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A series of disjointed mythical tales set in first-century Rome.

A womanizing author is lured to a mansion by an old woman under the guise of working as a librarian. Her daughter, Aura, appears out of nowhere and begins to seduce him. Little does he know, Aura doesn't actually exist.

An ex-prostitute reunites with her son, but an extortion scheme threatens her aspirations for a decent life.

The life of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of Matthew. Film shows Christ as a Marxist avant-la-lettre and therefore uses half of the text of Matthew.

Rescued from abandonment and raised by the King and Queen, Oedipus is still haunted by a prophecy--he'll murder his father and marry his mother.

A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiraling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.

Totò and his son Ninetto are drifting on a road in Italy when they meet a speaking crow.

King Arthur learns that his wife, Queen Guinevere, has been having an affair with Lancelot, who at the same time remains loyal to the king, particularly after Arthur's traitorous nephew Mordred commits an attempt on his life.

Director Pasolini traverses Italy in 1963 with camera and microphone interviewing people in public places about sex, marriage and gender roles.

Lusty adventures of two men and a transvestite young man in times of Rome's Nero.

The original Italian is La Viaccia (the name of the family farm which motivates the plot). The death of a wealthy patriarch in 1885 sets off an interfamily power struggle. Son Ferdinando buys out his other relatives in order to gain full control over the dead man's property. But Ferdinando's nephew Amerigo holds out. Amerigo's stance is weakened when he heads for Florence and meets prostitute Bianca.

Four short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life.

Adaptation of the comic play by Macchiavelli about a man's attempt to bed a woman unable to have a child by pretending to be a doctor.

A former counter-revolutionary pirate befriends a mentally ill young woman and this in turn leads to tragedy after she falls in love with a French naval officer.

Four soldiers and a beautiful Greek nurse, thrown together in North Africa during World War II, team up to pull off a heist of two-million pounds in boxes marked "plasma."

A beautiful Italian woman, Paola (Nadia Cassini) is told by her black friend (Evaristo Márquez) about the Caribbean love god Jambaya who appears in the form of the snake. By the end of the movie, Paola decides to give herself to Jambaya while a local woman named Stella (Beryl Cunningham) departs with her white friend's ex-lover, establishing a neat symmetry between their respective fantasies of exoticism.

The son of a rich Italian industrialist finds out how tough it is to leave the path society has set for him.

An inept thief wants to escape prison and return to his family, but two of his prison mates also want out.

16th-century Spain, the famed Greek painter El Greco journeys to Toledo to paint an altarpiece. Trouble ensues when he falls in love with a beautiful local girl.

While scouting locations for his classic "The Gospel According to St. Matthew", director Pier Paolo Pasolini noticed that filming in the actual site of the story, in Palestine, wouldn't be much of a great choice due to the modern invasion which completely altered the biblical settings. Here, the director explained his reasons of why his search in the Middle East end up being wrong - though somewhat fruitful and rewarding in other ways - and why his native Italy surprised him and became the scenario for his religious epic.

26 year old Silvia has it all, but is still discontent, and daydreams about BDSM sex. When her husband is away on a business trip, she goes to a castle outside Rome to work as a secretary. Here she is turned into a slave.

General Umberto Nobile's 1928 expedition to the North Pole goes awry when the airship Italia crashes on the hostile pack ice. With eight survivors and his dog Titina, Nobile fights for survival while the world mounts an international rescue mission of hitherto unknown scope. Based on a true story.

Story of Roberta, a beautiful young woman from a wealthy industrialist family and her relationship with Franco, a rough car mechanic and stranger whom she meets on the beach of Forte dei Marmi.

British survivors of the mutiny on the H.M.S. Bounty plus some Polynesian men and women from Tahiti are stranded on a Pacific island of Pitcairn. Soon strife, racial tension and bloody violence erupt.