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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.

The Kidnap Syndicate

V.O.: La Città sconvolta: caccia spietata ai rapitori
It. 1975. Crime drama by Fernando Di Leo with Luc Mérenda, James Mason, Vittorio Caprioli. A mechanic becomes a vigilante to fight kidnappers who killed his young son.
Runtime: 75 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.
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
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.

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.
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.
It. 1949. Adventures drama by Sidney Salkow with Richard Green, Valentina Cortese.
Runtime: 93 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

Tempête sur Paris

V.O.: Tempesta su Parigi
Runtime: 92 min.

Le Rouge et le noir

V.O.: Il Corriere del re
It. 1947. Drama by Gennaro Righelli with Rossano Brazzi, Valentina Cortese, Irasema Dilian. 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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