Accattone

1961, 1h 57min -

Poet and painter turned filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini courted controversy with his very first feature by using Catholic iconography and liturgical music to render a plaintive, brutally beautiful portrait of a shiftless Roman pimp and thief (then-nonprofessional Franco Citti, in a revelatory performance) whose life of petty crime turns increasingly desperate when the woman who supports him is imprisoned. Melding a hardscrabble neorealist milieu with classical influences, Pasolini offers a vision of underclass struggle as a kind of modern sainthood. Show more

"Accattone" — movie produced in Italy and released in 1961. It has a great rating on IMDb: 7.6 stars out of 10. It is a feature-length film with a runtime of 1h 57min. "Accattone" is currently available to stream on The Criterion Channel. Click on a playlink to watch it now!