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 find out more...

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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 find out more...

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Hassan Kadam is a culinary ingénue with the gastronomic equivalent of perfect pitch. When Hassan and his family, led by Papa, move to a quaint village in the South of France with the grand plan of opening an Indian restaurant, they are undeterred by the fact that only 100 feet opposite stands a Michelin starred classical French eatery.

However upon encountering the icy proprietress, Madame Mallory, the Kadam family realise they may have bitten off more than they can chew. Ou find out more...

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A deeply entertaining probe into the metaphysics of human existence. End existential angst, watch this movie. A cutting indictment of British public school education, politics and the crime that is Catholic doctrine. Some of the finest observational satire ever made. find out more...

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. find out more...

Whoopi Goldberg is like a hip, Afro-American Joyce Grenfell. Her monologues are masterpieces of characterisation and acute observation - always funny and moving.

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