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Valentina Cortese (January 1, 1923 - July 10, 2019) was an Italian film actress.
The Milan-born actress starred in The House on Telegraph Hill (1951) directed by Robert Wise, and costarring Richard Basehart and William Lundigan. Cortese, aged 28, married Basehart in 1951, and had one son with him before they divorced in 1960.
She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1975 for her performance in François Truffaut's Day for Night.
Cortese appeared in Jules Dassin's Thieves' Highway (1949), Joseph L. Mankiewicz's The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Michelangelo Antonioni's Le Amiche (1955), Gérard Brach's The Boat on the Grass, Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), and in the Franco Zeffirelli projects such as the 1972 film Brother Sun, Sister Moon, his 1977 miniseries, Jesus of Nazareth and the 1993 film Sparrow.
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13 March 1987
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.
27 January 1953
A meek and simple-minded boarding school teacher falls in love with a prostitute and gets the boot from school.
09 October 1969
Relatives brawl over the estate of a deceased grandmother who owned an insecticide factory.They stop at nothing, including bumping each other off.
23 May 1978
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, two Bolognese spouses quarrel and do not realize that the civil war has broken out, a Neapolitan fan scandalizes a first class compartment .
16 April 1971
Despite their social differences, poor David and the rich Olivier are the best friends. David took the young Eleanor in Olivier's Paris apartment.
02 January 1942
Directed by Gennaro Righelli.
17 October 1975
The birth of a nephew upsets the life of Paolo and Carlo who, unable to grow old, try to prove that they are lively.
25 February 1954
An Italian historical comedy film consisting of three segments, based on three stage plays by Anton Chekhov.
07 October 1970
The story of two young lovers takes a tragic turn as the girl falls in love with the boy's father.
27 January 1954
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 livelihood.
05 February 1952
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.
22 May 1974
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.
10 December 1966
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 every nook and cranny.
27 December 1949
After living abroad for several years, journalist John Royer returns to the United States just after the U.
27 November 1976
The aging villain Émile Morland talks his old friend Aristide into helping him with to kidnap the son of a millionaire.
01 September 2017
The moving life and international career of actress Valentina Cortese is acted out by eight Italian actresses who interpret parts of her biography.
19 December 1958
Three vignettes about couples trying to get together and the problems that continue to keep them apart.
11 September 1950
During the eighteenth century the Empress of Russia sends her lover to kidnap her rival for the throne.
07 December 1988
An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.
02 February 1987
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 slaughterhouse.
04 March 1957
England, first half of the 19th century. Edmund Kean is a celebrated theatre actor, notorious for his tumultuous private life.
24 May 1973
A committed filmmaker struggles to complete his latest project while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
29 September 1954
A washed-up filmmaker gets a second chance at stardom when he discovers stunning peasant Maria Vargas dancing in a Madrid nightclub.
04 February 1972
Roma.During a clash between demonstrating laborers (whose fight the students have joined) a policeman and a student are both killed.
23 December 1961
Epic account of the thief Barabbas, who was pardoned for his crimes and spared crucifixion when Pilate offered the Israelites a choice to pardon Barabbas or Jesus.
03 March 1972
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.
09 May 1991
A young woman who is obsessed with Buster Keaton stays in the sanatorium where the actor was once a patient.
05 January 1945
A host of college girls take different life paths in the Italy of the 1930s.
19 August 1949
A hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.
02 January 1970
During World War II, Italian villagers hide their wine from the German army.
06 May 1964
Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town.
12 May 1951
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.
20 September 1949
Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber.
10 June 1953
Mario, a student from a noble Milanese family, falls in love with Lulù, a young slender girl.
07 August 1974
Two writers and their girlfriends visit the castle of an actor who specializes in playing vampire roles.
22 October 1965
Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows increasingly questionable.
21 August 1968
A dictatorial film director hires an unknown actress to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.
22 October 1947
The story of the most infamous bandit in Romagna, who robbed from the rich to give to the poor.
01 December 1977
The arrival of some unwanted visitors interrupts the peaceful Cuban home life of sisters Dolores, Carmen and Elvira, as their presence stirs up unwelcome memories.
22 August 1974
Countess Elena marries the charming Guido Rambaldi, only for him to be seduced by dancer Nara during their Venice honeymoon.
21 January 1948
The story of Jean Valjean, still pursued by Javert, continues with a love developing between Cosette and radical student Marius, a blackmailing attempt by suspicious innkeeper Thenardier, and a climax on the barricades of Paris.
09 March 1949
An aspiring composer, in the British Air Force for WWII, is downed in Italy and rescued by an Italian girl.
28 March 1980
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.
30 March 1972
A Stalinist assassin tracks exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky to Mexico in 1940.
05 September 2000
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 convey any special message for humanity but regarded cinema simply as entertainment.
31 December 1993
George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of these intriguing final words, asks his three best investigators, Dave, Peter and Steven, to solve the mystery.
04 August 1948
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 Italian agent.
10 February 1963
A tourist witnesses a murder and finds herself caught up in a series of bloody killings.
04 February 1994
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 avoid contamination.
18 November 1955
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.
14 May 1942
Italian film from 1942.
10 January 1948
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert.
