Cast: Valentina Cortese
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Valentina Cortese. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Sparrow
1993 · Movie · 106 min. · Italy
Direction Franco Zeffirelli
Cast Angela Bettis · Johnathon Schaech · Eva Alexander · Andrea Cassar
Plot Catania, Sicilia 1864. A serious epidemic of cholera is hitting the region. Maria a 16 years old novice leaves her convent and returns her home to avoid contamination. Here she...
5.6
27 votes
5.6
27 votes
The Assassination of Trotsky
1972 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Joseph Losey
Cast Richard Burton · Alain Delon · Romy Schneider · Valentina Cortese
Plot After having been forced to leave the Soviet Union 1929 Trotsky has ended up in Mexico 1940. He is still busy with the politics. Stalin has sent out an assassin,...
5.4
704 votes
5.4
704 votes
Magic Fire
1955 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
Direction William Dieterle
Cast Yvonne De Carlo · Carlos Thompson · Rita Gam · Valentina Cortese
Plot The life and career of German composer Richard Wagner.
5.2
21 votes
5.2
21 votes
Young Toscanini
1988 · Movie · 120 min. · Italy
Direction Franco Zeffirelli
Cast C. Thomas Howell · Elizabeth Taylor · Sophie Ward · Pat Heywood
Plot This biographical costume drama from director Franco Zeffirelli covers the early life of Arturo Toscanini and stars C. Thomas Howell as the famous composer. When Arturo lands a job with...
5.2
40 votes
5.2
40 votes
The Shortest Day
1963 · Movie · 91 min. · Italy
Direction Sergio Corbucci
Cast Ciccio Ingrassia · Franco Franchi · Virna Lisi · Gino Cervi
Plot Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
5.1
49 votes
5.1
49 votes
Appassionata
1974 · Movie · 96 min. · Italy
Direction Gianluigi Calderone
Cast Gabriele Ferzetti · Ornella Muti · Eleonora Giorgi · Ninetto Davoli
Plot Two teenage friends conspire to find out how much their youthful sensuality can disrupt one of their households, headed by a dentist and his mentally-ill wife.
5.0
65 votes
5.0
65 votes
When Time Ran Out
1980 · Movie · 121 min. · United States
Direction James Goldstone
Cast Paul Newman · Jacqueline Bisset · William Holden · Edward Albert
Plot Tourists are surprised by a volcanic eruption in a lonesome hotel in the Caribic. The hotel owner ignores all warnings and advises his guests to wait for a rescue team....
4.4
1K votes
4.4
1K votes
The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire
1971 · Movie · 92 min. · Italy
Direction Riccardo Freda
Cast Luigi Pistilli · Dagmar Lassander · Anton Diffring · Arthur O'Sullivan
4.3
58 votes
4.3
58 votes
Buster's Bedroom
1991 · Movie · 104 min. · Germany
Direction Rebecca Horn
Cast Donald Sutherland · Geraldine Chaplin · Amanda Ooms · Valentina Cortese
Plot A young woman who is obsessed with Buster Keaton stays in the sanatorium where the actor was once a patient.
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Adriana Lecouvreur
1955 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy
Direction Guido Salvini
Cast Valentina Cortese · Gabriele Ferzetti · Olga Villi · Annibale Ninchi
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Give Her the Moon
1970 · Movie · 92 min. · France
Direction Philippe de Broca
Cast Philippe Noiret · Bert Convy · Valentina Cortese · Fernand Gravey
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The Wandering Jew
1948 · Movie · 101 min. · Italy
Direction Goffredo Alessandrini
Cast Vittorio Gassman · Valentina Cortese · Inga Gort · Noëlle Norman
Plot Germany 1935. Mathieu Blumenthal asks Professor Epstein for help and tells him his story. He has been condemned to wander eternally for insulting Christ on his way to Golgotha. Paris,...
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Kean: Genius or Scoundrel
1956 · Movie · 80 min. · Italy
Direction Vittorio Gassman · Francesco Rosi
Cast Vittorio Gassman · Cesco Baseggio · Mario Carotenuto · Anna-Maria Ferrero
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Square of Violence
1961 · Movie · 113 min. · Yugoslavia
Direction Leonardo Bercovici
Cast Broderick Crawford · Valentina Cortese · Branko Plesa · Bibi Andersson
Plot Set in Italy, the story takes place in this very country, during WW2, where German occupation army ruled everything, just before the allied forces came, in 1944. Crawford plays here...
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Story of San Michele
1962 · Movie · 134 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Giorgio Capitani · Rudolf Jugert · Georg Marischka
Cast O.W. Fischer · Rosanna Schiaffino · Sonja Ziemann · María Mahor
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First Love
1941 · Movie · 109 min. · Italy
Direction Carmine Gallone
Cast Leonardo Cortese · Vivi Gioi · Luigi Almirante · Valentina Cortese
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Rome: Free City
1946 · Movie · 81 min. · Italy
Direction Marcello Pagliero
Cast Andrea Checchi · Valentina Cortese · Nando Bruno · Vittorio De Sica
Plot 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 betrayed by...
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Via Montenapoleone
1987 · Movie · 103 min. · Italy
Direction Carlo Vanzina
Cast Carol Alt · Valentina Cortese · Luca Barbareschi · Fabrizio Bentivoglio
Plot Via Montenapoleone in Milan is the ritziest street in the city and here the destinies of several characters, playboys, models and gays cross and diverge.
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A Yank in Rome
1945 · Movie · 99 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Zampa
Cast Valentina Cortese · Leo Dale · Adolfo Celi · Paolo Stoppa
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Jailbirds
1954 · Movie · 94 min. · Italy
Direction Vittorio Cottafavi
Cast Richard Basehart · Eddie Constantine · Walter Chiari · Antonella Lualdi
Plot Three prisoners are discharged from jail: Stefano Luprandi, a surgeon accused of murdering a patient by doing an unauthorized surgery, Giuseppe Rasi, unjustly processed for robbery, and Franco Cesari, a...
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