6 Movies Starring Valentina Cortese

Le amiche

Le amiche

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1955-11-18

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy

Runtime:

104 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (1485 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Cesare Pavese (novel)

Suso Cecchi D'Amico (screenplay)

Michelangelo Antonioni (screenplay)

Alba De Cespedes (collaboration)

Fullplot:

Clelia comes from Rome to her native Turin, to set up a new fashion salon. On her first night, the woman in the next room of her hotel takes an overdose of pills. Clelia becomes involved with this woman, Rosetta, and three of her rich women friends, Momina, Nene, and Mariella. Momina is older than the others, and lives apart from her husband. Her current lover is Cesare, the architect of Clelia's salon. Nene is a talented ceramics artist, and lives with her fiance, the painter Lorenzo. Mariella is a flighty woman only interested in having a good time. Clelia becomes attached to Carlo, the architect's assistant, but the other women look down on him as he comes from a working class background. Momina, with the help of Clelia, discovers that Rosetta fell in love with Lorenzo as he was painting her portrait. Momina then encourages Rosetta to go after Lorenzo, even though he and Nene were supposed to marry soon.

The Rocket from Calabuch

The Rocket from Calabuch

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1956-09-28

Languages:

Spanish

Countries:

Spain, Italy

Runtime:

93 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (517 Reviews)

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Leonardo Martèn (story)

Leonardo Martèn (screenplay)

Florentino Soria (screenplay)

Ennio Flaiano (screenplay)

Luis Garcèa Berlanga (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Juliet of the Spirits

Juliet of the Spirits

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1965-11-03

Languages:

Italian, French

Countries:

Italy, France

Runtime:

137 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (8025 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Federico Fellini (story)

Tullio Pinelli (story)

Federico Fellini (screenplay)

Tullio Pinelli (screenplay)

Ennio Flaiano (screenplay)

Brunello Rondi (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Juliet lives in a beautiful house by the ocean. Her sisters, and especially her Mother overshadow her with their beauty. She is a spiritual, superstitious and naive woman. She visits a psychic seer who tells her she must follow the sex trade in order to be happy. Not long after she meets her eccentric and sexy neighbour, Suzy, who, by all counts appears to be a high class prostitute and encourages Juilet into sexual acts which make her guilty and nervous. A rare night when her husband is at home she wakes up to catch him talking to another woman on the phone. He calls out the name "Gabriella" while sleeping, but when she questions him he lies his way out of it. She finds out who Gabriella is and fears her husband will leave her. Juliet begins having visions who accuse and terrorize her. The pinnacle of the visions comes at the end where it is implied she realizes she would be better off without her husband and is ultimately emotionally emancipated.

First Love

First Love

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1971-04-23

Languages:

German

Countries:

West Germany, Switzerland, Hungary

Runtime:

89 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (98 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

John Gould

Maximilian Schell

Ivan Turgenev (story)

Fullplot:

Based on Ivan Turgeyev's novella, Erste Liebe is about two young lovers in czarist Russia. One is a 21-year-old woman, the other a young man of sixteen. Things take a tragic turn as the girl (Dominique Sanda as Sanaida) falls in love with the boy's father (Maximilian Schell). This film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in 1970's Academy Awards.

Day for Night

Day for Night

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1973-09-07

Languages:

French, English

Countries:

France, Italy

Runtime:

115 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

(13261 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Franèois Truffaut (original screenplay)

Jean-Louis Richard (original screenplay)

Suzanne Schiffman (original screenplay)

Fullplot:

The shooting of "Je vous presente Pamela" (may I introduce Pamela) begins. This is the story of en English married wife falling in love and running away with the father of her French husband. Will be simultaneously shown the shooting, the behavior of the people (including the technical team) on the set, and a part of their private life (a factor of complication)...

Fellini Narrates: A Discovered Self-Portrait

Fellini Narrates: A Discovered Self-Portrait

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2000-09-05

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy

Runtime:

68 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (75 Reviews)

Genres:

Documentary

Fullplot:

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