Pier Paolo Pasolini

A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome.

In World War II Italy, four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of torture.

A waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak.

A mysterious young man seduces each member of a bourgeois family. When he suddenly leaves, how will their lives change?

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.

An adaptation of nine stories from Boccaccio's "Decameron".

An ex-prostitute reunites with her son, but an extortion scheme threatens her aspirations for a decent life.

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

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.

Pasolini's artistic and always vividly cinematic retelling of eight of Chaucer's famous tales.

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.

After his quest to retrieve the fabled Golden Fleece, Jason returns to Greece with powerful sorceress Medea. However, when the king banishes her, it's only human that Medea plots her furious revenge. Can they escape her wrath?

Totò and his son Ninetto are drifting on a road in Italy when they meet a speaking crow.

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.

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

Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society.

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

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.

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...

A collection of radio and television interviews with director Federico Fellini, recorded from February 1952, up to 1967, as he worked on the never-completed film "The Journey of Mastorna."

"Wild Man Pasolini" intellectualizes in this TV portrait about not just film but also: politics, art, poetry, and philosophy.