Mondo Rocco is a collection of short films weaved together as it was seen in the Park Theater in Los Angeles in 1969/1970. Charming in their innocence, Rocco’s films captured important moments in gay history and are an invaluable resource.
A documentary analyzing the social, political and cultural climate of Hollywood in the mid-1960s.
A man is on safari in the jungle with his wife and daughter when the wife gets eaten and the daughter is captured by cannibals. Several years later he goes back to see if his daughter is still alive.
A documentary consisting of a series of travelogue vignettes providing glimpses into cultural practices throughout the world intended to shock or surprise, including an insect banquet and a memorable look at a practicing South Pacific cargo cult.
Germans on the Mondo Cane tour, meaning an overview of “our bizarre world” in more than 30 revealing fragments with commentary that twists and turns to give things a universal, and in some places even cosmic, meaning.
Senator Alberici tries to approach the secretariat of his party with a campaign against immorality. In reality the politician is a pervert with homosexual tendencies that he expresses with men and women.
A day in the lives of a hit-and-run driver and her victim, and the bizarre things that happen to them before and after they collide (sexual assault by a crazed foot-fetishist, visions of the Virgin Mary, strange chicken-foot grafting operations).
Completely topless. Completely uninhibited. The craze that began in San Francisco is now exploding across the USA and Europe.
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.
A look at the “mod” culture of the, visiting the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, going from discotheques to dirt bike competitions, surfing, karate, go-carting, political protests and pot parties.
The official sequel to the original shockumentary, presenting new and bizarre behavior from around the world, including cruelty, graphic gore, and strange rituals.
Howard Thorne is a rapist in Los Angeles: he meets women at work and at parties or he sees them walking down the street, and he follows them, terrifies them, and assaults them. He also dreams about these assaults, and he’s unclear how much of what he’s done is real and how much is fantasy. He ignores his heroin-using wife, Vicki, who tries everything she can think of to get his sexual attention. Howard and Vicki go separately to a costume party where she learns the full truth about his nature and where he is stalked by one of his recent victims. Individualized versions of Hell await Howard and Vicki.
Voltaire, a 16th century author was furious that learned members of a “civilized” society could claim that the apparent senseless violence and mayhem wrought by disasters, war, disease, man’s cruelty, etc. was actually only a part of some ‘greater good’. After all, God (being perfect) could not ‘logically’ have created anything but the ‘best of all possible’ universes.
Documentary showing perverse and aberrant behavior from around the globe, including such things as sex slavery, dwarf love, Asian brothels and lesbians.
The final official installment in the “Mondo Cane” series dares to go where no other Mondo film has gone before.
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.
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.
Conqueror of the World, a thrilling and explosive story of violence…of human drama, of a rare man, strong and primitive. Set two hundred thousand years ago, when the human race had to adapt to their brutal, savage environment or disappear into oblivion.
Yor is an extremely blond prehistoric warrior who comes to question his origins, particularly with regard to a mysterious medallion he wears. When he learns of a desert goddess who supposedly wears the same medallion, Yor decides that he must find her and learn his true identity. Along the way, he encounters ape-men, dinosaurs, and a strange futuristic society.
A filmmaker hosts a series of segments while urging the audience to “judge for yourself what should be labeled obscene.” Assorted “case studies” depicting various forms of sexual activity are presented.
Cut-n-paste pseudo-documentary about the history of censorship in cinema and the changing mores of the ’60s, comprised mostly of footage from the films of Joseph Mawra (who also directed this under the pseudonym of “Carlo Scappine”). Likely the only way to catch footage from Mawra’s lost MME. OLGA’S MASSAGE PARLOR.
A group of young musicians organize a show that will turn out to be a hodgepodge, yet still manage to entertain the audience with their cheerful lighthearted songs.
A mondo doc detailing the wild and weird world of women… around the world.
After a brief introduction on the unnerving daily life, through the usual night inspection in the most famous clubs in the world, the film presents to the public shows and attractions with which it is planned to escape from the rhythm of daily life.
The film in its first part intends to show the alienation of modern man by advertising, then talks to us about the image of women in advertising, society, entertainment, fashion, dreams, fantasies. Its last part is composed of saucy fake scopitones .
Laura Gemser, as Emanuelle, takes viewers on a worldwide perv vacation and introduces footage of bizarre sexual behavior and performances in the style of a Mondo movie.
One of the many faux documentary mondo films produced in Italy during this era, Mondo sulle spiagge’s primary goal was reportedly putting a striptease on screen. Shockingly, it was panned by critics.
Art, sex, history and myth fuse in an explosive documentary guaranteed to shock the hell out of you.
