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

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

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Give Her the Moon

1970 · Movie · 92 min. · France

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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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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)

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First Love

1941 · Movie · 109 min. · Italy

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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

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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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