104 Bette Davis Movies & TV Shows, Ranked Best to Worst

Charlotte is a spinster who has had her life controlled entirely by her wealthy mother, Mrs. Henry Vale. On a cruise to South America, she meets and starts having an affair with Jerry Durrance, an architect trapped in a bad marriage. After returning, she rebels against her mother, which eventually gives her mother a heart attack, resulting in her death.

Regina Hubbard is a beautiful and brilliant woman who aspires for wealth in a world where fathers only considered sons as legal heirs. She is financially dependent on her husband Horace, who is at a sanitarium for many years, due to his heart condition. However, when she needs him for her plans, she tries to manipulate her daughter into bringing him back.

The Letter is a mystery crime drama film which revolves around the wife of a rubber plantation administrator who kills a man and claims it to be self-defense. However, things take a turn when she receives a letter from a blackmailer having incriminating evidence.

Jezebel is a romantic drama film which tells the story of a beautiful and free spirited girl, who is also stubborn and vain. When her fiance leaves her due to this, she vows that she will get him back.

Judith is a socialite who lives a lavish life, and likes riding horses. Her life turns upside down when she is told that she is suffering from an inoperable brain tumor. She decides to undergo surgery to have the tumor removed, but soon she realizes that she may be in love with her doctor.

Former child star Jane Hudson is now left to care for her wheelchair bound sister Blanche, who is also a former child actress. While Blanche plans revenge on Jane, for the car crash years ago, that left her crippled, Jane plans to keep her sister imprisoned as she also plans a new rise to fame. 

Of Human Bondage is a romantic drama film which tells the story of Philip Carey, who has been studying painting in Paris for four years. However, his art teacher doesn’t appreciate his work. Philip’s life takes a turn when he falls for a waitress named Mildred Rogers. However, she acts cruel and manipulative towards him, and his daydreams about her eventually begin to distract him from his studies.   

The plot of the movie, which is based on Mary Orr’s 1946 short story The Wisdom of Eve, follows Eve Harrington who meets her idol, Margo Channing, and is eventually taken into latter’s household. What Margo, a successful theatre actress, does not know is that Eve plans to use her and everyone around her to boost her own career and attain super stardom.

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex is a historical romantic drama film which revolves around the relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Devereux, who was the 2nd Earl of Essex.

Dave the Dude is a successful gangster in New York City, who believes that the apples that he purchases from Apple Annie, an alcoholic street peddler, brings him luck. When Annie learns that her daughter is being escorted by an aristocratic suitor, she finds herself in a dilemma as she had tricked her daughter into believing that she is a wealthy socialite. Fearing that her true identity is going to disappoint her daughter, she decides to ask Dave for help.

Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte is a psychological thriller film which tells the story of Charlotte, a middle-aged woman who lives alone in her estate. Although the murder of her lover John remained unsolved, she was always the prime suspect. When her cousin arrives to help her challenge the government’s demolition of her home, Charlotte is plagued by bizarre occurrences.

During the Great Depression, Alan Squier, a failed British writer, who is now a penniless drifter, arrives in a roadside diner in a remote town named Black Mesa, Arizona. The diner is run by Jason Maple, along with his father and his daughter. Things get ugly when Duke Mantee, a notorious gangster running from law enforcement, drives to the diner and takes everyone hostage.

Death on the Nile is a mystery drama film which tells the story of detective Hercule Poirot, who is on a luxurious cruise down the Nile.  However, when a newlywed rich heiress gets killed along with few others, it is up to Poirot to find the killer before the ship reaches its destination.      

Dan Bellows finds Joyce Health, a former star, who is now a penniless drunk. He decides to take her to his Connecticut home for rehabilitation. However, his efforts don't seem to bear fruit, as she proves to be as dangerous and unstable as ever.

Mary, Vivian and Ruth, three young women who were former schoolmates, run into each other after many years. They decide to meet for lunch, hoping to revive their friendship. Vivian is now married to a wealthy and successful lawyer named Robert Kirkwood, but she seems to be quite unhappy with her life. Meanwhile, Mary, the troublemaker, spent time in a reformatory and became a showgirl. Ruth has been meanwhile working as a stenographer.

Waterloo Bridge is a romantic drama film which tells the story of Myra Deauville, an American chorus girl in London, who is forced to resort to prostitution, in order to support herself after she fails to find any work, during the time of the First World War. She meets some of her clients at the Waterloo Bridge, which is the primary entry point to the city for soldiers who are on military leave. She soon gets acquainted with Colonel Roy, who sympathizes with her situation, but she refuses to accept any help from him.

John Reeves is a successful shoe manufacturer, but he is quite annoyed with his staff, especially his conceited nephew and company general manager Benjamin Burnett, who acts like a know-it-all. When Benjamin begins to muse that his uncle might be going senile, Reeves decides to teach him a lesson. He heads off on a vacation, leaving his nephew alone to deal with the business situation.

Ward Guisenberry never aspired to become a boxer, but when he fought Sam McGraw at a party in order to defend the honor of Fluff, he left McGraw unconscious. McGraw is a member of the gang of Turkey Morgan who insists that the two should fight in a fair match at the ring. Ward unanticipatedly wins the match. However, with the growing fame he earns some new rivals.

After losing his hearing faculty in an accident, concert pianist, Montgomery Royle, returns home to New York. Accompanying him are his sister, Florence, fiancée, Grace, and close friend, Mildred. Feeling lost, he soon realizes that he can lip read and starts observing people, helping them secretly until he discovers that Grace loves another man; but has remained with him because of his handicap. 

Selina lived a comfortable life until her father Simeon passed away. However, after his death, her aunt puts her in boarding school and sells the estate. After growing up, she decides to become a teacher. She falls for Pervus, a Dutch farmer whom she has been tutoring, and they decide to get married.  

Storm Center is a drama film which tells the story of Alicia Hull,  a librarian in a small-town who is known for introducing kids to reading. Her life takes a turn when she is asked to remove a book named ‘The Communist Dream’ from the library, but she refuses. This leads to her being shunned by the locals and eventually fired from her job.

After her half-sister Arlene Bradford, who was involved with various criminal activities, disappears, Val decides to investigate the matter herself.                    

Based on the 1913 novel The Flirt, the film is about a young woman Marianne Madison, who falls for a con artist named Valentine Corliss. The latter eventually cons her to elope with him with the promise of marriage. 

Reporter Ellen Garfield doesn’t want to marry her boyfriend, Curt Devlin, also a journalist until he admits she is as good as a reporter as him. Curt tricks her into misreporting the verdict on a murder trial leading to her getting fired. Ellen not only catches the real murderer but forces Curt to admit defeat. 

Young widow, Mary Donnell, becomes secretary to married attorney, Lloyd Rogers, who develops feelings for her. She soon elopes with a wealthy client's playboy son Jack, but the marriage is annulled by his father and Jack is remarried. Years later, when Lloyd leaves his fortune to Mary, Jack comes to know that she is raising his child.

Former US Marine Corps pilots, Bill Keller and Toodles Cooper, find themselves jobless in New York City. They start sharing an apartment with Patricia ‘Alabama’ Kent. Later Keller and Cooper become involved in gangster Weber’s narcotics snuggling schemes flying contraband. Keller, Kent, and Cooper find their lives in danger as the authorities close in and Weber becomes ruthless.  

The movie tells the story of Scotland native, John Paul Jones, who becomes a legendary U.S. Naval officer through his many heroic feats after adopting USA as his home country. He even carries out personal missions from George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Marie Antoinette, and Catherine the Great showing the respect he had earned. 

Despite being married for ten years, Caroline Van Dyke finds herself distanced from her husband Greg Grannard. Meanwhile, another woman named Allison has been planning to become Greg's second wife, hoping he gets divorced. After some time, they get divorced eventually, but due to circumstances, Caroline finds herself drawn back again and again into her ex-husband’s life.   

Nan Reynolds is a housewife who struggles to run her house as her meek husband Bill earns a meager salary. She keeps urging him to apply elsewhere for better jobs, but he is not inclined to take risks. Eventually, Nan manages to convince him to start a business using the money which he has been saving for years. However, complications arise when Pat, a former high school friend, enters their lives, and Bill starts having an affair with her. He eventually asks Nan for a divorce, but she refuses.

An American family moves into a beautiful British country house. However, they soon begin to encounter paranormal appearances. Soon, their daughter begins to hear the voice of a young teen girl who had mysteriously disappeared decades ago.

A half-Chinese criminal mastermind, Madame Sin, set on dominating the world, rules from her high-tech machinery-filled Thought Factory in a Scottish Highland castle. She abducts ex-CIA agent, Anthony Lawrence, who is striving to bring her devious plans to light, and manipulates him to help her steal a Polar Submarine. Does the pawn in this game stand a chance against the mastermind? 

Bunny O’Hare finds herself homeless when the bank forecloses on the mortgage and her selfish children have spent all her savings. She meets Bill Green, who wants to salvage metal from the house’s plumbing only to discover that he is a fugitive bank robber Willam Gruenwald. She then forms a team with him to rob the bank. 

As a tribute to Will Rogers, popular American stage and film actor and  vaudeville performer, Judy Garland sings the song If I Forget You.  

A tale of romance, tragedy, and altruism. An exceptionally talented psychiatrist falls for his lab assistant while working on a treatment for dementia praecox (schizophrenia). His love for the woman and subsequent heartbreak cause him to reach a turning point in his life.

Peaches, orphaned daughter of a horse-trainer father, has inherited his race-horse, Wonder Boy, with whom she shares a special bond. So, her presence is required at races for him to win. But those betting on other horses ensure that the child authorities take her custody. However, Mrs. Van Gordon rescues and takes her to race-track in time, inspiring Wonder Boy to win.