Vincenzo Cerami

From one of the world's most acclaimed comic filmmakers comes an unexpected and unforgettable fable about the power of laughter to move the human heart and the power of the imagination to bolster the human spirit. (Miramax Films)

Roberto Benigni brings one of the world's most famous and beloved tales magically to the screen. (Miramax)

A kindhearted but bumbling idiot who likes to steal bananas, is passed off for a snitch hiding from the mob. (imdb)

Vincent Pérez plays Baron of Sigognac, a young royal, whose quest for material wealth brings him true love and revelations on the nature of this world. The plot themes are somewhat related to Stoppard's excellent Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - both uses the traveling players to explore the nature of the human condition (IMDB comments)

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? (imdb)

Four intertwined episodes on the joys and sorrows of love. (imdb)

Tommaso Scalia is a man who commits three murders: he killed his superior who sacked him, he kills the man who replaced him, and he kills his own wife. He wants a quick trial and an early execution, but an earnest, principled assistant judge looks for a way to save the murderer from being shot, because he does not belive in capital punishment. Although he manages to save the man initially, he will pay a high price for it. (imdb)

A meek middle-aged man takes justice in his own hands.

The Stranger, the nameless hero, is asked by a dying Japanese in the Klondike to deliver a scroll to a man in Japan. Trying to do so, he is involved in a Samurai war. (spaghetti-western.net)

Set during the last days of the Civil War, an outlaw finds a dying Confederate officer. As the officer expires, he tells the outlaw about a cache of gold hidden in his blind father's home. The enterprising thief takes the dead man's clothes and tricks the father and his housekeeper into believing that he is the son. He is just about ready to begin looking for the gold when an outlaw gang comes to town and forces him to help them rob an army payroll wagon.

Antonio Banderas stars as Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in this provocative biopic originally produced for Italian television. Following the rise and fall of one of the most infamous political figures in modern history, the film traces Mussolini's journey from his days as a young star of the Socialist Party to his years as a proponent of government fascism and ally of Adolf Hitler, a relationship that would ultimately cost him his life.

Before finally entering the afterlife, the dead spend a period in a limbo from which they depart only when, among the living, there is no one who remembers them. (imdb)

This farce features Jodi Foster, Catherine Deneuve, and Ugo Tognazzi. Tersina (Foster) is a pregnant teen whose parents want her married, pronto. Cerquette (Tognazzi) is an insurance man who wears a chastity belt to keep him from ravishing the two women he desires. A pair of bachelors liven up the action (Michele Placido and Luigi Proietti) which is not easy. Except for the introductory scenes, all of the action takes place in the dressinig (and undressing) room of a beach house. (allrovi.com)

Two hungry men become friends in adversity, but are thrown into gaol when they cause a traffic jam by looking at the sky. In gaol, they meet a sophisticated but hungry con-man, whose trick is to dine in restaurants without paying... (bfi)

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. (spaghetti-western.net)

A story about duty and freedom nuances. About social walls and mixture between past and present. About the other as projection of your desire.About silence and strange skin of words, about images and discoveries, about measure of understanding and price of frustration. (imdb)

A tortured love affair between a high-ranking Jewish official and the protestant wife of one of his employees.

Lorenzo is a disc-jockey who lives in Genoa, in a loft near the port; he conducts a night radio program for the radio station Radio Strega, keeping company, with his words and sentences, to those who suffer from insomnia or work at night. His philosophy of life, as well as that of his goliardic friends (a taxi driver and a pianist) and his father (manager of a cinema where pornographic films are broadcast), is to fight monotony, often even breaking the rules and some female hearts.

Romeo Casamonica gets out of prison after serving a five-year sentence for armed robbery. Outside there is no one waiting for him. Realizing that he no longer has ties and that even the environment in which he lived has changed a lot, his only goal becomes to track down his six-year-old son Lorenzo, practically never known, the result of a brief relationship with a foreign woman who has returned home, abandoning him.

The lives of a group of highly-gifted young physicists known as the Via Panisperna Boys, led by Enrico Fermi. One of them, Ettore Majorana, mysteriously disappeared in 1938. (imdb)