M4ufree - - Pier Paolo Pasolini Movie List

In World War II Italy, four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental, and sexual torture

In ancient Arabia, a beautiful slave girl chooses a youth to be her new master, then she is kidnapped and they must search for each other Stories are told within stories love, travel and the whims of destiny

An adaptation of nine stories from Boccaccios Decameron

Pasolinis artistic, sometimes violent, always vividly cinematic retelling of some of Chaucers most erotic tales

A mysterious young man seduces each member of a bourgeois family When he suddenly leaves, how will their lives change

Rescued from abandonment and raised by the King and Queen, Oedipus is still haunted by a prophecy hell murder his father and marry his mother

The life of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of Matthew Pasolini shows Christ as a Marxist avant la lettre and therefore uses half of the text of Matthew

After his quest to retrieve the fabled Golden Fleece, Jason returns to Greece with powerful sorceress Medea However, when the king banishes her, its only human that Medea plots her furious revenge Can they escape her wrath

Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society

The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing a warm irony to current events

Having renounced her ignominious past, a former streetwalker reunites with her son, but an extortion scheme endangers her aspirations for a decent bourgeois life Can she protect him from the same snares that wounded her youth

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 mens equals, men and women if a womans virginity matters, how they view homosexuals,

A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiraling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison

Four short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life

A preachers adopted son comes upon a village that is under the thumb of a deranged ex Confederate officer who, among other things, is stealing land from the locals with phony land grants

Toto and his son Ninetto are drifting on a road in Italy when they meet a speaking crow