Oedipus Rex
(1967) [M]

Sophocles' Greek tragedy about a boy who becomes obsessed with his mother. Filmed on location in Morocco. Italian dialogue.  More

Hawks & Sparrows
(1966) [PG]

A comic, whimsical allegory on the theme of social injustice, Hawks and Sparrows follows the adventures of a father and son who set out to emulate St Francis of Assissi's mission to convert the birds to the ideals of Christianity. As they wander the Italian landscape debating politics and...  More

The Decameron
(1971) [R]

The first of Pasolini's colourful, entertaining and highly erotic Trilogy of Life films based on famous story cycles (to be followed by The Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights, The Decameron contains ten stories based on the fourteenth century works of Giovanni Boccaccio.

Capturing the...  More

Medea
(1969) [M]

Italian Pier Paolo Pasolini interprets the ancient Greek tragedy in his own distinctive style. Maria Callas,in her only film role, plays Medea, the central character in the ancient Greek story of Jason and the Argonauts in their quest for the Golden Fleece, and brings to the role her commanding...  More

Teorema (Theorem)
(1968) [MA]

Terence Stamp plays a mysterious figure who appears in the lives of a typical bourgeois Italian family. He engages in sexual affairs with all members of the household: the devoutly religious maid, the sensitive son, the sexually repressed mother, the timid daughter and, finally, the tormented...  More

Mamma Roma
(1962) [M]

Paolo Pasolini’s (Accatone, Salo) neorealist masterpiece stars the great Anna Magnani (Open City) as a middle-aged whore who saves money to buy an apartment and retire from working the streets of Rome. She soon brings her beloved teenage son Ettore from the country to live with her; but Ettore...  More

Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom (2 disc set)
(1975) [R]

The Marquise de Sade's notorious novel has been transposed and updated to 1944. The scene is Salo, in northern Italy, when Mussolini is briefly freed from Italian partisans by Nazi forces.

In a remote chateau, four powerful and prominent men, leaders of the local fascist mechanism,...  More

Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom (2 disc set) (Blu-Ray)
(1975) [R]

The Marquise de Sade's notorious novel has been transposed and updated to 1944. The scene is Salo, in northern Italy, when Mussolini is briefly freed from Italian partisans by Nazi forces.

In a remote chateau, four powerful and prominent men, leaders of the local fascist mechanism,...  More