Pier Paolo Pasolini
March 5, 1922 · 104 years old
Pier Paolo Pasolini (March 5, 1922 – November 2, 1975) was an Italian film director, poet, writer, and intellectual. Pasolini distinguished himself as a poet, journalist, philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine columnist, actor, painter and political figure. He…
Known For
17 titles
La Dolce Vita
A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome.
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
In World War II Italy, four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of torture.
Nights of Cabiria
A waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak.
Teorema
A mysterious young man seduces each member of a bourgeois family. When he suddenly leaves, how will their lives change?
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
The life of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of Matthew. Film shows Christ as a Marxist avant-la-lettre and therefore uses half of the text of Matthew.
The Decameron
An adaptation of nine stories from Boccaccio's "Decameron".
Mamma Roma
An ex-prostitute reunites with her son, but an extortion scheme threatens her aspirations for a decent life.
Accattone
A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiraling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.
Arabian Nights
In ancient Arabia, a beautiful slave girl chooses a youth to be her new master, then she is kidnapped and they must search for each other. Stories are told within stories: love, travel and the whims of destiny.
The Canterbury Tales
Pasolini's artistic and always vividly cinematic retelling of eight of Chaucer's famous tales.
Oedipus Rex
Rescued from abandonment and raised by the King and Queen, Oedipus is still haunted by a prophecy--he'll murder his father and marry his mother.
The Hawks and the Sparrows
Totò and his son Ninetto are drifting on a road in Italy when they meet a speaking crow.
Pigsty
A man wandering in a volcanic desert forms a band of murderous cannibals. A post-war German industrialist learns that his son is unable to make decisions or form relationships.
Ro.Go.Pa.G.
Four short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life.
Notes Towards an African Orestes
The director presents takes and scenes filmed on location in Africa for a film-that-never-was, a black Oresteia.
La ragazza in vetrina
Italians migrate to Holland to make money in coal mining. After their first work accident, two friends make different future plans: one spends money on a weekend holiday; the other determines to return to Italy soon.
Ostia
Two brothers live by petty thievery and try to recover from their upbringing. Bandiera and Rabbino were children when they pushed their drunken father out of a window for killing their pet sheep. When a girl is raped by her father...