Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) Nazi-Fascist Northern Italy, 1943-44. Four senior members of government, aided by henchmen and Nazi soldiers, kidnap a group of young men and women. They hold them for 120 days, subjecting them to all manner of torture, perversion and degradation.
Arabian Nights (1974)
Arabian Nights (1974) In this film inspired by the ancient erotic and mysterious tales of Mid-West Asia, the main story concerns an innocent young man who comes to fall in love with a slave who selected him as her master. After his foolish error causes their separation, he travels in search of her.
The Decameron (1971)
The Decameron (1971) An adaptation of nine stories from Bocaccio's
The Canterbury Tales (1972)
The Canterbury Tales (1972) Pasolini's artistic, sometimes violent, always vividly cinematic retelling of some of Chaucer's most erotic tales.
Teorema (1968)
Teorema (1968) 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, none of them can continue living as they did. Who was that visitor ? Could he be God ?
Oedipus Rex (1967)
Oedipus Rex (1967) 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 the name Edipo (Oedipus), and brought up by the King and Queen of Corinth as
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964) 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 in a hurry, moving from place to place near the Sea of Galilee,
Medea (1969)
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 murd
Caprice Italian Style (1968)
Caprice Italian Style (1968) The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.
The Witches (1967)
The Witches (1967) Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels to a mountain resort, only to evoke jealousy from women and lust from men. A woman offers to take an injured man to the hospital. A widowed father and his son seek for a new wife/mot
Mamma Roma (1962)
Mamma Roma (1962) After many years working in the streets of Roma, the middle-age whore Mamma Roma (Anna Magnani) saves money to buy an upper class apartment, a fruit stand and retires from the prostitution. She brings her teenage son Ettore (Ettore Garofolo), who was raised alone in the country, to
Love Meetings (1964)
Love Meetings (1964) Microphone in hand, Pier Paolo Pasolini asks Italians to talk about sex: he asks children where babies come from, young and old women if they are men's equals, men and women if a woman's ...
Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1963)
Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1963) This consists of four short films by different directors. Rosselini's 'Chastity' ('Illibatezza') deals with an attractive air hostess who receives the unwelcome attentions of a middle aged American. Godard's 'New World' ('Il Nuovo Mondo') illustrates a post-apocalypse world the sa
Requiescant (1967)
Requiescant (1967) In Fort Hernandez, San Antonio, a group of Mexican villagers is betrayed by Confederate soldiers led by aristocratic Officer George Bellow Ferguson and they are slaughtered. After the massacre, the boy Requiescant wanders in the desert but he is rescued by the religious Father Jer
Accattone (1961)
Accattone (1961) In a seedy section of Rome, Vittorio Cataldi - "Accattone" ("beggar" in Italian) to those that know him - lives off the avails of prostitution, Maddalena being his one and only girl. He is married to Ascenza with who he has one young son named Iaio, but he does n
The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966)
The Hawks and the Sparrows 1966 An old man and his son are walking along the road when they suddenly meet a speaking crow that represents Marxist beliefs They are soon taken back 750 years in time, changed into monks, and sent by St Francis to convert the hawks and the sparrows to Christianity