Cast: Valentina Cortese

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Valentina Cortese. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Day for Night

1973 · Movie · 115 min. · France

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...

7.7

10K votes

7.7

10K votes

The Rocket from Calabuch

1956 · Movie · 92 min. · Spain

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.

7.5

7K votes

7.5

7K votes

The Barefoot Contessa

1954 · Movie · 128 min. · United States

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...

7.3

6K votes

7.3

6K votes

The Visit

1964 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

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...

7.1

327 votes

7.1

327 votes

Juliet of the Spirits

1965 · Movie · 148 min. · Italy

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...

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7.1

3K votes

7.1

3K votes

Thieves' Highway

1949 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

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.

7.1

836 votes

7.1

836 votes

The Girlfriends

1955 · Movie · 104 min. · Italy

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...

6.9

687 votes

6.9

687 votes

The Secret of Santa Vittoria

1969 · Movie · 140 min. · United States

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...

6.9

1K votes

6.9

1K votes

The Legend of Lylah Clare

1968 · Movie · 130 min. · United States

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.

6.6

270 votes

6.6

270 votes

The Adventures of Baron Münchausen

1988 · Movie · 126 min. · United Kingdom

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...

6.6

9K votes

6.6

9K votes

Brother Sun, Sister Moon

1972 · Movie · 121 min. · Italy

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...

6.5

1K votes

6.5

1K votes

The House on Telegraph Hill

1951 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

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...

6.5

449 votes

6.5

449 votes

Barabba (Barabbas)

1961 · Movie · 131 min. · Italy

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...

6.4

3K votes

6.4

3K votes

The Lady of the Lake

1965 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy

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...

6.4

271 votes

6.4

271 votes

The Girl Who Knew Too Much

1962 · Movie · 83 min. · Italy

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...

6.3

751 votes

6.3

751 votes

Secret People

1952 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

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,...

5.9

51 votes

5.9

51 votes

Black Magic

1949 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

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.

5.9

207 votes

5.9

207 votes

Chronicle of a Homicide

1972 · Movie · 99 min. · Italy

5.9

42 votes

5.9

42 votes

Malaya

1949 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

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...

5.8

140 votes

5.8

140 votes

First Love

1971 · Movie · 90 min. · Switzerland

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...

5.6

78 votes

5.6

78 votes