Paolo Costella

Paolo Costella

Nascimento : 1964-02-19, Genova, Italy

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Paolo Costella

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The Order of Time
Writer
It explores what happens to a group of long-term friends one night when, during their annual get-together to celebrate a birthday in a villa by the sea, they discover that the world might be ending within the space of a few hours. From that moment on, the time separating them from the possible end of their lives seems to flow differently, both speedily and never-endingly, over a summer’s night which will change their lives forever.
The First Day of my Life
Screenplay
In the exact moment they’re hitting rock bottom, a man, two women and a boy meet a mysterious man capable of gifting them a week of time where they’ll discover how the world would be without them. Will they find the strength to start over and fall in love with life again?
Vicini di casa
Screenplay
A couple receives an indecent proposal from their younger, more daring neighbors.
Vicini di casa
Director
A couple receives an indecent proposal from their younger, more daring neighbors.
Il principe di Roma
Screenplay
An adaptation of Dickens' A Christmas Carol set in 1829 Rome.
Perfect Strangers
Original Film Writer
Seven friends who attend a dinner and decide to play a game with their cell phones. Unfortunately, the game ends in disaster when their dark secret is revealed.
Perfeitos Desconhecidos
Original Film Writer
Um jantar sai dos trilhos depois que um grupo de bons amigos concorda em deixar os celulares desbloqueados na mesa, expondo interações picantes e segredos sombrios.
Desafios do Amor
Screenplay
Anna e Marco sabem que precisam de super-poderes para amarem um ao outro e ficarem juntos toda a vida. Ela é uma cartunista de caráter impulsivo, inimiga das convenções; ele é um professor de física convencido de que cada fenômeno tem a sua explicação. O que os mantém juntos é uma incógnita que nenhuma fórmula pode revelar.
Per tutta la vita
Screenplay
Four married couples find out their marriage is invalid because it was officiated by a fraudulent priest and have to decide what to do next.
Per tutta la vita
Story
Four married couples find out their marriage is invalid because it was officiated by a fraudulent priest and have to decide what to do next.
Per tutta la vita
Director
Four married couples find out their marriage is invalid because it was officiated by a fraudulent priest and have to decide what to do next.
Alles op Tafel
Original Film Writer
Seven friends meet up for dinner and decide to play a revealing game. During the evening deep personal secrets will surface and threaten their relationships.
Perfect Strangers
Original Film Writer
Seven childhood friends with a history and shared experiences from their past, meet for dinner to see together a rare lunar eclipse. This bourgeois and routine event takes a turn as they start playing a game that will change their lives: every message, call or alert they receive on their phone is exposed to the eyes of everyone. Betrayals, lies, secrets and accounts that are 20 years old rise and float to the surface and question the long-standing friendships and internal relationships in it.
Perfect Strangers
Original Film Writer
One evening, a glass of wine, 7 friends enter a dangerous game: they put their phones on the table and decide that everything they receive that evening, calls, messages, emails, will be answered by a speaker or read aloud.
Gli amigos
Screenplay
Promotional short for Parmigiano Reggiano.
Gli amigos
Story
Promotional short for Parmigiano Reggiano.
Známi neznámi
Original Film Writer
Perfect Strangers
Original Film Writer
Seven men and women, consisting of three couples who are reluctant companions and one single man, play in the game with the secret that their relationship and friendship will collapse. Japanese remake of the Italian movie "Perfetti sconosciuti".
Blood Moon Party
Original Film Writer
In a group meeting of close friends, a member suddenly proposed a game of sharing the phone to increase the spirit of "solidarity".
The Best Years
Story
Italy, from the '80s to the present day, told through the dreams, loves, successes and failures of four friends.
The Best Years
Screenplay
Italy, from the '80s to the present day, told through the dreams, loves, successes and failures of four friends.
The Perfect Secret
Original Film Writer
Seven friends - three women and four men - meet for dinner. Everyone should put their cell phone on the table. No matter what message comes in - anyone can read it and listen to the phone calls. However, this leads to a lot of chaos.
Unknown Subscriber
Original Film Writer
7 friends get together just to have good time. They decide to play an unusual game, according to the rules of which, everyone should put mobile phones on the table and read all incoming messages out loud and answer calls only on the speaker. Close friends could not imagine what secrets would be revealed during this game.
Loudspeaker
Original Film Writer
Seven friends, having gathered in a country house, begin to play the game in a joke - participants must read out aloud all messages that come to them, and answer calls only via speakerphone. They cannot even imagine what amazing revelations they will have to make about each other.
Kill Mobile
Original Film Writer
Seven friends get together for dinner, and decided to play a game where they must share all messages and calls of their cell phones. Throughout the evening, wechat messages, phone calls and APP notifications are coming out continuously. Hilarity and drama ensue together as everyone's secrets are unveiled and the seven friends find themselves more like strangers to each other.
Perfectos desconocidos
Original Film Writer
A group of longtime friends get together for dinner. When they decide to share the content of every text message, email, and phone call they receive, secrets are unveiled and the balance is upset.
Intimate Strangers
Original Film Writer
A group of people meet for the first time in a long time and play a game that reveals each other's secrets.
Loudspeaker
Original Film Writer
Aqui em Casa Tudo Bem
Screenplay
Uma grande família se reúne em uma ilha em Nápoles para comemorar as bodas de ouro dos avós, Alba e Pietro. Porém, quando em meio as festividades uma tempestade faz com que o numeroso grupo fique preso na ilha, eles são obrigados a encarar os rancores e hipocrisias escondidos por muitos anos na família.
Stranger in My Pocket
Original Film Writer
The seven old friends decide to come together for dinner. Everyone is seated at the table, chatting, eating laughing accompaniment. During the meal, it is decided to play a game. The game is pretty simple; everyone will put their phones on the desk, every incoming message and notification will be read aloud. Their relationship begins to deteriorate. The group who thinks they are very close friends for so long are in fact alien to each other.
Perfeitos Desconhecidos
Original Film Writer
Remake do filme italiano "Perfetti sconosciuti (2016)". Durante um eclipse lunar, sete amigos se reúnem para jantar e decidem jogar um jogo no qual devem compartilhar um com o outro o conteúdo de cada mensagem, e-mail ou telefonema que receberem durante a noite.
Perfect Strangers
Original Film Writer
Seven friends meet up for dinner on a full moon Friday night and deep secrets will come to the surface, shaking their lives and threatening their relationships.
Un Natale al Sud
Screenplay
Milanese policeman Peppino and Neapolitan florist Ambrogio celebrate Christmas in the same ski resort town along with their families. After they discover that both their sons are dating, but have never met their girlfriends in person, the parents embark on a private war against those dating apps that seem to have reached almost everything and everyone.
Un Natale al Sud
Story
Milanese policeman Peppino and Neapolitan florist Ambrogio celebrate Christmas in the same ski resort town along with their families. After they discover that both their sons are dating, but have never met their girlfriends in person, the parents embark on a private war against those dating apps that seem to have reached almost everything and everyone.
Perfeitos Desconhecidos
Screenplay
Sete amigos de longa data se reúnem para um jantar. Em uma brincadeira, decidem compartilhar um com o outro, na mesa, o conteúdo de cada mensagem de texto, e-mail e ligações que recebem. No jogo, muitos segredos começam a revelar, provando que nem todos se conhecem de verdade.
Matrimonio al Sud
Story
A Milanese businessman is beside himself when his son tells him he's going to marry the daughter of a pizza maker from Naples.
Matrimonio al Sud
Screenplay
A Milanese businessman is beside himself when his son tells him he's going to marry the daughter of a pizza maker from Naples.
Matrimonio al Sud
Director
A Milanese businessman is beside himself when his son tells him he's going to marry the daughter of a pizza maker from Naples.
Palácio para cachorros
Screenplay
In a well-known ski resort, a couple has the brilliant idea to open a "4-legged hotel" where people can stay during the Christmas holidays in the company of their beloved pets. Trouble begins when the place is invaded by dogs, cats, rabbits, ferrets and parrots (not to mention their owners!).
Palácio para cachorros
Story
In a well-known ski resort, a couple has the brilliant idea to open a "4-legged hotel" where people can stay during the Christmas holidays in the company of their beloved pets. Trouble begins when the place is invaded by dogs, cats, rabbits, ferrets and parrots (not to mention their owners!).
Palácio para cachorros
Director
In a well-known ski resort, a couple has the brilliant idea to open a "4-legged hotel" where people can stay during the Christmas holidays in the company of their beloved pets. Trouble begins when the place is invaded by dogs, cats, rabbits, ferrets and parrots (not to mention their owners!).
Baciato dalla fortuna
Screenplay
Gaetano is a divorced traffic cop in a relationship with a beautiful and exuberant woman, for whom he happily provides standards of living well above his means. He plans to propose to her, but she is thinking to run away with his handsome superior. In the midst of debts, unpaid alimony and other serious financial issues, Gaetano unexpectedly wins the lottery, turning the fortune around.
Baciato dalla fortuna
Director
Gaetano is a divorced traffic cop in a relationship with a beautiful and exuberant woman, for whom he happily provides standards of living well above his means. He plans to propose to her, but she is thinking to run away with his handsome superior. In the midst of debts, unpaid alimony and other serious financial issues, Gaetano unexpectedly wins the lottery, turning the fortune around.
A Natale mi sposo
Story
A Natale mi sposo
Screenplay
A Natale mi sposo
Director
Un coccodrillo per amico
Writer
Lorenzo and Sandro are friends and partners of Agostino, director of a real estate agency, a great lover of Africa. During a lunch they accidentally meet Giovanni, known in Kenya. The man, having become familiar, proposes a real estate deal in the dark continent. This is a project for the construction in Malindi of a resort with villas and swimming pools, designed for the western market. Lorenzo is disinterested and skeptical, while Sandro is enthusiastic. However, they discover that the place where the complex will be built is a mission that deals with helping children. Lorenzo recognizes Laura, the girl he was in love with as a young man, among the nuns. Together then, they decide to help out ...
La fidanzata di papà
Writer
A man falling in love with a beautiful manager who live on Miami.
Amore con la S maiuscola
Director
A man and a woman try to win back their respective partners.
Tutti gli uomini del deficiente
Writer
Nearing death, videogame genius Leone Stella holds a contest to find an heir: all the people named like him will compete in a live-streamed reenactment of his most famous endeavors, and the winner will inherit his billionaire fortune.
Tutti gli uomini del deficiente
Director
Nearing death, videogame genius Leone Stella holds a contest to find an heir: all the people named like him will compete in a live-streamed reenactment of his most famous endeavors, and the winner will inherit his billionaire fortune.
Miracolo italiano
Assistant Director
7 segments about life in 1990s Italy: two MPs from the opposite sides of the political spectrum spend the night together; during their honeymoon, a woman cheats on her husband with her favorite soap opera star; a married man pretends to be ill to seduce his younger nurse; a family discovers that their son's beautiful fiancée is transgender; an unsatisfied single woman is duped by her celebrity crush for Kevin Costner; two best friends want to have fun; a couple on a tropical holiday is fascinated by their indigenous masseuse.
Ricky & Barabba
First Assistant Director
A wealthy millionaire decided to commit suicide but meets a homeless with whom he experiences a lot of funny adventures until finally makes order in his life.
Ricky & Barabba
Screenplay
A wealthy millionaire decided to commit suicide but meets a homeless with whom he experiences a lot of funny adventures until finally makes order in his life.
Ricky & Barabba
Story
A wealthy millionaire decided to commit suicide but meets a homeless with whom he experiences a lot of funny adventures until finally makes order in his life.
Vacanze di Natale '91
First Assistant Director
This coarse bedroom farce takes place at the St. Moritz ski resort over a Christmas vacation. Among the couples whose lives intersect are a widowed artist honeymooning with his second wife, a gay man traveling with his son and his lover (and hiding each from the other), a snobbish couple from Milan who have been forced to share a suite with a pair of crass Romans, etc.
Il conte Max
First Assistant Director
Alfredo è un rozzo riparatore di motociclette romano amico del Conte Max, uno spianato gentiluomo ed ex-gaudente. Quest'ultimo invita Alfredo nella sua residenza a Campo dei Fiori e gli insegna il galateo, il francese e come si gioca a poker. Le risate cominceranno quando Alfredo conosce ed insegue a Parigi la bellissima fotomodella Isabella Matignon.
A Carne
Assistant Director
A beautiful film which is basically about a man, a piano player, who meets and falls in love with a beautiful and voluptuous woman, who, by some strange procedure, leaves the man unable to move but with a permanent priapism! After some time he becomes sick of it and she relieves his paralysis. Eventually she gets bored and decides to leave, but he can't take it because he loves her…
A Carne
Writer
A beautiful film which is basically about a man, a piano player, who meets and falls in love with a beautiful and voluptuous woman, who, by some strange procedure, leaves the man unable to move but with a permanent priapism! After some time he becomes sick of it and she relieves his paralysis. Eventually she gets bored and decides to leave, but he can't take it because he loves her…
Taste of Life
First Assistant Director
Elvio Battistini works as a ticket taker in the local cinema of the small town where he lives. He has a prosthesis in one leg, the result of an accident, but he tells anyone who will listen it is a war injury. Giuseppe Mondardini, is also an older man living alone in what was the splendid family home. When Elvio and Giuseppe meet, they hit it off immediately. A trip to a cooler area is in order, so Mordardini unveils his ancient automobile.
Bye Bye Baby
Writer
Love triangles often provoke the most unpredictable behavior. Will anybody end up happily in love at the end of this amorous debacle? One outrageous scene after another leads to a series of romantic escapades that will leave viewers bewitched, bewildered, and thoroughly entertained.
BelliFreschi
Writer
Tom and Jerry two Italian two bit actors go to America because they hope to take part in a film starring Sylvester Stallone. However when they go to his villa in Beverly Hills, Stallone gets murdered and the two are suspected of the murder. Hunted by the CIA and the FBI they flee across the USA disguised as women and end up working in a restaurant as showgirls. Here Tom meets a Mafia boss who falls in love with him and goes to Mexico with him to escape the police hunt. Some years later the two friends meet again: Tom has married the boss's ex girlfriend even if he still dresses as a woman.
I due carabinieri
Second Assistant Director
Two deadbeat friends barely pass the entrance exam for the Carabinieri, the national gendarmerie of Italy, but love for the same woman gets in the way.
Perfect Strangers
Original Film Writer
A dinner party where a group of friends decide to play a risky game where they place their phones face-up on the table and agree to make all texts and phone calls public in an attempt to prove they have nothing to hide.