Umberto Contarello Movies

After learning that an old friend of theirs has been arrested in Morocco on drug charges, four former college buddies set out for Marrakech to bail...

Leo Bernardi is a successful and acclaimed Italian director. He’s approaching the end of his career but he cannot accept his slow decline. He...

Czech immigrant Vesna arrives in Italy and is forced into casual prostitution by poverty. The encounter with a kind construction worker could help...

To support her family, Maria works as a trafficker of surrogate mothers, transporting them from place to place along a river — but when one...

Garage owner Angelo and big-time film producer Alberto find themselves occupying neighbouring beds in a Rome hospital after suffering heart attacks....

Until the 1970s, Italian cinema dominated the international scene, even competing with Hollywood. Then, in just a few years, came its rapid decline,...

In an atmosphere between fiction and reality, a rugby game in the suburbs becomes the allegory of the daily struggle of an Italian family against the...

To avoid being sued, a film director reluctantly agrees to set up and direct the Good Friday celebrations in a small Tuscan town.

A doctor's life takes a mysterious turn when his ambulance plunges into a river.

An autobiographical bittersweet drama centered on Contarello’s rapport with his daughter.

Gheni and Gherti, two young Albanian immigrants who live in Rome and work in a restaurant, settle in the home of the photographer Corrado, who makes...

The true story of Andrea and Franco Antonello, a father and autistic son who traveled by motorbike for three months between the United States and...

Vincenzo, former head of maintenance of a steel plant that's been outsourced, travels from Italy to China to warn about a defective blast furnace.

Everything is true: everything has happened and has been filmed as it was happening. A screenwriter at the top of his career, tired of his work and...