Life Is Beautiful (1997)

Yes. 93% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics scored it lower at 69%, but audiences disagreed.

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. Wikipedia ↗

Life Is Beautiful is a 1997 Italian comedy-drama film directed by and starring Roberto Benigni. The film follows Guido Orefice, a charming, imaginative Jewish-Italian bookshop owner who uses humor, wit, and an elaborate fantasy to protect his young son Giosué from the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. The first half of the film is a lighthearted romantic comedy set in 1930s Tuscany, as Guido courts and marries the beautiful Dora through a series of enchanting comic set pieces.

The second half shifts dramatically as the family is deported to a concentration camp, where Guido tells Giosué that the entire experience is an elaborate game with a grand prize — a real tank — awarded to whoever accumulates the most points by following the rules, which Guido invents to keep his son hidden and alive. Life Is Beautiful was one of the most celebrated and controversial foreign-language films of the 1990s. The film also won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Original Dramatic Score.

Benigni's acceptance speech, in which he climbed over seat backs to reach the stage, became one of the most joyous moments in Oscar history. The film earned $229 million worldwide. Critics debated whether the film's comedic approach to the Holocaust was appropriate, but many praised Benigni for finding a way to honor the resilience of the human spirit without trivializing the suffering.