Vincenzo Cerami
Manuale d'amore
Four intertwined episodes on the joys and sorrows of love.
La tigre e la neve
A love-struck Italian poet is stuck in Iraq at the onset of an American invasion.
Pinocchio
Roberto Benigni adapts the classic children's tale by Carlo Collodi for the big-budget family-oriented comedy Pinocchio.
Uomo d'acqua dolce
Antonio takes a hit on his head when he's out to buy a jar of mushrooms for his wife, and loses his memory. He reappears five years later unaware that time has passed.
La vita è bella
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.
Il mostro
After a series of bizarre actions, Loris is mistaken for a serial killer. Jessica, a policewoman in undercover, will try to induce him to commit a murder.
Johnny Stecchino
A kindhearted but bumbling idiot who likes to steal bananas, is passed off for a snitch hiding from the mob.
Porte aperte
Tommaso Scalia is a man who commits three murders: he kills his superior who sacked him, the man who replaced him and his 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.
Il viaggio di Capitan Fracassa
Serafina, Pulcinella and Isabella are three lusty, beautiful members of a traveling theatrical troupe touring the French countryside in the 17th century, leaving in their wake a crop of broken hearts. This picaresque romantic comedy is based on the 1863 novel Le Capitaine Fracasse by Theophile Gauthier.
Il piccolo diavolo
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.
Stregati
Lorenzo is the conductor of Radio Strega's night show, making up false court sentences for those who suffer from insomnia.
Tutta colpa del paradiso
A former convict discovers that his son has been adopted by a couple living on the mountains and tries to establish a contact with him
Colpire al cuore
The son of a university professor discovers his father's secret life and has to decide what to do about it.
Salto nel vuoto
Mauro, a judge, is worried about his older sister Marta, who took care of him since he was a boy, and now suffers from mental illness and suicidal thoughts. She seems to recover from her depression when Mauro acquaints her with Giovanni, a brilliant actor at the edge of legality. However, Mauro becomes unconsciously jealous of their relationship.
Un borghese piccolo piccolo
l figlio di un impiegato ministeriale romano è ucciso per caso durante una rapina. Il brav'uomo prepara ed esegue una lenta, bieca, allucinata vendetta.
Casotto
Summer Sunday at a small beach house at the coast of Rome. Many people and stories: women's basketball team, two sports-obsessed soldiers, two men with their girlfriends and the priest with a big secret, an elderly couple with their pregnant granddaughter, and engagemented couple wanting to have sex for the first time.
Blindman
A blind gunman, named Blindman, has a contract to escort fifty mail order brides to their miner husbands. He is double crossed by his partners when they sell the women to bandit Domingo. Blindman heads into Mexico in pursuit of Domingo.
Il pistolero dell'Ave Maria
Mann is a gunman informed by a childhood friend that his father was murdered years earlier by his mother and her lover. To make matters worse, Mann's sister, who is in love with his friend, is held under the thumb of his murderous mom. The two gunmen ride off to have a reckoning with her.
Lo straniero di silenzio
An American gunfighter is tasked with delivering a valuable scroll to a feudal lord in Japan, and becomes embroiled in a feud between the lord and his rival cousin over ownership of land owed to a young princess in their care.