 The Adventures of Baron Munchausen 1989  PG, 126 min.
Genre: Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy
Director: Terry Gilliam
Cast: John Neville, Eric Idle, Oliver Reed, Uma Thurman, Robin Williams, Sarah Polley, Bill Paterson, Valentina Cortese, Jonathan Pryce, Peter Jeffrey, Charles McKeown, Winston Dennis, Jack Purvis, Alison Steadman, Ray Cooper
Terry Gilliam, who also directed "Time Bandits" and "Brazil," has created an enjoyable film based on the exaggerated war stories of a real-life, 18th-century baron (John Neville). Not only did he have amazing adventures all over the world, the good baron met the King of the Moon (Robin Williams), took a voyage into the heart of a volcano, and was swallowed by a sea monster.
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The Assassination of Trotsky 1972  R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Joseph Losey
Cast: Richard Burton, Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Valentina Cortese, Enrico Maria Salerno, Luigi Vannucchi, Duilio Del Prete, Claudio Brook, Jean Desailly, Simone Valere, Carlos Miranda, Peter Chatel, Jack Betts, Michael Forest
While exiled in Mexico City, Russian Revolution leader Leon Trotsky (Richard Burton) is the victim of Frank Jacson's (Alain Delon) successful assassination plot. This film involves the final months in Trotsky's life and shows how Jacson, with help from his girlfriend Gita Samuels (Romy Schneider)–who just happens to be one of Trotsky's secretaries–manages to get close enough to Trotsky to kill him.
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Barabbas 1962  N/R, 144 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Anthony Quinn, Arthur Kennedy, Ernest Borgnine, Silvana Mangano, Jack Palance, Katy Jurado, Harry Andrews, Vittorio Gassman, Valentina Cortese, Douglas Fowley, Norman Wooland, Michael Gwynn, Roy Magnano
This is the story of Barabbas (Anthony Quinn), the thief who Pontius Pilate (Arthur Kennedy) tried along with Jesus and allowed to escape crucifixion. After being released, the guilt-ridden Barabbas goes through many ordeals searching for meaning in his life and, finally, becomes a follower of Christ. The script and cast are good in this religious epic.
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The Barefoot Contessa 1954  N/R, 128 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Marius Goring, Rossano Brazzi, Valentina Cortese, Elizabeth Sellars, Warren Stevens, Franco Interlenghi, Bessie Love, Mari Aldon, Diana Decker, Bill Fraser
Through flashbacks from her graveside, friends (Humphrey Bogart and Edmond O'Brien) tell the story of film star Maria Vargus (Ava Gardner) and her rise and fall. Edmond O'Brien won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor.
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Black Magic 1949  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Gregory Ratoff
Cast: Orson Welles, Nancy Guild, Akim Tamiroff, Frank Latimore, Valentina Cortese, Margot Grahame, Berry Kroeger, Gregory Gaye, Raymond Burr, Stephen Bekassy
Cagliostro (Orson Welles) uses his hypnotic powers in the 18th century for his own gains within the royal court. 1 User Review
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Brother Sun, Sister Moon 1973 PG, 121 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Cast: Graham Faulkner, Judi Bowker, Alec Guinness, Leigh Lawson, Kenneth Cranham, Valentina Cortese, Lee Montague, Adolfo Celi, Michael Feast, Nicholas Willatt, John Sharp, Francesco Guerrieri, Carlo Pisacane, Aristide Caporale, Peter Firth
This is the biography of St. Francis of Assisi (Graham Faulkner) who rejected material wealth after his spiritual revelation. Francis returns to his home following the war and finds that disease and war have ruined his neighborhood. Francis is also ill, but he recovers and his life has changed. Instead of drinking in bars, Francis spends his time meditating about the beauty of life. This culminates in Francis renouncing his former life and dedicating himself to the simple life as a man of God. 1 User Review
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| | kav 05/15/2007 | | unfashionably beautiful and idealistic,no post modern cynicism at all,moving and non didactic. |
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Day for Night 1973  PG, 116 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Comedy
Director: Francois Truffaut
Cast: Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Alexandra Stewart, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Nathalie Baye, Dani, Jean Champion, Maurice Seveno, David Markham, Bernard Menez
This film provides an excellent satire on the art of filmmaking. While filming at the Victorine Studio in Nice, chaos reigns on the set, which is filled with personal dilemmas as well as technical problems. At the center of all the turmoil is the director, Ferrand (Francois Truffaut), who attempts to keep his cast in line at least long enough to complete the project. The cast includes temperamental Alphonse (Jean-Pierre Leaud), emotionally unstable Julie (Jacqueline Bisset), closet homosexual Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Aumont), alcoholic Severine (Valentina Cortese), and pregnant Stacey (Alexandra Stewart)–all of whose problems affect Ferrand's effort to keep the filming on track. Winner of Best Foreign Film Academy Award.
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The House on Telegraph Hill 1951 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Robert Wise
Cast: Richard Basehart, Valentina Cortese, William Lundigan, Fay Baker, Gordon Gebert, Kei Thin Chung, Steven Geray, Herbert Butterfield, John Burton, Katherine Meskill, Mario Siletti, Charles Wagenheim, David Clarke, Natasha Lytess
After surviving a Nazi concentration camp imprisonment during World War II, Victoria (Valentina Cortese) takes the identity of her friend, Karin (Natasha Lytess), who died in the camp. Victoria visits Karin's young son, Chris (Gordon Gebert), who lives in a mansion on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco, and she pretends to be his mother. Events take a turn when Chris' aunt/guardian is murdered to obtain the family fortune, and Victoria is scheduled to be the next victim. Once again, money does not buy happiness, and dangers lie ahead.
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Juliet of the Spirits 1965 N/R, 137 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Federico Fellini
Cast: Giulietta Masina, Mario Pisu, Sandra Milo, Caterina Boratto, Sylva Koscina, Lou Gilbert, Valentina Cortese, Jose Luis Villalonga, Friedrich von Ledebur
Juliet (Giulietta Masina) has suspicions that her husband (Mario Pisu) is being unfaithful to her, and to escape unhappiness she lives in a world of fantasies.
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Le Amiche 1955 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: The Girlfriends
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast: Eleonora Rossi Drago, Valentina Cortese, Franco Fabrizi, Gabriele Ferzetti, Yvonne Furneaux, Ettore Manni, Madeleine Fischer, Anna Maria Pancani, Maria Gambarelli, Luciano Volpato
This is one of Antonioni's better, early films as he brings out the problems that confront a woman who moves to Turin, Italy from Rome to work in a boutique. Her doomed relationships eventually result in losing her job and heading back to Rome.
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The Legend of Lylah Clare 1968  N/R, 130 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Aldrich
Cast: Kim Novak, Peter Finch, Ernest Borgnine, Milton Selzer, Ellen Corby, Michael Fox, Queenie Smith, Sidney Skolsky, Lee Meriwether, Valentina Cortese
Lewis Zarkan (Peter Finch) is a Hollywood director obsessed with his deceased wife, Lylah Clare (Kim Novak). He hires Elsa Brinkman (Kim Novak) to play his wife in a film biography, and Elsa becomes more and more like Lylah during the filming.
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Malaya 1949  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Richard Thorpe
Cast: Spencer Tracy, James Stewart, Valentina Cortese, Sydney Greenstreet, John Hodiak, Lionel Barrymore, Gilbert Roland, Roland Winters, Richard Loo, Ian MacDonald
To continue fighting World War II, the United States needed rubber from Malaya and planned a mission to ship the commodity back through enemy-held territory. This is the story of that excursion.
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The Secret of Santa Vittoria 1969  PG, 140 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Stanley Kramer
Cast: Anthony Quinn, Anna Magnani, Virna Lisi, Hardy Kruger, Sergio Franchi, Renato Rascel, Giancarlo Giannini, Eduardo Ciannelli, Valentina Cortese, Leopoldo Trieste, Patrizia Valturri, Gigi Ballista, Quinto Parmeggiani
During World War II, Italo Bombolini (Anthony Quinn) serves as mayor of the Italian town, Santa Vittoria. Italo and his wife Rosa (Anna Magnani) own a wine shop, and when they learn that the Nazi army will be marching to their town to steal their vintage wine, Italo leads the town's residents in an effort to hide the wine. The residents work day and night to hide one million bottles of wine in a cave–a plan that ensures that the wine will not be found by the Nazis when they arrive in town. 1 User Review
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| | hugely entertaining | nectarine 10/21/2007 | | |
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Secret People 1952 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Thorold Dickinson
Cast: Valentina Cortese, Charles Goldner, Serge Reggiani, Audrey Hepburn, Megs Jenkins, Irene Worth, Sydney Tafler, Angela Foulds, Reginald Tate, Athene Seyler
After their father's political execution, two sisters take up where he left off in the underground movement of World War II.
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Shadow of the Eagle 1950 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Sidney Salkow
Cast: Richard Greene, Valentina Cortese, Greta Gynt, Binnie Barnes, Charles Goldner, Hugh French, Walter Rilla, Dennis Vance, William Tubbs
Catherine the Great (Binnie Barnes) orders Count Orloff (Richard Greene) to Venice where he is to kidnap her rival, Princess Elizabeth Tarakanova (Valentina Cortese), and bring her back to Russia. While on his assignment, Orloff finds and then falls in love with Elizabeth. Catherine discovers that they are lovers, and complications ensue. Elizabeth's execution is how Catherine chooses to solve the problem–but Orloff has another solution that includes escape and sanctuary.
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Thieves' Highway 1949 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jules Dassin
Cast: Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese, Lee J. Cobb, Barbara Lawrence, Jack Oakie, Millard Mitchell, Joseph Pevney, Morris Carnovsky, Tamara Shayne, Kasia Orzazewski, Norbert Schiller, Hope Emerson
World War II vet Nick Garcos (Richard Conte) returns home and finds himself in the middle of another war. This time, the enemy is Mike Figlia (Lee J. Cobb) who heads up a racketeering and smuggling ring in California. As a result of this film, Director Jules Dassin was labeled a Communist sympathizer and was blacklisted from Hollywood.
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The Visit 1964 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Bernhard Wicki
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Quinn, Irina Demick, Claude Dauphin, Paolo Stoppa, Romolo Valli, Valentina Cortese, Eduardo Ciannelli, Fausto Tozzi, Jacques Dufilho
Based on Friedrich Durrenmatt's play, this is the story of Karla's (Ingrid Bergman) return to her hometown to seek vengeance against Serge (Anthony Quinn) who jilted her in the distant past.
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When Time Ran Out... 1980 PG, 121 min.
Genre: Drama / Adventure
aka: Earth's Final Fury
Director: James Goldstone
Cast: Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden, Edward Albert, Red Buttons, Barbara Carrera, Veronica Hamel, Ernest Borgnine, Alex Karras, Burgess Meredith, Valentina Cortese, James Franciscus, Pat Morita, John Considine, Sheila Allen
An active volcano is about erupt near Hank's (Paul Newman) oil rig site on a South Pacific resort island. Guests at the island's hotel are unaware of the approaching disaster, but Hank is able to convince some of the people to follow him on a trek across the island as he leads them to a high spot on the island.
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| 1. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989)
2. Angels of Darkness (1953)
3. The Assassination of Trotsky (1972)
4. Barabbas (1962)
5. The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
6. Black Magic (1949)
7. Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1973)
8. Day for Night (1973)
9. The House on Telegraph Hill (1951)
10. Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
11. Le Amiche (1955)
aka: The Girlfriends
12. The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)
13. Malaya (1949)
14. The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969)
15. Secret People (1952)
16. Shadow of the Eagle (1950)
17. Thieves' Highway (1949)
18. The Visit (1964)
19. When Time Ran Out... (1980)
aka: Earth's Final Fury
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