Movies and TvShows featuring "mondo-film" theme.
Africa Addio is a disturbing and controversial documentary that depicts the violent and chaotic transition of Africa from colonialism to independence. Set in the Congo and other parts of Central Africa, the film showcases the reenactment of historical events, shocking executions, violence, and the brutal treatment of animals. It delves into themes of colonialism, political uprisings, and the grim realities of post-colonial Africa. Africa Addio is considered a shocking and infamous mondo film that showcases the dark side of humanity and the impact of colonization.
The film documents modern slave trade through a number of African countries, under dictatorship rule. The filming was conducted both in public places, and sometimes with the use of hidden cameras, for high impact scenes of nudity, sex, and violence - and a few surprises, as slaves made out of peregrins to Asia, and slave traders paid in traveller checks.
The War Game is a docudrama that depicts the devastating consequences of a nuclear attack on Britain, including widespread destruction, suffering, and the struggle for survival. It explores the physical and psychological effects of a nuclear war, highlighting the controversy surrounding such a catastrophe. The film tackles themes of civil defense, nuclear weapons, and the apocalyptic consequences of a global conflict.
Mr. Mike's Mondo Video is a surreal and irreverent comedy sketch movie that parodies various aspects of society. It features psychotronic film elements, satire, absurd humor, and gross-out comedy. The film combines surrealism with social satire, presenting a series of sketches that tackle controversial topics with a unique and unconventional style. The movie includes running gags, fake documentary segments, and spoofs of popular film genres. It also incorporates elements of exploitation and features a memorable swimming pool scene with an elephant. Mr. Mike's Mondo Video offers a comedic exploration of death, drugs, and the absurdities of life.
A shocking documentary that explores the rampant violence in America, including murder sprees, gun violence, and political crimes. It delves into the dark side of American society, highlighting issues of racial hatred, social violence, and political murder.
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.
A western short depicting the execution of a horse thief by a group of enraged cowboys. This film is considered to be lost.
A notorious mondo film depicting unbelievable and bizarre rituals, animal killing and cruelty, and people being killed and eaten, all by either animals or humans against each other or themselves.
This documentary looks at strange behaviors and practices in Europe, including nude skiing in Switzerland, hot-butchering in Italy, and an orgy in a graveyard.
A documentary on African Zulu tribes narrated by Vincent Price.
A group of Ubangi women and their chief on an exhibit in 1932.
This grisly documentary presents horrifying journalistic footage of suicides, assassinations, bombings, mob hits, decapitations, and more in bloody detail. Not for the faint of heart.
Documentary film making at its best as it narrates very exotic and esoteric rituals of the primitive peoples of Africa.
Mondo-style documentary in which a movie crew travels to newly independent Papua New Guinea to capture the customs and culture of the cannibal natives. Prepare yourself for death rituals, war costumery, crude tattoos, animal killings, and cannibalism.
The sequel to This is America, aka Jabberwalk. This film goes inside the real America circa 1980 - a world of punks, orgies and worm-eating hicks! Romano Vanderbes back on the film making side and Norman Rose back on narrating duty for the second of the This Is America trilogy. Things kick off slightly louder this time with a performance by The Dictators doing a version of America the Beautiful while the titles role, then right into piece about punk star Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedy's running for mayor of San Francisco. Then back into a more This Is America feeling segment about a crazy fat bloke called Captain Sticky. Among some of the other more interesting segments we get a look at underground vagrants, a piranha attack, martial arts nuns, a family of worm eaters, a drug abusing church and ends with a death row electrocution.
A Castiglioni Brothers mondo film about the practices and rites of several native African tribes.
This film is about tribes in Africa and South America who turn toward magic as a means of survival and way of life.
Notti Calde d'Oriente (released in English-speaking countries "Orient by Night"), the 1962 Roberto Bianchi Montero Italian mondo strip tease sexploitation documentary featuring Takeucmi Keigo and His Imperial Japanese Dancers, Bommie the International Dancer of New Orleans, Chiquita and her Jamaican Strip-Tease, The Two Jolly Sisters, and Dodo D'Amburgo the Queen of the Strip-Tease. Note that this was one of the approximately 100 "sexy nocturne" mondo style documentaries that were produced between 1959 and 1970, mainly in Italy. They are documentaries that include segments of strippers, which allowed them to include nudity that had formerly only been seen in nudist movies. The strippers are shown performing their acts, and there was an attempt to film them artistically.
Bounding from one continent to another, from desert to jungle, this early mondo documentary examines the habits and customs of people whose lives are unaffected by the modern world. In New Guinea, director Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau's crew spends time with jungle villagers who honor the deceased by preserving their corpses, and in Africa they film the resourceful people of the Kalahari. Other subjects include a Brazilian community whose male members wear lip-stretching jewelry.
A “hidden camera” takes the viewer on a worldwide tour of sexual practices and rituals, including Tijuana strippers, Asian sex shows, British prostitutes, New York devil worshipers and a Mexican slave market.