Requiescant (1967)
Western
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.
Starring: Lou Castel, Mark Damon, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Mirella Maravidi, Franco Citti, Luisa Baratto
Director: Carlo Lizzani
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom / Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1975)
Drama | Thriller | War
Pier Paolo Pasolini was a celebrated poet, writer, and all-around intellectual, but it was his maverick, controversial filmmaking that distinguished him as an influential artistic force. The director's last film, '120 Days Of Sodom', an adaptation of the Marquis de Sade's 18th century novel, remains his most notorious (and most censored) due to its scenes of graphic rape and torture of adolescents. Pasolini relocates the novel's horrific abuses from France to the final days of Mussolini's reign, effectively rendering a grim portrait of the degradation of the human body and spirit beneath Fascist and Nazi rule.
Starring: Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Hélène Surgère, Caterina Boratto, Aldo Valletti, Umberto Paolo Quintavalle
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Arabian Nights / Il fiore delle mille e una notte (1974)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
Ten tales of love and lovemaking, linked by the story of Mur-El-Din and his search for his kidnapped slave girl.
Starring: Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Franco Merli
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
The Canterbury Tales / I racconti di Canterbury (1972)
Comedy | Drama
Six of Chaucer's classic 15th-century tales presented complete with all their bawdy humor about romance, deception and lust. Second film in Pasolini's "Trilogy of Life."
Starring: Hugh Griffith, Laura Betti, Ninetto Davoli
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
The Decameron / Il Decameron (1971)
Comedy | Drama
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 in the role of the great pre-Renaissance painter Giotto, Pasolini guides the viewer through a cinematic landscape ripe with sensuality and irreverent humor. First in Pasolini's "Trilogy of Life," which also includes 'The Arabian Nights' and 'The Cantebury Tales". Originally rated X by the MPAA.
Starring: Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Jovan Jovanovic
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Medea (1969)
Drama
To win the kingdom his uncle took from his father, Jason must steal the golden fleece from the land of barbarians, where Medea is royalty and a powerful sorceress, where human sacrifice helps crops to grow. Medea sees Jason and swoons, then enlists her brother's aid to take the fleece. She then murders her brother and becomes Jason's lover. Back in Greece, the king keeps the throne, the fleece has no power, and Medea lives an exile's life, respected but feared, abandoned by Jason. When she learns he's to marry the king's daughter, Medea tames her emotions and sends gifts via her sons; then, loss overwhelms her and she unleashes a fire storm on the king, the bride, and Jason.
Starring: Maria Callas, Massimo Girotti, Laurent Terzieff
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Accattone (1961)
Drama
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 prostituting his female companion, Maddalena. But her arrest begins his decline; hungry, he begs from churches and even visits his estranged wife and son. When Stella, a lovely and unbelievably innocent peasant worker, enters his life, Accattone tries to find a way, honest or not, to bring back good fortune…
Starring: Franco Citti, Franca Pasut, Silvana Corsini, Paola Guidi, Adriana Asti
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
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