10 Best Pasolini Movies, Ranked

Few filmmakers in the history of cinema have been as provocative and challenging as Pier Paolo Pasolini while also achieving a significant level of international fame. He began working in the Italian film industry as a screenwriter in the 1950s and started directing his features in the early 1960s. He worked steadily throughout the rest of the decade and into the 1970s, though he had his directing career cut short when, in 1975, he was brutally and mysteriously murdered at the age of 53.

​ From Arabian Nights to The Gospel According to St. Matthew, these 10 movies by Pier Paolo Pasolini are his best.