1962 film by Orson Welles

威尔斯是一个罕见的多面手，广播剧、舞台剧、电影电视和广告，都干得非常好，他还懂魔术等杂七杂八的东西，这是一个深刻理解了各种媒介本质属性的艺术家，所以不管他决定干哪样，都注定将是划时代的，而电影是当时能给他提供最大空间和想象力的艺术。他的处女作《公民凯恩》被誉为是电影史上最经典的电影。
他是一个富裕之家的次子。十八个月的时候，就有心理学家宣称这是个天才，母亲教他读莎士比亚作品，从小又练习绘画、钢琴和小提琴。他还从父亲的公司里学会了魔术杂耍的本领。
电影介绍了他的成长史与其独特的内心世界。

1947 film by Orson Welles

In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.

When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas begins his investigation, along with American police captain Hank Quinlan. When Vargas begins to suspect that Quinlan and his shady partner, Menzies, are planting evidence to frame an innocent man, his investigations into their possible corruption quickly put himself and his new bride, Susie, in jeopardy.

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.