Roberto Benigni stars and directs this award littered Chaplinesque comic fable. In 1930s Italy, a carefree Jewish book keeper named Guido starts a fairy tale life by courting and marrying a lovely woman from a nearby city. Guido and his wife have a son and live happily together until the occupation of Italy by German forces. In an attempt to help his son survive the horrors of a Jewish Concentration Camp, Guido, an imaginative man, turns to humour, pretending that the Holocaust is a game and tha
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LOVE IS STRANGE (2013)
Certification15 Our Rating
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MON ONCLE D'AMERIQUE (1980)
Certification12 Our Rating
Behaviourist Prof Henri Laborit, playing himself, uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss theories of contemporary social behaviour within modern Western society; Rene has left the family farm to be a technical manager at a textile factory and must face the anxiety caused by corporate downsizing; Janine is a self-educated actress/stylist who learns that the wife of her lover, Jean, is dying and must decide to let them reunite and Jean, himself, is an educated, controversial, car
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THE MAN WITHOUT A PAST (2002)
Certification12 Our Rating
This is a beautifully drawn comic drama about a man 'M' who loses his memory after a near fatal beating from some Helsinki thugs. 'M' wakes up unable to remember where he lives or where he came from. A surreal series of events unfold as he begins to rebuild his life (and brings rock and roll to a small community of salvation army river dwellers). The stark visual style, comedic dead pan dialogue and the film makers delicate compassion for the dispossessed, make this a truly original and heart wa
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TROP BELLE POUR TOI (1989)
Certification18 Our Rating
Special Jury Prize winner Cannes 1989 and 5 French Cesars in 1990. A superb black comedy in which Depardieu, a well-off BMW sales rep, abandons his exquisitely beautiful wife for his frumpy middle-aged secretary, overturning every stereotype in this very stylish and typically French tale.
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