Movies: Pier Giorgio Bellocchio

A brave scientist has been studying thousands of cases related to alien abductions. By placing abductees under hypnosis, he arrives at the unsettling discovery that for thousands of years, a variety of extra-terrestrial races have been installing the...

Doctor Bianca Valentino is hired to cover the night shift in the ward of a pediatric hospital. She finds herself immersed in an environment that, behind its reassuring image, hides a terrifying secret linked to its past as a children's asylum. The gh...

"Documents of the staging" of the play The seagull at the Orologio Theatre in Rome....

Claudia works in the police as a forensic sketch artist. Her job is to give shape to people's identity. When Arianna, a young girl victim of attempted rape describes her attacker, Claudia sees her husband's face. The seed of doubt is planted in Clau...

"Interno giorno" is a journey through cinema, via the auditions of aspiring young actors and actresses who, from the Second World War era to 1968, tried for admission into Europe’s oldest film school, the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia....

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

An early version of Marco Bellocchio's Sorelle Mai...

Three murderers. A journalist, a postal employee, a rich young lady. They're dead, but they prefer to call themselves "absent". One forgets they're still in a hotel. It's the nightmare of an infernal room that will imprison their existence forever, w...

Horror/sci-fi anthology with a punk streak, co-directed by and starring — among other newcomers — Asia Argento....

Fragments of a collaboration between director Franco Piavoli (The Blue Planet, The First Breath of Wind) and students of the Laboratory Making Cinema founded by Marco Bellocchio....

The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists...

For young Elise, invisibility is a prison of suffering. Tommy, on the other hand, would do anything to disappear and escape the pain. An unexpected and intense bond will develop between the two, helping them face their respective fears....

Aristide and Mariella see each other again after 20 years in an apartment in Rome. They're not friends, rather two strangers that met once for a few hours and had a rushed sexual encounter. They start a game in which they relive and analyze their fir...

In the Tiburtino III neighbourhood, in the outer suburbs of Rome, a small asteroid falls from the sky. In the following days, almost everyone in the suburb starts behaving inexplicably oddly: they all suck AA batteries. An improbable group of young c...

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 nostalgia: it's normal. But it's her own story which began two years before. A short film by Marco Bellocc...

A Medieval town surrounded by wild nature, a diver who is still fighting back against her past, a painter who blurs the distinction between life and art, a Japanese model who is used to play with her body. Three lives at stake, passion named after ob...

A group of young Nigerian friends living in Italy travels to Rome to watch a UEFA soccer match. For Eby this is the opportunity to see Nike, a girl he met only a while ago....

The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists...

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Perennial university student Eva, who is still having difficulties at adjusting to big city life, takes up a job as dog sitter. After visiting the owner, she finds out the dog—Spotty—is actually Matteo, an introverted young man who copes with modern ...