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Roberto Benigni

Roberto Benigni, (born October 27, 1952, Misericordia, Arezzo, Italy), Italian actor and director known for his comedic work, most notably La vita è bella (1997; Life Is Beautiful), for which he won an Academy Award for best actor. Benigni was the son of a poor tenant farmer who had worked in a German forced-labour camp during World War II. The elder Benigni used humour in retelling his experiences, which helped shape his son’s comedic skill. Benigni briefly attended a Jesuit seminary in Florence, and, after a stint as a magician’s assistant, he joined an underground theatre group in the late 1960s. Born : 27th-Oct-1952

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Coffee and Cigarettes

Coffee And Cigarettes is a collection of eleven films from cult director Jim Jarmusch. Each film hosts star studded cast of extremely unique individuals who all share the common activities of conversing while drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes.
Released : 12th-Mar-2004

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Night on Earth

An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.
Released : 12th-Dec-1991

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Life Is Beautiful

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.
Released : 20th-Dec-1997

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Down by Law

A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.
Released : 20th-Sep-1986

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Pinocchio

Roberto Benigni adapts the classic children's tale by Carlo Collodi for the big-budget family-oriented comedy Pinocchio.
Released : 11th-Oct-2002

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The Tiger and the Snow

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?
Released : 14th-Oct-2005

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Womanlight

Having both suffered extreme losses, a man and a woman try to form a relationship.
Released : 29th-Aug-1979

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Francesco Il Cantico

An immersive reading of one of the most iconic texts dedicated to love.
Released : 8th-Dec-2022

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La più bella del mondo

Using a lectern on which the Constitution is placed, Benigni begins to read each article praising and exalting its beauty, declaring to the Italians that he has decided to write these principles to constitute a rebirth from the disastrous end of the Second World War.
Released : 17th-Dec-2012

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The Monster

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.
Released : 22nd-Oct-1994

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Johnny Stecchino

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.
Released : 24th-Oct-1991

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Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar

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.
Released : 3rd-Feb-1999

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The Magic of Fellini

Documentary with interviews and clips of Fellini's movies.
Released : 27th-Jan-2002

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Nothing Left to Do But Cry

Two 20th-century friends accidentally stumble into the year 1492, where they meet a charming teen and try to alter history.
Released : 20th-Dec-1984

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In the Pope's Eye

The Pope is disturbed by the fact that today's youth are not as spiritually inclined as they should be, and so he decides to set up a Vatican television station and entice them back into the religion of their ancestors. In order to particularly grab the wandering flock, a priest invites the comedians from "The Other Sunday," an actual comedy program on Italian television, to perform on this new channel.
Released : 19th-Sep-1980

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The Little Devil

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.
Released : 1st-Jul-1988

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Sanremo 2023. Tra Palco e realtà

Gianni Morandi tells the story behind the scenes of the Ariston Theater, revealing the great work and the most secret and unpublished emotions of the Sanremo Festival.
Released : 10th-Apr-2023

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Close Up

More than 150 silent short films about singers, actors and directors captured during Press Conferences in Cannes, Venice and Berlin, between 1993 and 2002. Presented the first time in 2012 (ten years after the last shooting) in Napoli Film Festival and in 2013 at the Art Institute of California in Santa Ana. An anthropological experiment on the facial expressions of famous people showing the human being aspect. All original footage from Mel Gibson to Peter Jackson, from George Lucas to Catherine Deneuve, from Michael Douglas to Giancarlo Giannini and many others.
Released : 30th-Sep-2012

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Son of the Pink Panther

The illegitimate son of Inspector Clouseau is on the case of the kidnapped Princess Yasmin.
Released : 27th-Aug-1993

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The Days Are Numbered

After a close call on on the highway, Marco--a very famous singer/songwriter in 1968--climbs onto the roof of his car and starts to sing. After an unsuccessful suicide attempt, he tries to take his life back into his own hands.
Released : 1st-Dec-1979

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Untouchable

The inside story of the rise and fall of Harvey Weinstein reveals how, over decades, he acquired and protected his power even when scandal threatened to engulf him. Former colleagues and accusers detail the method and consequences of his alleged abuse, hoping for justice and also to inspire change.
Released : 20th-Jun-2019

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Tigers in Lipstick

8 comic sketches set in Italy, with 4 of the most famous European sex symbols of the 70's playing 2 roles each.
Released : 16th-Mar-1979

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La strana coppia. Incontro con Age e Scarpelli

Documentary about Italian screenwriting legends Agenore 'Age' Incrocci and Furio Scarpelli.
Released : 21st-Nov-2001

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To Rome with Love

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.
Released : 20th-Apr-2012

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You Upset Me

The first movie directed by Roberto Benigni in four surreal short stories: "Durante Cristo" (During Christ), "Angelo" (Angel), , "In Banca" (At the Bank) and "I Due Militi" (The Two Soldiers). An excursus in Benigni's satirical views on man, religion and society.
Released : 12th-Feb-1983

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Seeking Asylum

A new teacher introduces radical ideas at a nursery school and it leads to various reactions from the students and the parents.
Released : 24th-Oct-1979

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Berlinguer: I Love You

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.
Released : 6th-Oct-1977

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Il resto del Pap'occhio


Released : 19th-Sep-1980

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The Voice of the Moon

A parable on the whisperings of the soul that only madmen and vagabonds are capable of hearing. 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.
Released : 5th-Mar-1990

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The Soup

Rome, 1960. Four different people meet each other at the Olympics. They follow the games and become friends, talking about their sad lifes.
Released : 20th-Feb-1981

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La più bella del mondo

Using a lectern on which the Constitution is placed, Benigni begins to read each article praising and exalting its beauty, declaring to the Italians that he has decided to write these principles to constitute a rebirth from the disastrous end of the Second World War.
Released : 17th-Dec-2012

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Fellini: I'm a Born Liar

A look at Fellini's creative process. In extensive interviews, Fellini talks a bit about his background and then discusses how he works and how he creates. Several actors, a producer, a writer, and a production manager talk about working with Fellini. Archive footage of Fellini and others on the set plus clips from his films provide commentary and illustration for the points interviewees make. Fellini is fully in charge; actors call themselves puppets. He dismisses improvisation and calls for "availability." His sets and his films create images that look like reality but are not; we see the differences and the results.
Released : 2nd-Apr-2003

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The Last Laugh

Feature documentary about humor and the Holocaust, examining whether it is ever acceptable to use humor in connection with a tragedy of that scale, and the implications for other seemingly off-limits topics in a society that prizes free speech.
Released : 18th-Apr-2016

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Roberto Benigni: Tuttobenigni

A young Roberto Benigni in one of his first public show in Florence at Parco delle Cascine.
Released : 29th-Sep-1983

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Luna

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.
Released : 29th-Aug-1979

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Cinématon

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.
Released : 20th-Dec-1978

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Once Upon a Time: Tonino Delli Colli, Cinematographer

A documentary about Tonino Delli Colli, a man of cinema and cinematography, and one of the greatest performers of the Arte della Luce and of photography in movement.
Released : 1st-Jan-2019

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Morto Troisi, viva Troisi!

The fake report about Troisi's death, with the direction of Troisi himself with Lello Arena and Anna Pavignano. A long of list people greet the comediam, from Gianni Boncompagni to Maria Giovanna Elmi. There is also Benigni, hidden behind a window, and Arena, his guardian angel.
Released : 21st-Jan-1982

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Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer

A film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the Italian Communist Party.
Released : 8th-Sep-1984

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We Are Cinema

An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.
Released : 16th-Dec-2021

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I magnifici 4 della risata


Released : 20th-Oct-2022

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Coffee and Cigarettes

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.
Released : 1st-Jan-1986

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Tuttobenigni 95/96

Benigni, alone on stage, speaks freely about politics, sex and religion.
Released : 31st-Dec-1996

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Caterina in the Big City

When her social-climbing father is relocated from small-town North to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls to his old school, finding herself at sea with an environment where students sort themselves by social class and their parents' political affiliation.
Released : 24th-Oct-2003

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Il parolaio


Released : 3rd-Feb-1978

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Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary

Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary is a trip through the auteur's singular cosmos - at once supernatural and earthbound. He dropped out of his studies to become a veterinarian, choosing instead to concern himself principally with the human animal, in our corporeal and yearning essence.
Released : 9th-May-2017

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Evviva Giuseppe

The life and work of Giuseppe Bertolucci, as told by his father and brother, friends and colleagues.
Released : 4th-Sep-2017

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La voce di Fantozzi

The docufilm tells the story of Paolo Villaggio's genius through the most iconic Italian character, accountant Ugo Fantozzi. The work was featured in the Classics section of the 74th Venice International Film Festival.
Released : 2nd-Sep-2017

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Pinocchio

In this live-action adaptation of the beloved fairytale, 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.
Released : 19th-Dec-2019

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TV Credits

The Rosie O'Donnell Show

Self - The Rosie O'Donnell Show was an American daytime television talk show hosted and produced by actress and comedian Rosie O'Donnell. It aired for six seasons from 1996 to 2002. Topics often discussed on the show include Broadway, children, extended families and charitable works, people and organizations. The show was based out of Studio 8G at NBC's Rockefeller Center studios in New York City, NY, USA and was produced and syndicated by KidRo Productions, Telepictures Productions and Warner Bros. Television.
Released : 10th-Jun-1996

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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

- Jay Leno hosts some of the biggest celebrities in the world.
Released : 25th-May-1992

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Ulisse. Il piacere della scoperta

Self - Alberto Angela leads the dissemination program dedicated to history, art and culture. A historical, archaeological, informative story, with the presence of some protagonists of the Italian cultural or artistic scene.
Released : 7th-Apr-2001

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Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Self - Guest - Late Night with Conan O'Brien is an American late-night talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien that aired 2,725 episodes on NBC between 1993 and 2009. The show featured varied comedic material, celebrity interviews, and musical and comedy performances. The second incarnation of NBC's Late Night franchise, O'Brien's debuted in 1993 after David Letterman, who hosted the first incarnation of Late Night, moved to CBS to host Late Show opposite The Tonight Show. In 2004, as part of a deal to secure a new contract, NBC announced that O'Brien would leave Late Night in 2009 to succeed Jay Leno as the host of The Tonight Show. Jimmy Fallon began hosting his version of Late Night on March 2, 2009.
Released : 13th-Sep-1993

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The Oscars

Self - An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.
Released : 19th-Mar-1953

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I dieci comandamenti

Himself -
Released : 15th-Dec-2014

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Wetten, dass..?

Self - A long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British show You Bet! and the American show Wanna Bet?.
Released : 14th-Feb-1981

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The Graham Norton Show

Self - Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.
Released : 22nd-Feb-2007

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Roberto Benigni - Tutto Dante

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Released : 27th-Mar-2008

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Festival di Sanremo

Self - Special Guest - The Sanremo Music Festival is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in the town of Sanremo, Imperia, Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs. The Festival was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest.
Released : 29th-Jan-1951

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Festival di Sanremo

Self - Host - The Sanremo Music Festival is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in the town of Sanremo, Imperia, Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs. The Festival was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest.
Released : 29th-Jan-1951

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Onda Libera

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Released : 19th-Dec-1976

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Beckmann

Self - Reinhold Beckmann hosts a weekly talk show.
Released : 25th-Jan-1999

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Willemsens Woche

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Released : 13th-Jan-1995

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Rockpolitik

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Released : 20th-Oct-2005

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Vivement dimanche

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Released : 20th-Sep-1998

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