Marco Bellocchio Movies

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.

In the Middle Ages, Federico, a soldier, visits the convent in Bobbio, where Sister Benedetta is facing charges of witchery for seducing Fabrizio,...

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 two year old girl, surprised and moved, watches her past materialize via amateur footage on the family TV set. She watches without regrets or...

These are the years of the First World War and Dr. Stefano Zorzi spends his days in the Exemption Clinic in a large city of Northern Italy, where he...

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...

The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Italy at the time, Democrazia Cristiana, as seen from...

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

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...

A short film.

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

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...

The drawbacks and difficulties of military life are explored in this film. Paolo Passeri is a college graduate, somewhat spoiled, somewhat effete,...

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

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

The extremely mawkish hides something extremely violent.

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

Mauro, a judge, is worried about his older sister Marta, who took care of him since he was a boy, and now suffers from mental illness and suicidal...