A Brief History of Mondo Movies

Documentary film making at its best as it narrates very exotic and esoteric rituals of the primitive peoples of Africa.

This film is about tribes in Africa and South America who turn toward magic as a means of survival and way of life.

A collection of death scenes, ranging from TV-material to home-made super-8 movies. The common factor is death by some means.

Early Mondo film featuring primitive rituals, animals being butchered, unusual birth defects, and a legit trepanation scene.

Cult director Sergio Martino, during the most glorious mondo years, delivered Naked and Violent, a documentary which unveils the brutality of the...

A disturbing documentary about true murders and real death.

Completely topless. Completely uninhibited. The craze that began in San Francisco is now exploding across the USA and Europe.

A documentary about the end of the colonial era in Africa, portraying acts of animal poaching, violence, executions, and tribal slaughter.

This documentary looks at strange behaviors and practices in Europe, including nude skiing in Switzerland, hot-butchering in Italy, and an orgy in a...

The film documents modern slave trade through a number of African countries, under dictatorship rule. The filming was conducted both in public...

Long considered a cult classic, "Mondo Hollywood" captures the underside of Hollywood by documenting a moment in time (1965-67), when an inquisitive...