Valentina Cortese

A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.

Despite their social differences, poor David and the rich Olivier are the best friends. David took the young Eleanor in Olivier's Paris apartment....

Once a Satanist who surrendered her soul and body to the devil himself, Carlotta Rhodes begins to regret her tryst with Lucifer when her teenage...

In his delirium from his return from war, Francesco Bernardone goes back in his memories to the days when he lived for parties and carnal pleasures....

Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber. He learns, however, that his...

A Stalinist assassin tracks exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky to Mexico in 1940.

Jean Valjean, pursued through the years for a minor infraction by the implacable policeman Javert, attempts to create a life for himself and for his...

Epic account of the thief Barabbas, who was pardoned for his crimes and spared crucifixion when Pilate offered the Israelites a choice to pardon...

A tourist witnesses a murder and finds herself caught up in a series of bloody killings.

Has-been director Harry Dawes gets a new lease on his career when the independently wealthy tycoon Kirk Edwards hires him to write and direct a film....

Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder when she assumes the identity of a dead friend in...

Three jailbirds - a surgeon, a robber and a wrongly convicted man must adjust to their lives once released from prison.

An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.

After living abroad for several years, journalist John Royer returns to the United States just after the U.S. enters World War II. His boast that he...

Catania, Sicilia 1854. A serious epidemic of cholera is hitting the region. Maria a 16 years old novice leaves her convent and returns her home to...

An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property's developer and a drilling...

Clelia, a self-made woman coming from humble means, travels back to Turin, her hometown, to scout locations for the successful Roman atelier she...

Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows increasingly questionable. One night when Giorgio initiates a...

Two teenage friends conspire to find out how much their youthful sensuality can disrupt one of their households, headed by a dentist and his...

A hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.

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

Julien and Agatha appear to be a great couple, loving, caring and seem to feel complete with each other. Though Julien often gives the impression of...

Professor Hamilton, a naive Nuclear scientist who once thought bombs were good for humanity, realizes his mistake and runs away from his inventions....

A young Gallic heiress Christine is looking for her long-lost brother in Algeria. She's not looking for danger, but that's what comes in her way from...

This tale of intrigue finds Valentina Cortese involved in an assassination plot. She helps the police apprehend the conspirators after an innocent...

Tango blu is a night club in Milan where various bizarre characters meet. Among them a womanizing photographer and a porter who works in a...

Director William Dieterle's 1956 film biography of classical composer Richard Wagner stars Carlos Thompson, Yvonne De Carlo, Rita Gam, Alan Badel and...

An Italian historical comedy film consisting of three segments, based on three stage plays by Anton Chekhov.

The birth of a nephew upsets the life of Paolo and Carlo who, unable to grow old, try to prove that they are lively.

Film in four episodes, inspired by the chronicle of the time: three mature sisters give themselves to a stranger, Maria tries to escape her husband,...

Anna and Marcello, two wealthy high school students. they would like to consume their Platonic love so far, going against the directives of their...

The story of two young lovers takes a tragic turn as the girl falls in love with the boy's father.

The story of the most infamous bandit in Romagna, who robbed from the rich to give to the poor.

A young woman who is obsessed with Buster Keaton stays in the sanatorium where the actor was once a patient.

A meek and simple-minded boarding school teacher falls in love with a prostitute and gets the boot from school. He tries to have her change her way...

Set in Italy, the story takes place in this very country, during WW2, where German occupation army ruled everything, just before the allied forces...

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...

A biographical drama is based on the 1929 autobiography of Swedish doctor Axel Martin Fredrik, The Story of San Michele. It follows the physician,...

Directed by Gennaro Righelli.

Roma.During a clash between demonstrating laborers (whose fight the students have joined) a policeman and a student are both killed. The...

When his father dies, young lad travels to Milan to attend the funeral and decides to follow in his father's footsteps as a gigolo. He is successful...

In Florence, at the time of Lorenzo de Medici, known also as Lorenzo the Magnificent, the aristocrat brothers Chiaramantesi rule with an iron fist...

Adaptation of a novel by Carolina Invernizio.

An aspiring composer, in the British Air Force for WWII, is downed in Italy and rescued by an Italian girl. He returns home to his wife, inspired to...

Matthew, a rich nationalist Jew and a contemporary of Jesus, regards the latter as an obstacle in this struggle to free their people from the Roman...

A host of college girls take different life paths in the Italy of the 1930s.

Three vignettes about couples trying to get together and the problems that continue to keep them apart.

The story of Jean Valjean, still pursued by Javert, continues with a love developing between Cosette and radical student Marius, a blackmailing...

Lisbon, the capital of Neutral Portugal, is a hotbed of spies. Mario, a cabaret singer working for the Allies is responsible for the death of an...

Marie, a young provincial girl, is seduced by an American billionaire. She agrees to stay with him if he moves her village to New York.

During World War II, Italian villagers hide their wine from the German army.

The arrival of some unwanted visitors interrupts the peaceful Cuban home life of sisters Dolores, Carmen and Elvira, as their presence stirs up...

When "Tamara" throws herself from the window of their brothel, her colleagues are made to realise that a new law will close down the source of their...

After his son is kidnapped, a millionaire industrialist seeks revenge, in spite of the potential danger that his rash actions will bring about for...

The aging villain Émile Morland talks his old friend Aristide into helping him with to kidnap the son of a millionaire.

A boorish, snobish toothpaste factory owner, Constantino Nicosia, gives his wife and everyone a hard time having let success and wealth go to his...

Relatives brawl over the estate of a deceased grandmother who owned an insecticide factory.They stop at nothing, including bumping each other off.

Federico Fellini was one of the most individual and thought provoking directors who based most of his films upon his own reflections, dreams, life...

Italian film from 1942.

Via Montenapoleone in Milan is the ritziest street in the city and here the destinies of several characters, playboys, models and gays cross and...

The moving life and international career of actress Valentina Cortese is acted out by eight Italian actresses who interpret parts of her biography. A...

Two writers and their girlfriends visit the castle of an actor who specializes in playing vampire roles. As the night progresses, they begin to...

During the eighteenth century the Empress of Russia sends her lover to kidnap her rival for the throne.

A behind-the-scenes documentary about director Michelangelo Antonioni as he's shooting his segment of The Three Faces, a vehicle for Soraya, the...

An Italian emigrant, who found fame and success in America, comes back to his hometown after over twenty years.

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...

Nick Hezard, a young con man, wants to avenge the death of a friend of his and organizes a swindle trying to cheat Robert Turner, an American...

England, first half of the 19th century. Edmund Kean is a celebrated theatre actor, notorious for his tumultuous private life. He is in love with the...

George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning...

While visiting his favorite resort village during winter, a writer investigates the apparent suicide of a woman he was infatuated with.

In Dublin, the acid-scarred, razor-slashed corpse of a young woman is discovered in the boot of the Swiss Ambassador's limousine. The Ambassador,...

Mario, a student from a noble Milanese family, falls in love with Lulù, a young slender girl.