Marco Bellocchio Movies

In a train station caffè, a man ill with cancer and an indifferent customer converse. Based on a play by Luigi Pirandello.

Using archival footage and interviews with ex-Red Brigade activists and the ex-leader of the Italian Marxist-Leninists, this documentary explores the...

A strange encounter with an unknown man from a story a harpist tells to his friend during a recording session.

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

In the theater of a small village, rehersals are taking place for a show based on the opera I Pagliacci. There is no orchestra, just a piano and the...

Documentary on the making of Marco Bellocchio's first film as a director, 'Fists in the Pocket'.

Marco Bellocchio in his interview with Joyce in 1994 talks about his attitude towards life devoid of dreams and illusions, but extremely active,...

For trying to seduce the boss's wife, a young delinquent is punished by gangsters.

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

An encounter between two women: Sonia confesses to Elena that she would like to escape her town and her friend promises to help her.

The film, a nostalgic fantasy documentary, depicts in six episodes a family story in Bobbio between 1999 and 2008. We discover the 5 years-old Elena...

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

Three kids climb over the wall of an old cemetery in the Piacenza countryside and reach a boy their age, who is praying in front of a tomb. Then,...

Il Regista di Matrimoni from Marco Bellocchio seen from a different point of view, a movie inside a movie.

Elena has just turned 18 and this is her first day working in a coffee bar in Bobbio, a town in the north of Italy. It's summer and the coffee bar is...

An early version of Marco Bellocchio's Sorelle Mai