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Valentina Cortese

Valentina Cortese

Italian actress (1923-2019)
January 1, 1923 (July 10, 2019)
G.-B. 1988. Fantasy comedy by Terry Gilliam with John Neville, Sarah Polley, Eric Idle. A strange character boasts that he can liberate a city under siege by the Turks if he finds his four former companions.
Runtime: 124 min.
Fr. 1977. Police comedy by Claude Pinoteau with Yves Montand, Claude Brasseur, Agostina Belli. A swindler drags a tour guide and an actress into a kidnapping affair.
Runtime: 100 min.

Day for Night

V.O.: La Nuit américaine
Fr. 1973. Dramatic comedy by François Truffaut with François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jacqueline Bisset. Unexpected incidents pose a variety of problems for a director in the middle of a shoot.
Runtime: 115 min.

Brother Sun, Sister Moon

V.O.: Fratello sole, sorella luna
It. 1972. Biography by Franco Zeffirelli with Graham Faulkner, Judi Bowker, Valentina Cortese. A few incidents in the life of St. Francis of Assisi.
Runtime: 121 min.
Fr. 1971. Dramatic comedy by Gérard Brach with Jean-Pierre Cassel, John McEnery, Claude Jade. The close friendship between two friends deteriorates because of a woman.
Runtime: 90 min.

First Love

V.O.: Erste Liebe
All. 1970. Psychological drama by Maximilian Schell with Maximilian Schell, John Moulder-Brown, Dominique Sanda. While on a summer vacation in the country with his parents, a teenager is attracted to the beauty of a young neighbour.
Runtime: 88 min.
Fr. 1970. Drama by Roger Kahane with Alain Delon, Mireille Darc, Jane Davenport. A couple with big ideas tries to form a threesome.
Runtime: 85 min.

Black Sun

V.O.: Soleil noir
Fr. 1966. Drama by Denys de La Patellière with Michèle Mercier, Daniel Gélin, Michel de Ré. An industrialist's daughter finds her older brother in Africa who has become a human wreck.
Runtime: 96 min.

The Possessed

V.O.: La Donna del lago
It. 1965. Thriller by Luigi Bazzoni, Franco Rossellini with Peter Baldwin, Salvo Randone, Valentina Cortese. While visiting his favorite resort town during the off-season, a novelist investigates the apparent suicide of a woman he was infatuated with.
Runtime: 85 min.

Juliet of the Spirits

V.O.: Giulietta degli spiriti
It. 1965. Psychological drama by Federico Fellini with Giulietta Masina, Sandra Milo, Mario Pisu. Feeling neglected by her husband, a woman indulges in fantastic fantasies.
Runtime: 148 min.
Youg. 1962. War drama by Leonardo Bercovici with Broderick Crawford, Valentina Cortese, Branko Plesa. Following an attack, the Germans threaten to kill three hundred hostages if the culprit does not surrender.
Runtime: 90 min.

Evil Eye

V.O.: La ragazza que sapeva troppo
It. 1962. Crime drama by Mario Bava with Leticia Roman, John Saxon, Valentina Cortese. Witness to a murder, a young girl can't convince the police.
Runtime: 90 min.

Calabuig

V.O.: Calabuch
Esp. 1956. Satire by Luis Garcia Berlanga with Edmund Gwenn, Valentina Cortese, Franco Fabrizi. A nuclear scientist, disappointed with the use made of his findings, takes refuge in a Spanish village.

The Girlfriends

V.O.: Le Amiche
It. 1955. Psychological drama by Michelangelo Antonioni with Eleonora Rossi Drago, Valentina Cortese, Yvonne Furneaux. The problems of women in the high fashion world.
Runtime: 99 min.
U.S. 1954. Psychological drama by Joseph L. Mankiewicz with Ava Gardner, Humphrey Bogart, Edmond O'Brien. Portrayal of the life of a little dancer from Madrid, who became a movie star and then a countess before meeting a tragic end.
Runtime: 130 min.
G.-B. 1952. Drama by Thorold Dickinson with Valentina Cortese, Serge Reggiani, Audrey Hepburn. A woman involved in a revolutionary movement, is upset by acts of violence.
U.S. 1951. Drama by Robert Wise with Richard Basehart, Valentina Cortese, William Lundigan. A Polish takes the place of a dead friend and discovers that someone is trying to kill the dead woman's son.
Runtime: 93 min.

Women Without Names

V.O.: Donne senza nome
Runtime: 100 min.
It. 1949. Adventures drama by Sidney Salkow with Richard Green, Valentina Cortese.
Runtime: 93 min.
G.-B. 1949. Sentimental drama by Henry Cass with Valentina Cortese, Michael Denison, Tito Gobbi. A young married musician, enlisted in the air force, falls in love with an Italian woman.

Tempête sur Paris

V.O.: Tempesta su Parigi
Runtime: 92 min.
U.S. 1948. War drama by Richard Thorpe with James Stewart, Spencer Tracy, Valentina Cortese. During the war, a journalist is tasked with bringing rubber supplies out of occupied Malaya.
Runtime: 98 min.
U.S. 1948. Adventures by Gregory Ratoff with Orson Welles, Nancy Guild, Valentina Cortese. In eighteenth century France, a hypnotist seeks revenge against a viscount who had him convicted of witchcraft.
Runtime: 1948

Le Rouge et le noir

V.O.: Il Corriere del re
It. 1947. Drama by Gennaro Righelli with Rossano Brazzi, Valentina Cortese, Irasema Dillian. The tumultuous love story of a young peasant who falls victim to his own ambition.

L'Évadé du bagne

V.O.: I Miserabili
It. 1947. Melodrama by Riccardo Freda with Gino Cervi, Valentina Cortese, Giovanni Hinrich. A former convict starts a new and honest life.
Runtime: 86 min.

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