X

Join or Sign In

Sign in to customize your TV listings

Continue with Facebook Continue with email

By joining TV Guide, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy.

Life Is Beautiful

In 1930s Italy, a carefree Jewish waiter-turned-bookseller named Guido starts a fairy tale life by courting and marrying a lovely woman teacher named Dora. Guido and Dora have a son named Joshua and live happily together until the forced deportation of the town's Jewish population in cattle cars. Dora, while not required to be deported, volunteers to leave with her family, and they are all forced to live in a concentration camp. In an attempt to hold his family together and help his son survive the horrors of a concentration camp, Guido imagines that the Holocaust is a game and that the grand prize for winning is a tank.

Loading. Please wait...

Content not available in your region? ExpressVPN can help you stay connected wherever you are. Get 4 extra months FREE with TV Guide's exclusive offer.

Cast & Crew See All

Roberto Benigni
Guido
Nicoletta Braschi
Dora
Giorgio Cantarini
Giosué

Featured Video

Life Is Beautiful (US)
Life Is Beautiful (US)
1:22

1:22 Life Is Beautiful (US)

Awards

  • 1999 - Oscar - Best Picture - nominated
  • 1999 - Oscar - Best Actor in a Leading Role - winner
  • 1999 - Oscar - Best Director - nominated
  • 1999 - Oscar - Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen - nominated

You May Also Like See All

Fanny and Alexander
Rear Window
Compensation
Lawrence of Arabia

Popular Movies See all movies

History of the World: Part I

1 hr 32 mins
Mel Brooks brings his one-of-a-kind comic touch to the history of mankind covering events from the Old Testament to the French Revolution in a series of episodic comedy vignettes.
47   Metascore
1981 Comedy, Documentary, Music

Solo Mio

1 hr 36 mins
After being left at the altar in Rome, a man decides to go on his honeymoon alone.
48   Metascore
2026 Comedy, Drama

Popcorn Porn: Watching 'Zack and Miri Make a Porno'

1 hr 14 mins
This film follows the making of Kevin Smith's latest film, Zack and Miri Make A Porno.
2009 Documentary, Comedy

14 and Under

1 hr 27 mins
A series of "sex reports" intended to address the issue of pedophilia in the early 1970s.
1973 Comedy

Bugonia

1 hr 58 mins
Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
72   Metascore
2025 Comedy, Suspense, Science Fiction

Crazy, Stupid, Love.

1 hr 58 mins
Cal (Steve Carell) and Emily (Julianne Moore) have the perfect life together living the American dream... until Emily asks for a divorce. Now Cal, Mr Husband, has to navigate the single scene with a little help from his professional bachelor friend Jacob Palmer (Ryan Gosling). Make that a lot of help...
68   Metascore
2011 Comedy, Drama