Leonardo Cortese Movies

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...

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.

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,...

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...

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

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

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

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 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...

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...

Directed by Mario Camerini.

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...

Directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli.

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...

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...

At the Royal Air Force Academy of Caserta, three students, Mario, Marco and Filippo become great friends. Toward the end of the course, Marco...