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- The murder of a wealthy countess triggers a chain reaction of brutal killings in the surrounding bay area, as several unscrupulous characters try to seize her large estate.
- A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiraling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.
- A Frenchman finds his runaway wife on an island in the Pacific.
- 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 text of Matthew.
- 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.
- An ex-prostitute reunites with her son, but an extortion scheme threatens her aspirations for a decent life.
- The original Italian is La Viaccia (the name of the family farm which motivates the plot). The death of a wealthy patriarch in 1885 sets off an interfamily power struggle. Son Ferdinando buys out his other relatives in order to gain full control over the dead man's property. But Ferdinando's nephew Amerigo holds out. Amerigo's stance is weakened when he heads for Florence and meets prostitute Bianca.
- Totò and his son Ninetto are drifting on a road in Italy when they meet a speaking crow.
- King Arthur learns that his wife, Queen Guinevere, has been having an affair with Lancelot, who at the same time remains loyal to the king, particularly after Arthur's traitorous nephew Mordred commits an attempt on his life.
- A womanizing author is lured to a mansion by an old woman under the guise of working as a librarian. Her daughter, Aura, appears out of nowhere and begins to seduce him. Little does he know, Aura doesn't actually exist.
- Lusty adventures of two men and a transvestite young man in times of Rome's Nero.
- Director Pasolini traverses Italy in 1963 with camera and microphone interviewing people in public places about sex, marriage and gender roles.
- Four short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life.
- 26 year old Silvia has it all, but is still discontent, and daydreams about BDSM sex. When her husband is away on a business trip, she goes to a castle outside Rome to work as a secretary. Here she is turned into a slave.
- A newly wedded and extremely handsome young bourgeois Antonio faces a scandal in a city of Sicily in 1950's when the public and her family hears that his beautiful wife is still "untouched" after their 12-month long marriage.
- A former counter-revolutionary pirate befriends a mentally ill young woman and this in turn leads to tragedy after she falls in love with a French naval officer.
- This movie is about a woman, Charlotte, who goes in search of the ultimate sexual experience.
- The endless search for pleasure and love by African men and women.
- A beautiful Italian woman, Paola (Nadia Cassini) is told by her black friend (Evaristo Márquez) about the Caribbean love god Jambaya who appears in the form of the snake. By the end of the movie, Paola decides to give herself to Jambaya while a local woman named Stella (Beryl Cunningham) departs with her white friend's ex-lover, establishing a neat symmetry between their respective fantasies of exoticism.
- An inept thief wants to escape prison and return to his family, but two of his prison mates also want out.
- Four soldiers and a beautiful Greek nurse, thrown together in North Africa during World War II, team up to pull off a heist of two-million pounds in boxes marked "plasma."
- A young writer uses her charms to seduce and destroy a cynic who has declared war on art.
- While scouting locations for his classic "The Gospel According to St. Matthew", director Pier Paolo Pasolini noticed that filming in the actual site of the story, in Palestine, wouldn't be much of a great choice due to the modern invasion which completely altered the biblical settings. Here, the director explained his reasons of why his search in the Middle East end up being wrong - though somewhat fruitful and rewarding in other ways - and why his native Italy surprised him and became the scenario for his religious epic.
- Adaptation of the comic play by Macchiavelli about a man's attempt to bed a woman unable to have a child by pretending to be a doctor.
- 16th-century Spain, the famed Greek painter El Greco journeys to Toledo to paint an altarpiece. Trouble ensues when he falls in love with a beautiful local girl.
- The son of a rich Italian industrialist finds out how tough it is to leave the path society has set for him.
- Historical drama about Venezuelan military and political leader Simón Bolívar who helped much of Latin America to achieve independence from Spain.
- Story of Roberta, a beautiful young woman from a wealthy industrialist family and her relationship with Franco, a rough car mechanic and stranger whom she meets on the beach of Forte dei Marmi.
- Assola is an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France and the borderline crosses the village itself. The French customs agent Ferdinand is always trying to catch the Italian smuggler Giuseppe. Giuseppe discovers that Ferdinand was actually born in Italy and therefore he can't be a French customs agent.
- This documentary suggests an economic motive behind assassinations such as those of JFK, RFK and MLK: to control resources and wealth.
- A young female gynecologist tries to break taboos in the sixties: women's right to own and control their own body.
- Based on the 1955 novel by Elio Bartolini. Ippolita is a dancer who falls in love with a petrol station attendant Luca and they soon marry. But the quiet doesn't last long, Ippolita lets herself be courted by motorists making Luca jealous.
- British survivors of the mutiny on the H.M.S. Bounty plus some Polynesian men and women from Tahiti are stranded on a Pacific island of Pitcairn. Soon strife, racial tension and bloody violence erupt.
- Charged with a secret mission by Napoleon, privateer Robert Surcouf attacks the English who hold the citadel of the island of Mahé. He succeeds in his mission, but his younger brother Nicolas is captured.
- The Mazzara family is made up of five brothers, four boys and a girl, as well as the widowed father and the grandmother, convinced that the family is "a great black sow", and that all of its members are pigs.
- Climate change comes first and fastest in the Arctic The northernmost functional settlement in the world is Ny Ålesund in Svalbard, at 78 ° 56'N. It is surrounded by ice and snow; the area is populated by 100 polar bears for every human inhabitant. An unfinished church and some mining ruins show the past. Once a starting point for expeditions to the North Pole and a former mining site in the early 20th century, it is now the biggest Arctic lab in the far North. Here scientists from all over the world live and conduct research concerning climate change. Often they dedicate their life to science and take considerable risks to gain new insights in their various fields. They come from countries such as Italy, Germany, France and the UK, but also South Korea, India and China. We will introduce several different projects, among these an international cooperation between Italy, Germany, Japan and South Korea, and we'll meet scientists and permanent residents to show work and life in this village off the beaten track .