Screenplay: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Mamma Roma
1962 · Movie · 110 min. · Italy
Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast Anna Magnani · Franco Citti · Ettore Garofolo · Silvana Corsini
Plot In Pier Paolo Pasolini's beautiful drama, Mamma Roma (Anna Magnani) is an ex-prostitute who tries to leave behind her past and make a life for her and her son but...
7.8
3K votes
7.8
3K votes
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
1964 · Movie · 137 min. · Italy
Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast Enrique Irazoqui · Margherite Caruso · Marcello Morante · Luigi Barbini
Plot Along a rocky, barren coastline, Jesus begins teaching, primarily using parables. He attracts disciples; he's stern, brusque, and demanding. He comes to bring a sword, not peace, he says. He's...
7.6
4K votes
7.6
4K votes
Accattone
1961 · Movie · 116 min. · Italy
Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast Franco Citti · Silvana Corsini · Franca Pasut · Paola Guidi
Plot Pasolini's first film is a painfully realistic study of a pimp in Rome. Vittorio Accattone has never worked a day in his life, and has apparently made a good living...
7.6
3K votes
7.6
3K votes
Stendali. Suonano ancora (S)
1960 · Documentary · 11 min. · Italy
Direction Cecilia Mangini
Cast Lilla Brignone
7.4
37 votes
7.4
37 votes
Love Meetings
1965 · Documentary · 90 min. · Italy
Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini
Plot Director Pier Paolo Pasolini interviewed people on the streets of Italy about their feelings and experiences with love and sex. Writer Alberto Moravia and psychologist Cesare Musatti provide commentary on...
7.2
513 votes
7.2
513 votes
La lunga notte del 43
1960 · Movie · 110 min. · Italy
Direction Florestano Vancini
Cast Belinda Lee · Enrico Maria Salerno · Gabriele Ferzetti · Nerio Bernardi
Plot In the midst of World War II, the story of the affair of a young woman, married to a man bound to a wheelchair, with a desertor from the Italian...
7.2
80 votes
7.2
80 votes
La canta delle marane (S)
1961 · Documentary · 10 min. · Italy
Direction Cecilia Mangini
7.2
24 votes
7.2
24 votes
Curd Cheese
1962 · Movie · 35 min. · Italy
Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast Orson Welles · Mario Cipriani · Laura Betti · Edmonda Aldini
Plot A lavish film about the life of Jesus Christ is being made in a poor area. The impoverished people subject themselves to various indignities in the name of moviemaking in...
7.2
302 votes
7.2
302 votes
Che cosa sono le nuvole? (S)
1967 · Movie · 22 min. · Italy
Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast Totò · Ninetto Davoli · Laura Betti · Franco Franchi
Plot Some puppets come to life in a theater with no windows. This time the puppets interpret William Shakespeare's Othello.
7.0
21 votes
7.0
21 votes
La rabbia
1963 · Documentary · 104 min. · Italy
Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini · Giovanni Guareschi
Cast Giorgio Bassani · Renato Guttuso · Gigi Artuso · Carlo Romano
7.0
225 votes
7.0
225 votes
Theorem
1968 · Movie · 93 min. · Italy
Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast Terence Stamp · Silvana Mangano · Laura Betti · Massimo Girotti
Plot A strange visitor in a wealthy family. He seduces the maid, the son, the mother, the daughter and finally the father before leaving a few days after. After he's gone,...
7.0
3K votes
7.0
3K votes
Notes Towards an African Orestes
1970 · Documentary · 65 min. · Italy
Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini
Plot A film about an idea for a film never made: Pasolini journeys to post-colonial Africa to develop a film version of Aeschylus’ masterwork, The Oresteia. While his camera searches out...
7.0
164 votes
7.0
164 votes
A Crazy Day
1960 · Movie · 76 min. · Italy
Direction Mauro Bolognini
Cast Jean Sorel · Lea Massari · Jeanne Valérie · Rik Battaglia
Plot Handsome, from rundown suburbs, Roman, aged twenty, unemployed with a child of 20 days and the mother of the latter to support, Davide spends a day looking for work, finds...
6.9
44 votes
6.9
44 votes
Bell' Antonio
1960 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy
Direction Mauro Bolognini
Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Claudia Cardinale · Pierre Brasseur · Rina Morelli
Plot Women love handsome Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni) because they think of him as the perfect lover. But he has problems to fullfill this ideal and Barbara only notices his failures when...
6.9
427 votes
6.9
427 votes
Hawks and Sparrows
1966 · Movie · 87 min. · Italy
Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast Ninetto Davoli · Totò · Femi Benussi · Rossana Di Rocco
Plot On an empty road, an old man is walking with his son. They meet a crow that can speak. They are changed into monks and Saint Francois sent them to...
6.9
2K votes
6.9
2K votes
Giovani mariti
1958 · Movie · 98 min. · Italy
Direction Mauro Bolognini
Cast Isabelle Corey · Antonio Cifariello · Franco Interlenghi · Raf Mattioli
6.8
21 votes
6.8
21 votes
Bad Girls Don't Cry
1959 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy
Direction Mauro Bolognini
Cast Rosanna Schiaffino · Elsa Martinelli · Laurent Terzieff · Jean-Claude Brialy
6.8
148 votes
6.8
148 votes
12 December
1972 · Documentary · 104 min. · Italy
Direction Giovanni Bonfanti · Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast Edoardo Di Giovanni · Marcello Gentili · Augusto Ludovichetti · Rosa Malacarne
Plot 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...
6.8
27 votes
6.8
27 votes
Oedipus Rex
1967 · Movie · 104 min. · Italy
Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast Silvana Mangano · Franco Citti · Alida Valli · Carmelo Bene
Plot 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...
6.8
2K votes
6.8
2K votes
Girl in the Window
1961 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy
Direction Luciano Emmer
Cast Lino Ventura · Magali Noël · Marina Vlady · Bernard Fresson
6.7
71 votes
6.7
71 votes