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Director:
1. La tigre e la neve (2005)
... aka "The Tiger and the Snow" - International (English title), USA (literal English title)
2. Pinocchio (2002)
... aka "Roberto Benigni's Pinocchio" - USA (promotional title)
3. La vita è bella (1997)
... aka "Life Is Beautiful" - UK, USA
... aka "Life Is Beautiful" - Japan (English title)
4. Il mostro (1994)
... aka "The Monster" - USA
5. Johnny Stecchino (1991)
6. Il piccolo diavolo (1988)
7. Non ci resta che piangere (1985)
8. L'addio a Enrico Berlinguer (1984)
9. Tu mi turbi (1983)
... aka "You Disturb Me" - USA
... aka "You Upset Me" - International (English title)

La tigre e la neve (2005)
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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User Rating:6.9/10    4,841 votes
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Another Benigni classic, 23 December 2005
Author: orangeheadedwarrior from United Kingdom
Anyone who calls this film superficial, banal or trivial has spectacularly missed the point and is exactly the same type of person who was levelling precisely the same kind of criticism at La Vita è Bella. Now, though I do like Benigni (in my opinion La Vita è Bella is a masterpiece and films like Il Piccolo Diavolo, Johnny Stecchino and Il Mostro are exceedingly worthy comedies - that said I thought Pinocchio was an expensive disaster), I will try to be as objective as possible. In La Tigre e la Neve, Benigni repeats the masterfully delicate feat he accomplished in La Vita è Bella: he touches on complex, spikey issues (in La Vita è Bella it was the holocaust, here we have the war in Iraq) in a fable-like, simple manner - he doesn't politicise the film, and he doesn't delight in the gruesome (and very real) aspects of war. Yet this is NOT trivialisation of the subject matter. To believe that is to believe that the true horrors of war (or the holocaust) can only be conveyed on the screen by a documentary-style approach, and that cannot be the case. Benigni is far more effective - he does not shock the audience with visual representations of war, but his comedy in the face of war creates a subtle paradox that makes the whole film even more touching. La Tigre e La Neve is a fable about love, love in the face of adversity, stubborn optimism, hope and desperation and relationships between people of different races and creeds. Don't expect to see a Michael Moore rant at the injustice of war - Benigni is far more subtle. Perhaps the only criticism I have is that Nicoletta Braschi's performance is not always one hundred percent convincing, but Benigni and Reno more than make up for it. I truly hope it makes it on an international level - definitely a film to watch.


Il mostro (1994)
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...
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User Rating:7.1/10    3,080 votes
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Benigni's funniest movie, 26 February 2001
Author: maitreg (maitreg@maitreg.com) from Minnesota
This is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. Benigni is a genius when it comes to comedy, the modern Charlie Chaplain. After `Life is Beautiful', this is probably his best movie.
A sex-crazed serial killer is on the loose and has already killed a dozen women. When the goofy Loris (Benigni) is mistaken for the killer and the local police launch a 24-hour surveillance of his crazy life, the laughs begin and never end. Benigni's real-life wife, Nicoletta Braschi, also in `Life is Beautiful', stars in this one as well as a police officer who goes undercover to catch him in the act. She sublets (illegally) his apartment and movies in with him to try to entice him into his sexual psychosis. When normal life fails, she then must dance around the apartment naked shoving her genitalia right into his face.
It's a little on the edge, but in the tradition of Benigni comedy, is still quite tasteful. 17 and over only though. Sexually explicit scenes all over the place, but no nudity.


Il piccolo diavolo (1988)
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.
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User Rating:7.0/10    1,081 votes
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Benigni's Best ..., 17 December 2003
Author: MoeSnodgrass
Benigni's best but unfortunately unavailable in the USA and never dubbed or subtitled into English. Walter Matthau plays an Italian Vatican priest who is called in by church officials to exorcise a demon from a fat woman. Once the demon is expelled, Matthau hears a racket only to find Benigni in his closet who proclaims himself to be [paraphrasing], "the disgusting thing you exorcised from the fat woman." His first time out of Hell, Benigni's devil is naive, curiously tests the world and discovers the mundane little joys of living that we all take for granted; he acquires a taste for cigarettes and wine, dances in public with an inflatable sex doll, falls in love, and much more. Much of all this is observed with arm's-length curiosity by Matthau who brought this fool of a devil into the world. This film is in the vein of the lost art of Chaplin and Keaton, approaches and perhaps equals it. If you can find it in Italian seek out an interpreter any way you can. You will thank each other afterword. A complete gem. 

Johnny Stecchino (1991)
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.
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Benigni A Couple Of Years Before His Star Rose, 12 July 2006
Author: ccthemovieman-1 from Lockport, NY, United States
Roberto Benigni, who went to achieve international stardom with "Life Is Beautiful," plays two roles in this comedy. The story is about an innocent man who is dead ringer for a gangster-informant-in hiding. Benigni plays both roles.
It's a decent movie, a low-key comedy that has some funny moments but would have been much better had it been chopped down about 15 minutes. It tends to drag a bit during the second half. Benigni, as the "wimp," is a very charming guy and one that's easy to root for, but the rest of the characters in the film are just so-so. It's odd to ever see the usually high-strung Benigni as a lower-key person.
Surprisingly, this is an "R" rated comedy, and that's because of the language. I rented this once, but would see it again, especially since it''s now available on DVD.