Marco Bellocchio Movies

A portrait of Italy in the 60's and 70's, based on films by Marco Bellocchio.

A deeply disturbed and epileptic young man benignly decides to murder other members of his dysfunctional family for altruistic reasons.

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

Fragments of a collaboration between director Franco Piavoli (The Blue Planet, The First Breath of Wind) and students of the Laboratory Making 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...

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...

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

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,...

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

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...

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

A young man lives as a recluse in a monastery. In a sort of ecstasy, he begins to talk to nature and recite the gospels.

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

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

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...