Marco Bellocchio Filmes

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

It is a sunny day on the river Trebbia. In the distance a patrol of German soldiers is approaching : they are nazis, guns blazing. It seems like they...

Documentary about Italian cinema.

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...

A young writer is trapped between his awful actress mother and the knowledge that he has only a mediocre talent as a playwright and almost no force...

The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Italy at the time, Democrazia Cristiana, as seen from...

Until the 1970s, Italian cinema dominated the international scene, even competing with Hollywood. Then, in just a few years, came its rapid decline,...

In Vicenza, a beautiful Italian art city, a young wealthy couple joyfully welcomes the birth of a long-awaited daughter in the early 1980s. But the...

Based on Anton Chekhov's play.

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...

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

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

Three Italian soldiers volunteer to go to Kosovo after the war, where they risk their lives to help a young girl.

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 pair of working class lovers - a secretary and an accountant, scheme to marry into the rich landed gentry.

A prophetic Film about the fundamental problem of our times, that automatization of the production process ultimately eliminates human labour. In...

Children playing on a graveyard.

This film project was made in 1996 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the cinema.

Rome, early 20th century: a wealthy psychiatrist, who runs an asylum for women and lacks imagination in his practice, must find a wet nurse for his...