Cast: Pier Paolo Pasolini

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Pier Paolo Pasolini. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


6.8

33 votes

Oedipus Rex

1967 · Movie · 104 min. · Italy

Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast Silvana Mangano · Franco Citti · Alida Valli · Carmelo Bene

Synopsis 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...

6.8

2K votes

6.8

2K votes

The Decameron

1971 · Movie · 112 min. · Italy

Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast Franco Citti · Ninetto Davoli · Pier Paolo Pasolini · Angela Luce

Synopsis Pasolini wrote, directed and stars in this richly textured epic based on eight tales by 14th-century Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio. Pasolini weaves the stories together into a bawdy tapestry of a medieval Italy populated by artists, priests and magicians. Appearing...

6.7

4K votes

6.7

4K votes

Callas assoluta

2007 · Documentary · 98 min. · France

Direction Philippe Kohly

Cast Maria Callas · Philippe Faure · Jean Cocteau · Giuseppe Di Stefano

Synopsis A documentary that commemorates the 30th anniversary of famed soprano Maria Callas's death.

6.7

50 votes

6.7

50 votes

The Canterbury Tales

1972 · Movie · 109 min. · Italy

Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast Franco Citti · Ninetto Davoli · Laura Betti · Josephine Chaplin

Synopsis Based on the medieval narrative poem The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. It is the second film in Pasolini's 'Trilogy of Life'. The adaptation covers eight of the 24 tales and contains abundant nudity, sex, and slapstick humor. Many of...

6.6

3K votes

6.6

3K votes

NOTES FOR A FILM ABOUT INDIA (TV)

1968 · Documentary · 33 min. · Italy

Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast Pier Paolo Pasolini

Synopsis Already in 1961 his trip to India with Elsa Morante and Alberto Moravia inspired Pasolini to write the book L’odore dell’India. The Appunti refer to a film about the story of a maharaja who, according to an Indian legend, gave...

6.6

48 votes

6.6

48 votes

SALÓ - YESTERDAY AND TODAY

2002 · Documentary · 33 min. · France

Direction Amaury Voslion

Cast Jean-Claude Biette · Ninetto Davoli · Pier Paolo Pasolini · Hélène Surgère

Synopsis The documentary takes us back to the making of "Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma" where Pasolini speaks about his motivation to make this film but also discusses today's relevance of the film through contemporary interviews with people who...

6.4

45 votes

6.4

45 votes

A Night at the Opera (S)

2020 · Documentary · 19 min. · France

Direction Sergei Loznitsa

Cast Maria Callas · Brigitte Bardot · Pier Paolo Pasolini · Jean Cocteau

Synopsis A documentary view of the galas of Paris’s Palais Garnier in the 1950s and ’60s.

6.3

62 votes

6.3

62 votes

PASOLINI INTERVIEW TO EZRA POUND (TV) (S)

1967 · Documentary · 8 min. · Italy

Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast Pier Paolo Pasolini · Ezra Pound

Synopsis Pasolini interviews Ezra Pound about the industrialisation and economy of Italy, then about poetry, music and art. Pound talks about the time when he was writing the Pisan Cantos, and Pasolini reads from the Italian translation of Pound’s Pisan Cantos...

5.5

66 votes

5.5

66 votes

Let Them Rest

1967 · Movie · 101 min. · Italy

Direction Carlo Lizzani

Cast Lou Castel · Mark Damon · Pier Paolo Pasolini · Barbara Frey

Synopsis The son of a Mexican bandit comes upon a village that is under the thumb of a deranged former Confederate officer, who is--among other things--stealing land from the locals with phony land grants.

5.2

152 votes

5.2

152 votes

Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Film Maker's Life

1971 · Documentary · 29 min. · Italy

Direction Carlo Hayman-Chaffey

Cast Pier Paolo Pasolini · Ninetto Davoli · Franco Citti · Giancarlo Arnao

Synopsis Documentary about Italian movie director Pier Paolo Pasolini, with interviews with some of his actors and friends.

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The Hunchback of Rome

1960 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy

Direction Carlo Lizzani

Cast Gérard Blain · Anna-Maria Ferrero · Bernard Blier · Ivo Garrani

Synopsis 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 partisan against the German occupants, fighting for freedom. The...

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Ignoti alla città (S)

1958 · Documentary · 11 min. · Italy

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Pasolini racconta pasolini

1995 · Documentary · 44 min. · Italy

Direction Gianni Barcelloni

Cast Pier Paolo Pasolini

Synopsis In this Biography film Pasolini reads his poetry and texts, talks about himself and his familiy, about his films, the life and politics and about italian country and language. Photographies, interviews, comentaries.

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PierPaolo

2018 · Documentary · 76 min. · Spain

Direction Miguel Angel Barroso Garcia

Cast Pier Paolo Pasolini

Synopsis This documentary tells us about Pier Paolo Pasolini's childhood and youth years, through the main characters of his life. A biography of the poet, writer and filmmaker Italian Pier Paolo Pasolini, focused, through fiction and documentary, in your life of...

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A futura memoria: Pier Paolo Pasolini

1986 · Documentary · 115 min. · Italy

Direction Ivo Barnabò Micheli

Cast Pier Paolo Pasolini

Synopsis A biographical documentary on the life and death of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian writer, poet and director murdered in 1975.

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