Mario Bava Movies

Based on Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci. The film recounts the tragedy of Canio, the lead clown (or pagliaccio in Italian) in a commedia...

The epic story of Moses, who led the Israelites out of slavery, parted the Red Sea and received the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai. This is the...

La vispa Teresa (“Lively Theresa”) is based on a well known song; a girl, ten, catches a butterfly and all the other insects intervene to...

A featurette on the making of I Vampiri

A young girl falls in love with an actor. She persuades her father to support his acting company, but when she discovers him with another girl she...

A short film by Mario Bava about the representation of music, the very language of the soul.

Early documentary short by Mario Bava.

According to Ferrara, Rossellini told him it was a satire in which “Perfidious Albion,” a big turkey representing England, goes around...

Documentary short

Submarine disaster drama made under the auspices of Mussolini's department of defense. During maneuvers a submarine collides with a surface vessel...

Four war pilots that have been fighting together go seperate ways and meet up again years later. Shot in 1943, but only released in 1947.

In the 70s Matteusz Gdula invented an acting method that was supposed to make every actor “shine”. Still, lots of his students die...

Documentary short

Documentary filmed in the judicial asylum of Aversa which testifies to the systems of care still based on violence and segregation.

Documentary short.