Teorema(1968)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 17

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 ...



Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma(1975)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to one hundred and twenty days of physical, mental and sexual torture.



Mamma Roma(1962)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 12

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....



Accattone(1961)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 10

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



Il vangelo secondo Matteo(1964)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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.



Il Decameron(1971)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 0

An adaptation of nine stories from Boccaccio's "Decameron".



Uccellacci e uccellini(1966)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 9

Innocenti Totò and his son Innocenti Ninetto are drifting on a road in Italy, when they meet a Marxist speaking crow. The trio travels together in a long journey as their hunger increases.



Medea(1969)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 7

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 ...



I racconti di Canterbury(1972)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Pasolini's artistic, sometimes violent, always vividly cinematic retelling of some of Chaucer's most erotic tales.



Il fiore delle mille e una notte(1974)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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 ...



Porcile(1969)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 7

Two dramatic stories. In an undetermined past, a young cannibal (who killed his own father) is condemned to be torn to pieces by some wild beasts. In the second story, Julian, the young son...



Edipo re(1967)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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 ...