Cast: Roberto Benigni

Direction Roberto Benigni

Cast Roberto Benigni · Nicoletta Braschi · Giorgio Cantarini · Marisa Paredes

Plot Guido - a charming but bumbling waiter who's gifted with a colourful imagination and an irresistible sense of humour - has won the heart of the woman he loves and...

Direction Jim Jarmusch

Cast Tom Waits · Roberto Benigni · John Lurie · Nicoletta Braschi

Plot DJ Zack and pimp Jack end up in prison for being too laid-back to avoid being framed for crimes they didn't commit. They end up sharing a cell with eccentric...

Direction Jim Jarmusch

Cast Winona Ryder · Giancarlo Esposito · Gena Rowlands · Armin Mueller-Stahl

Plot An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.

Direction Roberto Benigni · Massimo Troisi

Cast Massimo Troisi · Roberto Benigni · Iris Peynado · Amanda Sandrelli

Plot Saverio, a teacher and Mario, a janitor of the same school in which they both work, travel back in time and find themselves in central Italy at the end of...

Direction Roberto Benigni

Cast Roberto Benigni · Olimpia Carlisi · Giacomo Piperno · Nicoletta Braschi

Direction Damian Pettigrew

Cast Federico Fellini · Roberto Benigni · Rinaldo Geleng · Donald Sutherland

Plot A look at Fellini's creative process. In extensive interviews, Fellini talks a bit about his background and then discusses how he works and how he creates. Several actors, a producer,...

Direction Bernardo Bertolucci

Cast Jill Clayburgh · Matthew Barry · Veronica Lazar · Renato Salvatori

Plot Recently widowed American opera diva Caterina takes her teenaged son Joe with her on a long singing tour to Italy. Absorbed in her hectic work in various Verdi operas around...

Direction Jim Jarmusch

Cast Roberto Benigni · Steve Buscemi · Cate Blanchett · Bill Murray

Plot Coffee and Cigarettes is a comic series of short vignettes that build on one another to create a cumulative effect as the characters discuss things as diverse as caffeine popsicies,...

Direction Roberto Benigni

Cast Roberto Benigni · Walter Matthau · Nicoletta Braschi · John Lurie

Plot Father Maurice, a priest living in a residential college for priests in Rome, is called out one day to "exorcise" the devil from someone...

Direction Roberto Benigni

Cast Roberto Benigni · Jean Reno · Nicoletta Braschi · Emilia Fox

Plot A love-struck Italian poet is stuck in Iraq at the onset of an American invasion.

Direction Roberto Benigni

Cast Roberto Benigni · Nicoletta Braschi · Michel Blanc · Dominique Lavanant

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast Yves Montand · Romy Schneider · Romolo Valli · Lila Kedrova

Plot Noted political filmmaker Costa-Gavras turned his attention to personal issues in this drama. Michel (Yves Montand) has had to deal with the death of his wife, while Lydia (Romy Schneider)...

Direction Roberto Benigni

Cast Roberto Benigni · Nicoletta Braschi · Paolo Bonacelli · Franco Volpi

Plot An accident-prone bus driver (Roberto Benigni), who happens to be an exact lookalike for a Sicilian mob boss marked for death, is set up for assassination by the capo's wife...

Direction Jim Jarmusch

Cast Roberto Benigni · Steven Wright

Plot In a vignette called "Strange to meet you," Roberto sits at a small table in a coffee bar. Five cups of coffee and two ashtrays are in front of him;...

Direction Paolo Virzì

Cast Alice Teghil · Sergio Castellitto · Margherita Buy · Zach Wallen

Plot When his father, Giancarlo (Sergio Castellitto) is transferred to Rome from the small country town of Montaldo Di Castro, Caterina (Alice Teghil), a 12 years old girl, will discover her...

Direction Federico Fellini

Cast Roberto Benigni · Paolo Villaggio · Nadia Ottaviani · Marisa Tomasi

Plot Returning to themes he first explored in La strada (1954), Fellini crafts a parable on the whisperings of the soul that only madmen and vagabonds are capable of hearing. Based...

Direction Giuseppe Bertolucci

Cast Roberto Benigni · Alida Valli · Carlo Monni · Mario Pachi

Plot Mario Cioni (Roberto Benigni), is a hapless young man who lives with a tormented and antagonistic relationship with his mother. When he is told his mother has died, he returns...

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Woody Allen · Roberto Benigni · Judy Davis · Alec Baldwin

Plot It will consist of four vignettes, in one of which a husband (Woody Allen) and his wife (Judy Davis) travel to Rome and meet the family of the Italian man...

Direction Matteo Garrone

Cast Federico Ielapi · Roberto Benigni · Gigi Proietti · Rocco Papaleo

Plot Live-action adaptation of the classic story of a wooden puppet named Pinocchio who comes to life.

Direction Marco Ferreri

Cast Roberto Benigni · Dominique Laffin · Chiara Moretti · Carlo Monni

Plot Roberto has a new job as the teacher at a nursery school. The first child he meets is Gianluigi, who's mute. Roberto is spirited, bringing a TV into class, then...