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...
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
Direction Mauro Bolognini
Cast Massimo Ranieri · Martin Balsam · Valentina Cortese · Turi Ferro
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