Cait Mohr
St. Louis MO
serial re-watcher of david cronenberg's crash (1996) and telescope editorial intern : ~ )
cait's favorite films
Crash
Love in the dying moments of the twentieth century.
- ✭ ✭
- Canada, United Kingdom • 1996
- Director David Cronenberg
- Cast James Spader, Deborah Kara Unger, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas, Rosanna Arquette, Peter MacNeill
- Genre Drama, Romance, Thriller
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Conspirators of Pleasure
(Spiklenci slasti)
Six outwardly average individuals have elaborate fetishes they indulge in with surreptitious care.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Czech Republic, Switzerland, United Kingdom • 1996
- Director Jan Švankmajer
- Cast Petr Meissel, Gabriela Wilhelmová, Barbora Hrzánová, Anna Wetlinská, Pavel Nový, Jiří Lábus
- Genre Drama, Animation, Comedy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Funeral Parade of Roses
(薔薇の葬列)
The trials and tribulations of Eddie and other drag queens in Japan.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1969
- Director Toshio Matsumoto
- Cast Pîtâ, Osamu Ogasawara, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Emiko Azuma, Yoshihiro Katô, Koichi Nakamura
- Genre Drama
- Available on Night Flight Plus, Metrograph, Kanopy
La Chinoise
(La chinoise)
In this dark political comedy, a group of French university students are studying Mao and decide to start a revolution.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1967
- Director Jean-Luc Godard
- Cast Anne Wiazemsky, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Juliet Berto, Michel Semeniako, Lex De Bruijn, Omar Diop
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Metrograph, Kino Film Collection, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy, Hoopla
Audition
(オーディション)
She always gets her part.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1999
- Director Takashi Miike
- Cast Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Jun Kunimura, Tetsu Sawaki, Renji Ishibashi, Miyuki Matsuda
- Genre Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
- Available on Shudder, Screambox, Fandor Amazon Channel, Screambox Amazon Channel, Shudder Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel, RetroCrush Amazon Channel, Hi-YAH, AsianCrush, AMC+ Amazon Channel, ARROW, Shudder Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Tubi TV, Cineverse, Midnight Pulp, Kanopy
The Passion of Joan of Arc
(La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc)
The 15th-century teenage warrior Joan of Arc takes on the French church.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1928
- Director Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Cast Maria Falconetti, Eugène Silvain, André Berley, Maurice Schutz, Antonin Artaud, Michel Simon
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on Criterion Channel, FlixFling, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Tubi TV, JustWatchTV
Theorem
(Teorema)
There are only 923 words spoken in “Teorema” – but it says everything!
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 1968
- Director Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Cast Terence Stamp, Silvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti, Anne Wiazemsky, Andrés José Cruz Soublette, Laura Betti
- Genre Mystery, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
Ginger Snaps
Hungry like the Wolf.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada • 2000
- Director John Fawcett
- Cast Emily Perkins, Katharine Isabelle, Kris Lemche, Mimi Rogers, Jesse Moss, Danielle Hampton
- Genre Drama, Horror
- Available on Shudder, Shudder Amazon Channel, fuboTV, Peacock Premium, Peacock Premium Plus, AMC+ Amazon Channel, Shudder Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Plex Channel
Possession
Helen wants a divorce, but as her behavior grows more alarming, a sinister force is found to be operating on her.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, West Germany • 1981
- Director Andrzej Żuławski
- Cast Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Margit Carstensen, Heinz Bennent, Johanna Hofer, Carl Duering
- Genre Horror
- Available on Shudder, Shudder Amazon Channel, AMC+ Amazon Channel, Metrograph, Shudder Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, YouTube, Kanopy, Hoopla
The Lighthouse
Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada, United States • 2019
- Director Robert Eggers
- Cast Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Valeriia Karaman, Logan Hawkes, Kyla Nicolle, Shaun Clarke
- Genre Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
- Available on Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Kanopy, Plex Channel
Velvet Goldmine
Style matters. Even when it comes to murder.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, United States • 1998
- Director Todd Haynes
- Cast Ewan McGregor, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Christian Bale, Toni Collette, Eddie Izzard, Emily Woof
- Genre Drama, Music
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
The Piano Teacher
(La Pianiste)
Perversion --- at its absolute best.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Austria, France, Germany • 2001
- Director Michael Haneke
- Cast Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel, Susanne Lothar, Udo Samel, Anna Sigalevitch
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube
cait's favorite anime series
Neon Genesis Evangelion
(新世紀エヴァンゲリオン)
Humanity must fend off a monstrous attack using bio-mechanical weapons called Evangelions.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1995
- Creator
- Cast Megumi Ogata, Kotono Mitsuishi, Megumi Hayashibara, Yuko Miyamura, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Fumihiko Tachiki
- Genre Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Animation, Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Netflix, Microsoft Store, Netflix basic with Ads
Serial Experiments Lain
(serial experiments lain
)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1998
- Creator
- Cast Kaori Shimizu, Youko Asada, Ayako Kawasumi, Ryusuke Ohbayashi, Rei Igarashi
- Genre Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Action & Adventure
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Alien Nine
(エイリアン９)
Reluctantly conscripted to fight against a mysterious alien threat, a cowardly sixth-grader navigates pre-adolescence as she endeavors to survive a barrage of attacks against her school.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2001
- Creator Jiro Fujimoto, Yasuhiro Irie, Kazunori Iwakura
- Cast Kaori Shimizu, Aya Hisakawa, Juri Ihata, Ryusei Nakao
- Genre Animation, Action & Adventure
- Available on Tubi TV
Welcome to the N.H.K.
(N・H・Kにようこそ!
)
Attempting to escape the NEET lifestyle wrought onto him by a sinister conspiracy, college dropout Satou Tatsuhiro attempts to reintegrate himself into society.
- ✭
- Japan • 2006
- Creator Tatsuhiko Takimoto
- Cast Sanae Kobayashi, Yui Makino, Risa Hayamizu, Daisuke Sakaguchi, Yutaka Koizumi, Yoku Shioya
- Genre Animation, Drama, Comedy, Romance
- Available on Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, Crunchyroll, Crunchyroll Amazon Channel
Mushi-Shi
(蟲師)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2005
- Creator
- Cast Yûji Ueda, Daisuke Kishio, Mika Doi, Yuto Nakano, Yoko Hikasa
- Genre Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Available on Amazon Video, Crunchyroll, Crunchyroll Amazon Channel
Boogiepop Never Laughs: Boogiepop Phantom
(ブギーポップは笑わない Boogiepop Phantom)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2000
- Creator Kouhei Kadono
- Cast Yuu Asakawa, Kaori Shimizu, Sanae Kobayashi, Kozue Yoshizumi, Mayumi Asano, Kyo Nagasawa
- Genre Animation, Mystery, Drama
- Available on Amazon Video, Crunchyroll, RetroCrush Amazon Channel, Pluto TV, Retrocrush, Cineverse, Crunchyroll Amazon Channel
Hunter x Hunter
(HUNTERxHUNTER
)
A young boy decides to follow in his father's footsteps and become a Hunter - a special class of warrior.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan, Poland • 2011
- Creator Yoshihiro Togashi
- Cast Banjou Ginga
- Genre Action & Adventure, Animation, Drama
- Available on Tubi TV, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, Microsoft Store, The Roku Channel, Hoopla, Crunchyroll, Peacock Premium, Peacock Premium Plus, Freevee, Netflix basic with Ads, Crunchyroll Amazon Channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
Girls' Last Tour
(少女終末旅行)
In a future where most of humanity has perished, two girls explore the ruins of civilization, looking for food and fuel.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2017
- Creator Takaharu Ozaki
- Cast Yurika Kubo, Inori Minase, Kana Hanazawa
- Genre Mystery, Action & Adventure, Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Spotlight: Body Horror
Raw
(Grave)
When vegetarian Justine is forced to eat raw meat for the first time in her life, unexpected consequences occur.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Belgium, Italy • 2016
- Director Julia Ducournau
- Cast Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Nait Oufella, Laurent Lucas, Joana Preiss
- Genre Drama, Horror
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Microsoft Store, YouTube
Dead Ringers
Two bodies. Two minds. One soul.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada, United States • 1988
- Director David Cronenberg
- Cast Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske, Barbara Gordon, Shirley Douglas, Stephen Lack
- Genre Thriller, Horror
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Peacock Premium, Peacock Premium Plus, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Pluto TV, Shout! Factory TV, Kanopy, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
(鉄男)
A salaryman undergoes a gruesome transformation which turns his flesh into metal.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1989
- Director Kei Fujiwara
- Cast Tomorowo Taguchi, Kei Fujiwara, Nobu Kanaoka, Shinya Tsukamoto, Naomasa Musaka, Renji Ishibashi
- Genre Horror, Science Fiction
- Available on Criterion Channel, Night Flight Plus, AsianCrush, ARROW, Midnight Pulp, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Kanopy
Ginger Snaps
Hungry like the Wolf.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada • 2000
- Director John Fawcett
- Cast Emily Perkins, Katharine Isabelle, Kris Lemche, Mimi Rogers, Jesse Moss, Danielle Hampton
- Genre Drama, Horror
- Available on Shudder, Shudder Amazon Channel, fuboTV, Peacock Premium, Peacock Premium Plus, AMC+ Amazon Channel, Shudder Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Plex Channel
Audition
(オーディション)
She always gets her part.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1999
- Director Takashi Miike
- Cast Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Jun Kunimura, Tetsu Sawaki, Renji Ishibashi, Miyuki Matsuda
- Genre Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
- Available on Shudder, Screambox, Fandor Amazon Channel, Screambox Amazon Channel, Shudder Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel, RetroCrush Amazon Channel, Hi-YAH, AsianCrush, AMC+ Amazon Channel, ARROW, Shudder Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Tubi TV, Cineverse, Midnight Pulp, Kanopy
Akira
(AKIRA
)
Neo-Tokyo is about to E.X.P.L.O.D.E.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1988
- Director Takashi Nakamura
- Cast Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Tesshou Genda, Hiroshi Ohtake, Kōichi Kitamura
- Genre Science Fiction, Animation
- Available on Crunchyroll, Fandango At Home
Eyes Without a Face
(Les Yeux sans visage)
A plastic surgeon goes to extreme lengths to give his disfigured daughter a new face.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Italy • 1960
- Director Georges Franju
- Cast Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel, Alexandre Rignault, Béatrice Altariba, Charles Blavette
- Genre Drama, Horror, Thriller
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video
Annihilation
A biologist signs up for an expedition in search of her husband, who has vanished in a logic-defying alien landscape.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, United States • 2018
- Director Alex Garland
- Cast Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny, Oscar Isaac
- Genre Horror, Science Fiction
- Available on MGM Plus, Paramount Plus, Paramount+ Amazon Channel, Paramount+ Roku Premium Channel, Paramount Plus Apple TV Channel , Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand, Plex, Kanopy
Cronos
The more he uses the device, the younger he becomes...but nothing comes without a price.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Mexico • 1993
- Director Guillermo del Toro
- Cast Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman, Claudio Brook, Margarita Isabel, Tamara Shanath, Mario Iván Martínez
- Genre Drama, Horror, Thriller
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
Taxidermia
Three stories. Three generations. Three men. One bizarre and shocking universe.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Hungary, Austria, France • 2006
- Director György Pálfi
- Cast Molnár Piroska, Mária Bodor, Albert Oláh, Sándor Hamar , János Gyuriska , Csaba Czene
- Genre Drama, Horror, Comedy
- Available on Here TV
Videodrome
First it controls your mind. Then it destroys your body.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada • 1983
- Director David Cronenberg
- Cast James Woods, Sonja Smits, Debbie Harry, Peter Dvorsky, Jack Creley
- Genre Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
Parasyte: The Maxim
(寄生獣 セイの格率)
A normal high schooler finds himself caught between two sides of a struggle over planet Earth.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2014
- Creator Ken'ichi Shimizu, Yuki Inaba, Kenichi Kawamura
- Cast Nobunaga Shimazaki, Aya Hirano, Kana Hanazawa, Miyuki Sawashiro, Atsuko Tanaka
- Genre Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Crime
- Available on Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Hulu, Shudder, Shudder Amazon Channel, Crunchyroll, Spectrum On Demand, AMC+, AMC+ Amazon Channel, AMC Plus Apple TV Channel , Crunchyroll Amazon Channel, Shudder Apple TV Channel
Spotlight: Czech New Wave
Daisies
(Sedmikrásky)
Decadence and destruction!
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Czechoslovakia • 1966
- Director Věra Chytilová
- Cast Ivana Karbanová, Jitka Cerhová, Marie Češková, Jiřina Myšková, Julius Albert
- Genre Comedy, Fantasy
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV
Closely Watched Trains
(Ostře sledované vlaky)
All it takes to make a man of a boy is a woman.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Czechoslovakia • 1966
- Director Jiří Menzel
- Cast Václav Neckář, Josef Somr, Vlastimil Brodský, Vladimír Valenta, Alois Vachek, Ferdinand Krůta
- Genre Comedy, Drama, War
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
(Valerie a týden divů)
A pair of earrings forces a young girl into womanhood.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Czechoslovakia • 1970
- Director Jaromil Jireš
- Cast Jaroslava Schallerová, Helena Anýzová, Petr Kopriva, Jirí Prýmek, Jan Klusák, Libuše Komancová
- Genre Fantasy, Adventure, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Cultpix, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV
A Report on the Party and the Guests
(O slavnosti a hostech)
A picnic is rudely transformed into a lesson in political hierarchy when a handful of mysterious authority figures show up.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Czechoslovakia • 1966
- Director Jan Němec
- Cast Ivan Vyskočil, Jan Klusák, Jiří Němec, Pavel Bosek, Karel Mareš, Evald Schorm
- Genre Drama, Comedy
- Available on Criterion Channel
The Ear
(Ucho)
A tale of surveillance and paranoia.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Czechoslovakia • 1970
- Director Karel Kachyňa
- Cast Jiřina Bohdalová, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Gustav Opočenský, Miloslav Holub, Lubor Tokoš, Bořivoj Navrátil
- Genre Mystery, Thriller, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
The Firemen's Ball
(Hoří, má panenko)
A fiery political comedy about a party turned disastrous.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Czechoslovakia, Italy • 1967
- Director Miloš Forman
- Cast Jan Vostrčil, Josef Šebánek, Josef Valnoha, František Debelka, Josef Řehořek, Vratislav Čermák
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV
Marketa Lazarová
A compelling, stripped-down, and surreal account of the shift from Paganism to Christianity.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Czechoslovakia • 1967
- Director František Vláčil
- Cast Josef Kemr, Magda Vášáryová , Naďa Hejná, František Velecký, Karel Vašíček
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Lemonade Joe
(Limonádový Joe aneb Koňská opera)
Real men drink lemonade!
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Czechoslovakia • 1964
- Director Oldřich Lipský
- Cast Karel Fiala, Miloš Kopecký, Květa Fialová, Olga Schoberová, Rudolf Deyl, Bohuš Záhorský
- Genre Comedy, Western
- Available on Cultpix, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Pearls of the Deep
(Perličky na dně)
A manifesto of sorts for the Czech New Wave.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Czechoslovakia • 1966
- Director Evald Schorm
- Cast Ferdinand Krůta, Alois Vachek, Milos Ctrnacty, František Havel, Josef Hejl, Josefa Pechlátová
- Genre Comedy
- Available on Criterion Channel
Case for a Rookie Hangman
(Prípad pro zacínajícího kata)
A darkly absurdist adaptation of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Czechoslovakia • 1970
- Director Pavel Juráček
- Cast Lubomír Kostelka, Pavel Landovský, Klára Jerneková, Milena Zahrynowská, Luděk Kopřiva
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
- Available on Criterion Channel
The Shop on Main Street
(Obchod na korze)
An unlikely friendship develops between a pair on different sides of World War II.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Czechoslovakia • 1965
- Director Ján Kadár
- Cast Ida Kaminska, Jozef Kroner, Hana Slivková, Martin Hollý, Adam Matejka, Elena Zvaríková-Pappová
- Genre Drama, War
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max
The Joke
(Žert)
An adulterous indictment of totaliarianism.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Czechoslovakia • 1969
- Director Jaromil Jireš
- Cast Josef Somr, Jana Dítětová, Luděk Munzar, Evald Schorm, Věra Křesadlová, Jaroslava Obermaierová
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, DocAlliance Films, Klassiki
Spotlight: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pigsty
(Porcile)
I killed my father, I ate human flesh, and I quiver with joy.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France • 1969
- Director Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Cast Pierre Clémenti, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Alberto Lionello, Ugo Tognazzi, Anne Wiazemsky, Margarita Lozano
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Theorem
(Teorema)
There are only 923 words spoken in “Teorema” – but it says everything!
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 1968
- Director Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Cast Terence Stamp, Silvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti, Anne Wiazemsky, Andrés José Cruz Soublette, Laura Betti
- Genre Mystery, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
The Canterbury Tales
(I racconti di Canterbury)
A controversial filmmaker's adaptation of Chaucer's famous poem.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France • 1972
- Director Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Cast Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Josephine Chaplin, Dan Thomas, Hugh Griffith, Laura Betti
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, MGM Plus, fuboTV, Epix Amazon Channel, MGM Plus Roku Premium Channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
(Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma)
The final vision of a controversial filmmaker.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France • 1975
- Director Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Cast Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Umberto Paolo Quintavalle, Aldo Valletti, Caterina Boratto
- Genre War, Drama, Horror
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Oedipus Rex
(Edipo re)
A man flees, haunted by a shocking prophecy.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, Morocco • 1967
- Director Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Cast Silvana Mangano, Franco Citti, Alida Valli, Carmelo Bene, Julian Beck, Luciano Bartoli
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
The Decameron
(Il Decameron)
An adaptation of nine stories from Bocaccio's "Decameron".
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France, West Germany • 1971
- Director Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Cast Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Jovan Jovanović, Vincenzo Amato, Angela Luce, Giuseppe Zigaina
- Genre History, Drama, Comedy
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, MGM Plus, fuboTV, Epix Amazon Channel, MGM Plus Roku Premium Channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
Arabian Nights
(Il fiore delle Mille e una notte)
An erotic revisiting of an ancient anthology.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France • 1974
- Director Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Cast Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Franco Merli, Tessa Bouché, Ines Pellegrini, Margareth Clémenti
- Genre Drama, Fantasy, Adventure, Comedy
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, MGM Plus, fuboTV, Epix Amazon Channel, MGM Plus Roku Premium Channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Fandango At Home
The Gospel According to Matthew
(Il vangelo secondo Matteo)
A retelling of the story of Christ.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France • 1965
- Director Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Cast Enrique Irazoqui, Margherita Caruso, Susanna Pasolini, Marcello Morante, Mario Socrate, Settimio Di Porto
- Genre History, Drama
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, Freevee, Cineverse, Kanopy, Hoopla, Plex, Plex Channel
Love Meetings
(Comizi d'amore)
Microphone in hand, Pier Paolo Pasolini asks Italians to talk about sex.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 1965
- Director Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Cast Lello Bersani, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Alberto Moravia, Cesare Musatti, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Oriana Fallaci
- Genre Documentary
- Available on Criterion Channel
Mamma Roma
A former sex worker attempts to make a new life for herself, despite the looming threats of her past.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 1962
- Director Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Cast Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti, Silvana Corsini, Luisa Loiano, Paolo Volponi
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Hawks and Sparrows
(Uccellacci e uccellini)
A man and his son take an allegorical stroll through life with a talking bird that spouts social and political philosophy.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 1966
- Director Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Cast Totò, Ninetto Davoli, Femi Benussi, Francesco Leonetti, Gabriele Baldini, Ricardo Redi
- Genre Fantasy, Comedy
- Available on Criterion Channel
Accattone
The poor man's "La Dolce Vita."
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 1961
- Director Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Cast Franco Citti, Franca Pasut, Silvana Corsini, Paola Guidi, Adriana Asti, Luciano Conti
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel