Joe Cortese Movies

Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to...

Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we...

It's Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes, arrives in Los...

Bullied by classmates, a pudgy military-school student fights back by computer with the devil.

A fictional story inspired by North America's most famous female boxing promoter, Jackie Kallen. Her struggle to survive and succeed in a male...

Fact and fiction are combined in this story about Jack Ruby and a stripper, Candy Cane, and how they become involved in a conspiracy to kill J.F.K.

A young woman goes in search of her father, a professional gambler who abandoned her years before. Along the way, she finds herself at odds with her...

A young Mormon couple is attacked by a bunch of outlaws. They kill the man and the woman is raped several times and left for dead in the desert. With...

Emily Hollander becomes the subject of a lesbian obsession at the hands of Andrea Glassen, her next-door neighbour.

A man and a woman sharing a psychic link meet and fall in love, but the woman's influential and powerful husband stands in their way.

A financial struggle between owners of a go-go club threatens its future.

The vows of an ambitious young American priest are tested during World War II. Not only does Father John Flaherty get involved with the black market...

An outlaw drag racer (Richard Grieco) tries to save his brother (Jay Acovone) from a crime boss (Joe Cortese) in Brooklyn.

A kid from the neighborhood goes to work for the Mafia as a collector.

Letting Go stars John Ritter as a widower and Sharon Gless as a lonely unmarried woman. They meet during a group-therapy session. Romance is...

A combination "before the rage" and "after the rage" of world middleweight boxing champion Jake LaMotta's tumultuous life and times.

In the future, large corporations earn millions of dollars by staging gladiatorial fights to the death that are shown on worldwide television. One...

A journalist with solid mob connections falls for a stripper with a dark past.

A professional hockey player who is only happy when he is miserable signs a long-term contract that covers his entire career only to ruin it in his...

After the Days family witnesses a gang shooting in a Japanese restaurant, the police persuades them to testify against mobster Delgado. Detective...