Search results for "Valentina Cortese"
Listen, Let’s Make Love

Listen, Let’s Make Love

Listen, Let’s Make Love
IMDb: 5.3
91

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 at finding rich…

Genre: Comedy
Kidnap Syndicate

Kidnap Syndicate

Kidnap Syndicate
IMDb: 6.5
100

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

Genre: Action, Crime
Tender Dracula

Tender Dracula

Tender Dracula
IMDb: 3.5
98

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

Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Malaya

Malaya

Malaya
IMDb: 6.5
98

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 could easily smuggle rubber,…

Genre: Adventure, Drama
The Glass Mountain

The Glass Mountain

The Glass Mountain
IMDb: 6.6
88

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 write an…

Genre: Drama
The Boat on the Grass

The Boat on the Grass

The Boat on the Grass
IMDb: 5.6
90

Despite their social differences, poor David and the rich Olivier are the best friends. David took the young Eleanor in Olivier’s Paris apartment. When Olivier meets her there, he takes…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Legend of Lylah Clare

The Legend of Lylah Clare

The Legend of Lylah Clare
IMDb: 5.8
130

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

Genre: Drama
Magic Fire

Magic Fire

Magic Fire
IMDb: 6
95

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

Genre: Drama, Romance
Day for Night

Day for Night

Day for Night
IMDb: 8
116

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

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
IMDb: 7.2
126

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

The Possessed

The Possessed

The Possessed
IMDb: 7
85

Bernard, a writer in a personal and creative crisis, decides to a short break in a hotel where he had stayed the previous year. The proprietors, old Enrico and his…

Juliet of the Spirits

Juliet of the Spirits

Juliet of the Spirits
IMDb: 7.6
148

Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows increasingly questionable. One night when Giorgio initiates a seance amongst his friends, Giulietta gets in touch with spirits…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
The Barefoot Contessa

The Barefoot Contessa

The Barefoot Contessa
IMDb: 7
128

Has-been director Harry Dawes gets a new lease on his career when independently wealthy Kirk Edwards hires him to write and direct a film. They go to Madrid to find…

Genre: Drama
Secret People

Secret People

Secret People
IMDb: 6.2
96

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

Genre: Crime, Drama
When Time Ran Out…

When Time Ran Out…

When Time Ran Out…
IMDb: 4.6
121

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 foreman.

The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire

The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire

The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire
IMDb: 5.4
92

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, his family and employees all become immediate suspects….

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Appassionata

Appassionata

Appassionata
IMDb: 5.4
96

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.

Genre: Drama
Barabbas

Barabbas

Barabbas
IMDb: 6.9
137

Epic account of the thief Barabbas, who was spared crucifixion when Pilate manipulated the crowd into pardoning him, rather than Jesus. Struggling with his spirituality, Barabbas goes through many ordeals…

Thieves’ Highway

Thieves’ Highway

Thieves’ Highway
IMDb: 7.6
94

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 father was recently…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Black Magic

Black Magic

Black Magic
IMDb: 6.4
105

Hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV’s court.

Brother Sun, Sister Moon

Brother Sun, Sister Moon

Brother Sun, Sister Moon
IMDb: 7.2
135

This is a dramatization of events in the life of St. Francis of Assisi from before his conversion experience through his audience with the pope, including his friendship with St….

Genre: Drama, History, War
The House on Telegraph Hill

The House on Telegraph Hill

The House on Telegraph Hill
IMDb: 6.9
93

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

Square of Violence

Square of Violence

Square of Violence
IMDb: 7.7
96

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…

Genre: Drama, War
Federico Fellini’s Autobiography

Federico Fellini’s Autobiography

Federico Fellini’s Autobiography
IMDb: 6.9
55

Federico Fellini was one of the most individual and thought provoking directors who based most of his films upon his own reflections, dreams, life events and fantasies, who did not…

Genre: Documentary
The Girl Who Knew Too Much

The Girl Who Knew Too Much

The Girl Who Knew Too Much
IMDb: 7
92

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

Storm Over Paris

Storm Over Paris

Storm Over Paris
IMDb: 6.8
92

Second part of the adapation of Hugo’s novel “Les misérables”.

Genre: Drama, History
Le Amiche

Le Amiche

Le Amiche
IMDb: 7.2
104

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

Genre: Drama, Romance