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1. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
TV-MA | 117 min | Drama
In World War II Italy, four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental, and sexual torture.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Uberto Paolo Quintavalle, Aldo Valletti
Votes: 65,742
2. La Dolce Vita (1960)
Not Rated | 174 min | Comedy, Drama
A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée, Yvonne Furneaux
Votes: 78,119 | Gross: $19.52M
3. Arabian Nights (1974)
X | 130 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
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.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Franco Merli, Tessa Bouché
Votes: 9,029
4. The Decameron (1971)
R | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, History
An adaptation of nine stories from Boccaccio's "Decameron".
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Jovan Jovanovic, Vincenzo Amato
Votes: 12,069
5. The Canterbury Tales (1972)
NC-17 | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, History
Pasolini's artistic, sometimes violent, always vividly cinematic retelling of some of Chaucer's most erotic tales.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Hugh Griffith, Laura Betti, Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti
Votes: 8,213
6. Teorema (1968)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Mystery
A mysterious young man seduces each member of a bourgeois family. When he suddenly leaves, how will their lives change?
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Silvana Mangano, Terence Stamp, Massimo Girotti, Anne Wiazemsky
Votes: 15,239
7. Nights of Cabiria (1957)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
A waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Giulietta Masina, François Périer, Franca Marzi, Dorian Gray
Votes: 51,886 | Gross: $0.75M
8. The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
Not Rated | 137 min | Biography, Drama, History
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.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Enrique Irazoqui, Margherita Caruso, Susanna Pasolini, Marcello Morante
Votes: 13,693
9. Girl Blood Sport (2019)
354 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Chaos follows a deadly duo of maniac assassins after they host a brutal, no-holds-barred tournament inside a sinister steel cage surrounded by razor-sharp barb-wire after luring hungry, ... See full summary »
Director: Russell Brown | Stars: Miss Mercedes 9, Abby, Lisa Acosta, Stephanie Adduci
Votes: 275
10. The Witches (1967)
Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society.
Directors: Mauro Bolognini, Vittorio De Sica, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Franco Rossi, Luchino Visconti | Stars: Silvana Mangano, Annie Girardot, Francisco Rabal, Massimo Girotti
Votes: 1,970
11. Oedipus Rex (1967)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama
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.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Silvana Mangano, Franco Citti, Alida Valli, Carmelo Bene
Votes: 6,874
12. Medea (1969)
Not Rated | 118 min | Drama, Fantasy
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?
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Maria Callas, Massimo Girotti, Laurent Terzieff, Giuseppe Gentile
Votes: 5,483
13. Mamma Roma (1962)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
An ex-prostitute reunites with her son, but an extortion scheme threatens her aspirations for a decent life.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti, Silvana Corsini
Votes: 10,458
14. Accattone (1961)
Not Rated | 117 min | Drama
A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiraling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Franco Citti, Franca Pasut, Silvana Corsini, Paola Guidi
Votes: 10,150
15. Pigsty (1969)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama
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.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Pierre Clémenti, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Alberto Lionello, Ugo Tognazzi
Votes: 3,971
16. The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Totò and his son Ninetto are drifting on a road in Italy when they meet a speaking crow.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Totò, Ninetto Davoli, Femi Benussi, Umberto Bevilacqua
Votes: 5,615
17. Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1963)
Not Rated | 122 min | Comedy, Drama
Four short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life.
Directors: Jean-Luc Godard, Ugo Gregoretti, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Rosanna Schiaffino, Bruce Balaban, Maria Pia Schiaffino, Jean-Marc Bory
Votes: 2,249
18. Bawdy Tales (1973)
Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In 1850 Rome, two imprisoned young murderers--Bernardino and Mammone--await their execution, passing their last hours telling each other stories of lust and castration. The first involves a... See full summary »
Director: Sergio Citti | Stars: Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Gianni Rizzo
Votes: 228
19. Love Meetings (1964)
Not Rated | 92 min | Documentary
Director Pasolini traverses Italy in 1963 with camera and microphone interviewing people in public places about sex, marriage and gender roles.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Lello Bersani, Alberto Moravia, Cesare Musatti, Peppino Di Capri
Votes: 2,635
20. Bell' Antonio (1960)
Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy, Drama
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.
Director: Mauro Bolognini | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Pierre Brasseur, Rina Morelli
Votes: 1,855
21. The Grim Reaper (1962)
Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a woman is killed in a park, the police bring in everyone suspected of being there when the incident occurred and question them. One of them is the killer.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Francesco Ruiu, Giancarlo De Rosa, Vincenzo Ciccora, Alfredo Leggi
Votes: 2,601
22. Requiescant (1967)
Not Rated | 106 min | Western
A preacher's adopted son comes upon a village that is under the thumb of a deranged ex-Confederate officer who, among other things, is stealing land from the locals with phony land grants.
Director: Carlo Lizzani | Stars: Lou Castel, Mark Damon, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Barbara Frey
Votes: 1,124
23. Love and Anger (1969)
102 min | Drama
Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a ... See full summary »
Directors: Marco Bellocchio, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jean-Luc Godard, Carlo Lizzani, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Elda Tattoli | Stars: Tom Baker, Julian Beck, Jim Anderson, Judith Malina
Votes: 838
24. The River Girl (1954)
94 min | Drama
When peasant girl Nives is deserted by smuggler Gino Lodi, she betrays him to the police. Police officer Enzo Cinti, who loves Nives, traces her to the Po River cane-fields, where she is ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Soldati | Stars: Sophia Loren, Gérard Oury, Lise Bourdin, Enrico Olivieri
Votes: 274
25. Mulheres... Mulheres (1981)
72 min | Drama
Fausto and Gilda have been married for years and love each other deeply. But Gilda dies, leaving Fausto alone with their 8-year-old daughter and her governess. Shaken, he retreats to his ... See full summary »
Director: Carlos Imperial | Stars: Carlos Imperial, Dalia Drummond, Elys Cardoso, Lia Farrel
Votes: 55
26. It Happened in '43 (1960)
105 min | Drama, Romance, War
In the midst of World War II, the story of the affair of a young woman married to a man in a wheelchair, with a deserter from the Italian army, intertwines with that of the power grab of a ... See full summary »
Director: Florestano Vancini | Stars: Belinda Lee, Gabriele Ferzetti, Enrico Maria Salerno, Andrea Checchi
Votes: 453
27. The Big Night (1959)
95 min | Crime, Drama
In Rome, small-time thieves Scinttilone and Ruggeretto steal four rifles and catch prostitutes Anna and Supplizia on the street to mislead the police. They seek the jobber Mosciarella, but ... See full summary »
Director: Mauro Bolognini | Stars: Rosanna Schiaffino, Elsa Martinelli, Laurent Terzieff, Jean-Claude Brialy
Votes: 718
28. Caprice Italian Style (1968)
95 min | Comedy
The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.
Directors: Mauro Bolognini, Mario Monicelli, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Steno, Pino Zac, Franco Rossi | Stars: Totò, Ugo D'Alessio, Regina Seiffert, Dante Maggio
Votes: 632
29. L'intesa (1995)
93 min | Drama
The vicissitudes of a couple who, after the fire of passion fades, introduce a third character into their household.
Director: Antonio D'Agostino | Stars: Zara Whites, Antonio Zequila, Pascal Persiano, Emy Valentino
Votes: 53
30. Ostia (1970)
103 min | Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Sergio Citti | Stars: Laurent Terzieff, Franco Citti, Anita Sanders, Ninetto Davoli
Votes: 316
31. Location Hunting in Palestine (1965)
54 min | Documentary
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: don Andrea Carraro, Pier Paolo Pasolini
Votes: 324
32. Una vita violenta (1962)
106 min | Drama
Tommaso Puzzilli is a boy who grew up in the suburb of Pietralata outside Rome. Not having a job, Tommaso and his friends are committing crimes to make money.
Directors: Paolo Heusch, Brunello Rondi | Stars: Franco Citti, Serena Vergano, Alfredo Leggi, Angelo Maria Santiamantini
Votes: 250
33. Anger (1963)
Not Rated | 104 min | Documentary
"La Rabbia" employs documentary footage (from the 1950s) and accompanying commentary to attempt to answer the existential question, Why are our lives characterized by discontent, anguish, ... See full summary »
Directors: Giovanni Guareschi, Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Giorgio Bassani, Renato Guttuso, Gigi Artuso, Carlo Romano
Votes: 538
34. La ragazza in vetrina (1961)
90 min | Drama, Romance
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.
Director: Luciano Emmer | Stars: Lino Ventura, Magali Noël, Marina Vlady, Bernard Fresson
Votes: 380
35. Morte di un amico (1960)
95 min | Drama
Two young people trickle and steal and exploit prostitutes.
Director: Franco Rossi | Stars: Gianni Garko, Spyros Fokas, Didi Perego, Angela Luce
Votes: 64
36. La ricotta (1963)
35 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Pier Paolo Pasolini's contribution to the omnibus film "RO.GO.PA.G" casts Orson Welles as a director attempting to make a film of the crucifixion of Jesus-all while he, the cast, and crew behave in the most un-Christlike ways imaginable.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Orson Welles, Mario Cipriani, Laura Betti, Edmonda Aldini
Votes: 121
37. From a Roman Balcony (1960)
84 min | Drama
The ironic study of a young man's poignant and sensual adventures based on "Roman Tales" by Alberto Moravia.
Director: Mauro Bolognini | Stars: Jean Sorel, Lea Massari, Jeanne Valérie, Rik Battaglia
Votes: 283
38. La rabbia di Pasolini (2008)
83 min | Documentary
An attempt to reconstruct the complete version of Pier Paolo Pasolini's segment of Anger (1963).
Directors: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Giuseppe Bertolucci | Stars: Giorgio Bassani, Renato Guttuso, Giuseppe Bertolucci, Vittorio Magrelli
Votes: 208
39. Young Husbands (1958)
98 min | Comedy, Romance
A movie about the mixed feelings of young adulthood. Main characters rather casually enter into marriage, never intending true fidelity to their spouses. When they realize that they're ... See full summary »
Director: Mauro Bolognini | Stars: Isabelle Corey, Antonio Cifariello, Franco Interlenghi, Raf Mattioli
Votes: 176
40. Notes Towards an African Orestes (1970)
65 min | Documentary
The director presents takes and scenes filmed on location in Africa for a film-that-never-was, a black Oresteia.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Gato Barbieri, Donald F. Moye, Marcello Melis, Yvonne Murray
Votes: 545
41. Cinéastes de notre temps (1964–1972)
Documentary
In-depth documentaries about the greatest filmmakers from around the world, all in the form of candid face-to-face interviews, conducted, created and produced by former critics for Les Cahiers du Cinéma, Janine Bazin and André S. Labarthe.
Stars: André S. Labarthe, Georges Franju, Jean Renoir, Jacques Rivette
Votes: 94
42. Hamlet (1976)
65 min | Drama
Hamlet (Tony Meyer) suspects his uncle, King Claudius (Barry Stanton) has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, Gertrude (Dame Helen Mirren), but the Prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.
Director: Celestino Coronado | Stars: Quentin Crisp, Helen Mirren, Barry Stanton, Vladek Sheybal
Votes: 112
43. Che cosa sono le nuvole? (1968)
20 min | Short, Comedy
Some puppets come to life in a theater with no windows. This time the puppets interpret William Shakespeare's Othello.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Totò, Ninetto Davoli, Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia
Votes: 159
44. 12 dicembre (1972)
104 min | Documentary
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 activist Giuseppe Pinelli was picked up, with other... See full summary »
Directors: Giovanni Bonfanti, Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Edoardo Di Giovanni, Marcello Gentili, Augusto Ludovichetti, Rosa Malacarne
Votes: 97
45. Dissent (2011)
34 min | Short, Drama
An old father, still a tyrant despite his age. Edward, the son, devoured by his Oedipus complex. And Karla, the young woman betrothed to Edward, who dreams about her future husband's ... See full summary »
Director: Helmut Dosantos | Stars: Guy Balotine, Jessica Park, Jim Maloy, Norman Sham
Votes: 5
47. The Hunchback of Rome (1960)
96 min | Drama, War
Alvaro Cosenza, also known as the Hunchback from Quarticciolo (Il Gobbo del Quarticciolo), during Rome's occupation by Nazis in 1943, decides to revolt. He starts his career of rebel like a... See full summary »
Director: Carlo Lizzani | Stars: Gérard Blain, Anna Maria Ferrero, Bernard Blier, Ivo Garrani
Votes: 160
48. Il carro armato dell'8 settembre (1960)
109 min | Drama, War
Italy signed the armistice and in the general confusion a corporal decides to bring the tank back from the coast to the barracks.
Director: Gianni Puccini | Stars: Gabriele Ferzetti, Dorian Gray, Jean-Marc Bory, Elsa Martinelli
Votes: 22
49. The Walls of Sana'a (1971)
13 min | Documentary, Short
Documentary footage of the city of Sana'a in Yemen, one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, with a voice-over calling for UNESCO to protect the city's architectural heritage before it is destroyed by development.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Star: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Votes: 393
50. Pasolini intervista: Ezra Pound (1967 TV Short)
8 min | Documentary, Short, Talk-Show
Ezra Pound, an acclaimed modern American poet living in Rapallo, was tried for treason because of his radio broadcasts extolling Mussolini. This is Pasolini's interview with him.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ezra Pound
Votes: 43