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...

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

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.

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

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

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...

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 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 pair of weed-loving, free lance video journalists find themselves targeted by a mark they slandered in one of their exposes.

Angelina Ellington is a black investigative reporter who despises the mob. She stumbles upon a dead body that leads her through a labyrinth of...

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

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

Bandit, always willing to help a lady, bites off more than he can chew when he helps a lady who is on the run from the mob. Nuns and nudists cross...

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 private eye hired to kill a man's wife warns her instead and then finds both are impostors.

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