Citizen Kane

Original title: Citizen Kane

119 minutes • 1941 • 8.0 Score

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

Orson Welles

Director