Marco Bellocchio Movies

A child in anaphylactic shock after an insect sting is brought by her father to a doctor, a foreigner who doesn't speak the language well and is...

A man wanders the streets of a small provincial town, obsessed by the idea of meddling in the lives of others.

Director Marco Bellocchio returns with his family to his homeland, in the province of Piacenza. The journey is an opportunity to confront oneself...

The story of a turbulent relationship between Elisa, a mentally unstable young woman, and her psychiatrist who, meets her after she's hospitalized...

Milan, 1 May 1969. A propaganda film produced by the communist organization Servire il popolo.

A documentary set in Paola, in Calabria, about the fight to occupy housing.

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

An early version of Marco Bellocchio's Sorelle Mai

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

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

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,...

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

At the centre of the narrative, which continues and deepens the themes of blame and punishment, the fall of a leader, Juniper.