Carmelo Bene Movies

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...

The panorama of human affairs encounters the “man with a movie camera”. His playground has no boundaries, his curiosity no limits....

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,...

Artists and poets meet in a dreamlike space between walks and performances.

Frank was removed from an investigation into Mac Brown, the owner of a pharmaceutical company, who was suspected of drug trafficking and illegal...

Frankenstein's monster gropes towards the awareness that his mind is a universe; Attila, naked on a white horse, liberates his people from their...

In this a baroque and claustrophobic take on Mozart’s opera of the same name, Don Giovanni tries to seduce a girl who is manically searching...

The Prince of Denmark, Hamlet, is little interested in family affairs and the fate of the kingdom, and not at all attracted by a doll-like Ophelia...

Riccardo III is a theatre play staged in 1977 and also edited for television and aired in 1981, which Carmelo Bene dedicated to his friend Gilles...

A few days after the arrival of the year 1000, bearer of great misfortune according to the Prophets, the cavalryman Fortunato and two soldiers,...

In the words of the director, a movie about 'the colonizers in the view of the colonized', the movie presents a series of disconnected happenings...

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...

Hermitage, defined by Bene as "a rehearsal for lenses", beyond any literal rendition - its narrative trace comes from one of his anti-novels, Credito...

Drama by Lord George Byron, music by Robert Schumann. Filmed at Teatro Comunale di Bologna, 1979.

In 1966, Bene presented The Pink and the Black, his successful theatrical adaptation of Matthew Gregory Lewis’ lurid Gothic novel from 1796....

An experimental video variation on Shakespeare's Hamlet.

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...