Kaos (originally Chaos in the US) is a 1984 Italian anthology drama film directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani based on short stories by Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936).

The film's title is after Pirandello's explanation of the local name Càvusu of the woods near his birthplace in the neighborhood of Girgenti (Agrigento), on the southern coast of Sicily, as deriving from the ancient Greek word kaos.

[1] The film depicts four short stories from Pirandello's 15-volume series Novelle per un anno, which play around his birthplace in the 19th century.

The ending sequence showed children sliding down the vast slopes of white pumice that flowed into the sea on the island of Lipari.

Kaos won the 1985 David di Donatello awards for best production and best screenplay and was nominated for best music (for Nicola Piovani).