Marco Bellocchio Movies

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

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

A short film.

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

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...

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

A pair of working class lovers - a secretary and an accountant, scheme to marry into the rich landed gentry.

After shooting to fame with Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” (1960), actor Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996) starred in more than...

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,...

An engineer invents a revolutionary machine capable of automating all industrial production, thereby eliminating the need for human labor. His...

"Marx can wait" was something Camillo Bellocchio said to his twin Marco the last time they met before the former died at a young age in the heated...

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 documentary exploring the life and legacy of renowned Italian actor Gian Maria Volonté, featuring insights from his colleagues, family, and...

Deranged after a fall from a horse, a man has lived for twenty years in a castle laboring under the delusion that he is Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV....

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

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

Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front...