2002 Italian film directed by Roberto Benigni

Totally unawares, Saverio, a teacher and Mario, a janitor of the same school in which they both work, travel back in time and find themselves in central Italy at the end of the 15th century. They carry with them an unresolved squabble concerning Saverio's sister, creating a lot of tension between the two, which will increase in the plot. From this moment on they will have to come to grips with the grotesque situation they find themselves in, trying to "hitch a lift" back to the future in a most outlandish way, using and misusing their foresight of the events taking place round that time, and generally making fools of themselves in the eyes of "normal" renaissance folks. Their meeting with Leonardo da Vinci is hysterical, when they become more and more convinced that the genius is in reality a moron. Another character they meet is Savonarola the heretic, who enjoins them to repent, before he is taken to the stake, eliciting some breezy comment from them. If it weren't for a weird kind of homesickness, they would quite enjoy living in this period, full of daring fashions and tantalising damsels.
The couple shows great chemistry and is funny in every respect. The psychology of their characters is complex and credible - for once comical roles with a depth. Basically, Saverio is an embittered petit-bourgeois forever attracted and rejected by women, envious of Mario, an easy-going proletarian every woman falls in love with. Saverio is scheming, mean and vindictive as much as Mario is naive, generous and forgiving. What a match of talents: Roberto Benigni and Massimo Troisi at the peak of combined creativity. Too bad they will never come back together for another joint venture. Or maybe it is better this way: masterpieces of this level cannot be improved on, at best they can be imitated. For this reason Non ci resta che piangere will shine like a gem in the crown of the best Italian movies of all times. Sadly not many people seem to have seen it, not even in Italy, where the viewers do not need subtitles to enjoy the hilarious juggling of the two actors with the language, but their body language can be universally appreciated.
If you miss it you will have to repent!

2005 film by Roberto Benigni

Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her car he meets Maria, who seems immediately enamoured of him. He is soon invited to her sumptuous Palermo villa, little suspecting that this is part of a plot. He bears an amazing likeness to Maria's stool-pigeon gangster husband and it would be convenient for them if the mobster, in the shape of Dante, was seen to be dead and buried.

最近，城里发生了数十起案情十分恶劣的连环强奸案，一个名为洛瑞斯（罗伯托·贝尼尼 Roberto Benigni 饰）的怪异男子成为了警方重点怀疑的对象，因为洛瑞斯不仅是一个公认的好色之徒，更是被抓到了许多虽不能定罪但依旧对他十分不利的把柄。
身为城中警长，派瑞德（米歇尔·布朗 Michel Blanc 饰）对只会伤害柔弱女性的罪犯深恶痛绝，他发誓无论用怎样的手段，都要找到证据将罪犯捉拿归案，当然，这其中的罪犯，指的就是洛瑞斯。为了收集证据，派瑞德甚至派出了性感美丽的女警杰西卡（尼可莱塔·布拉斯基 Nicoletta Braschi 饰）潜伏在洛瑞斯的身边，甚至不惜牺牲她的色相企图“钓鱼执法”。可是，令派瑞德没有想到的是，这一次洛瑞斯竟然节操十足，不为所动。

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.