Marco Bellocchio Movies

Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front...

Matteo is a communist intellectual, the son of a wealthy bourgeois, who found himself blind from an eye after the war. One day in the streets of Rome...

The drawbacks and difficulties of military life are explored in this film. Paolo Passeri is a college graduate, somewhat spoiled, somewhat effete,...

Franco Elica is a film director casting a remake of a pious melodrama in Rome. He's melancholy, heading south for a break. On a beach, he meets a man...

The Ciraulo family lives in the miserable district of Palermo called "Zen". When one of their children dies in a shootout between mafia gangsters...

Mauro, a judge, is worried about his older sister Marta, who took care of him since he was a boy, and now suffers from mental illness and suicidal...

A girl and her art professor get trapped inside a castle-museum after it closes at night. After a little resistance she agrees to have sex with him,...

A rich Italian's shocking suicide means different things to his twin brother, mother and pregnant lover.

"Marx can wait" was something Camillo Bellocchio said to his twin Marco the last time they met before the former died at a young age in the heated...

The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists

An engineer invents a revolutionary machine capable of automating all industrial production, thereby eliminating the need for human labor. His...

A devoted father working in film shares a magical bond with his daughter, but as she enters adolescence and falls into addiction, he takes her to...

The Prince of Homburg, disobeys orders and leads a cavalry charge in battle against the Swedes, which leads to victory. He is court martialled...

This documentary was distilled from a 3 1/2-hour television film Nessuno o Tutti, to make the point that many inmates now in mental hospitals could...

A documentary exploring the life and legacy of renowned Italian actor Gian Maria Volonté, featuring insights from his colleagues, family, and...

This European existential drama utilizes complex symbols inspired by abstract psychological theories to explore the effects and reasons behind a...

Various generations of filmmakers talk about what cinema means for them.

How the cinema industry does not respect the author's work as it was conceived, how manipulates the motion pictures in order to make them easier to...