Bernardo Bertolucci

Career Overview

Bernardo Bertolucci has 138 screen credits in a career dating back to 1956. Their work spans 2 cinematic universes — most prominently Ten Minutes Older... (Collection) with 1 titles. Signature works include The Dreamers, The Last Emperor, Last Tango in Paris. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For: Directing
Gender: male
Known Credits: 138
Birth Date: 1941-03-16
Birth Place: Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italia

Known For

Associated Universes

Universe traveler — spans 2 universes

Ten Minutes Older... (Collection) (1 titles)
Masterclass - Leçon de Cinéma (1 titles)

Frequent Collaborators

Jean-Pierre Léaud (2 collaborations)
Ruocheng Ying (2 collaborations)
Catherine Breillat (2 collaborations)
Michael Pitt (1 collaborations)
Eva Green (1 collaborations)
Louis Garrel (1 collaborations)
Anna Chancellor (1 collaborations)
Robin Renucci (1 collaborations)
Jean-Pierre Kalfon (1 collaborations)
Florian Cadiou (1 collaborations)

Credits

writing (22 credits)
- The Echo Chamber
  story
  
  writing
  
  2026
- Me & You
  screenplay
  
  writing
  
  2012
- Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
  screenplay
  
  writing
  
  2002
- The Triumph of Love
  writer
  
  writing
  
  2001
- Besieged
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1998
- Stealing Beauty
  story
  
  writing
  
  1996
- Little Buddha
  story
  
  writing
  
  1993
- The Sheltering Sky
  screenplay
  
  writing
  
  1990
- The Last Emperor
  screenplay
  
  writing
  
  1987
- Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1981
- Luna
  story
  
  writing
  
  1979
- 1900
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1976
- Il silenzio è complicità
  screenplay
  
  writing
  
  1976
- Last Tango in Paris
  screenplay
  
  writing
  
  1972
- The Conformist
  screenplay
  
  writing
  
  1971
- The Spider's Stratagem
  screenplay
  
  writing
  
  1970
- Love and Anger
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1969
- Once Upon a Time in the West
  story
  
  writing
  
  1968
- Partner
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1968
- Before the Revolution
  story
  
  writing
  
  1964
- La Commare Secca
  screenplay
  
  writing
  
  1962
- The Death of a Pig
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1956
actors (78 credits)
- Joie de vivre
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2026
- La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2025
- Grandmother's Footsteps
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2023
- Ennio
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2022
- We Are Cinema
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2021
- Marco Melani: The Man with the Golden Eye
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2021
- The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo
  Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2021
- Opera Prima
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2021
- Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2021
- Glauber, Claro
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2020
- Cinecittà - I mestieri del cinema Bernardo Bertolucci
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2019
- Now and Forever Time to Reclaim Life
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2018
- Plankton Salesmen
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2017
- Evviva Giuseppe
  Himself
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2017
- Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2017
- Bernardo Bertolucci, le dernier empereur du cinema
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2017
- Cinque mondi
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2016
- Because I Am a Genius! Lorenza Mazzetti
  Himself
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2016
- Porn to Be Free
  Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2016
- Filmstudio, mon amour
  Sé stesso
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2015
- Rubando Bellezza
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2015
- Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
  Self - Filmmaker
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2014
- Henri Langlois vu par...
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2014
- Red Chairs - Parma and the Cinema
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2014
- Casarola
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2014
- Pasolini, la passion de Rome
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2014
- Quando i tedeschi non sapevano nuotare
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2013
- Bertolucci par Bertolucci : Leçon de cinéma
  Self - Guest
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2013
- We Weren't Just Bicycle Thieves: Neorealism
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2013
- Bertolucci on Bertolucci
  Self (archive)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2013
- Venice 70: Future Reloaded
  (segment Bernardo Bertolucci)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2013
- Seduced and Abandoned
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2013
- Paul Bowles: The Cage Door Is Always Open
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2013
- Sedia Elettrica: il making of del film Io e Te
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2012
- Laura's Passion
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2011
- In the Shade of the Conformist
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2011
- Kurosawa's Way
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2011
- Portrait Of My Father
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2010
- … But Film Is My Mistress
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2010
- What Do You Know About Me
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2009
- Great Directors
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2009
- Sartoria Tirelli - Vestire il cinema
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2006
- Filmmakers in Action
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2006
- Refuge
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2006
- Behind the scenes: Last Tango in Paris
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2004
- How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2004
- Cinema, Sex, Politics: Bertolucci Makes ‘The Dreamers’
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2004
- I nostri trent'anni - Generazioni a confronto
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2004
- Something to Do with Death
  Self - Filmmaker
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2003
- An Opera of Violence
  Self - Filmmaker
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2003
- Chaplin Today: Limelight
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2003
- Cesare Zavattini
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2003
- Bernardo Bertolucci: What Is the Purpose of Cinema?
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2002
- Claude Jutra: An Unfinished Story
  Self - Director
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2002
- Salò: Fade to Black
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2001
- Kiarostami in Close up
  as Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2000
- Kurosawa: The Last Emperor
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1999
- Playboy: The Story of X
  Self - Director
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1998
- Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1997
- Empire of the Censors
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1995
- The True Life of Antonio H.
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1994
- Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1993
- The Ditvoorst Domains
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1992
- Golem, the Spirit of Exile
  Le Maître de la Cour
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1992
- Writing with Light: Vittorio Storaro
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1992
- Pictures of Europe
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1990
- Face to Face: Bernardo Bertolucci
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1989
- Bernardo Bertolucci and the Making of 'The Last Emperor'
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1988
- Bernardo Bertolucci: The Italian Traveler
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1987
- Bernardo Bertolucci's Chinese Adventure
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1986
- Postcards from China
  Self - Commentator
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1985
- Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1981
- Journey Through History
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1977
- The Cinema According to Bertolucci
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1976
- ABCinema
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1975
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
  
  - Episode 13 (1976) ... Self actor actors
  
  1975
- Spécial cinéma
  
  - Episode 32 (1994) ... Self actor actors
  
  - Episode 38 (1987) ... Self actor actors
  
  - Episode 19 (1979) ... Self actor actors
  
  - Episode 1 (1977) ... Self actor actors
  
  1974
- Filmers buiten het gareel
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1969
directing (31 credits)
- Henri Langlois vu par...
  director
  
  directing
  
  2014
- Venice 70: Future Reloaded
  director
  
  directing
  
  2013
- Me & You
  director
  
  directing
  
  2012
- The Dreamers
  director
  
  directing
  
  2003
- Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
  director
  
  directing
  
  2002
- Histoire d'eaux
  director
  
  directing
  
  2002
- Besieged
  director
  
  directing
  
  1998
- Stealing Beauty
  director
  
  directing
  
  1996
- Little Buddha
  director
  
  directing
  
  1993
- The Sheltering Sky
  director
  
  directing
  
  1990
- 12 Directors for 12 Cities
  director
  
  directing
  
  1989
- Bologna
  director
  
  directing
  
  1989
- The Last Emperor
  director
  
  directing
  
  1987
- Postcards from China
  director
  
  directing
  
  1985
- Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
  director
  
  directing
  
  1984
- Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man
  director
  
  directing
  
  1981
- Luna
  director
  
  directing
  
  1979
- 1900
  director
  
  directing
  
  1976
- Last Tango in Paris
  director
  
  directing
  
  1972
- Health Is Ill
  director
  
  directing
  
  1971
- The Conformist
  director
  
  directing
  
  1971
- The Spider's Stratagem
  director
  
  directing
  
  1970
- Love and Anger
  director
  
  directing
  
  1969
- His Day of Glory
  co-director
  
  directing
  
  1969
- Partner
  director
  
  directing
  
  1968
- Il canale
  director
  
  directing
  
  1966
- Before the Revolution
  director
  
  directing
  
  1964
- La Commare Secca
  director
  
  directing
  
  1962
- Accattone
  assistant director
  
  directing
  
  1961
- The Death of a Pig
  director
  
  directing
  
  1956
- La teleferica
  director
  
  directing
  
  1956
crew (3 credits)
- Behind Love and Anger
  thanks
  
  crew
  
  2005
- Bahia de Todos os Sambas
  thanks
  
  crew
  
  1996
- The Death of a Pig
  cinematography
  
  crew
  
  1956
production (3 credits)
- The Triumph of Love
  producer
  
  production
  
  2001
- Io con te non ci sto più
  producer
  
  production
  
  1983
- L'inchiesta
  producer
  
  production
  
  1971
editing (1 credits)
- Il silenzio è complicità
  editor
  
  editing
  
  1976