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Pier Paolo Pasolini

Directing Born Mar 5, 1922 Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy 24 credits

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.

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Full filmography

  • The Decameron (1971) as Allievo di Giotto
  • Quelli che il cinema (2025) as Self
  • The Canterbury Tales (1972) as Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Oedipus Rex (1967) as High Priest (uncredited)
  • Morceaux de Cannes (2021)
  • Love Meetings (1965) as Self - Interviewer (uncredited)
  • Kill and Pray (1967) as Father Juan
  • Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas (2026) as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • Callas Assoluta (2007) as Self (archive footage)
  • My Name Is Anna Magnani (1980) as Self (archive footage)
  • Arruso (2000) as Sé stesso (Materiale d'archivio)
  • Cinéma et Réalité (1967) as Self
  • The Hunchback (1960) as Monco
  • imagenaction (2024) as Archive footage (voice)
  • Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die (1981) as Self- archive footage
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini: An Italian Journey (2018) as Self (archive footage)
  • Il falso bugiardo (2008) as Self (archive footage)
  • Federico Fellini's Autobiography (2000) as Self (archive footage)
  • Backstage on the Set of Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) as Self
  • Pasolini prossimo nostro (2006) as Se stesso
  • Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute (2006) as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  • S.P.Q.R. (1972)
  • Notarangelo the Soul Hunter (2019) as Self (archive footage)
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini - Agnès Varda - New York - 1967 (2022) as Self