Pinocchio (2019)
Drama | Fantasy
Live-action adaptation of the classic story of a wooden puppet named Pinocchio who comes to life.
Starring: Roberto Benigni, Federico Ielapi, Rocco Papaleo, Massimo Ceccherini, Marine Vacth, Gigi Proietti
Director: Matteo Garrone
La voce della luna / The Voice of the Moon (1990)
Comedy | Drama
Returning to themes he first explored in La strada (1954), Fellini crafts a parable on the whisperings of the soul that only madmen and vagabonds are capable of hearing. The odd couple, Ivo Salvini (Benigni), a fake inspector of wells, and Gonnella (Villaggio), a former prefect, wander through the Emilia-Romagna countryside of Fellini's childhood and discover a dystopia of television commercials, fascism, beauty pageants, rock music, Catholicism, and pagan ritual.
Starring: Roberto Benigni, Paolo Villaggio, Nadia Ottaviani, Marisa Tomasi, Angelo Orlando
Director: Federico Fellini
Non ci resta che piangere / Nothing Left to Do but Cry (1984)
Comedy | Fantasy
A teacher and a schoolkeeperget lost in the Italian countryside. They find themselves in the late 15th century, they met Leonardo da Vinci and try to teach him how to play cards, they try to stop Columbus, they sing beatles's song etc…
Starring: Massimo Troisi, Roberto Benigni, Iris Peynado, Amanda Sandrelli, Carlo Monni, Livia Venturini, Elisabetta Pozzi
Director: Roberto Benigni, Massimo Troisi
Son of the Pink Panther (1993)
Comedy
Eighth entry in the Pink Panther. It is nearly 30 years since Inspector Jacques Clouseau managed to get Maria Gambrelli off from a murder charge (events of "A Shot In The Dark".) Maria has gone on and have moved to a seaside town. Also Princess Yasmin of Lugash has come to the town for a holiday with her father. She is kidnapped and because of the strong ties between France and Lugash, Chief Inspector Dreyfus is called in to find her. He is hampered by the local police officer Jacques and is amazed when he finds that Jacques is Maria's son. He is terrified even though he and Maria are falling in love that Jacques is Clouseau's son and Jacques is showing Clouseau-ish behaviour. Both Jacques and Dreyfus set out to find the missing Princess…
Starring: Roberto Benigni, Herbert Lom, Claudia Cardinale
Director: Blake Edwards
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Coffee and Cigarettes / Coffee & Cigarettes (2003)
Comedy | Drama | Music
A series of short vignettes built on one another to create a cumulative effect, as the characters discuss things as diverse as caffeine popsicles, Paris in the '20s, and the use of nicotine as an insecticide–all the while sitting around sipping coffee and smoking cigarettes.
Starring: Bill Murray, Tom Waits, Roberto Benigni
Director: Jim Jarmusch
To Rome with Love (2012)
Comedy | Romance
A story about a number of people in Italy, some American, some Italian, some residents, some visitors, and the romances and adventures and predicaments they get into.
Starring: Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin, Penélope Cruz, Roberto Benigni, Judy Davis, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig, Ellen Page
Director: Woody Allen
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Down by Law (1986)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
A pair of petty thiefs/losers end up in a jail cell with an Italian tourist. In a strange twist of luck, the three manage to escape and wander the backwoods in search of what to do next.
Starring: Tom Waits, Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Ellen Barkin, John Lurie
Director: Jim Jarmusch
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Johnny Stecchino (1991)
Comedy | Crime | Romance
A kindhearted but bumbling idiot who likes to steal bananas, is passed off for a snitch hiding from the mob.
Starring: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Paolo Bonacelli, Franco Volpi, Ivano Marescotti, Turi Scalia, Loredana Romito
Director: Roberto Benigni
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