Movies:
- 1967
Oedipus Rex (1967)
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In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son - and the scene moves to antiquity, where the baby is taken into the desert to be killed. He is rescued, given the name Edipo (Oedipus), and brought up by th...
- 1970
Necropolis (1970)
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Frankenstein's monster gropes towards the awareness that his mind is a universe; Attila, naked on a white horse, liberates his people from their ignominy; the ultra-caustic Viva bemoans the frustrations of married life and drifts into the elegiac per...
- 1981
Riccardo III (1981)
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Riccardo III (da Shakespeare) secondo Carmelo Bene...
- 1969
Umano non umano (1969)
Umano non umano6.51969HD
Artists and poets meet in a dreamlike space between walks and performances....
- 1966
Bis (1966)
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In 1966, Bene presented The Pink and the Black, his successful theatrical adaptation of Matthew Gregory Lewis’ lurid Gothic novel from 1796. Experimental filmmaker Paolo Brunatto filmed some of the play’s rehearsals in a Rome apartment (also frequent...
- 1970
Red Hot Shot (1970)
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Frank was removed from an investigation into Mac Brown, the owner of a pharmaceutical company, who was suspected of drug trafficking and illegal experiments on teenagers. When Brown is murdered, Frank is called to investigate......
- 1990
Hommelette for Hamlet, operetta inqualificabile (da J. Laforgue) (1990)
Hommelette for Hamlet, operetta inqualificabile (da J. Laforgue)41990HD
A TV movie variation on Shakespeare's Hamlet. The movie is a part of Carmelo Bene's multi-medial project on Hamlet, also including the theatrical movie "Un Amleto di meno", a stage drama and the experimental video "Amleto di Carmelo Bene (Da Shakespe...
- 2022
BENE! Vita di Carmelo, la macchina attoriale (2022)
BENE! Vita di Carmelo, la macchina attoriale7.52022HD
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- 1972
Salome (1972)
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Salome is the daughter of the second wife of King Herod. The King is infatuated with her and, after she fails to seduce the prophet John The Baptist, she dances for the King in order to ask for his execution....
- 1968
Our Lady of the Turks (1968)
Our Lady of the Turks6.41968HD
A man (Carmelo Bene) can not bear to be part of society. He considers himself a "jerk" and so invents its own philosophy, which involves the destruction of his land of Puglia where all citizens are devoted to the Catholic religion. However, the man c...
- 1968
Hermitage (1968)
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Hermitage, defined by Bene as "a rehearsal for lenses", beyond any literal rendition - its narrative trace comes from one of his anti-novels, Credito Italiano V.E.R.D.I - displays his immediate attitude to thinking a cinematic language completely bas...
- 1978
Amleto di Carmelo Bene (da Shakespeare a Laforgue) (1978)
Amleto di Carmelo Bene (da Shakespeare a Laforgue)6.51978HD
An experimental video variation on Shakespeare's Hamlet....
- 1967
Catch As Catch Can (1967)
Catch As Catch Can5.51967HD
Bob is a successful actor, but his career gets doomed by a strange phenomenon: the animal kingdom is taking on him!...
- 1973
Ventriloquio (1973)
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Adapted from the ninth chapter of the novel "Controcorrente" (1884) by Joris Karl Huysmans. Its narrative concentrates almost entirely on its principal character and is mostly a catalogue of the tastes and inner life of Jean des Esseintes, an eccentr...
- 1973
One Hamlet Less (1973)
One Hamlet Less7.31973HD
The "Hamlet" in this well-mounted Italian spoof is the Danish prince, not a small town or village. The movie irreverently draws on both the Shakespeare play and the 1877 story by Jules Laforgue. In the story, Hamlet (Carmelo Bene) is a would-be playw...
- 1996
Ai Rotoli (1996)
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A visit to the Rotoli cemetery in Palermo, while film director Carmelo Bene reads a fragment of Antonio Pizzuto's book "Signorina Rosina"....
- 1965
Un'ora prima di Amleto, più Pinocchio (1965)
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Backstage short documentary on Carmelo Bene’s theatre works Amleto and Pinocchio....
- 1969
Capricci (1969)
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After a fight in their apartment, the story of a writer and a painter are divided. The writer is dedicated with his partner Manon to provoke continuous accidents in a field in which car carcasses abound. The painter is recruited to kill, through a po...
- 2023
The Last Days of Humanity (2023)
The Last Days of Humanity7.42023HD
The panorama of human affairs encounters the “man with a movie camera”. His playground has no boundaries, his curiosity no limits. Characters, situations and places pitch camp in the life of a humanity that is at once the viewer and the thing viewed....
- 1980
Modi di vivere - Giorgio Colli. Una conoscenza per cambiare la vita (1980)
Modi di vivere - Giorgio Colli. Una conoscenza per cambiare la vita01980HD
Realized in 1980 for Rai 2, it recalls the main phases in the life of Giorgio Colli....