Pier Paolo Pasolini

Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.

Dir. Federico Fellini · With Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée

Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find happiness in a cynical world. Even when she thinks her struggles are over and she has found happiness and contentment, things may not be what they seem.

Dir. Federico Fellini · With Giulietta Masina, François Périer, Franca Marzi

Pier Paolo Pasolini sets out to interview Italians about sex, apparently their least favorite thing to talk about in public: he asks children if they know where babies come from; asks old and young women if they support gender equality; asks both sexes if a woman's virginity still matters, what do they think of homosexuality, if divorce should be legal, or if they support the recent abolition of brothels. He interviews blue-collar workers, intellectuals, college students, rural farmers, the bourgeoisie, and every other kind of people, painting a vivid portrait of a rapidly-industrializing Italy, hanging between modernity and tradition — toward both of which Pasolini shows equal distrust.

Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini · With Pier Paolo Pasolini, Lello Bersani, Alberto Moravia

After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand so that she can have a respectable middle-class life and reestablish contact with the 16-year-old son she abandoned when he was an infant. But her former pimp threatens to expose her sordid past, and her troubled son seems destined to fall into a life of crime and violence.

Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini · With Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti

A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiralling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.

Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini · With Franco Citti, Franca Pasut, Silvana Corsini

A man and his son take an allegorical stroll through life with a talking bird that spouts social and political philosophy.

Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini · With Totò, Ninetto Davoli, Femi Benussi

Along a rocky, barren coastline, Jesus begins teaching, primarily using parables. He attracts disciples; he's stern, brusque, and demanding. His parables often take on the powers that be, so he and his teachings come to the attention of the Pharisees, the chief priests, and elders. They conspire to have him arrested, beaten, tried, and crucified, just as he prophesied to his followers.

Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini · With Enrique Irazoqui, Margherita Caruso, Susanna Pasolini

Four short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life.

Dir. Jean-Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ugo Gregoretti, Roberto Rossellini · With Rosanna Schiaffino, Bruce Balaban, Maria Pia Schiaffino

A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger arrives, seduces every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he came.

Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini · With Terence Stamp, Silvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti

Problems arise for Antonio Magnano when he is unable to consummate his marriage to the beautiful Barbara Puglisi and his virility is called into question. Despite the fact that he loves his beautiful wife and they have otherwise been happily married for a year, his problem becomes a source of contention for all concerned.

Dir. Mauro Bolognini · With Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Pierre Brasseur

Two dramatic stories. In an undetermined past, a young cannibal (who killed his own father) is condemned to be torn to pieces by some wild beasts. In the second story, Julian, the young son of a post-war German industrialist, is on the way to lie down with his farm's pigs, because he doesn't like human relationships.

Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini · With Pierre Clémenti, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Alberto Lionello

A young Sicilian is swindled twice, but ends up rich; a man poses as a deaf-mute in a convent of curious nuns; a woman must hide her lover when her husband comes home early; a scoundrel fools a priest on his deathbed; three brothers take revenge on their sister's lover; a young girl sleeps on the roof to meet her boyfriend at night; a group of painters wait for inspiration; a crafty priest attempts to seduce his friend's wife; and two friends make a pact to find out what happens after death.

Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini · With Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Jovan Jovanović

The final part of Pasolini's Trilogy of Life series is rich with exotic tales of slaves and kings, potions, betrayals, demons and, most of all, love and lovemaking in all its myriad forms. Mysterious and liberating, this is an exquisitely dreamlike and adult interpretation of the original folk tales.

Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini · With Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Franco Merli

In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son - and the scene moves to antiquity, where the baby is taken into the desert to be killed. He is rescued, given the name Oedipus, and brought up by the King and Queen of Corinth as their son. One day an oracle informs Oedipus that he is destined to kill his father and marry his mother. Horrified, he flees Corinth and his supposed parents - only to get into a fight and kill an older man on the road…

Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini · With Franco Citti, Silvana Mangano, Alida Valli

Based on the plot of Euripides' Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman.

Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini · With Maria Callas, Massimo Girotti, Laurent Terzieff

Glimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several of his stories.

Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini · With Hugh Griffith, Laura Betti, Ninetto Davoli

Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.

Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini · With Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Uberto Paolo Quintavalle