Carmelo Bene Movies
- 1967
Oedipus Rex
Oedipus Rex6.7661967HD
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...
- 1970
Necropolis
Necropolis4.7331970HD
Frankenstein's monster gropes towards the awareness that his mind is a universe; Attila, naked on a white horse, liberates his people from their...
- 1968
Hermitage
Hermitage7.21968HD
Hermitage, defined by Bene as "a rehearsal for lenses", beyond any literal rendition - its narrative trace comes from one of his anti-novels, Credito...
- 1969
Umano non umano
Umano non umano6.51969HD
Artists and poets meet in a dreamlike space between walks and performances.
- 1972
Salome
Salome71972HD
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,...
- 1967
Catch As Catch Can
Catch As Catch Can5.751967HD
Bob is a successful actor, but his career gets doomed by a strange phenomenon: the animal kingdom is taking on him!
- 1969
Capricci
Capricci5.81969HD
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...
- 1973
One Hamlet Less
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...
- 2023
The Last Days of Humanity
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....
- 1990
Hommelette for Hamlet, operetta inqualificabile (da J. Laforgue)
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...
- 1968
Our Lady of the Turks
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...
- 1981
Riccardo III
Riccardo III01981HD
Riccardo III (da Shakespeare) secondo Carmelo Bene
- 1970
Don Giovanni
Don Giovanni5.11970HD
Spectacular Italian comedy-drama directed by Carmelo Bene. The narrative follows how Don Giovanni tries to seduce a young woman who is manically...
- 1970
Red Hot Shot
Red Hot Shot41970HD
Frank was removed from an investigation into Mac Brown, the owner of a pharmaceutical company, who was suspected of drug trafficking and illegal...
- 1978
Amleto di Carmelo Bene (da Shakespeare a Laforgue)
Amleto di Carmelo Bene (da Shakespeare a Laforgue)6.51978HD
An experimental video variation on Shakespeare's Hamlet.
- 1973
Ventriloquio
Ventriloquio01973HD
Adapted from the ninth chapter of the novel "Controcorrente" (1884) by Joris Karl Huysmans. Its narrative concentrates almost entirely on its...
- 1977
Bene! Quattro diversi modi di morire in versi: Majakovskij-Blok-Esènin-Pasternak
Bene! Quattro diversi modi di morire in versi: Majakovskij-Blok-Esènin-Pasternak01977HD
Performance shot in 1977, in which emblematic actor Carmelo Bene, in the charming reconstruction of the ruins of a theater on fire accompanied by the...
- 1971
Tre nel mille
Tre nel mille61971HD
A few days after the arrival of the year 1000, bearer of great misfortune according to the Prophets, the cavalryman Fortunato and two soldiers,...
- 2003
Lorenzaccio, al di là di de Musset e Benedetto Varchi
Lorenzaccio, al di là di de Musset e Benedetto Varchi02003HD
Video registration of Carmelo Bene's play 'Lorenzaccio, al di là di de Musset e Benedetto Varchi', performed in Florence in 1986.
- 2022
BENE! Vita di Carmelo, la macchina attoriale
BENE! Vita di Carmelo, la macchina attoriale7.52022HD