Accattone 1961  N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast: Franco Citti, Franca Pasut, Silvana Corsini, Paola Guidi, Adriana Asti, Renato Capogna, Roberto Scaringella, Mario Cipriani, Luciano Conti, Luciano Gonini
Pasolini's first feature film is a study of peasants living in the back alleys of Rome. Accattone (Franco Citti) hates work but makes a comfortable living as a pimp and small-time thief. After his partner (Silvana Corsini) is jailed for prostitution, Accattone starts a downward spiral until he meets and falls in love with virtuous Stella (Franca Pasut). He fails in his search for honest work and eventually sinks back into his former life.
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Arabian Nights 1974  NC-17, 155 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy
aka: A Thousand and One Nights
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast: Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Franco Merli, Ines Pellegrini, Tessa Bouche, Margaret Clementi, Francelise Noel, Ali Abdulla, Christian Aligny, Salvatore Sapienza, Luigina Rocchi, Alberto Argentino, Francesco Paolo Govenale, Zuedi Biasolo, Elizabetta Genovese
Pier Paolo Pasolini's third film in his series–following "The Decameron" (1971) and "The Canterbury Tales" (1972)–is the erotic tale of a prince, Nured-Din (Franco Merli), who searches his known world (the Middle East) for his lover, slave girl Zumurrud (Ines Pellegrini). Zumurrud has been kidnapped, disguises herself as a man, marries a woman, and is declared the ruler of a great city. While Nured-Din tries to find Zumurrud, he hears various stories involving nudity and betrayal, but he is not able to forget Zumurrud and continues his search.
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The Black Stallion Returns 1983 PG, 93 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure
Director: Robert Dalva
Cast: Kelly Reno, Vincent Spano, Allen Garfield, Woody Strode, Teri Garr, Jodi Thelen, Ferdy Mayne, Doghmi Larbi, Angelo Infanti, Franco Citti, Luigi Mezzanotte, Joe Murphy, Loris Bazzocchi, Chris Larrance, Robert Behling
In this sequel to "The Black Stallion" (1979), Alec Ramsey (Kelly Reno) is now a teenager, and his beloved, black stallion is stolen by Moroccan thieves who plan to race the horse in Africa. Alec becomes a good, young hero when he stows away on a plane to Casablanca and then roams the Sahara Desert in search of his stolen horse.
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The Canterbury Tales 1972 NC-17, 109 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Romance
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast: Hugh Griffith, Laura Betti, Ninetto Davoli, Josephine Chaplin, Franco Citti, Alan Webb, Pier Paolo Pasolini, J.P. Van Dyne, Vernon Dobtcheff, Adrian Street, O.T., Derek Deadman, George Bethell Datch, Nicolas Smith, Dan Thomas
Following "The Decameron" (1971), Pier Paolo Pasolini is back with his second bawdy classic. Several of Chaucer's tales, including those of the Friar, the Wife of Bath, the Cook, the Merchant, the Miller, the Summoner, and the Reeve are told with both humor and drama. The stories reveal 14th-Century English culture–including sexual, social, and political life.
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The Decameron 1971 R, 110 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy / Drama
aka: Il decameron
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast: Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Giuseppe Zigaina, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Angela Luce, Silvana Mangano, Vincenzo Amato, Vincenzo Cristo, Gabriella Frankel, Vincenzo Ferrigno, Salvatore Bilardo, Guido Alberti, Giorgio Iovine, Luigi Seraponte, Mirella Catanesi
Boccaccio's story is the first of a series of three, 14th century tales brought to the screen by Pier Paolo Pasolini. "Canterbury Tales" (1972) and "Arabian Nights" (1974) follow. The stories in this film involve lovers, merchants, priests, and scoundrels handling life in their own unique ways in a world filled with sexual repression during a much earlier era.
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Mamma Roma 1962 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast: Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti, Silvana Corsini, Luisa Loiano, Paolo Volponi, Luciano Gonini, Vittorio La Paglia, Piero Morgia, Lanfranco Ceccarelli, Marcello Sorrentino, Sandro Meschino
Mamma Roma (Anna Magnani) abandons her life as a prostitute and moves to another part of the city with 16-year-old son Ettore (Ettore Garofolo) in tow. But leaving the past behind doesn't prove to be as simple as she thought.
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Oedipus Rex 1967 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast: Franco Citti, Silvana Mangano, Alida Valli, Carmelo Bene, Julian Beck, Luciano Bartoli, Francesco Leonetti, Ahmed Bellashmi, Giandomenico Davoli, Ninetto Davoli
This version of Sophocles' classic Greek story of a man fated to kill his father and marry his mother is fraught with Freudian messages. Unfortunately, the result is too much psychology and not enough Greek mythology.
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Porcile 1969  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Pigpen
Pigsty
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast: Pierre Clementi, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Alberto Lionello, Ugo Tognazzi, Anne Wiazemsky, Margarita Lozano, Marco Ferreri, Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli
Two obscure narratives are told in this film. One involves the son of a post-World War II German industrialist who gets fed up with human relationships and protests by becoming involved with pigs. The other, set several centuries ago, follows a young cannibal as he searches for food in his volcanic surroundings.
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Watch Me When I Kill 1977  R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Horror / Thriller / Mystery
Director: Antonio Bido
Cast: Corrado Pani, Paola Tedesco, Franco Citti, Bianca Toccafondi, Fernando Cerulli, Giuseppe Addobbati, Gianfranco Bullo, Jill Pratt, Inna Alexeievna, Paolo Malco, Cristina Piras, Roberto Antonelli, Giovanni Vannini, Giuseppe Pennese, Gaetano Rampin
The Dario Argento influence is apparent in this Italian thriller that involves the boyfriend, Lukas (Corrado Pani) of nightclub performer Mara (Paola Tedesco) tracking down a killer after Mara witnesses a murder. Some gruesome moments.
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| 1. Accattone (1961)
2. Arabian Nights (1974)
aka: A Thousand and One Nights
3. The Black Stallion Returns (1983)
4. The Canterbury Tales (1972)
5. The Decameron (1971)
aka: Il decameron
6. Mamma Roma (1962)
7. Oedipus Rex (1967)
8. Porcile (1969)
aka: Pigpen
aka: Pigsty
9. Watch Me When I Kill (1977)
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