Pier Giorgio Bellocchio
Also Known As: PierGiorgio Bellocchio, Piergiorgio Bellocchio
Biography: The son of director Marco Bellocchio and actress Gisella Burinato, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio made his acting debut at the age of six years, starring alongside their parents in the film Holiday in Vacanze in Val Trebbia and Salto nel vuoto in 1980. Except for the short film directed Elena by his father, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio will return to acting only in 1999 with La Balie. In 2003 he staged the play Traces. In addition to starring in the films of his father Mark, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio also collaborated as a producer, taking care of the financial aspects of the films. He also supervised the production of other films such as video clips. As a director, he debuted in 1994 with DeGenerazione, film shot in several coats by numerous Italian directors. Bellocchio specifically directed the segment titled Arrivano i nostri.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rome, Italy
Birthday: April 16, 1974
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Diabolik
Overview: 1960s, the city of Clerville. The forthcoming visit of heiress Eva Kant, who'll be bringing a famous pink diamond with her, catches the attention of Diabolik, the infallible and elusive thief whose real identity is unknown: while trying to steal the jewel, he finds himself bewitched by Eva's charm, a feeling she may be reciprocating. But the police, led by relentless Inspector Ginko, is rapidly closing in on him...
Genres: Crime Action Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-12-16
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Il Ritratto
Overview: 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 Claudia's heart and begins to sprout.
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-04-15
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Vacation in Val Trebbia
Overview: Director Marco Bellocchio returns with his family to his homeland, in the province of Piacenza. The journey is an opportunity to confront oneself with one's past, as well as with the nostalgia of an era.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-08-30
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Radio West
Overview: Three Italian soldiers volunteer to go to Kosovo after the war, where they risk their lives to help a young girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-04-30
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Day 6
Overview: 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 their active memories in abducted people's brains. These alien races exploit a powerful source of energy that only humans have: the Soul.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-06-17
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Sorelle Mai
Overview: The film, a nostalgic fantasy documentary, depicts in six episodes a family story in Bobbio between 1999 and 2008. We discover the 5 years-old Elena being brought up by her aunts (Marco Bellocchio's sisters) because her mother Sara is trying to succeed as an actress in Milan. Her uncle Giorgio has a difficult relationship with his sister and judges her for not taking care of her daughter. But as soon as Sara can afford it, she offers to take Elena with her, leaving the village and her aunts, perhaps for ever - while Giorgio, up to his eyeballs in debt, takes refuge in Bobbio. His sister will help him and sell a house.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-03-16
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A Leap in the Dark
Overview: 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 thoughts. She seems to recover from her depression when Mauro acquaints her with Giovanni, a brilliant actor at the edge of legality. However, Mauro becomes unconsciously jealous of their relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-02-14
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Diabolik - Who Are You?
Overview: Captured by a ruthless gang of bank robbers, foes Diabolik and Ginko find themselves facing certain death. While Eva Kant and Altea forge an unlikely alliance to rescue their lovers, Diabolik reveals his mysterious past to the Inspector.
Genres: Crime Action Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-11-30
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Ovvi destini
Overview: Three sisters. Laura, the eldest; Lucia, the middle one; Costanza, the younger. Costanza is wheelchair bound because of an accident caused by Laura. Costanza and Lucia are not aware of Laura's responsibility, but a strange being is: Carlo, who starts blackmailing Laura.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-04-12
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Esterno Notte (part I)
Overview: The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-05-18
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Esterno Notte (part II)
Overview: The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-06-09
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Beyond Borders
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-05-02
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The Nanny
Overview: Rome, early 20th century: a wealthy psychiatrist, who runs an asylum for women and lacks imagination in his practice, must find a wet nurse for his infant when his wife panics after childbirth. He brings a peasant, Annette, to Rome, forcing her to leave her own baby behind. To the consternation and increasing anger of the wife, the nanny immediately bonds with the couple's infant son - Annette's a natural. Against a backdrop of leftist demonstrations, Annette, who's lover is a teacher jailed for subversion, asks the doctor to teach her to read and write. Her nature and curiosity, the doctor's bland ideas, he and his wife's problems, and the two infants bring the story to a head.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-05-21
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La guerra del Tiburtino III
Overview: 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 characters finds out that many have been infected by some parasites and the aliens intend to conquer the whole world.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-11-02
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Good Morning, Night
Overview: 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 the perspective of one of his assailants -- a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-09-05
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Il terzo tempo
Overview: Samuel has spent the last few years in and out a juvenile detention center for the crimes theft, assault and drug dealing. Without a real family, he is placed in a rehabilitation program and under the supervision Vincenzo, a social worker undergoing a profound existential crisis: having lost wife in a car crash, Vincenzo is convinced work is pointless and he is frustrated by the performance the down and out rugby team that he coaches after work. When Vincenzo catches the boy in a scuffle, he becomes convinced that Samuel, despite never having played rugby, is the only hope for salvaging the team.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-11-21
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Martedì e venerdì
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-02-22
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Blood of My Blood
Overview: Northern Italy, 17th century. In a monastery, a nun accused of witchcraft tries to seduce a young confessor who refuses to yield to his searing temptation.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-09-09
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Diabolik - Ginko Attacks
Overview: Diabolik narrowly escapes Inspector Ginko's latest trap, leaving his partner in crime Eva Kant behind. Furious, Eva offers Ginko her help in capturing him, but the former has to face first the return of an old flame of his, noblewoman Altea.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-11-17
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Non è una bufala
Overview: Renzo, 40, lives alone in an apartment that has turned into a kind of bunker. It's been a long time since he leaves home and the only source of livelihood are pizzas and supplì that come home. Convinced that jihadist terrorism is on the verge of attacking Italy, he decides to take justice on his own by sending a bombshell to the Embassy of Saudi Arabia, a nation guilty, in his opinion, of financing terrorists. Not everything will run smoothly as he had expected.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-01
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A porte chiuse
Overview: 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, with their sins, desires and all they know about themselves.
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-04-22
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Autobiografia erotica
Overview: 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 first encounter, comparing two very different sexual experiences, searching for common ground.
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-04-17
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Melissa P.
Overview: An adolescent girl, living with her mother and her grandmother, will have her first sexual experiences in a heavy and excessive way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-11-18
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If I May - Chapter II
Overview: Over the course of a day, Fausto, invincible in his inertia, watches a paradoxical procession of visitors pass by: the mellifluous parish priest of the town; a mysterious man with his absurd ghost-themed business idea; the captain of the Carabinieri who proposes a shotgun wedding to his daughter, who has become pregnant by a stranger. Finally, late at night, a couple of thieves enter the house with Barbara's complicity. Fausto surprises them, impassive and bored as always, and reassures them: there is nothing left, neither gold nor paintings, everything has been sold. The three do nothing but chat until the sun rises, when the thieves leave and Barbara puts the coffee on the fire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-09-01
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A fari spenti nella notte
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-02-21
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Dormant Beauty
Overview: A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who spent 17 years in a vegetative state.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-09-01
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Seguimi
Overview: 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 obsession, non-sense turning to reality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-11
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If I May
Overview: A man wanders the streets of a small provincial town, obsessed by the idea of meddling in the lives of others.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-08-12
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Sorelle
Overview: An early version of Marco Bellocchio's Sorelle Mai
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-01-10
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Sweet Dreams
Overview: 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 brutal loss, even if the priest says she is now in Heaven. Years later in the 90s, adult Massimo has become an accomplished journalist. After reporting on the war in Sarajevo, he begins to suffer from panic attacks. As he prepares to sell his parents’ apartment, Massimo is forced to relive his traumatic past. Compassionate doctor Elisa could help tormented Massimo open up and confront his childhood wounds…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-11-10
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Vincere
Overview: The story of the descent into madness of Mussolini's secret first wife, Ida Dasler, who was seduced by his passion and vigor but blind to the fascist dictator's many flaws.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-05-20
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Little Italian Girls
Overview: In 1943 the fascist regime forbids the production and selling of toys. Italia, a little girl educated according with the principles of the regime, decides to rebel and makes a big fuss. Her mother, afraid of repercussions, drags her to Rome to apologize to Minister Rizzi, who promulgated the law. It is the 25th of July and their small story will intertwine with history and with the end of fascism.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-02
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Elena
Overview: 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 Bellocchio.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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A Thread of Passion
Overview: A short film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-08-01
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Notes for a Movie About Uncle Vania
Overview: An encounter between two women: Sonia confesses to Elena that she would like to escape her town and her friend promises to help her.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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The Traitor
Overview: Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of the criminal organization. But when, after living several misfortunes, he is forced to return to Italy, he makes a bold decision that will change his life and the destiny of Cosa Nostra forever.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-05-23
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Bed Number 6
Overview: 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 ghost of a child wanders the corridors tormenting her and transforming her nights in the clinic into an endless nightmare that day after day is about to become reality.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-06-11
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Ero in guerra ma non lo sapevo
Overview: The story of Pierluigi Torregiani, a Milanese jeweler who in 1979 was killed in revenge by the Armed Proletarians for Communism after killing one of their own during a robbery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-01-24
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Marx Can Wait
Overview: "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 days of 1968. This documentary is dedicated to his memory.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-07-15
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