Umberto Turco

Filmes

Package, Double Package and Counterpackage
Production Design
L'angelo con la pistola
Production Design
The revenge of a young woman who sees her family brutally shot to death. I was in the film.. I am 1 of 2 brothers who was killed.
The Repenter
Production Design
A judge on crusade to take down the Italian Mafia uses a gangster turned state's witness (a so-called "repenter") and a New York banker to do it. But things aren't quite what they seem.
The Sicilian Connection
Production Design
Mario (Placido), an Italian American who manages a pizzeria in NYC, is charged with an assassination of a judge in Palermo. He leaves the States, comes back to Sicily and recruit Michele, his younger brother, for some help. Michele is a good guy not involved with the Mafia, that is trying to build his life on honesty and hard-working. Michele needs some money to give freedom to a prostitute he is in love, and Mario promise his help in change of an hands to set up his trap for the judge. Anyway Michele isn't made with the same "pasta" of Mario, he couldn't never be a real Mafioso and this causes many between the two brother and the Mafia. There is only a way for Mario to save his brother. A way that Mafia could like.
Phenomena
Production Designer
A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.
She
Art Direction
In a backward post-apocalyptic world, She aids two brothers' quest to rescue their kidnapped sister. Along the way, they battle orgiastic werewolves, a psychic communist, a tutu-wearing giant, a mad scientist, and gladiators before standing against the odds to defeat the evil Norks.
Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
Production Design
Two back-to-back stories that deals with two "taboo" themes, the celibacy of the clergy in the episode of Renato Pozzetto and the homosexuality in the one with Nino Manfredi.
Grunt! - La clava è uguale per tutti
Production Design
Fantozzi Against the Wind
Production Design
The third film in the saga of the unlucky clerk Ugo Fantozzi, played by its creator, Paolo Villaggio.
Cafè Express
Production Design
An Italian laborer foils anyone who tries to stop him from selling espresso on the Milan-to-Naples night train.
A Man on His Knees
Production Design
Nino, a regular working-class guy, finds that a hitman has been hired to kill him. He discovers that a wealthy woman has been kidnapped and that everyone who was involved in it is being killed off. However, Nino had nothing to do with the kidnapping and has to find out who has sent the killers and stop them before it's too late.
Corleone
Production Design
Two friends grow up together in the Sicily of the '50s. Two different destiny, two different way of life. Could their friendship survive to the mafia shadow?
Goodbye & Amen
Production Design
As John Dhannay, a CIA agent stationed in Rome, plans the overthrow of an African government, he discovers one of his men has been in contact with agents from the other side. Before he can confront the traitor, the man seemingly goes crazy, sniping several people before taking an adulterous couple hostage in a hotel room.
I Am Afraid
Production Design
During a wave of political violence in Italy, a policeman who's already survived an assassination is assigned to act as a bodyguard to a morally upright judge. He feels increasingly fearful as the links of the upper echelons of police and government to the violence become clear.
Street Law
Art Direction
Carlo Antonelli, an engineer from Genoa, gets mugged and decides to take justice into his own hands. At first the muggers seem to get the upper hand, but then he's helped by Tommy, a young robber who takes his side.
O Delito Matteotti
Production Design
How the Italian Fascist Party managed to turn the physical elimination of a political enemy into a test of strength fundamental for the ascent into the totalitarian regime.
Girolimoni, the Monster of Rome
Production Design
In Mussolini's Rome a murderer is targeting young girls. The movie explores how the fascist mind works, how it plays its values off the sentiment of the masses and explores the role of the press in creating a unified narrative.
The Case Is Closed, Forget It
Production Design
Because of a violation of traffic regulations an architect is put in prison. There he witnesses the grim reality of life behind bars: corrupt staff, corrupt inmates, an inhuman judicial system and the power of the Mafia.
Confissões de um Comissário de Polícia
Art Direction
Um capitão da polícia organiza a libertação de um prisioneiro criminoso insano, que logo acaba morto. Quando o promotor público assume o caso, ele revela a corrupção no departamento e promete derrubar o homem responsável. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
Il presidente del Borgorosso Football Club
Set Decoration
Benito Fornaciari, a pale, devoutly Catholic, Upper Middleclass Italian inherits a minor-league football club from a long-lost uncle. He decides to visit the club to sell it, but the local population has other ideas: through an almost-armed uprising they "force" him not to sell the club but lead it to other glories on the football field.
Il presidente del Borgorosso Football Club
Production Design
Benito Fornaciari, a pale, devoutly Catholic, Upper Middleclass Italian inherits a minor-league football club from a long-lost uncle. He decides to visit the club to sell it, but the local population has other ideas: through an almost-armed uprising they "force" him not to sell the club but lead it to other glories on the football field.
Por Amor ou Por Vingança
Set Decoration
A 16-year-old Sicilian becomes the target of a mafia-hit man after refusing to go through with her prearranged marriage.
Por Amor ou Por Vingança
Production Design
A 16-year-old Sicilian becomes the target of a mafia-hit man after refusing to go through with her prearranged marriage.
Por Amor ou Por Vingança
Costume Design
A 16-year-old Sicilian becomes the target of a mafia-hit man after refusing to go through with her prearranged marriage.
Que o Céu a Condene
Production Design
In 1599 Italy, Beatrice Cenci is the teenage daughter of the crazed landowner and nobleman Francesco Cenci who keeps his daughter locked up in the dungeon of his castle and sexually abuses her as well. Beatrice then plots with her stepmother, her besotted servant Olimpio, as well as a local bandit, named Catalano, to plan Francesco’s murder.
A Rather Complicated Girl
Art Direction
Having casually overheard a confusing phone conversation between two women, Alberto manages to get in touch with one of the callers, Claudia, a painter. The two become lovers and things are spiced up by Claudia's ambiguous sexual nature and by the presence of her former lover, Pietro. Alberto discovers a pistol in Claudia's handbag and this leads to a further revelation: she's dominated by her stepmother Greta, who forced her into a clandestine lesbian relationship; of which Claudia is ashamed and wants to end - at all costs. Alberto, now a slave to love, runs Greta over. But Claudia denies urging him to murder...
Italian Secret Service
Assistant Production Design
A war hero turned unemployed is hired by a British man whose life he saved during the war, for a secret mission: to kill a neo-nazi.
The Head Of The Family
Assistant Production Design
A man is delighted to hear that his wife is pregnant and he begins to prepare for the wonders of fatherhood. As time progresses along, the family grows larger with each successive child and the father feels his importance in the family has been lessened with all the children. This man's quiet desperation to hold onto his position is an interesting lesson in the family dynamic and how everyone is an important part of the whole.
The Tall, The Short, The Cat
Set Decoration
Two dim-witted servants to an elderly, wealthy woman learn that they are to inherent the late woman's money, on the condition that they have to care for her rambuncous pet cat, which is not an easy thing to do so.
How We Stole the Atomic Bomb
Set Decoration
Franco, an Italian fisherman, witnesses a U.S. Air Force plane crash in the Mediterranean off Egypt carrying a nuclear weapon, and he is then persued by shady spy, named Ciccio, working for a spy organization led by the sinister Dr. Si (Yes) to find the atom bomb before anyone else does to blackmail the world, which leads to Franco and Ciccio forming an unlikely alliance to get the bomb for themselves.
How We Robbed the Bank of Italy
Assistant Production Design
Dim-wits Franco and Cicco try to come up with a plan to rob the safes of the Bank of Italy, but with one muddle after another, they find themselves empty-handed after each attempt to do so.
The Wedding March
Production Design
Satirical film in four episodes about family and marriage.
A Mandrágora
Set Decoration
A young man hatches a plan to sleep with another man's infertile wife. Based on the play by Machiavelli.
A Mandrágora
Assistant Production Design
A young man hatches a plan to sleep with another man's infertile wife. Based on the play by Machiavelli.