Bernardo Bertolucci

Opera Prima is a tribute and a journey through the evolution that cinema has had in Italy. Tayu Vlietstra, a pupil of Bertolucci, carries out an...

A documentary that focuses on Abbas Kiarostami's cinematic philosophy talking to himself and other figures, and also seeks the opinion about his...

Guided by Liv Ullmann and with commentaries from a number of prominent filmmakers for whom Bergman is and remains an important influence - such as...

The last interview of Bernardo Bertolucci who recalls his work with precision, delicacy and philosophy.

Lorenza Mazzetti's extraordinary life story touches many points in twentieth century history. The adopted daughter of the Einstein family emigrated...

In this visual essay, renowned film critic and historian Adriano Apra takes a closer look at Bernardo Bertolucci's work with Pier Paolo Pasolini on...

First part of a three-part documentary series on the making of Once Upon a Time in the West, Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone's masterpiece, released...

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of...

The American composer and author Paul Bowles was a man with a great deal of charisma and influence. When he moved to Tangier, Morocco, in 1949, half...

A profile and history of film director Akira Kurosawa.

What makes European cinema so special? Find out in Paul Joyce’s feature-length documentary, Pictures of Europe, which examines the differences...

SEDUCED AND ABANDONED combines acting legend Alec Baldwin with director James Toback as they lead us on a troublesome and often hilarious journey of...

Documentary about Vittorio Storaro, cinematographer of Apocalypse Now, The Last Emperor, Reds, Il Confimista, 1900. Vittorio Storaro talks about his...

Expecting her first child and questioning how to align motherhood with being an artist, Lola begins a dialogue with her grandmother Cloclo, a...

Eleven major film makers from Europe, America and Asia talk about Akira Kurosawa and discover surprising influences on their own work.

A behind the scenes look at Bernardo Bertolucci’s classic film about the dark side of the sexual revolution: Last Tango in Paris, starring...

A short documentary exploring the ongoing relevance and power of 'Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma'.

Philo Bregstein tells us this film looks at Pasolini's life and art to explain why he died. The film traces Pasolini's life chronologically - family...

A short documentary about the making of Chaplin's "Limelight."

The life of the legendary Italian photojournalist Paolo Di Paolo through his photographs, which capture the essence of a fascinating and turbulent...

A documentary on the director’s career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmmakers.

The panorama of human affairs encounters the “man with a movie camera”. His playground has no boundaries, his curiosity no limits....

An allegory of the Golem, a Jewish mythical creature personifying displacement and exile, this film tells the story of a woman (similar to the...

A journey through history

A labor of love documentary, in which a daughter, with the help of various talking heads, looks back on the life work of her father.

"The Man With The Golden Eye" tells the extraordinary figure of Marco Melani through a live projection of materials collected in over ten years of...

Part one of a BBC documentary about Jean Renoir.

A nostalgic look at the birth and death of arthouse film distribution in the early 2000s in Russia. The story of the Cinema Without Borders company...

An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.

This short film tells the story of the most important cinema trend that Italy has ever produced - Neo Realism. Born after the Second World War, this...

A monologue about Jack The Ripper and his heritage.

The history of film and video censorship in Great Britain.

Documentary about Bernardo Bertolucci, and his film The Last Emperor, tracing the director’s geographic influences, from Parma to China.

A portrait of Laura Betti with archival footage and stories of friends: Bernardo Bertolucci remembers Laura in "Novecento" and in a lost sequence of...

The Story Of X takes you to the earliest days of adult films when men peddled stag reels and projectors out of the trunks of their cars, then through...

Features conversations with ten of the world's greatest living directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Agnes...

A revealing look at the great Quebecois director who gave us such classic films as Mon Oncle Antoine, A toute prendre and Kamouraska: Power of...

An account of the life and work of the legendary cinematographer and director Carlo Di Palma (1925-2004) and an emotional journey into the greatest...

Documentary about the making of Italian film director Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor.

Documentary about the making of the film first presented on the British television series "The South Bank Show".

Italian film director Bernardo Bertolucci is interviewed on the British television series about his film "The Last Emperor."

The making of The Dreamers, its background and relation to the May 1968 student riots in Paris.

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

The life and work of Giuseppe Bertolucci, as told by his father and brother, friends and colleagues.

“A future historian, if he or she is honest, will feel a legitimate need to place the decade 1968 to 1978 alongside the great events that...

What is the state of cinema and what being a filmmaker means? What are the measures taken to protect authors' copyright? What is their legal status...

Documentary on the filming of Novecento by Bernardo Bertolucci

Roberto Benigni, Bernardo Bertolucci, Gabriele Salvatores, Paolo Sorrentino and Giuseppe Tornatore talk about their idea of cinema.

In his early days as an actor, Marlon Brando (1924-2004) was a shy young man with theatrical ambitions, like many others; but his charisma and superb...

Making of documentary of Bernardo Bertolucci's Io e Te.

Documentary about the Dutch film director Adriaan Ditvoorst.

It is a chronological compilation of film clips, awards ceremonies and brief period interviews gathered by journalist Sandro Lai.

This film depicts a series of landmark events in the life of hapless thespian Antonio Hutter (Alessandro Haber), the unfortunate fictional alter-ego...

Italy, 1970. An increasing legion of harmless warriors begins a peaceful struggle for sexual freedom through pornography, shaking and shocking...

A portrait of Ennio Morricone, the most popular and prolific film composer of the 20th century, the one most loved by the international public, a...

Thirteen filmmakers talk about Henri Langlois and their relationship with him.

A complete and never-before-seen portrait of the life of a young girl from Pula (Istria) who quickly became one of the most famous and beloved...

A deep dive into Glauber Rocha's years exiled in Italy in the 70s. Through a collection of interviews and archives, the movie shows the making of his...

Documentary about the life and works of Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini.

Third part of a three-part documentary series on the making of Once Upon a Time in the West, Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone's masterpiece, released...

The relations between Parma and cinema were so strong for almost the whole of the twentieth century that this city became an early laboratory of...

Until the 1970s, Italian cinema dominated the international scene, even competing with Hollywood. Then, in just a few years, came its rapid decline,...

Documentary about Italian film screenwriter Cesare Zavattini

Upcoming documentary about Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci.

When Isabelle and Theo invite Matthew to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in...

A recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman.

A recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman.

After the death of Lama Dorje, Tibetan Buddhist monks find three children — one American and two Nepalese — who may be the rebirth of...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by...

While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his...

While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his...

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.

While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his...

An American couple drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.

An American couple drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.

A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.

A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiralling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.

The son of the owner of a large Italian cheese factory is kidnapped, but as the factory is on the verge of bankruptcy the owner hatches a plan to use...

Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy...

Roman police detectives interrogate a series of potential perpetrators in their struggle to determine whom to arrest for the brutal murder of a...

A young man returns to his countryside hometown to investigate the unclear circumstances behind the death of his father, ostensibly killed by...

The story of a young man who meets his own likeness and uses him to fulfill his dreams.

The study of a youth on the edge of adulthood and his aunt, ten years older. Fabrizio is passionate, idealistic, influenced by Cesare, a teacher and...

The study of a youth on the edge of adulthood and his aunt, ten years older. Fabrizio is passionate, idealistic, influenced by Cesare, a teacher and...

While in exile in Italy, an African woman finds herself trying to get back home and free her imprisoned husband. But the only man that can help her...

Small semi-documentary exercise on the traditional slaughter of the pig in the countryside shot with the usual Paillard-Bolex in the courtyard of the...

Small semi-documentary exercise on the traditional slaughter of the pig in the countryside shot with the usual Paillard-Bolex in the courtyard of the...

Small semi-documentary exercise on the traditional slaughter of the pig in the countryside shot with the usual Paillard-Bolex in the courtyard of the...

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

Collection of short films the summaries of which include; a foreign man moving to Italy, getting married and having a child; a four split scene short...

An introverted teenager tells his parents he is going on a ski trip, but instead spends his time alone in his mom's basement. But things didn't go as...

An introverted teenager tells his parents he is going on a ski trip, but instead spends his time alone in his mom's basement. But things didn't go as...

La Via del Petrolio is a three-part documentary Bernardo Bertolucci made for the Italian oil giant ENI that aired in 1967. The film was made...

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of...

While in exile in Italy, an African woman finds herself trying to get back home and free her imprisoned husband. But the only man that can help her...

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

The son of the owner of a large Italian cheese factory is kidnapped, but as the factory is on the verge of bankruptcy the owner hatches a plan to use...

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.

Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy...

A princess is determined to restore her homeland's throne to its rightful heir, a young prince with whom she falls in love.

A princess is determined to restore her homeland's throne to its rightful heir, a young prince with whom she falls in love.

A Brechtian thriller about an intellectual's transformation into a street-fighting man. Features a prologue featuring unused footage from...

Promotional omnibus film, made for the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy, featuring portraits of 12 Italian cities.

After the death of Lama Dorje, Tibetan Buddhist monks find three children — one American and two Nepalese — who may be the rebirth of...

Between August 23 and 31, 1983, at the "Circo Massimo", in Rome, there was a musical event that brought together artists from Bahia. This film brings...

Children play hide in seek in the city of Bologna

Roman police detectives interrogate a series of potential perpetrators in their struggle to determine whom to arrest for the brutal murder of a...

The study of a youth on the edge of adulthood and his aunt, ten years older. Fabrizio is passionate, idealistic, influenced by Cesare, a teacher and...

Italian short movie now lost.

A recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman.

A group of Indian illegal immigrants are unloaded from a truck in the Lazio countryside. Among them, a young man and an old man. The latter,...

Documentary about the anthology film Love and Anger (1969) with interviews with Carlo Lizzani (director of the segment "L'indifferenza"), Marco...

A young man returns to his countryside hometown to investigate the unclear circumstances behind the death of his father, ostensibly killed by...

The story of a young man who meets his own likeness and uses him to fulfill his dreams.

The events of Giuliano Sartori, correspondent from Genoa for a newspaper in the capital, involved in a complicated investigation set in a psychiatric...

A film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the Italian Communist Party.

Collection of short films the summaries of which include; a foreign man moving to Italy, getting married and having a child; a four split scene short...

Thirteen filmmakers talk about Henri Langlois and their relationship with him.

As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the...

A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.

Images from China of the last century, simply urban and agricultural.