Oedipus Rex (1967)
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"Pasolini’s Terrifying… Compassionate… Magnificent…"
ThumbScore
👍 82%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 89%
(RT: 89%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Carmelo Bene as Creon
Julian Beck as Tiresias
Luciano Bartoli as Laius, King of Thebes (and unnamed Italian young father)
Francesco Leonetti as Servo di Laio
Ahmed Belhachmi as Polybus, King of Corinth
Is Oedipus Rex good?
Most people think so. 82% audience score, estimated from 374 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 89%.
Overview
In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son - and the scene moves to antiquity, where the baby is taken into the desert to be killed. He is rescued, given the name Oedipus, and brought up by the King and Queen of Corinth as their son. One day an oracle informs Oedipus that he is destined to kill his father and marry his mother. Horrified, he flees Corinth and his supposed parents - only to get into a fight and kill an older man on the road… Wikipedia ↗
