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.
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