York stage, is pushed aside by a fresh-faced fan who becomes her understudy, the duplicitous Eve (Anne Baxter). Eve’s humble background...

8.5

34K votes

8.5

34K votes

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

1962 · Movie · 133 min. · United States

Direction Robert Aldrich

Cast Bette Davis · Joan Crawford · Victor Buono · Wesley Addy

Plot In a decaying Hollywood mansion, Jane Hudson, a former child star, and her sister Blanche, a movie queen forced into retirement after a crippling accident, live in virtual isolation.

8.2

17K votes

8.2

17K votes

The Little Foxes

1941 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Bette Davis · Teresa Wright · Herbert Marshall · Patricia Collinge

Plot An ambitious woman takes on her corrupt brothers and honest husband in her drive for wealth. In the deep South at the turn of the 20th century, shrewish Regina Giddens...

8.1

6K votes

8.1

6K votes

Jezebel

1938 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Bette Davis · Henry Fonda · George Brent · Margaret Lindsay

Plot Set in antebellum New Orleans during the early 1850's, this film follows Julie Marsden through her quest for social redemption on her own terms. Julie is a beautiful and free...

7.7

4K votes

7.7

4K votes

The Letter

1940 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Bette Davis · Herbert Marshall · James Stephenson · Frieda Inescort

Plot The wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense. Her poise, graciousness and stoicism impress nearly everyone who meets her. Her husband...

7.6

5K votes

7.6

5K votes

Pocketful of Miracles

1961 · Movie · 136 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Glenn Ford · Bette Davis · Peter Falk · Hope Lange

Plot Apple Annie is a beggar and an apple seller who is part of downtown New York life. Her daughter, Louise, is to marry a Count who thinks that Annie is...

7.6

5K votes

7.6

5K votes

Now, Voyager

1942 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Irving Rapper

Cast Bette Davis · Paul Henreid · Claude Rains · Gladys Cooper

Plot Charlotte Vale suffers under the domination of her Boston matron mother until Dr. Jaquith gets her to visit his sanitarium where she is transformed from frump to elegant, independent lady....

7.5

2K votes

7.5

2K votes

The Old Maid

1939 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Bette Davis · Miriam Hopkins · George Brent · Donald Crisp

Plot Delia marries Jim, not Joe After Delia breaks her engagement to Clem and marries Jim, Clem promises to marry Delia's cousin Charlotte, but he dies at the battle of Vicksburg...

7.4

732 votes

7.4

732 votes

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

1964 · Movie · 133 min. · United States

Direction Robert Aldrich

Cast Bette Davis · Olivia de Havilland · Joseph Cotten · Agnes Moorehead

Plot Charlotte Hollis, wealthy southern spinster, is shunned by her community for the grisly murder some 40 years prior of her intended, John Mayhew. Even though her guilt in the matter...

7.3

3K votes

7.3

3K votes

Dark Victory

1939 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Edmund Goulding

Cast Bette Davis · George Brent · Humphrey Bogart · Geraldine Fitzgerald

Plot The twenty-three years old wealthy sportswoman Judith Traherne (Bette Davis) has painful headaches and double-vision, and the family doctor, Dr. Parsons (Henry Travers), convinces her to go with her best...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

Mr. Skeffington

1944 · Movie · 145 min. · United States

Direction Vincent Sherman

Cast Bette Davis · Claude Rains · Walter Abel · Richard Waring

Plot Whose face ravaged, grotesque is in the mirror? Surely it's not that of Fanny Skeffington, the prettiest woman in New York. Fanny always used her beauty to manipulate her way...

7.2

597 votes

7.2

597 votes

When Bette Davis Bid Farewell

2014 · Documentary · 76 min. · Spain

Direction Pedro González Bermúdez

Cast Bette Davis

Plot A documentary that reconstructs legendary actress Bette Davis' visit to the San Sebastian Festival to receive the Donostia Award in 1989. One of the great legends in the Festival's history....

7.2

401 votes

7.2

401 votes

Dead Ringer

1964 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Paul Henreid

Cast Bette Davis · Karl Malden · Peter Lawford · Phil Carey

Plot The twin sister of a callous wealthy woman murders her out of revenge and assumes the identity of the dead woman.

7.1

1K votes

7.1

1K votes

Kid Galahad

1937 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Bette Davis · Humphrey Bogart · Wayne Morris

Plot Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.

Max

7.1

581 votes

7.1

581 votes

The Scientific Cardplayer

1972 · Movie · 113 min. · Italy

Direction Luigi Comencini

Cast Alberto Sordi · Silvana Mangano · Joseph Cotten · Bette Davis

Plot Pepino and Antonia, two Italian proles are waiting every summer, for "the old lady", a wealthy and disabled American in order to fleece her. How? By playing cards with her...

7.0

233 votes

7.0

233 votes

Waterloo Bridge

1931 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction James Whale

Cast Mae Clarke · Douglass Montgomery · Doris Lloyd · Frederick Kerr

Plot An American soldier falls in love with a dance-hall girl in London, not realizing that she is a prostitute.

7.0

198 votes

7.0

198 votes

Beyond the Forest

1949 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction King Vidor

Cast Bette Davis · Joseph Cotten · David Brian · Ruth Roman

Plot Rosa Moline is bored with life in a small town. She loves Chicago industrialist Neil Latimer who has a hunting lodge nearby. Rosa squeezes her husband's patients to pay their...

6.9

599 votes

6.9

599 votes

The Man Who Came to Dinner

1942 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction William Keighley

Cast Bette Davis · Ann Sheridan · Monty Woolley · Elisabeth Fraser

Plot A pompous writer and critic forced to stay with a midwestern family during the winter thoroughly disrupts their well-ordered lives. Original play (1939) by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman.

6.9

830 votes

6.9

830 votes

All This, and Heaven Too

1940 · Movie · 140 min. · United States

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast Bette Davis · Charles Boyer · Jeffrey Lynn · Barbara O'Neil

Plot Bette Davis stars as the lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy in the film version of Rachel Field's epic historical romance novel ALL THIS AND HEAVEN TOO. Charles Boyer is...

6.9

576 votes

6.9

576 votes

The Petrified Forest

1936 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Leslie Howard · Bette Davis · Humphrey Bogart · Genevieve Tobin

Plot This heartfelt drama about a gangster on the run is the film for which Humphrey Bogart first received wide-scale recognition. Bogie and costar Leslie Howard were both brought on board...

6.9

2K votes

6.9

2K votes