Pier Paolo Pasolini

An old man and his son are walking along the road when they suddenly meet a speaking crow that represents Marxist beliefs. They are soon taken ...

In 1963, accompanied by a newsreel photographer and a Catholic priest, Piero Paolo Pasolini traveled to Palestine to investigate the possibility ...

An adaptation of nine stories from Bocaccio’s “Decameron”: A young Sicilian is swindled twice, but ends up rich; a man poses as ...

Glimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several of his stories. Release: The Canterbury Tales 1972 ...

This consists of four short films by different directors. Rosselini’s ‘Chastity’ deals with an attractive air hostess who ...

Based on the plot of Euripides’ Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, ...

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 ...

Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman’s assault ...

A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger arrives, seduces every family member and then disappears. Each has an ...

Documentary footage (from the 1950s) and accompanying commentary to attempt to answer the existential question, Why are our lives characterized ...

The director presents takes and scenes filmed on location in Africa for a film-that-never-was, a black Oresteia. Release: Notes Towards An ...

The life of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of Matthew. Pasolini shows Christ as a marxist avant-la-lettre and therefore uses half of the ...

The capital of Yemen, the city of Sana’a, holds an important part of history within its walls filled with medieval architecture and ...

On December 12th, 1969, a bomb went off at the Piazza Fontana in Milan that killed 16 people and injured 84. Railway worker and anarchist ...

Appunti per un film sull’India is a short documentary film by Pier Paolo Pasolini where he visits India in the search of a king who could ...

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

The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events. ...

Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels to a mountain resort, only to evoke jealousy ...

Microphone in hand, Pier Paolo Pasolini asks Italians to talk about sex: he asks children where babies come from, young and old women if they are ...

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 ...