Marco Bellocchio Movies

Based on Anton Chekhov's The Seagull.

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

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

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

Drawing on archives and interviews, including one with Italian director Marco Bellocchio, this is a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the making...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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.

A young writer is trapped between his awful actress mother and the knowledge that he has only a mediocre talent as a playwright and almost no force...

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

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

An account of the life and artistic career of Raffaella Carrà (1943-2021), Italian pop star and television personality, told through the...

In May 1946, Maria José of Savoy ascends to become Queen of Italy, only to face the realisation that the monarchy is ending and her reign will...

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