Pier Paolo Pasolini
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.
| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.3751 |
| Birthday | 1922-03-05 |
| Place of Birth | Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy |
| Also Known As | Paul Pasolini, P.P. Pasolini, |
1972
The Canterbury Tales
6.105/234
Glimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several of his stories.
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The Canterbury Tales
1967
Cinéma et Réalité
6.5/2
In this documentary, giants of italian cinema such as Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini and Zavattini talk about the importance of cinema after WW2, and ab...
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Cinéma et Réalité
1971
The Decameron
6.824/357
A young Sicilian is swindled twice, but ends up rich; a man poses as a deaf-mute in a convent of curious nuns; a woman must hide her lover when her hu...
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The Decameron
1974
The Walls of Sana'a
6.219/16
The capital of Yemen, the city of Sana'a, holds an important part of history within its walls filled with medieval architecture and culture. But that...
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The Walls of Sana'a
2015
Pasolini maestro corsaro
0/0
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Pasolini maestro corsaro
1967
Kill and Pray
6.367/30
A Mexican community is slaughtered by Confederate troops; the lone survivor, a boy, is taken in by a preacher. Years later, the boy is now a soft-spok...
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Kill and Pray
2023
Pier Paolo Pasolini - Una visione nuova
7.5/1
The documentary focuses on some decisive encounters for Pasolini's intellectual parable with the great Oscars of Italian cinema: from Bernardo Bertolu...
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Pier Paolo Pasolini - Una visione nuova
1966
Notes from a Critofilm
0/0
Reflections on the first films of Pier Paolo Pasolini with his considerations on the real language of cinema.
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Notes from a Critofilm
2006
Pasolini prossimo nostro
5.1/7
We are on the set of "Salò or the 120 days of Sodom". Pasolini lets a small camera team led by the journalist Gideon Bachmann follow him around engagi...
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Pasolini prossimo nostro
1995
Non al denaro non all'amore né al cielo
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Non al denaro non all'amore né al cielo
1965
Scouting in Palestine
7.175/20
In 1963, accompanied by a newsreel photographer and a Catholic priest, Piero Paolo Pasolini traveled to Palestine to investigate the possibility of fi...
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Scouting in Palestine
1960
The Hunchback
6.611/9
Alvaro Cosenza, also known as the Hunchback from Quarticciolo, during Rome's occupation by Nazis in 1943, decides to revolt.
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The Hunchback
2022
Pier Paolo Pasolini - Agnès Varda - New York - 1967
7.2/8
Holding her 16mm camera, an optical prosthesis for a 20th-century stroller, Agnès Varda filmed 42nd Street in NYC in 1967, filming crowds of passers-b...
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Pier Paolo Pasolini - Agnès Varda - New York - 1967
1998
Reunion; Salo
0/0
Artist Adam Chodzko seeks to reunite the actors and actresses who played the victims in the film, Salo.
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Reunion; Salo
1994
The Ashes of Pasolini
9/1
Lyrical and fascinating documentary about Pier Paolo Pasolini. The film includes well-chosen fragments from his oeuvre and many unknown interviews wit...
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The Ashes of Pasolini
1967
Oedipus Rex
6.75/364
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 tak...
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Oedipus Rex
1976
Pier Paolo Pasolini : vivre et encore plus
0/0
Portrait of the most rebellious of directors, Pier Paolo Pasolini. The artist marked his time by creating provocative and polemical works. The Italian...
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Pier Paolo Pasolini : vivre et encore plus
1997
Fioretti de Pier Paolo Pasolini 1922/1975
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Fioretti de Pier Paolo Pasolini 1922/1975
2013
Io sono nata viaggiando
4.2/2
A journey back through Dacia Maraini's and her trips around the world with her close friends cinema director Pier Paolo Pasolini and opera singer Mari...
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Io sono nata viaggiando
1975
Notes Towards an African Orestes
7.441/17
The director presents takes and scenes filmed on location in Africa for a film-that-never-was, a black Oresteia.
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Notes Towards an African Orestes
2019
Notarangelo the Soul Hunter
10/2
David Griecos documentary showcases the underappreciated photography of Domenico Notarangelo, and through it, tells the story of Matera, it's people a...
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Notarangelo the Soul Hunter
2019
Once Upon a Time: Tonino Delli Colli, Cinematographer
0/0
A documentary about Tonino Delli Colli, a man of cinema and cinematography, and one of the greatest performers of the Arte della Luce and of photograp...
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Once Upon a Time: Tonino Delli Colli, Cinematographer
2021
The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo
7/2
The life of the legendary Italian photojournalist Paolo Di Paolo through his photographs, which capture the essence of a fascinating and turbulent Ita...
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The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo
2020
In a Future April: The Young Pasolini
2.9/6
A unique chance to explore Pier Paolo Pasolini's youth through the voice and the body of his direct cousin, writer and poet Nico Naldini.
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In a Future April: The Young Pasolini
2007
Callas Assoluta
6.5/4
This revealing documentary from director Philippe Kohly examines the storied life of renowned soprano Maria Callas, from her troubled childhood in New...
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Callas Assoluta
1969
Pasolini on 'Porcile'
8/1
Pier Paolo Pasolini talks about making his film 'Porcile', and about casting Pierre Clémenti and Jean-Pierre Léaud as the film’s lead actors.
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Pasolini on 'Porcile'
2015
Pier Paolo Pasolini e i confini - Memorie a est del corsaro del novecento
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A documentary that recounts the impressively lucid visions and gazes with which Pasolini described and experienced the lands from his Casarsa eastward...
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Pier Paolo Pasolini e i confini - Memorie a est del corsaro del novecento
1974
Pasolini and the Form of the City
6.5/9
Documentary about the Italian cities Orte and Sabaudia.
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Pasolini and the Form of the City
1966
Pasolini l'Enragé
9/1
The first "filmed portrait" of Pasolini was created by French television in July 1966 as part of the prestigious series Cinéastes de notre temps, dire...
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Pasolini l'Enragé
2009
The Ashes of Pasolini
0/0
Created in 2009 by Alfredo Jaar, The Ashes of Pasolini is a short film commemorating the life of the famous Italian filmmaker, writer and thinker Pier...
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The Ashes of Pasolini
1965
Love Meetings
8.259/292
Pier Paolo Pasolini sets out to interview Italians about sex, apparently their least favorite thing to talk about in public: he asks children if they...
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Love Meetings
2005
Via Pasolini
0/0
A documentary featuring archival footage of Pasolini discussing his views on language, film, and modern society.
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Via Pasolini
2006
Pasolini and the Secret Humiliation of Chaucer
6/1
Documentary about the making of Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Canterbury Tales (1972), and particularly focusing on the many edits and cut scenes that wer...
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Pasolini and the Secret Humiliation of Chaucer
2002
Salò: Yesterday and Today
5/2
A thirty-three-minute documentary featuring interviews with director Pier Paolo Pasolini, actor-filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette, and Pasolini friend Nine...
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Salò: Yesterday and Today
2016
The Isle of Medea
4.8/2
On the 40th anniversary of the death of Maria Callas (September 16, 1977), with footage never seen before from Pier Paolo Pasolini's film MEDEA, this...
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The Isle of Medea
2008
La rabbia 1, la rabbia 2, la rabbia 3... l'Arabia
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The story of La Rabbia by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Giovanni Guareschi, a movie lost in the archives of a laboratory in Rome, and recently re-discovered...
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La rabbia 1, la rabbia 2, la rabbia 3... l'Arabia
1980
My Name Is Anna Magnani
8.667/3
Traces the life of Anna Magnani, her creations, her successes, her triumphs, her boycotted career, her nonconformism, her anxieties, her generosity .....
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My Name Is Anna Magnani
1985
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
9/1
A documentary about the Italian cinema as art form and industry.
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Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
1967
Pasolini Interviews: Ezra Pound
4/2
Ezra Pound, an acclaimed modern American poet living in Rapallo, was tried for treason because of his radio broadcasts extolling Mussolini. This is Pa...
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Pasolini Interviews: Ezra Pound
2015
Pasolini - Il corpo e la voce
7.5/1
Interactive documentary about Pier Paolo Pasolini.
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Pasolini - Il corpo e la voce
2018
Pier Paolo Pasolini: An Italian Journey
7/1
In the summer of 1959, as a magazine correspondent, writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-75) traveled along the Italian coast. In 1963, he d...
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Pier Paolo Pasolini: An Italian Journey
2000
Pasolini, el poeta en la playa
6/4
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Pasolini, el poeta en la playa
1967
Pier Paolo Pasolini: Primo piano. Personaggi e problemi dell'Italia d'oggi
6/2
Portrait of Pier Paolo Pasolini and his literary and cinematographic activity in the proletarian Rome.
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Pier Paolo Pasolini: Primo piano. Personaggi e problemi dell'Italia d'oggi
1968
Notes for a Film in India
6.214/7
A 1968 short documentary film by Pier Paolo Pasolini where he visits India in the search of a king who could give up his body to feed a starving tiger...
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Notes for a Film in India
1971
Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Film Maker's Life
5.667/3
Documentary about Italian movie director Pier Paolo Pasolini, with interviews with some of his actors and friends.
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Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Film Maker's Life
2002
Bernardo Bertolucci: What Is the Purpose of Cinema?
6.857/7
It is a chronological compilation of film clips, awards ceremonies and brief period interviews gathered by journalist Sandro Lai.
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Bernardo Bertolucci: What Is the Purpose of Cinema?
2008
Il falso bugiardo
0/0
Based upon Vincenzoni's biography, "Pane e cinema", the documentary traces the story of the screen play writer who invented many stories that became b...
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Il falso bugiardo
1972
S.P.Q.R.
9/1
In this movie, director Volker Koch wants to reveal "petty-bourgeois fixations of consciousness and late capitalist myths of happiness". The protagoni...
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S.P.Q.R.
2021
Vor mir der Süden
7.7/3
3,700 km of coastline, a Fiat 1100, and an old travel diary, those are the ingredients for Pepe Danquart’s documentary. Following the footsteps of the...
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Vor mir der Süden
2020
L’Ultima Partita di Pasolini
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On September 14, 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini played his last game of football, before his death, in San Benedetto del Tronto. “The last match of Pasolin...
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L’Ultima Partita di Pasolini
2012
Pasolini's Last Words
1/2
This elegiac essay explores the year leading up to Pier Paolo Pasolini's murder in 1975. Through staging scenes from his last, unfinished novel, to ex...
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Pasolini's Last Words
2004
Visioni della Medea (tracce di un film sognato)
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Some of the scenes cut from the final editing of Medea by Pier Paolo Pasolini, fortunately found by L’Officina - a historic Roman film club born in th...
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Visioni della Medea (tracce di un film sognato)
2005
Salò, l’ultimo film di Pier Paolo Pasolini
6.5/1
A sequence of unpublished photographs by Deborah Beer taken during the filming of the torture scenes on the set of "Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom" is...
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Salò, l’ultimo film di Pier Paolo Pasolini
2000
Federico Fellini's Autobiography
6.4/10
Federico Fellini was one of the most individual and thought provoking directors who based most of his films upon his own reflections, dreams, life eve...
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Federico Fellini's Autobiography
2024
imagenaction
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The confrontation of reality and dream.
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imagenaction
2014
Pasolini, la passion de Rome
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For Pasolini, Rome is neither just a simple setting or a place to live. Rome had a physical, carnal and passionate existence for the man and the poet.
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Pasolini, la passion de Rome
1981
Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die
5.3/10
Philo Bregstein tells us this film looks at Pasolini's life and art to explain why he died. The film traces Pasolini's life chronologically - family r...
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Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die
2000
Arruso
4/4
In relation to some of Pasolini's visits to Palermo for this last film, in 2000 Ciprì and Maresco shot Arruso, which begins with a phrase by Pasolini...
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Arruso
1975
Backstage on the Set of Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
0/0
A journey behind the shooting on the set of Salò, a backstage by Gideon Bachman, recorded during the realization of the torture scenes, enriched by lo...
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Backstage on the Set of Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Volgar Eloquio
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Volgar Eloquio is a performance-based video work depicting the typing of a poem by Pasolini, Versi del Testamento (11969), in real-time. The poem desc...
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Volgar Eloquio
Sfuge (apres Varda)
0/0
Sfuge presents fleeting glimpses of Pasolini as he walks through New York City, appropriating moments from Agnès Varda’s film Pasolini (1967).
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Sfuge (apres Varda)
2006
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute
6.472/18
Part 5 of Godard's 8 part examination of the history of the concept of cinema and how it relates to the 20th century.
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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute
2021
Morceaux de Cannes
2/1
We thought we'd seen, read, and heard everything there was to see about the Cannes Film Festival, from the glitz and gossip to the scandals and censor...
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Morceaux de Cannes
2005
Der Sanfte Radikale
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Der Sanfte Radikale
2026
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
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