Cast: Valentina Cortese

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Jacqueline Bisset · Nathalie Baye · Alexandra Stewart

Plot A film company at work. Actors arrive and depart; liaisons develop. Julie, the beautiful but possibly unstable lead, is recovering from a breakdown, aided by an older physician, her new...

Direction Luis García Berlanga

Cast Edmund Gwenn · Valentina Cortese · Franco Fabrizi · Juan Calvo

Plot A renown atomic scientist escapes from his world of formulas and destruction and finds a respite in a Spanish seaside village.

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Ava Gardner · Edmond O'Brien · Marius Goring

Plot At Maria Vargas' funeral, several people recall who she was and the impact she had on them. Harry Dawes was a not very successful writer/director when he and movie producer...

Direction Bernhard Wicki

Cast Ingrid Bergman · Anthony Quinn · Irina Demick · Paolo Stoppa

Plot 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 cunning, she...

Direction Federico Fellini

Cast Giulietta Masina · Sandra Milo · Mario Pisu · Valentina Cortese

Plot Juliet lives in a beautiful house by the ocean. Her sisters, and especially her Mother overshadow her with their beauty. She is a spiritual, superstitious and naive woman. She visits...

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Richard Conte · Valentina Cortese · Lee J. Cobb · Barbara Lawrence

Plot A war-veteran-turned-truck driver attempts to avenge the crippling and robbing of his father at the hands of an amoral produce scofflaw.

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni

Cast Eleonora Rossi Drago · Gabriele Ferzetti · Franco Fabrizi · Valentina Cortese

Plot An early drama from director Antonioni, LE AMICHE is an allegory about the changing roles of women in society. Clelia (Rossi-Drago) is a beautiful young woman who works in the...

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Anthony Quinn · Anna Magnani · Hardy Krüger · Virna Lisi

Plot Bombolini is a fairly worthless drunk in the small Italian town of Santa Vittoria in the closing days of World War II. When word comes that the Fascist government has...

Direction Robert Aldrich

Cast Kim Novak · Peter Finch · Ernest Borgnine · Milton Selzer

Plot A dictatorial film director (Finch) hires an unknown actress (Novak) to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.

Direction Terry Gilliam

Cast John Neville · Sarah Polley · Eric Idle · Uma Thurman

Plot Baron Munchausen is a character of European myth that might be considered the predecessor of American tales of Pecos Bill or Paul Bunyan. The Baron's stories are taken to be...

Direction Franco Zeffirelli

Cast Graham Faulkner · Judi Bowker · Leigh Lawson · Kenneth Cranham

Plot The story follows young Francesco (Graham Faulkner) as he emerges from post-war trauma, renounces all worldly possessions, and attains enlightenment as a simple monk. His materialist father wants him to...

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Richard Basehart · Valentina Cortese · William Lundigan · Fay Baker

Plot Victoria has survived Nazi concentration by assuming the identity of one who died there. She arrives in San Francisco to see her "son" just as the boy's great-aunt dies leaving...

Direction Richard Fleischer

Cast Anthony Quinn · Vittorio Gassman · Silvana Mangano · Jack Palance

Plot Barabbas, the criminal that Pontius Pilate induced the populace to vote to set free, so that Christ could be crucified, is haunted by the ghost of the prophet for the...

Direction Luigi Bazzoni · Franco Rossellini

Cast Peter Baldwin · Salvo Randone · Valentina Cortese · Pia Lindström

Plot A young writer, Bernard (Peter Baldwin), returns to the small town where he had vacationed previously, He goes to visit Tilde (Virna Lisi), a young woman with whom he had...

Direction Mario Bava

Cast Leticia Roman · John Saxon · Valentina Cortese · Titti Tomaino

Plot An American girl finds herself involved in a series of murders, the names of whom are in alphabetical order. She herself is the next, but escapes murder when the killer...

Direction Thorold Dickinson

Cast Valentina Cortese · Serge Reggiani · Charles Goldner · Audrey Hepburn

Plot In 1930, Maria Brentano and her younger sister Nora flee to London after their father is murdered by a European dictator. Seven years later, during a weekend trip to Paris,...

Direction Gregory Ratoff · Orson Welles

Cast Orson Welles · Nancy Guild · Akim Tamiroff · Frank Latimore

Plot Hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.

Direction Mauro Bolognini

Cast Massimo Ranieri · Martin Balsam · Valentina Cortese · Turi Ferro

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Spencer Tracy · James Stewart · Sydney Greenstreet · Valentina Cortese

Plot Newspaperman Royer convinces government officials of a plan to obtain rubber by stealing it out from under the Japanese. Carnahan is let out of prison to help. While taking out...

Direction Maximilian Schell

Cast Dominique Sanda · John Moulder-Brown · Maximilian Schell · Valentina Cortese

Plot John Moulder Brown plays Alexander, a 16-year-old boy who falls in love with 21-year-old Sinaida (Dominique Sanda). Despite a great deal of emotional turmoil, exacerbated by the fact that Sinaida...