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  • WIN! Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor on Blu-ray - 20 April 2010
    - - -To celebrate the Blu-ray release of Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor, out now, we’ve got five copies to give away to some lucky LOVEFiLM members.- -The Spectacular and true story of a man living through extraordinary changes, The Last Emperor

Bernardo Bertolucci - filmography


  • Great Directors (2009)
    Starring: Bernardo Bertolucci,  Catherine Breillat,  Liliana Cavani
    Director: Angela Ismailos
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    GREAT DIRECTORS, directed by Angela Ismailos, features original, in-depth conversations with nine of the world's greatest living directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Sayles. ..read more »
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  • The Dreamers (2004)
    Starring: Michael Pitt,  Louis Garrel,  Eva Green
    Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Bernardo Bertolucci's THE DREAMERS centres on three university students who adore the Cinematheque Francaise, and are fascinated by '60s culture--the music of Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, the films of Jean-Luc Godard, and the writings of Susan Sontag and Chairman Mao. Their philosophical ..read more »
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  • Besieged (1998)
    Starring: Thandie Newton,  David Thewlis,  Claudio Santamaria
    Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    A young African woman takes lodgings with a reclusive English pianist in the heart of Rome. She is slowly drawn into his life within the elegant and dilapidated house and alive with the music of Bach, Mozart and Grieg.
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  • Stealing Beauty on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Sinead Cusack,  Jeremy Irons,  Jean Marais
    Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This beautiful if ponderous soufflĂ© 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 and ..read more »
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  • Little Buddha on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Keanu Reeves,  Chris Isaak,  Bridget Fonda
    Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Lama Norbu comes to Seattle in search of the reincarnation of his dead teacher, Lama Dorje. His search leads him to young Jesse Conrad, Raju, a waif from Kathmandu, and an upper class Indian girl. Together, they journey to Bhutan where the three children must undergo a test to prove which is the ..read more »
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  • The Sheltering Sky on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Debra Winger,  John Malkovich,  Campbell Scott
    Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Bernardo Bertolucci (THE CONFORMIST, THE LAST EMPEROR) directs this tale concerning three Americans who find more than they bargained for as they travel through post-war Africa: an adaptation of Paul Bowles's novel. Kit (Debra Winger) and Port (John Malkovich) are a married couple separated by a ..read more »
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  • The Last Emperor on DVD (1987)
    Starring: John Lone,  Joan Chen,  Peter O'Toole
    Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    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 »
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  • The Last Emperor - Blu-ray (1987)
    Starring: John Lone,  Peter O'Toole,  Joan Chen
    Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    The story of Pu Yi, who ascended to the Imperial Throne in China at the age of three and became the country's last Emperor. Although it is 160 minutes long and shot with breathtaking scope and sumptuousness, Bernardo Bertolucci's film is a story about claustrophobia. Pu Yi is a prisoner in the ..read more »
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  • Luna (1979)
    Starring: Jill Clayburgh,  Matthew Barry,  Veronica Lazar
    Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Recently widowed American opera diva Caterina takes her teenaged son Joe with her on a long singing tour to Italy. Absorbed in her hectic work in various Verdi operas around Rome, Caterina is soon shocked to discover that her troubled and lonely son has become a heroin addict. Her desperate ..read more »
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  • 1900 - Novecento on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  Gerard Depardieu,  Burt Lancaster
    Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Bernardo Bertolucci's vast historical melodrama used the massive popular, critical, and financial success of its predecessor, the scandalous LAST TANGO IN PARIS, to mount a production of epic scale. The film utilises an all-star Hollywood cast to tell its heavily Marxist tale of Italian peasants ..read more »
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  • Partner (1968)
    Starring: Tina Aumont,  Rochelle Barbieri,  Sandro Bernadone
    Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Jacob is a theater instructor committed to the theories of Antonin Artaud, but he simply doesn't have the temperament to realize the "Theater of Cruelty" in life. When he meets his double (Pierre Clementi, in a dual role), the amoral embodiment of his intellectual principles, he allows the second ..read more »
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  • Before the Revolution on DVD (1964)
    Starring: Evelina Alpi,  Gianni Amico,  Adriana Asti
    Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 ..read more »
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  • La Commare Secca (1962)
    Starring: Marisa Solinas,  Allen Midget,  Giancarlo De Rosa
    Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 »
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Bernardo Bertolucci facts

5 most recent films

Great Directors - 3.0 stars
The Dreamers - 3.0 stars
Besieged - 3.0 stars
Stealing Beauty - 3.0 stars
Little Buddha - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Conformist - 3.5 stars
The Last Emperor - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Conformist - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Last Emperor - 3.5 stars
Besieged - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Partner - 2.0 stars
La Commare Secca - 2.5 stars
Luna - 2.5 stars
Great Directors - 3.0 stars
Before the Revolution - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Dennis Dun - 5 times - show films
Peter O'Toole - 5 times - show films
Ryuichi Sakamato - 5 times - show films
Victor Wong - 5 times - show films
Joan Chen - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Mike Figgis - 2 times - show films
Claire Denis - 1 times - show films
Angela Ismailos - 1 times - show films
Jiri Menzel - 1 times - show films