Leonardo Cortese (Actor)

Verginità

Gina is the daughter of a provincial newsstand dealer and spends her time reading pulp magazines and dreaming of a glamorous vocation on the big city. She enters a beauty contest in a nearby city, without her father's permission, and, en route, meets Franco, a salesman.

Release Date1951-09-04

Charactersd Franco Rossi

Vote Count3

Addio, amore!

Naples, 1880. Two young sisters from a noble family, after losing their parents, get taken in by a friend of their family.

Release Date1943-12-31

Charactersd Luigi Caracciolo

Jeanne Doré

Release Date1938-11-30

Charactersd Jacques Doré

Fame and the Devil

Three men consider selling their souls to Satan in order to possess a beautiful woman.

Release Date1949-11-18

Charactersd Prof. Franco Bresci

Vote Count3

I tre aquilotti

At the Royal Air Force Academy of Caserta, three students, Mario, Marco and Filippo become great friends. Toward the end of the course, Marco accidentally meets and falls in love with Mario's sister, Adriana. Mario expresses his opposition to Marco and this causes the end of their friendship. Due to an accident during a training flight, Marco is passed from the role of the navigator to the services role, thus not obtaining the military pilot's license.

Release Date1942-08-30

Charactersd Marco Massi

Vote Count5

The Valiant

Having placed mines on the hull of a British warship whilst it is safe in harbour during the second World War , the two man crew of an Italian miniature submarine are captured and held prisoner whist the crew try and discover the nature of their mission!

Release Date1962-06-13

Charactersd Italian Commander

Vote Count2

La vedova

Release Date1939-02-09

Charactersd Carlo

Legge di sangue

"Law of Blood" - Rosa has been engaged for years with Antonio. But Antonio is in the military service and Rosa is seduced by Alberto. Returning to the village, Antonio learns what happened during his absence.

Release Date1948-03-13

Charactersd Alberto

A Romantic Adventure

At the end of the 19th century, a middle-class woman explains why she cannot get along with her husband, a good man but a little rough around the edges: she cannot forget that during the Risorgimento she fell in love with a noble conspirator. Now, however, she realizes that her true love is her husband.

Release Date1940-09-06

Charactersd Il signor conte

Vote Count7

Giorni felici

Release Date1943-01-01

Charactersd Oliviero

Il vetturale del San Gottardo

Release Date1941-10-23

Charactersd Paolo Caminata

Il fidanzato di mia moglie

Enrico breaks up his marriage to Renata because he discovers that in the registry office she is already married to a certain Giulio, an inhabitant of a country town. The couple leaves in search of the mysterious Giulio who is about to marry Marcella, but her wedding also ends.

Release Date1943-01-01

Charactersd Giulio Marini

Vote Count1

Notte di tempesta

The story is taken from the drama "I Pescatori" (The Fishermen) by Raffaele Viviani, and is set in a fishing island off the coast of Naples (clearly identifiable with Ischia). Here lives Concetta, a widow with two children, who now lives with another man who however secretly lusts after his stepdaughter until when, on a stormy night...

Release Date1946-06-12

Charactersd Peppino

Vote Count2

Il diavolo va in collegio

Release Date1944-01-12

Charactersd Rodolfo Poggi / Marcello Mari

Spring song

Release Date1951-03-23

Charactersd Mario

A Garibaldian in the Convent

An old woman's poignant reminiscence of her youth in a convent school, the happy moments and the sad, and her tragic love for a Garibaldian.

Release Date1942-03-10

Charactersd Count Franco Amidei

Vote Count20

Le vie del peccato

Release Date1946-10-19

Charactersd Don Roberto

Adriana Lecouvreur

Release Date1955-08-11

Charactersd Conte di Chazeul

Papà per una notte

Release Date1939-08-07

Charactersd Jacques Fontages

Fiamme sulla laguna

After the death of his father, Anna starts working in the navy where he falls in love with a navy man.

Release Date1951-06-20

Charactersd Luciano

Primo amore

An Italian emigrant, who found fame and success in America, comes back to his hometown after over twenty years.

Release Date1941-10-05

Charactersd Pietro Redi

La freccia nel fianco

Started in the summer of 1943 by Lattuada and , the because of the war that raged in Italy at the time, the shooting was interrupted several times only to stop for good in September of the same year. It only resumed after the war, in the spring of 1945, but with Mario Costa as the director instead of Lattuada. It was eventually released in September 1945 with only Lattuada billed as the director. Similarly, the film was started with Vittorio Gassman in the role of Brunello, but when the shooting resumed in 1945 he was replaced by Leonardo Cortese

Release Date1945-09-08

Charactersd Bruno Traldi

Vote Count2

The Flame that Never Dies

Inspired to the real story of the Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto. We see how, to save 22 hostages from dead sentence by Nazi, he decided to sacrifice himself.

Release Date1949-09-21

Charactersd Giuseppe Manfredi

Vote Count5

Giuliano de' Medici

Release Date1941-02-27

Charactersd Giuliano de' Medici

L'isola del tesoro

Release Date1959-02-07

Charactersd Il cavalier Trelawney

Episode Count5

Alessandro, sei grande!

Release Date1940-08-13

Charactersd Giorgio, suo figlio

Il Conte Aquila

Release Date1955-09-07

Charactersd Gabrio Casati

Così per Gioco

While on his way to visit Father Felipe, Sandro has a car accident and dies. Commissioner Selvaggi investigates the case, directing his investigations towards a group of the man's friends addicted to gambling.

Release Date1979-02-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Traffico d'Armi nel Golfo

The young British archaeologist Tim Frazer is visited by an old friend: Henry Denston. At an agreed appointment, however, the man does not show up, giving rise to a mysterious investigation.

Release Date1977-11-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Russia sotto inchiesta

Two Italians, Sandro and Lorenzo, are traveling through the Soviet Union. Lorenzo has been to Russia before and now, accompanying his friend, gives him the necessary explanations. This peculiar technique allows us to see the USSR through the eyes of a progressively thinking Italian, to familiarize through Western countries with the grandiose transformations that were taking place at that time in the Soviet country, with the most essential features of the socialist reality, with the life of people, with the achievements of science, technology, culture and art.

Release Date1963-04-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

The Captain's Daughter

Italian miniseries based upon the novel by Alexander Pushkin.

Release Date1965-05-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

Un certo Harry Brent

Release Date1970-11-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

La rosa di zolfo

Release Date1974-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Violenza sul lago

Release Date1954-07-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Cab Number 13

To secure her fortune with Monsieur Vaudieu de la Tour, the Machiavellian Claudia kills her lover's elder brother and steals his child. The boy is adopted by a coachman, and later, as secretary to the Minister of Justice, discovers the truth, punishes the bad guys, rewards the good ones and marries the daughter of another innocent man, unjustly accused by Claudia.

Release Date1948-02-28

La regina di Navarra

Release Date1942-03-30

Incontri di notte

Release Date1943-03-17

Cavalleria rusticana

This film was not based on the famous one-act opera of Pietro Mascagni but rather on the original story by the Sicilian writer Giovanni Verga. It's the story of Santuzza, her love Turiddu, and his passion for the married Lola that leads to his death in a duel when Lola's husband Alfio exacts satisfaction.

Release Date1939-10-23

Il capitano di Venezia

An Italian movie.

Release Date1952-09-27

Yes, Ma'am

Directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli.

Release Date1942-01-02