Citizen Kane

1941 · Directed by Orson Welles · 119 min · drama film, biographical film, mystery film

★ 8.0/10 · 6,234 ratings on TMDB

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.