Roberto Benigni

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

Two 20th-century friends accidentally stumble into the year 1492, where they meet a charming teen and try to alter history.

Dir. Roberto Benigni, Massimo Troisi · With Massimo Troisi, Roberto Benigni, Amanda Sandrelli

A quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.

Dir. Jim Jarmusch · With Winona Ryder, Gena Rowlands, Giancarlo Esposito

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

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

An anthology of eleven vignettes featuring star-studded casts of extremely unique individuals who all share the common activities of conversing while drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes.

Dir. Jim Jarmusch · With Roberto Benigni, Steven Wright, Joie Lee

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

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; he drinks and smokes. Steven joins him. They start a conversation about cigarettes and coffee. Steven likes to drink coffee before he sleeps, so he can dream faster. The conversation jumps around. "You know my mother?" asks Roberto. Steven describes coffee Popsicles. They switch seats; then switch back. Steven has to leave for a dental appointment he's not looking forward to. Roberto makes a startling offer, inspired no doubt by the coffee and cigarettes.

Dir. Jim Jarmusch · With Roberto Benigni, Steven Wright

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

A young poet falls in love with a sophisticated woman who hates poetry. But the poet wants to win her with poetry — and a bit of help from his mum.

Dir. Giuseppe Bertolucci · With Roberto Benigni, Alida Valli, Carlo Monni

Odd couple Ivo Salvini, recently released from a mental asylum, and former prefect Gonnella wander through the countryside and discover a dystopia made of television commercials, beauty pageants, rock music, Catholicism, and pagan rituals.

Dir. Federico Fellini · With Roberto Benigni, Paolo Villaggio, Angelo Orlando

Old woodcarver Geppetto fashions a wooden puppet, Pinocchio, who magically comes to life. Pinocchio longs for adventure and is easily led astray, encountering magical beasts, fantastical spectacles, while making friends and foes along his journey. However, his dream is to become a real boy, which can only come true if he finally changes his ways.

Dir. Matteo Garrone · With Federico Ielapi, Roberto Benigni, Marine Vacth

While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his heroin addiction.

Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci · With Jill Clayburgh, Matthew Barry, Veronica Lazăr

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

Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young man whose romantic woes remind him of a painful incident from his own youth; retired opera director Jerry discovers a mortician with an amazing voice, and he seizes the opportunity to rejuvenate his own flagging career; a young couple have separate romantic interludes; a spotlight shines on an ordinary man.

Dir. Woody Allen · With Woody Allen, Roberto Benigni, Penélope Cruz

Set in 50 B.C., Asterix and Obelix are living in a small but well-protected village in Gaul, where a magic potion concocted by Druids turns the townsfolk into mighty soldiers. When Roman troops carve a path through Gaul to reach the English Channel, Caesar and his aide de camp Detritus discover the secret elixir and capture the Druid leader who knows its formula, and Asterix and Obelix are sent off to rescue them.

Dir. Claude Zidi · With Christian Clavier, Gérard Depardieu, Roberto Benigni

The illegitimate son of Inspector Clouseau is on the case of the kidnapped Princess Yasmin.

Dir. Blake Edwards · With Roberto Benigni, Herbert Lom, Claudia Cardinale