Pier Paolo Pasolini

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Pier Paolo Pasolini

Directing March 5, 1922

Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Pier Paolo Pasolini (March 5, 1922 – November 2, 1975) was an Italian film director, poet, writer, and intellectual. Pasolini distinguished himself as a poet, journalist, philosop…

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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

6.3 1976 Movie
La Dolce Vita

La Dolce Vita

8.0 1960 Movie
Nights of Cabiria

Nights of Cabiria

8.0 1957 Movie
Accattone

Accattone

7.7 1961 Movie
Theorem

Theorem

7.0 1968 Movie
Mamma Roma

Mamma Roma

7.9 1962 Movie
The Gospel According to St. Matthew

The Gospel According to St. Matthew

7.4 1965 Movie
Oedipus Rex

Oedipus Rex

6.8 1967 Movie
The Decameron

The Decameron

6.8 1971 Movie
The Hawks and the Sparrows

The Hawks and the Sparrows

7.2 1966 Movie
Love Meetings

Love Meetings

8.2 1965 Movie
The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales

6.1 1972 Movie

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Pier Paolo Pasolini (March 5, 1922 – November 2, 1975) was an Italian film director, poet, writer, and intellectual. Pasolini distinguished himself as a poet, journalist, philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine columnist, actor, painter and political figure. He demonstrated a unique and extraordinary cultural versatility, becoming a highly controversial figure in the process.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2026
    Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas

    Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

  2. 2025
    Quelli che il cinema

    TV show Self

  3. 2024
    imagenaction

    Movie Archive footage (voice)

  4. 2023
    Pier Paolo Pasolini - Una visione nuova

    Movie Self

  5. 2022
    Pier Paolo Pasolini - Agnès Varda - New York - 1967

    Movie Self

  6. 2021
    The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo

    Movie Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

  7. 2021
    Morceaux de Cannes

    Movie

  8. 2021
    Vor mir der Süden

    Movie

  9. 2020
    In a Future April: The Young Pasolini

    Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

  10. 2020
    L’Ultima Partita di Pasolini

    Movie

  11. 2019
    Notarangelo the Soul Hunter

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  12. 2019
    Once Upon a Time: Tonino Delli Colli, Cinematographer

    Movie Himself

  13. 2018
    Pier Paolo Pasolini: An Italian Journey

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  14. 2016
    The Isle of Medea

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  15. 2015
    Pier Paolo Pasolini e i confini - Memorie a est del corsaro del novecento

    Movie

  16. 2015
    Pasolini - Il corpo e la voce

    Movie

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  1. 2015
    Pasolini maestro corsaro

    Movie

  2. 2014
    Pasolini, la passion de Rome

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  3. 2013
    Io sono nata viaggiando

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  4. 2012
    Pasolini's Last Words

    Movie Self (archive)

  5. 2009
    The Ashes of Pasolini

    Movie Self

  6. 2008
    La Rabbia di Pasolini

    Movie Writer

  7. 2008
    Il falso bugiardo

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  8. 2008
    La rabbia 1, la rabbia 2, la rabbia 3... l'Arabia

    Movie

  9. 2007
    Callas Assoluta

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  10. 2006
    Pasolini prossimo nostro

    Movie Se stesso

  11. 2006
    Pasolini and the Secret Humiliation of Chaucer

    Movie Interviewee (archive)

  12. 2006
    Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute

    Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

  13. 2005
    Via Pasolini

    Movie Interviewee

  14. 2005
    Der Sanfte Radikale

    Movie himself (archive footage)

  15. 2005
    Salò, l’ultimo film di Pier Paolo Pasolini

    Movie

  16. 2004
    Visioni della Medea (tracce di un film sognato)

    Movie

  17. 2002
    Salò: Yesterday and Today

    Movie

  18. 2002
    Bernardo Bertolucci: What Is the Purpose of Cinema?

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  19. 2000
    Pasolini, el poeta en la playa

    Movie Archive footage

  20. 2000
    Arruso

    Movie Sé stesso (Materiale d'archivio)

  21. 2000
    Federico Fellini's Autobiography

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  22. 1998
    Reunion; Salo

    Movie Himself (Archive)

  23. 1997
    Fioretti de Pier Paolo Pasolini 1922/1975

    Movie Lui-même

  24. 1996
    Qui je suis

    Movie Book