Valentina Cortese
Bekannt für: Acting
Geburtstag: 1923-01-01
Geburtsort: Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Auch bekannt als: Valentina Cortesa
Day for Night
A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
Veröffentlichung : 1973.05.24Popularität : 15.577
The Boat on the Grass
Despite their social differences, poor David and the rich Olivier are the best friends. David took the young Eleanor in Olivier's Paris apartment....
Veröffentlichung : 1971.04.16Popularität : 4.374
Ring of Darkness
Once a Satanist who surrendered her soul and body to the devil himself, Carlotta Rhodes begins to regret her tryst with Lucifer when her teenage...
Veröffentlichung : 1979.10.29Popularität : 2.989
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
In his delirium from his return from war, Francesco Bernardone goes back in his memories to the days when he lived for parties and carnal pleasures....
Veröffentlichung : 1972.03.03Popularität : 10.145
Thieves' Highway
Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber. He learns, however, that his...
Veröffentlichung : 1949.09.20Popularität : 17.882
The Assassination of Trotsky
A Stalinist assassin tracks exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky to Mexico in 1940.
Veröffentlichung : 1972.04.20Popularität : 4.623
Les Misérables - Manhunt
Jean Valjean, pursued through the years for a minor infraction by the implacable policeman Javert, attempts to create a life for himself and for his...
Veröffentlichung : 1948.01.10Popularität : 2.636
Barabbas
Epic account of the thief Barabbas, who was pardoned for his crimes and spared crucifixion when Pilate offered the Israelites a choice to pardon...
Veröffentlichung : 1961.12.23Popularität : 15.41
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
A tourist witnesses a murder and finds herself caught up in a series of bloody killings.
Veröffentlichung : 1963.02.10Popularität : 7.409
The Barefoot Contessa
Has-been director Harry Dawes gets a new lease on his career when the independently wealthy tycoon Kirk Edwards hires him to write and direct a film....
Veröffentlichung : 1954.09.29Popularität : 6.618
The House on Telegraph Hill
Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder when she assumes the identity of a dead friend in...
Veröffentlichung : 1951.05.12Popularität : 4.163
Jailbirds
Three jailbirds - a surgeon, a robber and a wrongly convicted man must adjust to their lives once released from prison.
Veröffentlichung : 1954.09.18Popularität : 0.962
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.
Veröffentlichung : 1988.12.07Popularität : 16.146
Malaya
After living abroad for several years, journalist John Royer returns to the United States just after the U.S. enters World War II. His boast that he...
Veröffentlichung : 1949.12.27Popularität : 3.016
Sparrow
Catania, Sicilia 1854. A serious epidemic of cholera is hitting the region. Maria a 16 years old novice leaves her convent and returns her home to...
Veröffentlichung : 1994.02.04Popularität : 3.399
When Time Ran Out...
An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property's developer and a drilling...
Veröffentlichung : 1980.03.28Popularität : 7.709
Le Amiche
Clelia, a self-made woman coming from humble means, travels back to Turin, her hometown, to scout locations for the successful Roman atelier she...
Veröffentlichung : 1955.11.18Popularität : 5.768
Juliet of the Spirits
Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows increasingly questionable. One night when Giorgio initiates a...
Veröffentlichung : 1965.10.22Popularität : 10.023
Appassionata
Two teenage friends conspire to find out how much their youthful sensuality can disrupt one of their households, headed by a dentist and his...
Veröffentlichung : 1974.05.22Popularität : 18.154
Black Magic
A hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.
Veröffentlichung : 1949.08.19Popularität : 6.452
The Legend of Lylah Clare
A dictatorial film director hires an unknown actress to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.
Veröffentlichung : 1968.08.21Popularität : 4.166
The Love Mates
Julien and Agatha appear to be a great couple, loving, caring and seem to feel complete with each other. Though Julien often gives the impression of...
Veröffentlichung : 1970.12.18Popularität : 3.447
The Rocket from Calabuch
Professor Hamilton, a naive Nuclear scientist who once thought bombs were good for humanity, realizes his mistake and runs away from his inventions....
Veröffentlichung : 1956.09.28Popularität : 3.758
Black Sun
A young Gallic heiress Christine is looking for her long-lost brother in Algeria. She's not looking for danger, but that's what comes in her way from...
Veröffentlichung : 1966.12.10Popularität : 1.885
Secret People
This tale of intrigue finds Valentina Cortese involved in an assassination plot. She helps the police apprehend the conspirators after an innocent...
Veröffentlichung : 1952.02.05Popularität : 10.415
Blue Tango
Tango blu is a night club in Milan where various bizarre characters meet. Among them a womanizing photographer and a porter who works in a...
Veröffentlichung : 1987.02.02Popularität : 1.645
Magic Fire
Director William Dieterle's 1956 film biography of classical composer Richard Wagner stars Carlos Thompson, Yvonne De Carlo, Rita Gam, Alan Badel and...
Veröffentlichung : 1955.06.30Popularität : 1.047
Il matrimonio
An Italian historical comedy film consisting of three segments, based on three stage plays by Anton Chekhov.
Veröffentlichung : 1954.02.25Popularität : 1.714
Son tornate a fiorire le rose
The birth of a nephew upsets the life of Paolo and Carlo who, unable to grow old, try to prove that they are lively.
Veröffentlichung : 1975.10.17Popularität : 1.651
Tanto va la gatta al lardo...
Film in four episodes, inspired by the chronicle of the time: three mature sisters give themselves to a stranger, Maria tries to escape her husband,...
Veröffentlichung : 1978.05.23Popularität : 1.126
Amore mio non farmi male
Anna and Marcello, two wealthy high school students. they would like to consume their Platonic love so far, going against the directives of their...
Veröffentlichung : 1974.07.13Popularität : 1.646
First Love
The story of two young lovers takes a tragic turn as the girl falls in love with the boy's father.
Veröffentlichung : 1970.10.07Popularität : 2.004
Il passatore
The story of the most infamous bandit in Romagna, who robbed from the rich to give to the poor.
Veröffentlichung : 1947.10.22Popularität : 2.309
Buster's Bedroom
A young woman who is obsessed with Buster Keaton stays in the sanatorium where the actor was once a patient.
Veröffentlichung : 1991.05.09Popularität : 1.509
La passeggiata
A meek and simple-minded boarding school teacher falls in love with a prostitute and gets the boot from school. He tries to have her change her way...
Veröffentlichung : 1953.01.27Popularität : 0.71
Square of Violence
Set in Italy, the story takes place in this very country, during WW2, where German occupation army ruled everything, just before the allied forces...
Veröffentlichung : 1961.01.01Popularität : 1.754
The Visit
Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and...
Veröffentlichung : 1964.05.06Popularität : 10.032
Story of San Michele
A biographical drama is based on the 1929 autobiography of Swedish doctor Axel Martin Fredrik, The Story of San Michele. It follows the physician,...
Veröffentlichung : 1962.09.28Popularität : 2.841
Orizzonte di sangue
Directed by Gennaro Righelli.
Veröffentlichung : 1942.01.02Popularität : 0.587
Chronicle of a Homicide
Roma.During a clash between demonstrating laborers (whose fight the students have joined) a policeman and a student are both killed. The...
Veröffentlichung : 1972.02.04Popularität : 2.654
Listen, Let's Make Love
When his father dies, young lad travels to Milan to attend the funeral and decides to follow in his father's footsteps as a gigolo. He is successful...
Veröffentlichung : 1968.09.13Popularität : 2.484
The Jester's Supper
In Florence, at the time of Lorenzo de Medici, known also as Lorenzo the Magnificent, the aristocrat brothers Chiaramantesi rule with an iron fist...
Veröffentlichung : 1942.02.10Popularität : 2.739
The Kiss of Death
Adaptation of a novel by Carolina Invernizio.
Veröffentlichung : 1974.08.22Popularität : 2.695
The Glass Mountain
An aspiring composer, in the British Air Force for WWII, is downed in Italy and rescued by an Italian girl. He returns home to his wife, inspired to...
Veröffentlichung : 1949.03.09Popularität : 1.338
L'ebreo errante
Matthew, a rich nationalist Jew and a contemporary of Jesus, regards the latter as an obstacle in this struggle to free their people from the Roman...
Veröffentlichung : 1948.01.24Popularität : 0.885
No One Comes Back
A host of college girls take different life paths in the Italy of the 1930s.
Veröffentlichung : 1945.01.05Popularität : 1.786
Love and Troubles
Three vignettes about couples trying to get together and the problems that continue to keep them apart.
Veröffentlichung : 1958.12.19Popularität : 2.807
Les Misérables - Storm Over Paris
The story of Jean Valjean, still pursued by Javert, continues with a love developing between Cosette and radical student Marius, a blackmailing...
Veröffentlichung : 1948.01.21Popularität : 1.424
Crossroads of Passion
Lisbon, the capital of Neutral Portugal, is a hotbed of spies. Mario, a cabaret singer working for the Allies is responsible for the death of an...
Veröffentlichung : 1948.08.04Popularität : 1.438
Give Her the Moon
Marie, a young provincial girl, is seduced by an American billionaire. She agrees to stay with him if he moves her village to New York.
Veröffentlichung : 1970.02.25Popularität : 2.641
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
During World War II, Italian villagers hide their wine from the German army.
Veröffentlichung : 1970.01.02Popularität : 5.255
Widows' Nest
The arrival of some unwanted visitors interrupts the peaceful Cuban home life of sisters Dolores, Carmen and Elvira, as their presence stirs up...
Veröffentlichung : 1977.12.01Popularität : 0.896
Angels of Darkness
When "Tamara" throws herself from the window of their brothel, her colleagues are made to realise that a new law will close down the source of their...
Veröffentlichung : 1954.01.27Popularität : 1.687
Kidnap Syndicate
After his son is kidnapped, a millionaire industrialist seeks revenge, in spite of the potential danger that his rash actions will bring about for...
Veröffentlichung : 1975.08.27Popularität : 4.226
The Big Operator
The aging villain Émile Morland talks his old friend Aristide into helping him with to kidnap the son of a millionaire.
Veröffentlichung : 1976.11.27Popularität : 2.295
The Demonic Womanizer Costante Nicosia, or: Dracula in Brianza
A boorish, snobish toothpaste factory owner, Constantino Nicosia, gives his wife and everyone a hard time having let success and wealth go to his...
Veröffentlichung : 1975.08.21Popularität : 1.828
Oh, Grandmother's Dead
Relatives brawl over the estate of a deceased grandmother who owned an insecticide factory.They stop at nothing, including bumping each other off.
Veröffentlichung : 1969.10.09Popularität : 2.776
Federico Fellini's Autobiography
Federico Fellini was one of the most individual and thought provoking directors who based most of his films upon his own reflections, dreams, life...
Veröffentlichung : 2000.09.05Popularität : 1.463
Via Montenapoleone
Via Montenapoleone in Milan is the ritziest street in the city and here the destinies of several characters, playboys, models and gays cross and...
Veröffentlichung : 1987.03.13Popularität : 3.446
Diva!
The moving life and international career of actress Valentina Cortese is acted out by eight Italian actresses who interpret parts of her biography. A...
Veröffentlichung : 2017.09.01Popularität : 3.121
Tender Dracula
Two writers and their girlfriends visit the castle of an actor who specializes in playing vampire roles. As the night progresses, they begin to...
Veröffentlichung : 1974.08.07Popularität : 2.717
Shadow of the Eagle
During the eighteenth century the Empress of Russia sends her lover to kidnap her rival for the throne.
Veröffentlichung : 1950.09.11Popularität : 1.311
Antonioni: Documents and Testimonials
A behind-the-scenes documentary about director Michelangelo Antonioni as he's shooting his segment of The Three Faces, a vehicle for Soraya, the...
Veröffentlichung : 1965.09.12Popularität : 2.473
Primo amore
An Italian emigrant, who found fame and success in America, comes back to his hometown after over twenty years.
Veröffentlichung : 1941.10.05Popularität : 1.238
Rome: Free City
In a post-war Rome (1946) a cat burglar inadvertently saves the life of a would-be suicide man who returns from the war to find that he has been...
Veröffentlichung : 1946.12.17Popularität : 1.558
Nick the Sting
Nick Hezard, a young con man, wants to avenge the death of a friend of his and organizes a swindle trying to cheat Robert Turner, an American...
Veröffentlichung : 1976.09.14Popularität : 2.858
Kean: Genius or Scoundrel
England, first half of the 19th century. Edmund Kean is a celebrated theatre actor, notorious for his tumultuous private life. He is in love with the...
Veröffentlichung : 1957.03.04Popularität : 3.958
La Classe américaine
George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning...
Veröffentlichung : 1993.12.31Popularität : 10.593
The Possessed
While visiting his favorite resort village during winter, a writer investigates the apparent suicide of a woman he was infatuated with.
Veröffentlichung : 1965.07.24Popularität : 7.229
The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire
In Dublin, the acid-scarred, razor-slashed corpse of a young woman is discovered in the boot of the Swiss Ambassador's limousine. The Ambassador,...
Veröffentlichung : 1971.08.24Popularität : 3.848
Lulù
Mario, a student from a noble Milanese family, falls in love with Lulù, a young slender girl.
Veröffentlichung : 1953.06.10Popularität : 1.178