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An adaptation of nine stories from Boccaccios Decameron

Rescued from abandonment and raised by the King and Queen, Oedipus is still haunted by a prophecy hell murder his father and marry his mother

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

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

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

In World War II Italy, four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental, and sexual torture

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

A mysterious young man seduces each member of a bourgeois family When he suddenly leaves, how will their lives change

In ancient Arabia, a beautiful slave girl chooses a youth to be her new master, then she is kidnapped and they must search for each other Stories are told within stories love, travel and the whims of destiny

The director presents takes and scenes filmed on location in Africa for a film that never was, a black Oresteia

The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing a warm irony to current events

Five short stories with contemporary settings In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a womans assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash A man, stripped

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

A preachers adopted son comes upon a village that is under the thumb of a deranged ex Confederate officer who, among other things, is stealing land from the locals with phony land grants

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

Pasolinis artistic, sometimes violent, always vividly cinematic retelling of some of Chaucers most erotic tales

After his quest to retrieve the fabled Golden Fleece, Jason returns to Greece with powerful sorceress Medea However, when the king banishes her, its only human that Medea plots her furious revenge Can they escape her wrath

Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society