Early Mondo film featuring primitive rituals, animals being butchered, unusual birth defects, and a legit trepanation scene.
An ethnographic documentary which looks at the relationship between music and work in predominantly rural cultures. It depicts the lives of fisherman, shepherds and farmers and their relationship with music. The film also describes Basque ancestral instruments, with special emphasis on the origin and history of ‘bertsolarism’ (Basque verse singing) as a form of oral communication.
Euskal herri-musika
1978
0
A sexy mondo movie narrated by Nico Rienzi. Starring transsexual superstar Bambi.
90 notti in giro per il mondo
1963
0
An actuality film showing a Buddhist festival in Kyoto. The procession includes Buddhist monks, geishas, and others dressed coordinately to the Japanese tradition.
Japan I Fest
1918
6
A collection of death scenes, ranging from TV-material to home-made super-8 movies. The common factor is death by some means.
Faces of Death
1978
4
"With characteristic wit and rigor, experimental filmmaker Larry Gottheim here applies his impressionistic editing style to footage collected during his travels in the Dominican Republic. Gottheim’s formal emphasis on repetition and fissures between sound and image resonates here as a mode of sociological reflection (with the fragmentary montage mirroring elements of ritual while also destabilizing the ethnographic gaze). A largely overlooked antecedent to the contemporary blending of avant-garde and ethnographic filmmaking, MACHETTE GILLETTE… MAMA still poses a potent challenge to documentary convention." - Max Goldberg
Machete Gillette... Mama
1989
6
Completely topless. Completely uninhibited. The craze that began in San Francisco is now exploding across the USA and Europe.
Mondo Topless
1966
4
A documentary about the daily life of a native Tzotzil community in southern Mexico, shot over a period of eight years.
Chroniques d'un village tzotzil
1992
0
An experimental ethnographic documentary that criticizes the colonizer view of anthropology.
Congo
1972
5
Video compilation by Mike Patton featuring various shocking film clips such as coprophagia, BDSM, Budd Dwyer's suicide, a young boy drowning, Mr. Bungle's music video for “Travolta”, skits starring Mike Patton, and much, much more.
Video Macumba
1991
4
Short documentary on the life and music of scumpunk icon GG Allin, featuring insights from fans, friends and family.
Live Fast Die - The GG Allin Story
2008
4
By combining actual footage with reenactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional account of the life of Adolf Hitler, from his childhood in Vienna, through the rise of the Third Reich, to his final act of suicide in the waning days of WWII. The film also provides considerable, and often shocking, detail of the atrocities enacted by the Nazi regime under Hitler's command.
After Mein Kampf?
1961
0
This provocative and profound film documents the Choqela ceremony, an agricultural ritual and song of the Aymara Indians of Peru. By offering several different translations of the proceedings, the film acknowledges the problems of interpretation as an inherent dilemma of anthropology.
Choqela: Only Interpretation
1987
0
Mondo Cane and the Schoolgirl Report series stand as obvious influences on this occasionally amusing but generally rather tedious exploitation film that alternates between documentary, fake documentary and docudrama. The theme is Satanism and the linking thread is a recreation of what is supposedly the real-life case of a murder and attempted murder of two Munich teenage men by a quartet of girls who had been dabbling in devil worship. During the ensuing trial, the lawyer resorts to dilatory tactics while the hearing is frequently interrupted by the girls breaking into incantation, temper tantrums or shivery fits ostensibly bearing on demonic possession. When the subject of the Manson killings is brought up, the most obnoxious of the defendants breaks in indignantly, claiming that Sharon Tate’s “execution” was justified as she posed dangers to the Satanic community.
Ekstase - Der Prozeß gegen die Satansmädchen
1979
3
A chronicle of the violence that occurred in much of the African continent throughout the 1960s. As many African countries were transitioning from colonial rule to other forms of government, violent political upheavals were frequent. Revolutions in Zanzibar and Kenya in which thousands were killed are shown, the violence not only political; there is also extensive footage of hunters and poachers slaughtering different types of wild animals.
Africa Addio
1966
6
Rare mondo film focusing on the seamier side of Paris. Crazy fashions, transgender hookers, coke snorting New Wavers, female body builders, nude beaches, leather bars, a wealthy playboy’s private torture dungeon and some X-rated dildo insertion to liven things up.
La France interdite
1984
2
Cult director Sergio Martino, during the most glorious mondo years, delivered Naked and Violent, a documentary which unveils the brutality of the USA. Hidden behind a mask of perfection and justice, Naked and Violent traces the problems of American society in the 70s: from racial persecutions to the depraved sexual habits of the middle class, from the drug market to illegal gambling.
America così nuda, così violenta
1970
1
The final official installment in the "Mondo Cane" series dares to go where no other Mondo film has gone before.
Mondo Cane 2000 - L'incredibile
1988
2
A new age Mondo film that explores the realm of urban decay and various oddities of the modern world, ranging from underground club scenes to sex change operations.
Mondo cane oggi - L'orrore continua
1985
4
Tourist Paris by day, then by night, with its cabarets and stripteases: the academic poses of Montparnasse, Maria Toxedo the naked dancer, forbidden love, the can-can for two, the naked models, Loulou Santiago, the hippies and love, the slave of desire, magazines prohibited for minors, monokini pose session.
Paris Inconnu
1969
0
An ethnographic film that documents the efforts of four !Kung men (also known as Ju/'hoansi or Bushmen) to hunt a giraffe in the Kalahari Desert of Namibia. The footage was shot by John Marshall during a Smithsonian-Harvard Peabody sponsored expedition in 1952–53. In addition to the giraffe hunt, the film shows other aspects of !Kung life at that time, including family relationships, socializing and storytelling, and the hard work of gathering plant foods and hunting for small game.
The Hunters
1957
6