Pier Paolo Pasolini

ActorDirectorEditorWriterCrew Mar 5 (died age 53) Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy 1954–2025 (71 year career)

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Biography

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

Film

La Dolce Vita

Screenplay

Film

Nights of Cabiria

Screenplay

Film

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

Director

Film

Accattone

Director

Film

Mamma Roma

Director

Film

Love Meetings

Self - Interviewer (uncredited)

Film

The Gospel According to St. Matthew

Director

Film

Theorem

Director

Filmography

Acting (63)

Movies (62)

imagenaction

2024

as Archive footage (voice)

Pier Paolo Pasolini - Una visione nuova

2023

as Self

Pier Paolo Pasolini - Agnès Varda - New York - 1967

as Self

Vor mir der Süden

The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo

2021

as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

7.0

In a Future April: The Young Pasolini

2020

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2.9

L’Ultima Partita di Pasolini

2020

Notarangelo the Soul Hunter

2019

as Self (archive footage)

10.0

Once Upon a Time: Tonino Delli Colli, Cinematographer

2019

as Himself

Pier Paolo Pasolini: An Italian Journey

2018

as Self (archive footage)

7.0

The Isle of Medea

2016

as Self (archive footage)

4.8

Pasolini - Il corpo e la voce

2015

7.5

Pasolini maestro corsaro

2015

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

2015

Pasolini, la passion de Rome

2014

as Self (archive footage)

Io sono nata viaggiando

2013

as Self (archive footage)

4.2

Pasolini's Last Words

2012

as Self (archive)

1.0

The Ashes of Pasolini

2009

as Self

Il falso bugiardo

2008

as Self (archive footage)

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

2008

Callas Assoluta

2007

as Self (archive footage)

6.5

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

2006

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

6.4

Pasolini and the Secret Humiliation of Chaucer

2006

as Interviewee (archive)

Pasolini prossimo nostro

2006

as Se stesso

5.1

Via Pasolini

2005

as Interviewee

Salò, l’ultimo film di Pier Paolo Pasolini

2005

6.5

Visioni della Medea (tracce di un film sognato)

2004

Bernardo Bertolucci: What Is the Purpose of Cinema?

2002

as Self (archive footage)

6.3

Salò: Yesterday and Today

2002

5.0

Arruso

2000

as Sé stesso (Materiale d'archivio)

3.0

Pasolini, el poeta en la playa

2000

as Archive footage

5.7

Federico Fellini's Autobiography

2000

as Self (archive footage)

6.3

Reunion; Salo

1998

as Himself (Archive)

Fioretti de Pier Paolo Pasolini 1922/1975

1997

as Lui-même

Non al denaro non all'amore né al cielo

1995

The Ashes of Pasolini

1994

Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema

1985

as Self

Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die

1981

as Self- archive footage

4.9

My Name Is Anna Magnani

1980

as Self (archive footage)

8.0

Pier Paolo Pasolini : vivre et encore plus

1976

as Lui-même

Notes Towards an African Orestes

1975

as Self (uncredited)

7.5

Backstage on the Set of Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

1975

as Self

The Walls of Sana'a

1974

as Narrator (voice)

6.1

Pasolini and the Form of the City

as Himself

The Canterbury Tales

as Geoffrey Chaucer

S.P.Q.R.

The Decameron

as Allievo di Giotto

Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Film Maker's Life

1971

as Self

4.5

Pasolini on 'Porcile'

1969

as Self

8.0

Notes for a Film in India

1968

as Self

6.1

Oedipus Rex

1967

as High Priest (uncredited)

6.8

Kill and Pray

1967

as Father Juan

6.3

Pier Paolo Pasolini: Primo piano. Personaggi e problemi dell'Italia d'oggi

1967

as Himself

6.0

Cinéma et Réalité

1967

as Self

Pasolini Interviews: Ezra Pound

1967

as Himself

4.0

Notes from a Critofilm

1966

Pasolini l'Enragé

1966

Love Meetings

1965

as Self - Interviewer (uncredited)

8.3

Scouting in Palestine

as Self (uncredited)

The Hunchback

as Monco

Sfuge (apres Varda)

as Self

Volgar Eloquio

as self

Television (1)

Quelli che il cinema

2025

as se stesso

Crew (100)

Movies (100)

La Rabbia di Pasolini

2008

Director

7.5

La Rabbia di Pasolini

2008

Editor

7.5

La Rabbia di Pasolini

Writer

Qui je suis

Book

Nella mischia

Thanks

L'altro enigma

Author

Calderon

Screenplay

Mulheres... Mulheres

Short Story

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

1976

Director

6.3

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

1976

Writer

6.3

Notes Towards an African Orestes

1975

Director

7.5

Notes Towards an African Orestes

1975

Editor

7.5

Notes Towards an African Orestes

Writer

Arabian Nights

Director

Arabian Nights

Writer

The Walls of Sana'a

Director

The Walls of Sana'a

Writer

Bawdy Tales

Screenplay

Bawdy Tales

Story

The Canterbury Tales

Director

The Canterbury Tales

Music Supervisor

The Canterbury Tales

Screenplay

December 12th

Director

December 12th

Idea

The Decameron

Director

The Decameron

Writer

Ostia

Screenplay

Ostia

Story

Ostia

Supervising Technical Director

5.5

Appunti per un romanzo sull'immondezza

1970

Director

Appunti per un romanzo sull'immondezza

1970

Writer

Pigsty

Director

Pigsty

Writer

Medea

Director

Medea

Writer

Love and Anger

Director

Love and Anger

Writer

The Sequence of the Paper Flower

1969

Director

7.7

The Sequence of the Paper Flower

Screenplay

Theorem

Director

Theorem

Screenplay

Caprice Italian Style

1968

Director

6.1

Caprice Italian Style

Writer

What Are the Clouds?

Director

What Are the Clouds?

Writer

Notes for a Film in India

1968

Director

6.1

Notes for a Film in India

1968

Writer

6.1

Orgy

1968

Director

Orgy

1968

Writer

Oedipus Rex

Director

Oedipus Rex

Writer

The Witches

Director

The Witches

Screenplay

The Witches

Story

The Earth As Seen from the Moon

1967

Director

8.2

The Earth As Seen from the Moon

1967

Writer

8.2

Pasolini Interviews: Ezra Pound

1967

Director

4.0

The Hawks and the Sparrows

1966

Director

7.2

The Hawks and the Sparrows

1966

Screenplay

7.2

The Hawks and the Sparrows

1966

Story

7.2

The Gospel According to St. Matthew

1965

Director

7.4

The Gospel According to St. Matthew

Writer

Love Meetings

Director

Scouting in Palestine

1965

Director

7.1

Scouting in Palestine

Writer

Ro.Go.Pa.G.

Director

Ro.Go.Pa.G.

Screenplay

La Rabbia

Director

La Rabbia

Editor

La Rabbia

Writer

Mamma Roma

Director

Mamma Roma

Screenplay

Mamma Roma

Story

La Commare Secca

Story

Violent Life

Novel

The Marshes' Chant

Writer

Accattone

Director

Accattone

Screenplay

Accattone

Story

Milano nera

Writer

Girl in the Window

Screenplay

La Dolce Vita

Screenplay

From a Roman Balcony

Screenplay

Il bell'Antonio

Screenplay

Caschi d'oro

Writer

Long Night in '43

1960

Screenplay

6.9

Stendali (Still They Toll)

Writer

Death of a Friend

Story

Il carro armato dell'8 settembre

1960

Screenplay

1.0

Il mago

1959

Writer

The Big Night

Novel

The Big Night

Screenplay

The City’s Unknown

Writer

Young Husbands

Screenplay

Nights of Cabiria

Screenplay

Marisa

Screenplay

Marisa

Story

Manon: Finestra 2

Writer

Flucht in die Dolomiten

Writer

Woman of the River

Screenplay