7 Movies Directed by Roberto Benigni

Il piccolo diavolo

Il piccolo diavolo

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1988-07-01

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy

Runtime:

101 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (2498 Reviews)

Director:

Roberto Benigni

Cast:

Writer:

Roberto Benigni (story)

Giuseppe Bertolucci (story)

Vincenzo Cerami (story)

Roberto Benigni (screenplay)

Vincenzo Cerami (screenplay)

Fullplot:

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.

Johnny Stecchino

Johnny Stecchino

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1991-10-24

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy

Runtime:

102 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (7308 Reviews)

Director:

Roberto Benigni

Cast:

Writer:

Roberto Benigni

Vincenzo Cerami

Fullplot:

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.

The Monster

The Monster

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1996-04-19

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy, France

Runtime:

112 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (7055 Reviews)

Director:

Roberto Benigni

Cast:

Writer:

Vincenzo Cerami (story)

Roberto Benigni (story)

Michel Blanc (french adaptation)

Roberto Benigni (screenplay)

Fullplot:

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 and provide evidence for his arrest - but things don't quite go according to plan...

Life Is Beautiful

Life Is Beautiful

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-02-12

Languages:

Italian, German, English

Countries:

Italy

Runtime:

116 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

8.6 (365170 Reviews)

Director:

Roberto Benigni

Cast:

Writer:

Vincenzo Cerami (story)

Roberto Benigni (story)

Fullplot:

In 1930s Italy, a carefree Jewish book keeper named Guido starts a fairy tale life by courting and marrying a lovely woman from a nearby city. Guido and his wife have a son and live happily together until the occupation of Italy by German forces. In an attempt to hold his family together and help his son survive the horrors of a Jewish Concentration Camp, Guido imagines that the Holocaust is a game and that the grand prize for winning is a tank.

Life Is Beautiful

Life Is Beautiful

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-02-12

Languages:

Italian, German, English

Countries:

Italy

Runtime:

116 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

8.6 (362945 Reviews)

Director:

Roberto Benigni

Cast:

Writer:

Vincenzo Cerami (story)

Roberto Benigni (story)

Fullplot:

In 1930s Italy, a carefree Jewish book keeper named Guido starts a fairy tale life by courting and marrying a lovely woman from a nearby city. Guido and his wife have a son and live happily together until the occupation of Italy by German forces. In an attempt to hold his family together and help his son survive the horrors of a Jewish Concentration Camp, Guido imagines that the Holocaust is a game and that the grand prize for winning is a tank.

Pinocchio

Pinocchio

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-12-25

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy, USA

Runtime:

108 min

Rated:

G

IMDB Ratings:

4.2 (6002 Reviews)

Director:

Roberto Benigni

Cast:

Writer:

Roberto Benigni

Vincenzo Cerami

Carlo Collodi (novel)

Brendan Donnison (English adaptation)

Fullplot:

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

The Tiger and the Snow

The Tiger and the Snow

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-10-14

Languages:

Italian, English, Arabic, French

Countries:

Italy

Runtime:

110 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (10989 Reviews)

Director:

Roberto Benigni

Cast:

Writer:

Roberto Benigni

Vincenzo Cerami

Fullplot:

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?

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