Marco Bellocchio (Italian: [ˈmarko belˈlɔkkjo]; born 9 November 1939; Bobbio) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor. Born in Bobbio, near Piacenza, Marco Bellocchio had a strict Catholic upbringing – his father was a lawyer, his mother a schoolteacher. He began studying philosophy in Milan but then decided to enter film school, making his first film, Fists in the Pocket, (I pugni in tasca, winner of the Silver Sail at the 1965 Festival del film Locarno), funded by family members and shot on family property, in 1965. Bellocchio's films include China Is Near (1967), Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina (Slap the Monster on Page One) (1972), Nel Nome del Padre (In the name of the Father – a satire on a Catholic boarding school that shares affinities with Lindsay Anderson's If....) (1972), Victory March (1976), A Leap in the Dark (1980), Henry IV (1984), Devil in the Flesh (1986), and My Mother's Smile (2002), which told the story of a wealthy Italian artist, a 'default...
Raffa
2023
Ennio
2022
The Seagull
1977
Planet Venus
1972
Glauber, Claro
2020
What Do You Know About Me
2009
Love and Anger
1969
Slap the Monster on Page One
1972
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
2005
Cesare Zavattini
2003
My Mother's Smile
2002
Marcello, una vita dolce
2006
Cinéma et Réalité
1967
My Name Is Anna Magnani
1980
I nostri trent'anni - Generazioni a confronto
2004
Marx Can Wait
2021
Francis of Assisi
1966
Voi siete qui
2011
Behind the Scenes: The Traitor
2022
Fit to Be Untied
1975
Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces
2024
Vacation in Val Trebbia
1980
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
2025
Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
2009
Opera Prima
2021
N.P. - The Secret
1972
Cinema Italiano: Moments of Truth
2014
Filmstudio, mon amour
2015
Behind Love and Anger
2005
La mia casa e i miei coinquilini - Il lungo viaggio di Joyce Lussu
2016
Tutte le storie di Piera
2014
Lino Micciché, mio padre - Una visione del mondo
2013
Journey into the Twilight
2021
Lo Spazio Inquieto
2022
Colpiti al cuore
2019
Same rage, same spring
2003