Pier Paolo Pasolini
Director, Actor
Filmography (All Films)
- Accattone (1961)
- Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Franco Citti
- The debut feature of Italian filmmaker–novelist–poet–provocateur Pasolini, which depicts the underbelly of Roman street life in a…
- Mamma Roma (1962)
- Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Anna Magnani
- Pasolini, in this early minor–masterpiece, demonstrates a keen awareness of Italy’s altered social and political landscape in the…
- RoGoPaG (Let's Wash our Brains) (1963)
- Dir. Roberto Rossellini, Jean-Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Orson Welles, Rosanna Schiaffino, Ugo Tognazzi…
- A curious anthology of four short films each written and directed by three Italian and one French film director; Jean–Luc Godard ("Il Nuovo…
- Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
- Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Enrique Irazoqui, Margherita Caruso, Susanna Pasolini
- Acted entirely by non–professionals, this is a startlingly visual rendering of the biblical text, blending breath–taking photography with…
- Oedipus Rex (1967)
- Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Silvana Mangano, Franco Citti, Alida Valli
- Striking visual achievement, filmed amidst the Moroccan desert and Bologna, describes the Oedipal tale of a tortured soul who murders his father and…
- Theorem (Teorema) (1968)
- Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Terence Stamp, Silvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti…
- A mysterious stranger seduces and corrupts each member of a bourgeois family. Pasolini stitches religious, social and political metaphors into his…
- Medea (1970)
- Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Maria Callas
- Pasolini's stylised, passionate rendering of Euripides play blessed with the formidable presence of Maria Callas, in a non–operatic role, as…
- Decameron, The (1970)
- Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Jovan Jovanovic
- The first part of dir. Pasolini’s ‘medieval trilogy’, this adapts ten of Boccaccio’s famously ribald tales of the Italian Middle Ages. With…
- Canterbury Tales, The (I Racconti di Canterbury) (1972)
- Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Hugh Griffith, Tom Baker, Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Pasolini interprets four of Geoffrey Chaucer’s tales in the second of the director's medieval trilogy, set in a bawdy, perverse and dark vision of…
- Arabian Nights (Il Fiore Delle Mille e Una Notte) (1974)
- Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Tessa Bouche
- For the final part of his “Trilogy of Life”, Pasolini interweaves several of the tales of the ‘Thousand and One Nights’,…
- Salo (1975)
- Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Paolo Bonacelli, Giogio Cataldi, Umberto Paolo Quintavalle…
- More extreme in content than anything else in our library, an embittered Pasolini spares the viewer nothing in his faithful adaptation of The Marquis…