Screenplay: Vincenzo Cerami

Direction Roberto Benigni

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

Synopsis Life Is Beautiful (1997) follows Guido, a charming and imaginative Italian Jew, who uses humor and wit to win over his beloved Dora. Their idyllic life is shattered when World War II erupts, and they are sent to a concentration...

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Alberto Sordi · Shelley Winters · Romolo Valli · Vincenzo Crocitti

Direction Antonio Albanese

Cast Antonio Albanese · Valeria Milillo · Antonio Petrocelli · Sara Anticoli

Synopsis Antonio and Beatrice are a married couple and she's pregnant. One night she feels like eating artichokes under oil and he hurries to the supermarket to buy them. Unfortunately he's hit on the head by a packet of sugar, loses...

Direction Roberto Benigni

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

Synopsis The Tiger and the Snow (2005) follows Attilio, a whimsical Italian poet, as he navigates love and chaos during the Iraq War. When his unrequited love, Vittoria, is gravely injured in Baghdad, Attilio embarks on a daring journey to save...

Direction Gianni Amelio

Cast Gian Maria Volonté · Ennio Fantastichini · Renzo Giovampietro · Renato Carpentieri

Synopsis On 10 March 1937, in Palermo, the clerk Tommaso Scalia that was the scapegoat for embezzlement in the Confederation Building kills with a bayonet his former chief, the lawyer Spadafora Vincenzo, and his replacement, the accountant Speciale Antonio. Then he...

Direction Roberto Benigni

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

Direction Marco Bellocchio

Cast Lou Castel · Ángela Molina · Emmanuelle Riva · Michel Piccoli

Synopsis Aging actor Giovanni returns home for the funeral of his twin brother Pippo. The family tells him that Pippo has committed suicide leaving behind a short note explaining his motives. Yet, Pippo's mother is kept in the dark-she is told...

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Vincent Pérez · Emmanuelle Béart · Massimo Troisi · Ornella Muti

Synopsis In the Eighteenth Century, the "Traveling Company of Scenic Arts" composed of Tyrant, Lady Leonarde, Serafina, Isabella, Leandre, Zerbina, Matamore and Pulcinella gets lost while traveling to Paris in bad weather. They see a castle and ask the servant Pietro...

Direction Roberto Benigni

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

Synopsis 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 (Nicoletta Braschi), in this uproarious slapstick comedy that was one...

Direction Giovanni Veronesi

Cast Carlo Verdone · Silvio Muccino · Luciana Littizzetto · Sergio Rubini

Synopsis Manuale d'amore (2005) is a charming Italian romantic comedy that explores love in its various stages through four interconnected stories. A young man experiences the thrill of first love, a middle-aged couple faces marital crisis, an older man rediscovers passion...

Direction Gianni Amelio

Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant · Fausto Rossi · Laura Morante · Sonia Gressner

Direction Marco Bellocchio

Cast Michel Piccoli · Anouk Aimée · Michele Placido · Gisella Burinato

Synopsis Mauro, a judge, is worried about his older sister Marta, who took care of him since he was a boy, and is now affected by psychic problems and suicide fantasies. She seems to recover from her depression when Mauro acquaints...

Direction Sergio Citti

Cast Jodie Foster · Mariangela Melato · Michele Placido · Gigi Proietti

Synopsis A summer Sunday in a beach hut at Lido di Ostia (Rome). Many people and stories: a female basketball team; two fitness-mad soldiers; two petrol pump attendants with their girlfriends, and much more.

Direction Gianluigi Calderone

Cast Antonio Banderas · Toni Bertorelli · Valentina Lainati · Ivano Marescotti

Synopsis The story starts at the point in Benito Mussolini's life when, at the age of nineteen, he gave up being a schoolmaster, left his home town of Forli and, as a guest worker on a building-site in Lausanne, Switzerland, underwent...

Direction Ferdinando Baldi

Cast Tony Anthony · Ringo Starr · Lloyd Battista · Magda Konopka

Direction Roberto Benigni

Cast Roberto Benigni · Kim Rossi Stuart · Luis Molteni · Nicoletta Braschi

Synopsis Despite guidance from the Blue Fairy, and the love of his father, Gepetto, a wooden puppet's curious spirit leads him into one wild adventure after another.

Direction Ferdinando Baldi

Cast Leonard Mann · Luciana Paluzzi · Pietro Martellanza · Alberto de Mendoza

Direction Glenio Bonder

Cast Jonathan Rhys Meyers · Natalia Vodianova · Ed Stoppard · Marianne Faithfull

Synopsis English-language adaptation of Albert Cohen's epic Swiss tale of a tortured love affair between a high-ranking Jewish official and the protestant wife of one of his employees.

Direction Sergio Citti

Cast Roberto Benigni · Franco Citti · Ninetto Davoli · Daria Nicolodi

Synopsis The story centers around three characters who are brought together through the common human need to survive. Francesco (Franco Citti) and Giovanni (Ninetto Davoli) first meet at a garbage can, fending off a hungry dog for the scraps of food...

Direction Claudio Gora

Cast Tony Kendall · Carlo Giordana · Herbert Fleischmann · Marina Berti

Synopsis A young man returns to his village, and with the help of a black-clad stranger, seeks revenge for the murder of his brother against three men who are now notable men of the town.