犹太青年圭多（罗伯托·贝尼尼 饰）邂逅了美丽的女教师多拉（尼可莱塔·布拉斯基 饰），他彬彬有礼的向多拉鞠躬：“早安！公主！”。历经诸多令人啼笑皆非的周折后，天遂人愿，两人幸福美满的生活在一起。然而好景不长，法西斯政权下，圭多和儿子被强行送往犹太人集中营。多拉虽没有犹太血统，毅然同行，与丈夫儿子分开关押在一个集中营里。聪明乐天的圭多哄骗儿子这只是一场游戏，奖品就是一辆大坦克，儿子快乐、天真的生活在纳粹的阴霾之中。尽管集中营的生活艰苦寂寞，圭多仍然带给他人很多快乐，他还趁机在纳粹的广播里问候妻子：“早安！公主！”法西斯政权即将倾覆，纳粹的集中营很快就要接受最后的清理，圭多编给儿子的游戏该怎么结束？他们一家能否平安的度过这黑暗的年代呢？

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。

丹特（罗伯托·贝尼尼 Roberto Benigni 饰）是一名公交车司机。他活了一辈子没有遇见过一件好事，爱情爱情惨遭抛弃，工作工作又不值一提，穷困潦倒却整日浑浑噩噩。一天，一位搭乘他所驾驶的公交车的美女吸引了丹特的注意，这位美女每天都在同一时间上车，同一站点下车，随着时间的推移，丹特开始想入非非起来，觉得自己和这位神秘的美女之间有着天注定的缘分。
美女名叫玛丽（尼可莱塔·布拉斯基 Nicoletta Braschi 饰），她可并非什么善男信女，而是黑帮老大的妻子。玛丽发现丹特的样貌和自己的丈夫极为相似，而丈夫最近惨遭帮派追杀，于是生出了让丹特来做替死鬼的念头。

教授阿蒂利奥（罗伯托·贝尼尼 饰）对诗有着狂热的喜爱。离了婚的他带着两个小女儿生活，每天都致力于让他的学生发现诗的美好。近来，有一个梦境常常困扰着他，梦中的他在教堂里迎娶一个女子。
直到他参加阿拉伯诗人福阿德（让·雷诺 饰）的记者招待会，才终于在现实中见到了梦中的女子。他坚信眼前的她（尼可莱塔·布拉斯基 饰）正是自己命运中注定的另一半。于是，这个诗人像迷恋诗歌一样，迷恋上了这个福阿德身边的文学研究员维多利亚。
但是，维多利亚对阿蒂利奥并无好感。她随福阿德回到伊拉克，却不幸中在战火中受了重伤。阿蒂利奥闻讯，不顾一切的奔往那个战火纷飞的国度，寻找心爱的维多利亚，为她疗伤让她苏醒。曲折的旅途就像历险，然而心中有爱，一切都变得无惧。

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!

盖比特（Carlo Giuffrè 饰）是一位经验丰富的老木匠，在他漫长的一生中，创作了无数鬼斧神工般的出色艺术品，但匹诺曹（罗伯托·贝尼尼 Roberto Benigni 饰），这个活灵活现的木偶男孩，则凝聚了他毕生全部的心血与期望。
在神奇的魔法加持下，匹诺曹拥有了灵魂，他会跑、会跳、会哭、会笑、能说、会道，但匹诺曹的内心深处却明白，自己始终是一个木偶，而不是一个真正的男孩。为了成为真正的男孩，匹诺曹找到了拥有强大法力的蓝仙女（尼可莱塔·布拉斯基 Nicoletta Braschi 饰），蓝仙女答应实现匹诺曹的愿望，但在此之前，匹诺曹必须领略诚实的可贵。蓝仙女在匹诺曹身上施展了魔法，只要匹诺曹一说谎，鼻子就会变长。