Roberto Benigni
Also Known As: Roberto Remigio Benigni , 羅貝托·貝尼尼, روبرتو بنینی
Biography: 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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Manciano La Misericordia, Castiglion Fiorentino, Arezzo, Italy
Birthday: October 27, 1952
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Gender: Male
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Night on Earth
Overview: An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-12
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Coffee and Cigarettes
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-03-12
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Life Is Beautiful
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-12-20
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Down by Law
Overview: A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-20
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Pinocchio
Overview: Roberto Benigni adapts the classic children's tale by Carlo Collodi for the big-budget family-oriented comedy Pinocchio.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-10-11
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The Tiger and the Snow
Overview: 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?
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-10-14
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Womanlight
Overview: Having both suffered extreme losses, a man and a woman try to form a relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-08-29
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Francesco Il Cantico
Overview: An immersive reading of one of the most iconic texts dedicated to love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-12-08
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La più bella del mondo
Overview: 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.
Genres: History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-12-17
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The Monster
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-10-22
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Johnny Stecchino
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-10-24
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Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar
Overview: 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.
Genres: Family Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-02-03
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The Magic of Fellini
Overview: Documentary with interviews and clips of Fellini's movies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-27
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Nothing Left to Do But Cry
Overview: Two 20th-century friends accidentally stumble into the year 1492, where they meet a charming teen and try to alter history.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-12-20
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In the Pope's Eye
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-09-19
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The Little Devil
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-07-01
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Sanremo 2023. Tra Palco e realtà
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-04-10
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FF.SS. cioè '...che mi hai portato a fare sopra a Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene?'
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-12-16
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Close Up
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-30
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Son of the Pink Panther
Overview: The illegitimate son of Inspector Clouseau is on the case of the kidnapped Princess Yasmin.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-27
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The Days Are Numbered
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-12-01
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Untouchable
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-20
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Tigers in Lipstick
Overview: 8 comic sketches set in Italy, with 4 of the most famous European sex symbols of the 70's playing 2 roles each.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-03-16
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La strana coppia. Incontro con Age e Scarpelli
Overview: Documentary about Italian screenwriting legends Agenore 'Age' Incrocci and Furio Scarpelli.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2001-11-21
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To Rome with Love
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-20
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You Upset Me
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-02-12
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Seeking Asylum
Overview: A new teacher introduces radical ideas at a nursery school and it leads to various reactions from the students and the parents.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-10-24
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Berlinguer: I Love You
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-10-06
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Il resto del Pap'occhio
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-09-19
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The Voice of the Moon
Overview: 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.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-03-05
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The Soup
Overview: Two homeless men in Rome are arrested due to a misunderstanding. In jail, they meet a man who has been arrested for eating and running from restaurants. Together they embark on a series of escapades around Tuscany.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-02-20
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La più bella del mondo
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-12-17
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Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-04-02
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The Last Laugh
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-18
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Roberto Benigni: Tuttobenigni
Overview: A young Roberto Benigni in one of his first public show in Florence at Parco delle Cascine.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-09-29
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Luna
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-08-29
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Cinématon
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-12-20
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Once Upon a Time: Tonino Delli Colli, Cinematographer
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-01-01
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Morto Troisi, viva Troisi!
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-01-21
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Isabella Rossellini - Aus dem Leben eines Schmetterlings
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-02-18
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Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
Overview: A film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the Italian Communist Party.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-09-08
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We Are Cinema
Overview: An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-12-16
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I magnifici 4 della risata
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-10-20
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Coffee and Cigarettes
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Tuttobenigni 95/96
Overview: Benigni, alone on stage, speaks freely about politics, sex and religion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-12-31
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Caterina in the Big City
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-10-24
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Il parolaio
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-02-03
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Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-05-09
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Evviva Giuseppe
Overview: The life and work of Giuseppe Bertolucci, as told by his father and brother, friends and colleagues.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-09-04
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La voce di Fantozzi
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-09-02
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Pinocchio
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Family Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-12-19
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Cinque mondi
Overview: Roberto Benigni, Bernardo Bertolucci, Gabriele Salvatores, Paolo Sorrentino and Giuseppe Tornatore talk about their idea of cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-10-10
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Revisiting Life is Beautiful 15 Years After
Overview: In this documentary film, directed by Dominique Maillet for StudioCanal, director Martin Scorsese, cast and crew members, and prominent critics and historians discuss Life is Beautiful and its success, as well as Roberto Benigni's career.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-04-02
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And the Oscar Goes To...
Overview: The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-01
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La commedia di Amos Poe
Overview: A new translation of Dante's Divine Comedy channeling the tools of Edward Muybridge and a meditation on the perception of motion in a motion picture.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-01
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Opinioni di un clown - Roberto Benigni
Overview: A documentary about the career of Roberto Benigni with many rare and funny sketches.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-10-27
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Cecchi Gori - Una famiglia italiana
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-10-26
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Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
Overview: A complete and never-before-seen portrait of the life of a young girl from Pula (Istria) who quickly became one of the most famous and beloved actresses of Italian and international cinema, told through the words of her unpublished letters and diaries, photographs, homemade films in 8 mm, and new interviews with her relatives, friends, and collaborators.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-05-17
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Paolo Conte, Come Away with Me
Overview: Documentary follows the life and work of Italian singer and composer Paolo Conte.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-09-28
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Towards the Moon with Fellini
Overview: A rare, comical and up-close behind-the-scenes look at the late Italian director Federico Fellini, as he directs his last film, "La Voce Della Luna".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-01
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Vita da Cioni
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Red Chairs - Parma and the Cinema
Overview: The relations between Parma and cinema were so strong for almost the whole of the twentieth century that this city became an early laboratory of ideas and theories on cinema and a set chosen by some of the greatest Italian authors and beyond. Furthermore, a considerable number of directors, actors, screenwriters and set designers were born in Parma who have made their way internationally, testifying to the fact that in this small city in Northern Italy there was a decidedly cinematic air. Red armchairs takes up the thread of this story, wondering why, unique among the Italian provincial cities, Parma has given so much to the cinema, accompanying the viewer on a journey backwards that from the first projections of the Lumière cinema reaches the ultramodern experience of new multiplexes. During this journey we will meet the characters who created the conditions for this diffusion of cinematographic culture in Parma.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-07-24
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Cesare Zavattini
Overview: Documentary about Italian film screenwriter Cesare Zavattini
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Ladra di sogni
Overview: Accompanied by a background of classical music, Benigni dressed in eighteenth-century clothes moves gracefully and mute dancing in a classy room with a Television.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-05-27
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The Singing Priest: Fr Rob Galea
Overview: In 2015, Roman Catholic priest Rob Galea joined the Australian version of The X Factor but, due to his holy duties, had to withdraw. But this didn't stop him from becoming a widely beloved contemporary Christian singer-songwriter.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2026-04-02
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Late Night with Conan O'Brien: 10th Anniversary Special
Overview: Conan O'Brien celebrates ten years of "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" in this one-hour special. Many guest appearances and clip montages show us how funny his show has been.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-14
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Roberto Benigni - Inno Di Mameli
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Original Language: it
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