Movies and TvShows featuring "mondo-film" theme.
This film is about tribes in Africa and South America who turn toward magic as a means of survival and way of life.
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 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.
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.
A young woman wanders around New York City and stumbles across a number of strange characters and settings that represent the "underground" areas of the city. She sees stand up comedy in Central Park, a prostitution auction, a voodoo ceremony, an S&M club, and a number of very interesting performance artists. These are just a few of the sights and sounds of New York that she encounters.
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.
Documentary film making at its best as it narrates very exotic and esoteric rituals of the primitive peoples of Africa.
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.
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.
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.
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 Castiglioni Brothers mondo film about the practices and rites of several native African tribes.
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.
Do humans have the right to judge and kill other humans? This program includes a history of capital punishment around the world through documentary footage and commentary. The electric chair, firing squad, hanging, poison gas, beating to death, slow execution, crotch-splitting, iron maiden, guillotine, execution by running, and beheading... It features a military execution in a South American country, obtained from a former prison officer. It also includes footage of the reality of life in Japanese prisons, death row inmates facing death, the parents of death row inmates, the families of their victims, and the gallows.
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 look at the careers of Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi who invented the mondo genre with MONDO CANE in 1962. It follows their career until their split in following the making of GOODBYE UNCLE TOM in 1971.
A faux travelogue that mixes documentary and mockumentary footage. The camera looks through a one-way glass into the women's dressing room at a lingerie shop, visits a Kyoto massage parlor, goes inside the mailroom at Frederick's of Hollywood, watches an Australian who sticks nails through his skin and eats glass, checks out the art and peace scene in Los Angeles, takes in Easter week with vacationing college students on Balboa Island, observes a German audience enjoying a play about Nazi sadism, and, with the help of powerful military lenses, spies on a Lebanese white-slavery auction.
A feature-length documentary film adaptation of the 1994 non-fiction book of the same name, chronicling the history of Mondo cinema and the "death film".
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.
A documentary on African Zulu tribes narrated by Vincent Price.