Marco Bellocchio Movies

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

The extremely mawkish hides something extremely violent.

An early version of Marco Bellocchio's Sorelle Mai

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

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...

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,...

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

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

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

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...

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