Movies: Mino Bellei

Roberto Benigni adapts the classic children's tale by Carlo Collodi for the big-budget family-oriented comedy Pinocchio....

A young man hatches a plan to sleep with another man's infertile wife. Based on the play by Machiavelli....

Franco Riva, a geologist who works in Ivory Coast, suddenly returns to Italy, to Genoa, to see his girlfriend, Claudia Fiori, of whom he has not heard for some time. Riva gathers various information about his fate. The concierge of her apartment, whi...

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A pacifist pest controller tries to catch the rat infesting a nuclear power plant....

A 1966 biopic of Francis of Assisi presents him as a troubled rebel and champion of radical brotherhood, reflecting the spirit of 1968 student protests. Praised and condemned, the film sparked controversy for its bold, dissenting portrayal of faith....

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Groundbreaking in its own way, Bionda fragola is inspired by The Boys in The Band, La cage aux folles (shot two years earlier), with a touch of Neil Simon. Based on a stage drama (1978), it is the first comedy film to focus on a light, "normalized" h...