Pier Paolo Pasolini writes, directs and stars in this Italian adaptation of Chaucer's medieval poem. The film includes eight of Chaucer's 24 stories - those of the Merchant, Friar, Cook, Miller, Wife of Bath, Reeve, Pardoner and Summoner - and ends with Pasolini's vision of hell, as a group of pilgrims make their way to Canterbury.

Pier Paolo Pasolini writes, directs and stars in this Italian comedy drama based on Giovanni Boccaccio's novel. Made up of nine individual stories, the film includes tales of betrayed husbands, young lovers, immoral nuns, deceptive doctors and unlikely saints as well as two friends who wish to find out about the afterlife. Meanwhile, a painter's pupil named Allievo di Giotto (Pasolini) arrives in Naples to paint a mural.

Italian drama directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Featuring a selection of stories concerning love, fate and destiny, the film follows the quest of Nur Ed Din (Franco Merli) as he travels in search of a slave girl named Zumurrud (Ines Pellegrini) with whom he has fallen in love. While he does so, he meets many other travellers who share their own stories of romance and heartbreak with him.