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

• 2024imagenaction — Archive footage (voice)
• 2021Morceaux de Cannes
• 2021Vor mir der Süden
• 2020L’Ultima Partita di Pasolini
• 2015Pasolini - Il corpo e la voce
• 2015Pasolini maestro corsaro
• 2015Pier Paolo Pasolini e i confini - Memorie a est del corsaro del novecento
• 2008La Rabbia di Pasolini — Editor, Writer
• 2008La rabbia 1, la rabbia 2, la rabbia 3... l'Arabia
• 2006Pasolini and the Secret Humiliation of Chaucer — Interviewee (archive)
• 2006Pasolini prossimo nostro — Se stesso
• 2005Salò, l’ultimo film di Pier Paolo Pasolini
• 2005Via Pasolini — Interviewee
• 2004Visioni della Medea (tracce di un film sognato)
• 2002Salò: Yesterday and Today
• 2000Arruso — Sé stesso (Materiale d'archivio)
• 2000Pasolini, el poeta en la playa — Archive footage
• 1997Fioretti de Pier Paolo Pasolini 1922/1975 — Lui-même
• 1996Qui je suis — Book
• 1995Nella mischia — Thanks
• 1995Non al denaro non all'amore né al cielo
• 1994The Ashes of Pasolini
• 1988L'altro enigma — Author
• 1981Calderon — Screenplay
• 1981Mulheres... Mulheres — Short Story
• 1976Pier Paolo Pasolini : vivre et encore plus — Lui-même
• 1976Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom — Writer, Director
• 1975Notes Towards an African Orestes — Self (uncredited), Writer, Editor, Director
• 1974Arabian Nights — Director, Writer
• 1974The Walls of Sana'a — Narrator (voice), Writer, Director
• 1973Bawdy Tales — Screenplay, Story
• 1972December 12th — Idea, Director
• 1972S.P.Q.R.
• 1972The Canterbury Tales — Geoffrey Chaucer, Director, Screenplay, Music Supervisor
• 1971The Decameron — Allievo di Giotto, Director, Writer
• 1970Notes for a Novel About Garbage — Director, Writer
• 1970Ostia — Story, Supervising Technical Director, Screenplay
• 1969Love and Anger — Director, Writer
• 1969Medea — Writer, Director
• 1969Pigsty — Director, Writer
• 1969The Sequence of the Paper Flower — Director, Screenplay
• 1968Caprice Italian Style — Director, Writer
• 1968Notes for a Film in India — Self, Director, Writer
• 1968Orgy — Director, Writer
• 1968Theorem — Director, Screenplay
• 1968What Are the Clouds? — Writer, Director
• 1967Kill and Pray — Father Juan
• 1967Oedipus Rex — High Priest (uncredited), Writer, Director
• 1967Pasolini Interviews: Ezra Pound — Himself, Director
• 1967The Earth As Seen from the Moon — Director, Writer
• 1967The Witches — Director, Screenplay, Story
• 1966Notes from a Critofilm
• 1966Pasolini l'Enragé
• 1966The Hawks and the Sparrows — Director, Screenplay, Story
• 1965Love Meetings — Self - Interviewer (uncredited), Director
• 1965Scouting in Palestine — Self (uncredited), Writer, Director
• 1965The Gospel According to St. Matthew — Director, Writer
• 1963La Rabbia — Writer, Director, Editor
• 1963La ricotta — Director, Writer
• 1963Ro.Go.Pa.G. — Director, Screenplay
• 1962La Commare Secca — Story
• 1962Mamma Roma — Screenplay, Director, Story
• 1962Violent Life — Novel
• 1961Accattone — Director, Screenplay, Story
• 1961Girl in the Window — Screenplay
• 1961Milano nera — Writer
• 1961The Marshes' Chant — Writer
• 1960Caschi d'oro — Writer
• 1960Death of a Friend — Story
• 1960From a Roman Balcony — Screenplay
• 1960Il bell'Antonio — Screenplay
• 1960Il carro armato dell'8 settembre — Screenplay
• 1960La Dolce Vita — Screenplay
• 1960Long Night in '43 — Screenplay
• 1960Stendali (Still They Toll) — Writer
• 1960The Hunchback — Monco
• 1959Il mago — Writer
• 1959The Big Night — Screenplay, Novel
• 1958The City’s Unknown — Writer
• 1958Young Husbands — Screenplay
• 1957Grigio — Writer
• 1957Marisa — Screenplay, Story
• 1957Nights of Cabiria — Screenplay
• 1956Manon: Finestra 2 — Writer
• 1955Flucht in die Dolomiten — Writer
• 1954Woman of the River — Screenplay

Appearances as themselves (33)

• 2026Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Quelli che il cinema — Self
• 2023Pier Paolo Pasolini - Una visione nuova — Self
• 2022Pier Paolo Pasolini - Agnès Varda - New York - 1967 — Self
• 2021The Treasure of His Youth: The Photographs of Paolo Di Paolo — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
• 2020In a Future April: The Young Pasolini — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2019Notarangelo the Soul Hunter — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Once Upon a Time: Tonino Delli Colli, Cinematographer — Himself
• 2018Pier Paolo Pasolini: An Italian Journey — Self (archive footage)
• 2016The Isle of Medea — Self (archive footage)
• 2014Pasolini, la passion de Rome — Self (archive footage)
• 2013Io sono nata viaggiando — Self (archive footage)
• 2012Pasolini's Last Words — Self (archive)
• 2009The Ashes of Pasolini — Self
• 2008Il falso bugiardo — Self (archive footage)
• 2007Callas Assoluta — Self (archive footage)
• 2006Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2005Der Sanfte Radikale — himself (archive footage)
• 2002Bernardo Bertolucci: What Is the Purpose of Cinema? — Self (archive footage)
• 2000Federico Fellini's Autobiography — Self (archive footage)
• 1998Reunion; Salo — Himself (Archive)
• 1985Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema — Self
• 1981Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die — Self- archive footage
• 1980My Name Is Anna Magnani — Self (archive footage)
• 1975Backstage on the Set of Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom — Self
• 1974Pasolini and the Form of the City — Himself
• 1971Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Film Maker's Life — Self
• 1969Pasolini on 'Porcile' — Self
• 1967Cinéma et Réalité — Self
• 1967Pier Paolo Pasolini: Primo piano. Personaggi e problemi dell'Italia d'oggi — Himself
• 1966Cinéastes de notre temps : Pier Paolo Pasolini — himself
• Sfuge (apres Varda) — Self
• Volgar Eloquio — self