Screenplay: Vincenzo Cerami
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Vincenzo Cerami. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Life Is Beautiful
1997 · Movie · 117 min. · Italy
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...
8.5
189K votes
8.5
189K votes
An Average Little Man
1977 · Movie · 122 min. · Italy
Direction Mario Monicelli
Cast Alberto Sordi · Shelley Winters · Romolo Valli · Vincenzo Crocitti
7.5
656 votes
7.5
656 votes
Uomo d'acqua dolce
1997 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy
Direction Antonio Albanese
Cast Antonio Albanese · Valeria Milillo · Antonio Petrocelli · Sara Anticoli
Plot 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...
7.0
33 votes
7.0
33 votes
The Tiger y the Snow
2005 · Movie · 118 min. · Italy
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.
6.7
10K votes
6.7
10K votes
Open Doors
1990 · Movie · 108 min. · Italy
Direction Gianni Amelio
Cast Gian Maria Volonté · Ennio Fantastichini · Renzo Giovampietro · Renato Carpentieri
Plot 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...
6.6
107 votes
6.6
107 votes
The Monster
1994 · Movie · 113 min. · Italy
Direction Roberto Benigni
Cast Roberto Benigni · Nicoletta Braschi · Michel Blanc · Dominique Lavanant
6.6
3K votes
6.6
3K votes
The Eyes, the Mouth
1982 · Movie · 98 min. · Italy
Direction Marco Bellocchio
Cast Lou Castel · Ángela Molina · Emmanuelle Riva · Michel Piccoli
Plot 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....
6.5
68 votes
6.5
68 votes
The Voyage of Captain Fracassa
1990 · Movie · 132 min. · Italy
Direction Ettore Scola
Cast Vincent Pérez · Emmanuelle Béart · Massimo Troisi · Ornella Muti
Plot 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...
6.4
147 votes
6.4
147 votes
Johnny Stecchino
1991 · Movie · 110 min. · Italy
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...
6.3
3K votes
6.3
3K votes
Manuale d'amore
2005 · Movie · 116 min. · Italy
Direction Giovanni Veronesi
Cast Carlo Verdone · Silvio Muccino · Luciana Littizzetto · Sergio Rubini
Plot Four intertwined episodes on the joys and sorrows of love.
6.2
12K votes
6.2
12K votes
Blow to the Heart
1983 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy
Direction Gianni Amelio
Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant · Fausto Rossi · Laura Morante · Sonia Gressner
6.1
29 votes
6.1
29 votes
A Leap in the Dark
1980 · Movie · 120 min. · Italy
Direction Marco Bellocchio
Cast Michel Piccoli · Anouk Aimée · Michele Placido · Gisella Burinato
Plot 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....
5.9
53 votes
5.9
53 votes
Beach House
1977 · Movie · 106 min. · Italy
Direction Sergio Citti
Cast Jodie Foster · Mariangela Melato · Michele Placido · Gigi Proietti
Plot 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,...
5.8
39 votes
5.8
39 votes
Benito: The Rise and Fall of Mussolini (A Man Named Benito) (TV Miniseries)
1993 · Series · 114 min. · Italy
Direction Gianluigi Calderone
Cast Antonio Banderas · Toni Bertorelli · Valentina Lainati · Ivano Marescotti
Plot 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...
5.5
33 votes
5.5
33 votes
Blindman
1971 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy
Direction Ferdinando Baldi
Cast Tony Anthony · Ringo Starr · Lloyd Battista · Magda Konopka
5.4
57 votes
5.4
57 votes
Pinocchio
2002 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy
Direction Roberto Benigni
Cast Roberto Benigni · Kim Rossi Stuart · Luis Molteni · Nicoletta Braschi
Plot 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.
5.1
1K votes
5.1
1K votes
Forgotten Pistolero
1969 · Movie · 88 min. · Italy
Direction Ferdinando Baldi
Cast Leonard Mann · Luciana Paluzzi · Pietro Martellanza · Alberto de Mendoza
5.1
45 votes
5.1
45 votes
Belle du Seigneur
2012 · Movie · 104 min. · France
Direction Glenio Bonder
Cast Jonathan Rhys Meyers · Natalia Vodianova · Ed Stoppard · Marianne Faithfull
Plot 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.
3.9
57 votes
3.9
57 votes
Il minestrone
1981 · Movie · 104 min. · Italy
Direction Sergio Citti
Cast Roberto Benigni · Franco Citti · Ninetto Davoli · Daria Nicolodi
Plot 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,...
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Hate Is My God
1969 · Movie · 110 min. · Italy
Direction Claudio Gora
Cast Tony Kendall · Carlo Giordana · Herbert Fleischmann · Marina Berti
Plot 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...
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