Leonardo Cortese Movies

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...

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

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.

An Italian movie.

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...

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

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...

"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...

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

While on his way to visit Father Felipe, Sandro has a car accident and dies. Commissioner Selvaggi investigates the case, directing his...

Directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli.