Carlos ContiFilmography

The Kite Runner

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Khalid Abdalla, Homayoun Ershadi, Zekiria Ebrahimi, Shaun Toub

Synopsis: Finding Neverland director Marc Forster adapts author Khaled Hosseini's critically acclaimed novel about two childhood best friends forever torn apart as their country is ravaged by endless war and bitter strife. As children, Amir (Khalid Abdalla) and Hassan were inseparable; their long days under Read More

Golden Door

Crew: Production Designer, Set Designer

Actors: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Vincenzo Amato, Aurora Quattrocchi, Francesco Casisa, Filippo Pucillo

Synopsis: A family living in poverty leaves behind the world they know in hope of finding new opportunities in this historical drama from director Emanuele Crialese. The Mancusos are a family struggling to make ends meet in a small farming community in Sicily in 1913. Life has long been hard for the Mancuso Read More

The Price to Pay

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Christian Clavier, Nathalie Baye, Gérard Lanvin, Géraldine Pailhas, Patrick Chesnais

Yes

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Joan Allen, Simon Abkarian, Sam Neill, Shirley Henderson, Sheila Hancock

Synopsis: Filmmaker Sally Potter directed this artful meditation on the dynamics of the romantic and sexual relationship. She (Joan Allen) is an intelligent and gifted genetic scientist of Irish-American heritage who feels smothered in her marriage to a British politician (Sam Neill). While dining at a Read More

The Motorcycle Diaries

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Gael García Bernal, Rodrigo de la Serna, Mía Maestro, Gustavo Bueno, Jorge Chiarella

Synopsis: Brazilian director Walter Salles Jr. follows up the Golden Globe-nominated Behind the Sun with this filmed adaptation of Argentinian-born Cuban revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara's journals of the same name. The Motorcycle Diaries stars Gael García Bernal (Y Tu Mamá También, Amores Perros) as a Read More

Me and My Sister

Crew: Art Director

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Catherine Frot, François Berléand, Brigitte Catillon, Michel Vuillermoz

Vivante

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Vahina Giocante, Samuel Jouy, François Berléand, Fanny Cottençon, Pierre Cassignard

Synopsis: Directed by Ray Sandrine, Vivante follows the changes in the life of a young woman after being brutally gang-raped. When 19-year-old Parisian student Claire (Vahina Giocante) is sexually assaulted by four men, she doesn't tell anyone. Rather, she opts to drop out of school and begin a dangerous Read More

Le Boulet

Crew: Art Director

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Benoît Poelvoorde, José Garcia, Djimon Hounsou, Rossy de Palma

Synopsis: French filmmakers Alain Berberian and Frédéric Forestier direct the buddy action comedy Le Boulet (Dead Weight). Tough criminal Moltes (Gérard Lanvin) lands in jail after killing the brother of the Turk (José Garcia). Prison guard Reggio (Benoît Poelvoorde) lets Moltes have a weekly lottery ticket Read More

The Man Who Cried

Crew: Art Director

Actors: Christina Ricci, Cate Blanchett, John Turturro, Johnny Depp, Harry Dean Stanton

Synopsis: In this historical drama with music, a gifted singer (Oleg Yankovsky) from a Jewish village in Russia travels to the United States in 1927, leaving behind his young daughter Fegele (Claudia Lander-Duke). Father has promised his family that he'll send for Fegele as soon as he can, but authorities Read More

Rue Du Retrait

Crew: Art Director

Actors: Dominique Marcas

Synopsis: A woman finds herself compelled to help someone who isn't so sure she wants to be helped in this drama. Isabelle (Marion Held) is a woman in her mid-forties whose marriage recently came to an end. While doing some shopping at a drugstore, Isabelle is confronted by Mado (Dominique Marcas), a proud Read More

Six-Pack

Crew: Art Director

Actors: Richard Anconina, Frédéric Diefenthal, Chiara Mastroianni, François Berléand, Jonathan Firth

Synopsis: While the French have a knack for fine wine and fine food, they can't come up with a decent serial killer of their own, so an American has to step in to terrorize Paris in this crime thriller. A lunatic is on the loose in the City of Lights, murdering women and disemboweling their bodies. The Read More

Quasimodo d'El Paris

Crew: Art Director

Actors: Patrick Timsit, Richard Berry, Mélanie Thierry, Vincent Elbaz, Didier Flamand, Axelle Abbadie

Synopsis: In this comedy, director Patrick Timsit plays a modern-day Quasimodo accused of 17 murders. The film uses the classic story of The Hunchback of Notre Dame to show the comic side of such everyday things as portable phones, Nintendo games, and the World Cup. The screen is always bigger and funnier Read More

The Tango Lesson

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Sally Potter, Pablo Veron, Gustavo Naveira, Fabian Salas, David Toole

Synopsis: Maverick filmmaker Sally Potter, who won acclaim in 1993 with the gender-bending, history-warping Orlando, returns to her dancing roots with The Tango Lesson. Potter wrote, directed, and starred in the film, also assembling the soundtrack, dancing, and even singing the film's final song. Potter Read More

Corazon Iluminado

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Miguel Ángel Solá, Maria Luiza Mendonca, Walter Quiroz, Xuxa Lopes, Norma Aleandro

Synopsis: Hector Babenco injected autobiographical details into this tale of an Argentine teen's first romance. Living with his parents, 17-year-old Juan (Walter Quiroz) hangs out with several intellectuals who would like to photograph the human soul. The girlfriend of the group's financier is Ana (Maria Luisa Mendonca Read More

Pedale Douce

Crew: Art Director

Actors: Patrick Timsit, Fanny Ardant, Richard Berry, Michèle Laroque

Synopsis: A closeted gay man's attempts to "act straight" for the sake of his job have unexpected consequences in this French comedy. Adrien (Patrick Timsit) is a businessman who is trying to close a major deal with Alexandre (Richard Berry), a powerful banker. Alexandre invites Adrien to attend an upcoming Read More

French Twist

Crew: Production Designer, Set Designer

Actors: Victoria Abril, Josiane Balasko, Alain Chabat, Ticky Holgado

Synopsis: In this French comedy, a man discovers that he has something unexpected in common with his wife -- they're both involved with another woman. Loli (Victoria Abril) is a woman of Spanish blood married to a French businessman, Laurent (Alain Chabat). Loli is not especially happy as a housewife Read More

Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Emmanuelle Béart, Michel Serrault, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Charles Berling, Claire Nadeau, Danièle Lebrun

Synopsis: Almost a follow-up to director Claude Sautet's Un Coeur en Hiver (1992), Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud further explores repressed emotions and failed relationships. Nelly (Emmanuelle Béart), an attractive young woman, is six months behind in her rent and struggling with odd jobs, while her husband (Charles Berling Read More

Le Joueur de Violon

Crew: Set Designer

Actors: Richard Berry, François Berléand, Inês de Medeiros, Geno Lechner, John Dobrynine

Synopsis: This European drama, set in Paris, follows a brilliant musician as he suddenly forsakes his career, to live and love amongst the common populace. Armand is the violinist who yearns to experience that life and to share his music with everyone, not just the wealthy and the elite. He leaves the Read More

La Machine

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Didier Bourdon, Natalia Woerner, Erwan Baynaud

Synopsis: This deftly made French psychological thriller terrifies with its exploration of an experiment gone horribly wrong. Dr. Marc Lacroix, a psychiatrist specializing in brain functions, is obsessed with the link between mind and spirit. To find his link he studies the criminally insane. He builds a Read More

Dead Tired

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Michel Blanc, Carole Bouquet, Philippe Noiret, Josiane Balasko, Charlotte Gainsbourg

Synopsis: A burned out actor begins to question his sanity in this French comedy that stars the writer/director Michel Blanc in a dual role. In the first role Blanc plays himself as an exhausted actor. He has been doing too much TV and too many movies. Odd things begin to happen and Blanc becomes convinced Read More

The Favour, the Watch, and the Very Big Fish

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Jeff Goldblum, Natasha Richardson, Michel Blanc, Jacques Villeret

Synopsis: In this hectic farce, Louis Aubinard (Bob Hoskins) is at the bottom of every totem pole he's ever come near, a nebbish and unattractive man who makes a poor living as a photographer of religious tableaux. His sister doesn't respect him and deliberately cooks awful food just to makes his life more Read More

Le Retour de Casanova

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Alain Delon, Fabrice Luchini, Elsa, Wadeck Stanczak, Delia Boccardo

Synopsis: If this had been a western, the older gunfighter would have taught his younger rival a thing or two about the perils of a scandalous reputation before passing on the torch and (more than likely) dying tragically just as he is about to reform. Instead, in this film based on a novel celebrating the Read More

Max et Jeremie

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Christopher Lambert, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Christophe Odent, Feodor Chaliapin, Jr.

Synopsis: Even among bombers and murderers, there is a social ladder, a hierarchy to climb. Jeremie is a mere bomber who blows up people and places for mobsters in Paris. He may not look it, scruffy lad that he is, but he is a sensitive fellow, and he feels his lowly status keenly. If only he could graduate Read More

Un Coeur Qui Bat

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Dominique Faysse, Thierry Fortineau, Jean-Marie Winling, Steve Kalfa, Christophe Pichon, Daniel Laloux

Synopsis: In this somewhat unusual romance, the two lovers go to bed with one another first (almost before the films opening credits are done) and then spend the rest of the film getting to know one another, while they carry on with their passionate affair. Malo is married to a very pleasant man, an antique Read More

Les Secrets Professionnels Du Docteur Apfelgluck

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Thierry Lhermitte, Jacques Villeret, Roland Giraud, Gérard Jugnot

Synopsis: All five stories in this anthology comedy are tied together by their theme: they concern the encounters of a youthful psychiatrist (Thierry Lhermitte) with his patients, or with people so crazy they ought to be his patients. Each one is filmed by a different director. The first situation occurs Read More

Quelques Jours Avec Moi

Crew: Art Director, Set Designer

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Vincent Lindon

Synopsis: Claude Sautet's A Few Days With Me (Quelque Jours avec Moi) stars Daniel Auteuil as the emotionally disturbed heir to a supermarket empire. Auteuil's mother Danielle Darrieux tries to give her son some purpose in life by assigning him the task of reinvigorating one of the supermarket chain's least Read More

Roselyne et les Lions

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Isabelle Pasco, Gerard Sandoz, Philippe Clevenot, Günter Meisner, Wolf Harnisch

Synopsis: Isabelle Pasco and Gerard Sandoz play an impressionable young couple living in Marseilles. Both husband and wife are mesmerized by the lions in the city zoo, the wife in particular. The husband goes so far as to take a job at the zoo so as to be nearer the animals. Fired from his position, the Read More

Jaune Revolver

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Sandrine Bonnaire, François Cluzet, Laura Favali

Drôle D'Endroit Pour Une Rencontre

Crew: Art Director, Production Designer

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, André Wilms, Jean-Pierre Sentier

Synopsis: France (Catherine Deneuve) is a haughty, bourgeoise wife abandoned by her husband by the side of the road after a vicious quarrel. She meets Charles (Gerard Depardieu), a doctor who has spent the last two nights taking his car engine apart and now can't get it back together. The meeting of the two Read More

Les Keufs

Crew: Art Director

Actors: Josiane Balasko, Isaach de Bankolé, Ticky Holgado, Jean-Marie Marion, Patrick Olivier, Jean-Pierre Léaud

Synopsis: Mireille (Joisane Balasko) is a female cop who leads a crusade against the neighborhood pimp in this comedy drama. She falls for the black detective who is sent to investigate charges of corruption. Their relationship is adversarial before it becomes congenial. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

Betty Blue

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Béatrice Dalle, Gérard Darmon, Consuelo de Havilland, Clémentine Célarié

Synopsis: Jean-Jacques Beineix's Betty Blue stars Béatrice Dalle as the title character, a mentally unbalanced and sexually aggressive free spirit who becomes involved with Zorg (Jean-Hugues Anglade), a repairman moonlighting as a writer. The two engage in a variety of sexual encounters, and grow more Read More

Sac de noeuds

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Josiane Balasko, Isabelle Huppert, Farid Chopel, Daniel Russo, Jean Carmet, Coluche

Synopsis: Josiane Balasko ("the housewife's heroine") has been writing and directing good roles for herself since first entering the acting profession, and this film about a woman on the run is one of her early efforts. Anita (Balasko) has just about had it with life -- she is ready to kill herself when a Read More

American Dreamer

Crew: Set Designer

Actors: JoBeth Williams, Tom Conti, Giancarlo Giannini, Coral Browne, James Staley

Synopsis: In this farcical look at a female detective/mystery story writer, Cathy Palmer (JoBeth Williams) is an ordinary housewife living in Ohio with a condescending husband who is far from ideal. When Cathy wins a writing contest and has the chance to go to Paris and meet the author of the romance novels Read More

Marche a l'ombre

Crew: Art Director, Production Designer

Actors: Gérard Lanvin, Michel Blanc, Sophie Duez, Beatrice Camurat

Synopsis: In this standard, light drama about two friends adjusting to change, François (Gérard Lanvin) and his side-kick Denis (Michel Blanc) come back to Paris from the Mediterranean only to find that the jobs they had been promised are illusory -- now they must survive however they can. The two go to Read More

Sarah

Crew: Art Director, Production Designer

Actors: Jacques Dutronc, Lea Massari, Heinz Bennent, Jean-Claude Brialy, Gabrielle Lazure

Synopsis: This self-conscious film with acting that is not quite up to par, is about an insurance investigator who meets an attractive woman in a hotel on his way to check out the causes of a fire that destroyed a movie set. The woman is still on his mind when he reaches the set, where contacts with the Read More

Exposed

Crew: Set Designer

Actors: Nastassja Kinski, Rudolf Nureyev, Harvey Keitel, Ian McShane, Bibi Andersson

Synopsis: Exposed is the film in which concert violinist Rudolf Nureyev grabs his bow and "plays" the lissome body of Nastassja Kinski. This may well stand as the silliest bit of erotica in screen history, but in the context of the film it's a model of restraint. We're asked to believe that Kinski is Read More

Legitime Violence

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Veronique Genest, Thierry Lhermitte, Roger Planchon, Michel Aumont

Synopsis: A man is left grieving for his dead family after they were shot down in a train station, innocent bystanders to a robbery gone wrong. They were never vindicated since the police seem unable (if not reluctant) to solve the case. Driven in part because he survived and they did not, and frustrated Read More