Cast: Bessie Love

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


Intolerance

1916 · Movie · 197 min. · United States

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Lillian Gish · Mae Marsh · Robert Harron · Constance Talmadge

Synopsis 'Intolerance' tells four tales, all widely separated in time, yet each loosely connected to the others by the title's theme: 'The Babylonian Story', 'The Christ Story', 'The Huguenot Story', and 'The Modern Story'.

7.8

5K votes

7.8

5K votes

Direction Kevin Brownlow · David Gill

Cast James Mason · Viola Dana · Byron Haskin · Colleen Moore

Synopsis The definitive documentary about the American silent film industry.

7.7

41 votes

7.7

41 votes

The Barefoot Contessa

1954 · Movie · 128 min. · United States

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Ava Gardner · Edmond O'Brien · Marius Goring

Synopsis At Maria Vargas' funeral, several people recall who she was and the impact she had on them. Harry Dawes was a not very successful writer/director when he and movie producer Kirk Edwards scouted her at a shabby nightclub where she...

7.3

6K votes

7.3

6K votes

Nowhere to Go

1958 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Seth Holt · Basil Dearden

Cast George Nader · Maggie Smith · Bernard Lee · Geoffrey Keen

Synopsis Paul Gregory steals a collection of antique coins from a wealthy American visitor to London, and puts the money he receives for them into a safety deposit before his arrest. He is sentenced to ten years rather than the five...

7.0

92 votes

7.0

92 votes

Reds

1981 · Movie · 200 min. · United States

Direction Warren Beatty

Cast Warren Beatty · Diane Keaton · Jack Nicholson · Edward Herrmann

Synopsis Warren Beatty's award winning epic mixes drama and interviews with major social radicals of the period. "Reds" tells the story of the love affair between activists Louise Bryant and John Reed. Set against the backdrop of the tumultuous start of...

6.9

4K votes

6.9

4K votes

The Good Bad Man

1916 · Movie · 50 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Sam De Grasse · Pomeroy Cannon · Joseph Singleton

Synopsis An outlaw calling himself Passin' Through halts his "evil" ways long enough to help out some children in difficulty.

6.9

31 votes

6.9

31 votes

Isadora

1968 · Movie · 138 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Karel Reisz

Cast Vanessa Redgrave · James Fox · Jason Robards · Ivan Tchenko

Synopsis A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free love, debt, dress, and lifestyle shocked the public of...

6.6

576 votes

6.6

576 votes

The Story of Esther Costello

1957 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Miller

Cast Joan Crawford · Rossano Brazzi · Heather Sears · Lee Patterson

Synopsis Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident which killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther's village in Ireland, is talked into helping to educate and possibly heal Esther. Margaret grows to love Esther as...

6.6

33 votes

6.6

33 votes

Direction Christy Cabanne · John Emerson

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Bessie Love · Allan Sears · Tom Wilson

Synopsis Coke Ennyday, the scientific detective, divides his own time in periods for "Sleep", "Eat", "Dope" and "Drink". In fact he's used to overcome every situation with drugs: consuming it to increase his energies or injecting it in his opponents to...

6.6

84 votes

6.6

84 votes

The Matinee Idol

1928 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Bessie Love · Johnnie Walker · Ernest Hilliard · Lionel Belmore

Synopsis A Broadway matinee idol famous for his black-face portrayals anonymously joins an amateur acting troupe and falls in love with the leading lady.

6.5

76 votes

6.5

76 votes

The Lost World

1925 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Harry O. Hoyt

Cast Bessie Love · Lewis Stone · Wallace Beery · Lloyd Hughes

Synopsis Explorer Professor Challenger is taking quite a beating in the London press thanks to his claim that living dinosaurs exist in the far reaches of the Amazon. Newspaper reporter Edward Malone learns that this claim originates from a diary given...

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes

The Hunger

1983 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Tony Scott

Cast Catherine Deneuve · David Bowie · Susan Sarandon · Cliff De Young

Synopsis The Egyptian vampire lady Miriam subsists upon the blood of her lovers. In return the guys or girls don't age... until Miriam has enough of them. Unfortunately that's currently the case with John, so his life expectancy is below 24...

6.3

5K votes

6.3

5K votes

The Broadway Melody

1929 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Harry Beaumont

Cast Charles King · Anita Page · Bessie Love · Jed Prouty

Synopsis Harriet and Queenie Mahoney, a vaudeville act, come to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. Eddie was in love with Harriet, but when he meets Queenie, he falls in...

5.9

512 votes

5.9

512 votes

The Ritz

1976 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Richard Lester

Cast Jack Weston · Rita Moreno · Jerry Stiller · Kaye Ballard

Synopsis On his deathbed Carmine Vespucci's father tells him to "get Proclo". With "the hit" on, Gaetano tells a cab driver to take him where Carmine can't find him. He arrives at the Ritz, a gay bathhouse where he is pursued...

5.9

61 votes

5.9

61 votes

Mousey

1974 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Daniel Petrie

Cast Kirk Douglas · Jean Seberg · John Vernon · Bessie Love

Synopsis A high school teacher separated from his son plots revenge on his ex-wife.

5.7

89 votes

5.7

89 votes

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

1969 · Movie · 140 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Hunt

Cast George Lazenby · Diana Rigg · Telly Savalas · Ilse Steppat

Synopsis When Bond's usual intelligence sources fail, he enlists the aid of crime boss Draco to track down Ernst Blofeld, head of the evil SPECTRE organization. The trail leads to the mountains of Switzerland, where Bond goes undercover in Blofeld's hi-tech...

5.6

5K votes

5.6

5K votes

Children of the Damned

1964 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anton Leader

Cast Ian Hendry · Alan Badel · Barbara Ferris · Alfred Burke

Synopsis Scientists discovers that there are six children who each have an enormous intelligence. The children are flown to London to be studied, but they each escape their embassy and gather in a church.

5.5

330 votes

5.5

330 votes

Promise Her Anything

1965 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Arthur Hiller

Cast Warren Beatty · Leslie Caron · Robert Cummings · Hermione Gingold

Synopsis Harley Rummel is an aspiring filmmaker, who, based on the financing from his sole backer Angelo Carelli, is currently reduced to making mail order adult films in his apartment. Harley and Angelo are often at odds with each other over...

5.2

44 votes

5.2

44 votes

Catlow

1971 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sam Wanamaker

Cast Yul Brynner · Richard Crenna · Leonard Nimoy · Daliah Lavi

Synopsis An outlaw tries to avoid interference as he journeys to pull off a $2-million gold robbery.

4.8

221 votes

4.8

221 votes

4.8

31 votes