Marco Bellocchio Movies

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...

Turin, 1969. Nine-year-old Massimo’s idyllic childhood is shattered by the mysterious death of his mother. The young boy refuses to accept this...

A deep dive into Glauber Rocha's years exiled in Italy in the 70s. Through a collection of interviews and archives, the movie shows the making of his...

A 1966 biopic of Francis of Assisi presents him as a troubled rebel and champion of radical brotherhood, reflecting the spirit of 1968 student...

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...

Third installment in the "If I May" trilogy by director Marco Bellocchio.

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...

A young maestro conducts rehearsals with a male chorus. He is frustrated and feels that a female voice is missing.

A celebrated painter receives a visit from a cardinal's assistant, who informs him that his mother could become a saint.

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...

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

In 1958 Angelo, a rich and spoiled boy, enters a religious school, where students are tired of its vice-rector, and the strict rules and...

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

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

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

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