Nicoletta Braschi

A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.

Dir. Roberto Benigni · With Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini

Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her car he meets Maria, who seems immediately enamoured of him. He is soon invited to her sumptuous Palermo villa, little suspecting that this is part of a plot. He bears an amazing likeness to Maria's stool-pigeon gangster husband and it would be convenient for them if the mobster, in the shape of Dante, was seen to be dead and buried.

Dir. Roberto Benigni · With Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Paolo Bonacelli

In Memphis, Tennessee, over the course of a single night, the Arcade Hotel, run by an eccentric night clerk and a clueless bellboy, is visited by a young Japanese couple traveling in search of the roots of rock; an Italian woman in mourning who stumbles upon a fleeing charlatan girl; and a comical trio of accidental thieves looking for a place to hide.

Dir. Jim Jarmusch · With Youki Kudoh, Masatoshi Nagase, Screamin' Jay Hawkins

From childhood to fatherhood, Piero learns things the hard way while growing up in a working-class neighborhood of Livorno.

Dir. Paolo Virzì · With Edoardo Gabbriellini, Claudia Pandolfi, Nicoletta Braschi

A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.

Dir. Jim Jarmusch · With Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni

Purehearted teen Lazzaro is content living as a sharecropper in rural Italy, but an unlikely friendship with the marquise’s son will change his world.

Dir. Alice Rohrwacher · With Adriano Tardiolo, Agnese Graziani, Luke Chikovani

A vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris is the prime suspect, thanks to his unfortunate habit of getting caught in compromising situations (for which there is always a totally innocent explanation that the police fail to spot). Undercover policewoman Jessica is assigned by eccentric police psychologist Taccone to follow Loris.

Dir. Roberto Benigni · With Roberto Benigni, Michel Blanc, Nicoletta Braschi

Love and injury in time of war. Attilio de Giovanni teaches poetry in Italy. He has a romantic soul, and women love him. But he is in love with Vittoria, and the love is unrequited. Every night he dreams of marrying her, in his boxer shorts and t-shirt, as Tom Waits sings. Vittoria travels to Iraq with her friend, Fuad, a poet; they are there with the second Gulf War breaks out. Vittoria is injured. Attilio must get to her side, and then, as war rages around him, he must find her the medical care she needs. In war, does love conquer all?

Dir. Roberto Benigni · With Roberto Benigni, Jean Reno, Nicoletta Braschi

Father Maurice, a priest living in a residential college for priests in Rome, is called out one day to "exorcise" the devil from someone. The devil turns out to be in the form of a fun-loving man called Giuditta. What Father Maurice doesn't know is that this type of devil will turn his life around.

Dir. Roberto Benigni · With Roberto Benigni, Walter Matthau, Stefania Sandrelli

Roberto Benigni adapts the classic children's tale by Carlo Collodi for the big-budget family-oriented comedy Pinocchio.

Dir. Roberto Benigni · With Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Mino Bellei