Life Is Beautiful

1998 "An unforgettable fable that proves love, family and imagination conquer all."
8.6| 1h56m| PG-13| en
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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.

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Also starring Giorgio Cantarini

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Alicia I love this movie so much
Stometer Save your money for something good and enjoyable
Portia Hilton Blistering performances.
Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
silviacampostrini-42033 "La vita è bella" has always been my favourite movie since the first time I saw it. I can't find the words to describe the magnificence and the beauty of this movie. Roberto Benigni has really taken the love, that machinery that moves the world. Life Is Beautiful is about love, between father and son, between husband and wife and between every single persone that lives on earth. He found the love and the positive energy in a tragedy. and he was not hilariously about the holocaust, he made a movie that's about the love that saved people in that horrible history moment that gave hope to those to continue; the love that everyone should have but that they have forgotten because we have everything and we don't remember importance and value of things. This movie marked my life forever. I don't understand how some people doesn't take the sense. It's a geniusly thing, if I can say that. It's above all things. I have never found a movie that can be compared to it. This movie is about a Jewish family who live in the holocaust period, so it can not be that sad. But yet the tears coming out of your eyes are not of sadness, are of joy. Joy that you feel when you see the beauty of the humanity, in contrast of the tragedy. You see what love is able to do to a us. A father who saved his son from (maybe) the worst tragedy in the world with the humility. How can you make a child (the hope, the future and the innocence in the world) understand genocide if not by its means. To the person who said that this film is sucks because you can't be hilarious talking of what happened in the Second War World, it's no hilarious, he reflects all the feelings that every feel.
adonis98-743-186503 When a Jewish librarian and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor, and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp. Life is Beautiful has Benigni doing his usual things both in front and behind the camera and unfortunately his humor is quite dated. (4/10)
bunnyx21 In this movie is the power of love for a child from daddy
emadterkmani I just saw this movie , and it sucked , first of all, I've never seen the main character in other movies. And I will never check his movies after i saw THIS, He has the most unlikable personality I've witnessed. His Actions are unbelievable, it may show his strength, but come on there are people LITERALLY burning and he can keep a fake smile on his face just for his kid, he made him live in a fairytale in which our actual life isn't BEAUTIFUL , he keeps talking the whole movie I was actually relieved when he died so I can watch a minute of silence without him mumbling and shouting the rule of GAME they are playing, The End was just horrible, I mean the wife didn't even care about her husband nor the child did, I think if the main character was not Roberto Benigni, the movie would have been Good. DON'T WATCH IT