Bernardo BertolucciFilmography

Born:: March 16, 1940 in Parma, Italy
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Known both for sweeping epics and for helping to bring eroticism into general release with Last Tango in Paris, Bernardo Bertolucci is one of the pre-eminent international directors of the latter half of the twentieth century. The son of poet, film critic, and anthologist Attilio Bertolucci, he...Read More

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Brando

Actors: Ed Begley, Jr., Richard Bailey, Janet Aemisegger, Ellen Adler, Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, James Caan, Jane Fonda

Synopsis: As originally screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, at the Cannes Film Festival, and on Turner Classic Movies, the mammoth, epic-length documentary Brando chronicles in encyclopedic detail (and with a consistently reverent overtone) the life and career of the man widely regarded as the most Read More

2007
Refuge

Synopsis: Filmmaker John Halpern turns his lens toward central Asia to focus on the spiritual developments that have occurred in the West following the 1959 siege on Tibet with this film, which contrasts the Western gravitation toward Buddhism with the journey of Tibetan Buddhists to seek refuge in the West Read More

5/12/06
The Dreamers

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Pitt, Eva Green, Louis Garrel, Robin Renucci, Anna Chancellor

Synopsis: Veteran Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci directs the erotic drama The Dreamers, adapted from the novel The Holy Innocents: A Romance by Gilbert Adair. American student Matthew (Michael Pitt) is studying in Paris during the politically turbulent late '60s. The story begins in 1968 with the Read More

2/6/04
Epreuves d'Artistes

Actors: Pedro Almodóvar, Robert Altman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roberto Benigni, Bernardo Bertolucci

2004
How We Got the Italian Cinema Into Trouble: Franco & Ciccio's Real Story

Actors: Gregorio Napoli, Francesco Puma, Tatti Sanguineti, Lino Banfi, Pippo Baudo

2004
Words of My Perfect Teacher

Actors: Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, Luc Dierkx, Louise Rodd, Lesley Ann Patten, Bernardo Bertolucci

2003
The Triumph of Love

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Mira Sorvino, Ben Kingsley, Fiona Shaw, Jay Rodan, Ignazio Oliva

Synopsis: A beautiful princess (Mira Sorvino) whose throne is threatened falls in love at first sight with the rightful heir to the throne, a lonely young man named Agis (Jay Rodan), in Clare Peploe's romantic comedy Triumph of Love. The film was adapted from an 18th century play by Marivaux. Peploe's Read More

4/19/02
Claude Jutra, Portrait Sur Film

Actors: Claude Jutra, Michel Brault, Bernardo Bertolucci, Geneviève Bujold, Saul Ribinek

2002
Ten Minutes Older: The Cello

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Amit Arroz, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Mark Long, Alexandra Staden, Dominic West

Synopsis: Eight master directors of world cinema combine forces for this omnibus film that focuses cumulatively on the subject of time. Bookended by cello interludes, Ten Minutes Older: The Cello presents just one parameter to each of its filmmakers: no final entry can be more or less than ten minutes long. Read More

2002
Besieged

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Thandie Newton, David Thewlis, Claudio Santamaria

Synopsis: Bernardo Bertolucci directed this Italian drama co-scripted by Bertolucci and Clare Peploe from a story by British-born writer James Lasdun (co-scripter of Jonathan Nossiter's Sunday). In Rome, reclusive British composer Jason Kinsky (David Thewlis) lives in the building he inherited from his Read More

5/21/99
Stealing Beauty

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Liv Tyler, Sinéad Cusack, Donal McCann, Jeremy Irons, Jean Marais

Synopsis: This beautiful if ponderous soufflé of a film from director Bernardo Bertolucci serves more as an Italian travelogue than a drama. Liv Tyler stars as Lucy Harmon, an American teenager arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to visit family friends residing there. Lucy visited four years earlier Read More

1996
Little Buddha

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Chris Isaak, Bridget Fonda, Alex Wiesendanger, Ying Ruocheng

Synopsis: Bernardo Bertolucci attempts to mix Buddhist spirituality with childhood fantasy in Little Buddha. When Dean Conrad (Chris Isaak), a Seattle architect, comes home from work one day, he finds two robed Buddhist monks sitting in his living room talking with his wife Lisa (Bridget Fonda). Guided by a Read More

1994
La Vera Vita di Antonio H.

Actors: Alessandro Haber, Adriana Innocenti, Giancarlo Maestri, Beatrice Kruger, Doris Von Thury

Synopsis: This unique Italian pseudo-documentary deftly blends fact with fiction in its portrait of stage, screen, and television actor Alessandro Haber (a.k.a. Antonio Hutter). Haber, considered one of Italy's finest comic actors, has worked with some of the greatest Italian directors of all time Read More

1994
Jean Renoir

Actors: Bernardo Bertolucci, Peter Bogdanovich, Leslie Caron

Synopsis: Filmmaker Jean Renoir (1894-1979) had an extremely long career writing, directing, producing and acting in films, beginning in the silent era, right up until the time of his death, when most of his productions were influenced by the medium of television. He was one of the sons of the famous Read More

1993
De Domeinen Ditvoorst

Actors: Bernardo Bertolucci, Gérard Brach, Robby Müller

Synopsis: This documentary places the viewer at the feet of Adriaan Ditvoorst a much-lionized darling of Dutch avant-garde cinema, a largely unsuccessful adherent of the auteur school of filmmmaking who took his own life in 1987. His films (such as Flanagan and White Madness) recognized no need to please or Read More

1993
Golem, The Spirit of the Exile

Actors: Hanna Schygulla, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Samuel Fuller, Mireille Perrier

Synopsis: In modern-day Paris, a cabalist known as the Maharal has created a golem, an artificial being constructed of earth and clay, infused with spirit through the recitation of a special formula. The legendary being he brings to life is known in this instance as "The Spirit of Exile," and the magician's Read More

1992
The Sheltering Sky

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: John Malkovich, Debra Winger, Campbell Scott, Jill Bennett, Timothy Spall

Synopsis: From director Bernardo Bertolucci, The Sheltering Sky is a filmed adaptation of the novel of the same name by Paul Bowles. Debra Winger and John Malkovich star as Kit and Port Moresby, a married American couple who globetrot to North Africa in the late '40s with the hopes of re-sparking their love Read More

10/12/90
The Last Emperor

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ying Ruocheng, Victor Wong, Dennis Dun, Ryuichi Sakamoto

Synopsis: The Last Emperor is the true story of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, the last ruler of the Chinese Ching Dynasty. Told in flashback, the film covers the years 1908 to 1967. We first see the three-year-old Pu Yi being installed in the Forbidden City by ruthless, dying dowager Empress Tzu-Hsui (Lisa Lu). Though Read More

11/20/87
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema

Synopsis: Survey of the history of Italian cinema, featuring clips from such classics as "Open City," "8-1/2," and "Seven Beauties," and interviews with illustrious stars and filmmakers, including Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Toto, Monica Vitti, Anna Magnani, Vittorio DeSica, Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini Read More

9/13/86
Io Con Te Non Ci Sto Piu

Crew: Producer

Actors: Victor Cavallo, Monica Guerritore

Synopsis: In a story about a wobbly love triangle with less emphasis on emotion than quirky behavior, a young couple find an apartment to stay in after they have been evicted from their home -- but then there is a falling out between the two and the woman goes to stay with Tina, their next-door neighbor. Read More

10/6/83
Sconcerto Rock

Crew: Producer

Actors: Victor Cavallo, Pietro Valsecchi

Synopsis: Set against the background of demonstrations in Bologna after a 1981 train-station massacre, the characters in this drama wander from one event in their lives to another without much direction or seeming purpose, but always with the greater social unrest as a backdrop. Two partners, Bruno (Victor Cavallo Read More

8/9/83
La Tragedia di un Uomo Ridicolo

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Anouk Aimée, Laura Morante, Victor Cavallo, Ricardo Tognazzi

Synopsis: After his son disappears, an Italian cheese manufacturer is threatened by political terrorists who will supposedly kill the son if he does not pay a large ransom. Unsure if they really have his son and if the son is still alive, he has to decide if he should or should not sell his business to Read More

10/1/81
Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die

Synopsis: Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die is a naked-truth documentary on the life and work of Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975). Using still pictures, excerpts from such Pasolini efforts as The Gospel According to St. Mathew, and extensive interviews, director Philo Bregstein charts Read More

1981
Luna

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Matthew Barry, Renato Salvatori, Tomas Milian, Fred Gwynne

Synopsis: Bernardo Bertolucci's controversial drama explores the troubled life of a young man and his troubling relationship with his parents. Joe (Matthew Barry) is the son of famous opera singer Caterina Silveri (Jill Clayburgh); while Joe believes that Caterina's husband Douglas Winter (Fred Gwynne) is Read More

8/29/79
1900

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Burt Lancaster, Sterling Hayden, Donald Sutherland, Dominique Sanda

Synopsis: Bernardo Bertolucci's 255-minute 1900 was a gargantuan undertaking, requiring the resources of three European countries and a trio of American movie studios. Set in the Italian town of Parma, the film's continuity backtracks from Liberation Day in 1945 to the occasion of composer/patriot Giuseppe Verdi Read More

8/16/76
Alberto Moravia

Synopsis: A biographical documentary on Alberto Moravia, this video presents the viewer with an overview of Moravia's views on fascism, Italy and other social concerns through his own writing. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

1976
Last Tango in Paris

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider, Maria Michi, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Massimo Girotti

Synopsis: In Bernardo Bertolucci's art-house classic, Marlon Brando delivers one of his characteristically idiosyncratic performances as Paul, a middle-aged American in "emotional exile" who comes to Paris when his estranged wife commits suicide. Chancing to meet young Frenchwoman Jeanne (Maria Schneider) Read More

12/15/72
La Strategia del Ragno

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Giulio Brogi, Alida Valli, Tino Scotti

Synopsis: Originally produced for Italian television, Bernardo Bertolucci's The Spider's Stratagem (La Strategia del Ragno) can be regarded as a cinematic tone poem. Adapted from a Jorge Luis Borges short story, the film stars Giulio Brogi as a young Italian who returns to his ancestral home -- the place Read More

10/4/72
Salute è malata

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This long-forgotten documentary by Italian master Bernardo Bertolucci arrived sandwiched in-between two masterpieces, The Conformist (1970) and Last Tango in Paris (1972). A propagandistic montage film made to coincide with the Roman elections of '71, it presents a series of Marxist-themed images Read More

1971
The Conformist

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Dominique Sanda, Pierre Clémenti, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin

Synopsis: The conformist is 1930s Italian Marcello Clerici (Jean-Louis Trintignant), a coward who has spent his life accommodating others so that he can "belong." Marcello agrees to kill a political refugee, on orders from the Fascist government, even though the victim-to-be is his college mentor. The film Read More

10/22/70
Amore e Rabbia

Crew: Director

Actors: Nino Castelnuovo, Ninetto Davoli, Tom Baker

Synopsis: This obscure film is directed by five well-known cinematographers. "Apathy" is directed by Carlo Lizzani and concerns a New York rape victim whose cries for help fall on deaf ears. Bernardo Bertolucci directs "Agony." Members of the Living Theater mime death scenes. In "The Paper Flower Sequence," Read More

1969
Once Upon a Time in the West

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale, Henry Fonda, Jason Robards, Jr., Gabriele Ferzetti

Synopsis: In Sergio Leone's epic Western, shot partly in Monument Valley, a revenge story becomes an epic contemplation of the Western past. To get his hands on prime railroad land in Sweetwater, crippled railroad baron Morton (Gabriele Ferzetti) hires killers, led by blue-eyed sadist Frank (Henry Fonda) Read More

12/21/68
Partner

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Pierre Clémenti, Stefania Sandrelli, Tina Aumont, Sergio Tofano

Synopsis: Bernardo Bertolucci was obviously influenced by the films of Jean-Luc Godard and the worldwide political upheavals of 1968 while assembling his feature-film Partner. This unorthodox adaptation of Dostoevsky's The Double studiously avoids traditional linear storytelling and exposition techniques. Pierre Clementi Read More

10/25/68
Prima della rivoluzione

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Adriana Asti, Francesco Barilli, Allen Midgette, Morando Morandini

Synopsis: Future director Francesco Barilli stars in this film about a young radical torn between his rebellious political views and the easy middle-class lifestyle to which he has become accustomed. Barilli rebels in another way as well, engaging in a love affair with his pretty aunt (Adriana Asti), but Read More

5/12/64
La Commare Secca

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gabriella Giorgetti, Giancarlo de Rosa, Vincenzo Ciccora, Alvaro D'Ercola, Romano Labate

Synopsis: A very young Bernardo Bertolucci already shows his talent in this bleak, 94-minute murder mystery, told in an interesting series of flashbacks. A Roman prostitute has been brutally murdered in a park near the Tiber River and in order to forward their investigation, the police corner a handful of Read More

10/19/62
Accattone

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Franco Citti, Silvana Corsini, Franca Pasut, Paolo Guidi, Adele Cambria

Synopsis: Accattone , Pier Paolo Pasolini's first feature, is also his first semidocumentary study of "the little homelands": the small, often squalid cultural pockets in the remotest provinces of Italy. Using nonprofessional actors for his leading characters, Pasolini concentrates on Franco Citti, a rural Read More

11/22/61

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