# The best Pier Paolo Pasolini films

From Accattone to Salò: Pasolini's films in critics' and audiences' rankings (PopcornTV, Collider, Films Fatale).

- 5 votes · 12 items
- Feb 19, 2026 · Beatrice M.
- https://even.best/en/l/2041/the-best-pier-paolo-pasolini-films

## Top 12

1. **Mamma Roma (1962)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Anna Magnani as a mother and prostitute.
2. **Oedipus Rex (1967)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Sophocles between Morocco and Lombardy.
3. **The Canterbury Tales (1972)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Chaucer and the Golden Bear at Berlin.
4. **Arabian Nights (1974)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The final chapter of the Trilogy of Life.
5. **The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Gospel filmed with non-professional actors in southern Italy.
6. **The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Totò, Ninetto Davoli and a talking crow.
7. **Theorem (1968)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A mysterious guest upends a bourgeois family.
8. **Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — His last film, and his most extreme.
9. **La ricotta (1963)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Ro.Go.Pa.G. segment with Orson Welles as a director.
10. **The Decameron (1971)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Boccaccio in Naples, first of the Trilogy of Life.
11. **Medea (1969)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Maria Callas in her only film role.
12. **Accattone (1961)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — His debut, in Rome's slums.

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