#18: It’s a Beautiful Life
While Schindler’s List headlines the 90s for influential movies featuring stories from the Holocaust, Life is Beautiful examines these WWII events through a different lens that is equally powerful. Instead of a dark film-noir, Roberto Benigni frames the horrors of war through the perspective of a loving father-son relationship where a father will do anything to try to keep his son from experiencing the gravity of what is unfolding around them.