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 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...

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

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

A fascinating and dramatic tale of a behind the scenes plot developed by the FBI as they work secretly with the mob to eradicate corruption and crime...

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

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 beautiful young soap opera star is stalked and terrorized by an obsessive admirer.

Dean sees mafia boss Santelli whack an FBI infiltrator and is relocated to a remote cabin in the Sierras for protection. While Santelli's crew tries...

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 movie producer hatches a scheme to have an actor (Silvio Pollio) kill his fellow filmmakers.

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.

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

A rookie cop becomes the chief suspect in the killing of some of his crooked cohorts.

A young prisoner tells his story to an FBI agent. How unjust judicial system, systematic abuse inside and political corruption and machinations...

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