Watch movies directed by Bernardo Bertolucci

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

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 future of cinema.

NR

5.7

2013 Drama 120 min Play

6.2

Me and You

An introverted teenager tells his parents he is going on a ski trip, but instead spends his time alone in a basement.

NR

6.2

2012 Drama 103 min Play

7.3

The Dreamers

A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister.

NC-17

7.3

2003 Drama 112 min Play

6.6

Ten Minutes Older: The Cello

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 involving plot-less images of old people with television sets for heads, a beautiful woman having sex, and overall confusion; and an old man reminiscing over his youth.

NR

6.6

2002 Drama 101 min Play

6.8

Besieged

When an African dictator jails her husband, Shandurai goes into exile in Italy, studying medicine and keeping house for Mr. Kinsky, an eccentric English pianist and composer. She lives in one room of his Roman palazzo. He besieges her with flowers, gifts, and music, declaring passionately that he loves her, would go to Africa with her, would do anything for her. "What do you know of Africa?," she asks, then, in anguish, shouts, "Get my husband out of jail!" The rest of the film plays out ...

R

6.8

1998 Drama 93 min Play

6.7

Stealing Beauty

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 visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian boy with whom she hopes to become reacquainted.

R

6.7

1996 Drama 116 min Play

6.3

Little Buddha

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

PG

6.3

1993 Drama 140 min Play

6.7

The Sheltering Sky

An American couple drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.

R

6.7

1990 Adventure 138 min Play

7.6

The Last Emperor

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 half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.

PG-13

7.6

1987 Drama 163 min Play

6.5

Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man

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 ransom money as reinvestment in the factory.

NR

6.5

1981 Drama 116 min Play

6.8

La Luna

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 heroin addiction.

NR

6.8

1979 Drama 142 min Play

7.9

1900

Set in Bertolucci's ancestral region of Emilia, the film chronicles the lives of two men during the political turmoils that took place in Italy in the first half of the 20th century.

NR

7.9

1976 Drama 317 min Play

7.1

Last Tango in Paris

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

NC-17

7.1

1972 Drama 129 min Play

7.2

The Spider’s Stratagem

A young man returns to his countryside hometown to investigate the unclear circumstances behind the death of his father, ostensibly killed by Fascists in 1936, before his birth. As he unravels a web of lies that seems to encompass the whole town, he finds himself entangled in the same web.

NR

7.2

1970 Drama 100 min Play

7.7

The Conformist

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

R

7.7

1970 Drama 108 min Play

7.1

Before the Revolution

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 Marxist, engaged to the lovely but bourgeois Clelia, and stung by the drowning of his mercurial friend Agostino, a possible suicide. Gina is herself a bundle of nervous energy, alternately sweet, seductive, poetic, distracted, and unhinged. They begin a love affair after Agostino's funeral, then Gina confuses Fabrizio by sleeping with a ...

NR

7.1

1964 Drama 115 min Play

6.9

La Commare Secca

Roman police detectives interrogate a series of potential perpetrators in their struggle to determine whom to arrest for the brutal murder of a beautiful prostitute whose body is discovered in a park on the day of a torrential rainstorm. One by one, the prime suspects -- girl-crazy teenager Nino, pickpocket Canticchia, a soldier on leave, a tourist and a pimp -- recount the events of the day to the police, each insisting he is innocent.

NR

6.9

1962 Drama 91 min Play