Mario Bava (July 31, 1914 – April 25, 1980) was an Italian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer remembered as one of the greatest names from the "golden age" of Italian horror films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mario Bava, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Academic researchers are chased by a nuclear-hot specimen of ancient Mayan blob.
Release Date1959-08-07
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Charactersd Mexican at police station (uncredited)
Vote Count49
A tourist witnesses a murder and finds herself caught up in a series of bloody killings.
Release Date1963-02-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Uncle Augusto
Vote Count175
The scheming mad scientist Dr. Goldfoot (Vincent Price) plots another mad scheme to take over the world by killing off the major military leaders of every country; to that end, he creates in his secret lab a bevy of bodacious girl bombs; full-length, life-size robots that explode when embraced.
Release Date1966-07-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Angel with Harp (uncredited)
Vote Count55
Documentary about the making of Riccardo Freda's "I vampiri" and Mario Bava's involvement.
Release Date2022-01-01
Charactersd self
Director Garry S. Grant’s insightful documentary celebrates the work and legacy of auteur filmmaker Mario Bava, the grand master of Italian horror and the man known by many as “the Italian Hitchcock.”
Release Date2000-10-01
Charactersd Self (archive footage)
Vote Count7
Mario Bava Operazione Paura", hosted by Joe Dante, is an hommage of the Master of the Terror, the italian director Mario Bava
Release Date2004-04-30
Charactersd Self
Vote Count1
Famous comic book artist Stephen R. Bissette, creator of DC Comic Book character "The Swamp Thing" and co-creator of the comic character "Constantine" teaches film appreciation and the art of comic book illustration in rural Vermont. Bissette is a life-long fan of DANGER: DIABOLIK and in "From Fumetti to Film," Bissette gives us a guided tour of how, in his own words, DANGER: DIABOLIK was "...the best adaptation of comic book to feature film bar none." His concepts of how the apparent 2-dimensional world of comic book illustrations were faithfully, but imaginatively re-interpreted by director Mario Bava are enhanced with side by side comparisons of the original comic book images laid next to film clips. Other films and television adaptations of comic books in that era were less successful, according to Bissette.
Release Date2005-06-14
Charactersd Self
Vote Count2
Documentary on Italian genre cinema.
Release Date2003-01-01
Charactersd Self
Vote Count1
Odysseus' journey, told in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. After fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus spends years trying to return home to Itaka.
Release Date1968-03-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count8
Vote Count9
A story about the devil's influence on five people's lives in 20th-century Venice.
Release Date1981-05-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing field, complicated by some teenagers who decide to camp out in a dilapidated building on the estate.
Release Date1971-09-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count395
Isabella, a young model, is murdered by a mysterious masked figure at a fashion house in Rome. When her diary, which details the house employees' many vices, disappears, the masked killer begins killing off all the models in and around the house to find it.
Release Date1964-04-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count433
A 20th century European village is haunted by the ghost of a murderous little girl.
Release Date1966-07-08
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count242
A couple is terrorized in their new house haunted by the vengeful ghost of the woman's former husband who possesses her young son.
Release Date1977-08-12
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count124
International man of mystery Diabolik and his sensuous lover Eva Kant pull off heist after heist, all while European cops led by Inspector Ginko and envious mobsters led by Ralph Valmont are closing in on them.
Release Date1968-01-24
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count231
A young man returns from Rome to his sister's satanic New York apartment house.
Release Date1980-02-07
DepartmentCrew
JobThanks
Vote Count630
A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant: Katia. Only a handsome doctor with the help of family members stand in her way.
Release Date1960-08-11
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count550
A madman haunted by the ghost of his ex-wife carves a corpse-laden trail.
Release Date1970-06-02
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count103
Three short tales of supernatural horror. In “The Telephone,” a woman is plagued by threatening phone calls. In "The Wurdalak,” a family is preyed upon by vampiric monsters. In “The Drop of Water,” a deceased medium wreaks havoc on the living.
Release Date1963-08-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count449
Upon his return from battle in the previous film, the great warrior Hercules learns that his lover, Daianara, has lost her senses. Acording of the oracle Medea, Dianara's only hope is the Stone of Forgetfulness which lies deep in the realm of Hades. Hercules, with two companions, Theseus and Telemachus, embarks on a dangerous quest for the stone, while he is unaware that Dianara's guardian, King Lico, is the one responsible for her condition and plots to have the girl for himself as his bride upon her revival.
Release Date1961-11-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count77
Following a bungled robbery, three violent criminals take a young woman, a middle-aged man, and a child hostage and force them to drive them outside Rome to help them make a clean getaway.
Release Date1995-11-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count266
After a bank job goes badly wrong, three desperate criminals take a young woman and a father and child hostage - it's the beginning of a frantic and violent road trip that not all of them will survive.
Release Date2015-09-30
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Film Writer
Vote Count107
Lisa is a tourist in an ancient city. When she gets lost, she finds an old mansion in which to shelter. Soon she is sucked into a vortex of deception, debauchery and evil presided over by housekeeper Leandre.
Release Date1973-05-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count140
A drifter helps a ranch couple fend off the approaches of a ruthless landowner.
Release Date1966-03-18
DepartmentVisual Effects
JobMatte Painter
Vote Count14
In this melange of characters and events from separate mythological stories, Hercules, demigod and superman, arrives in the ancient Greek kingdom of Iolcus to tutor Iphitus, son of king Pelias; immediately on arrival, he falls in love with the king's delectable, briefly clad daughter Iole. Before he can win her, he must succeed in a series of quests, in the course of which he teams up with Jason, true heir of Iolcus, whom he accompanies on the famous voyage of the Argonauts.
Release Date1958-02-20
DepartmentCrew
JobSpecial Effects
Vote Count64
After landing on a mysterious planet, a team of astronauts begin to turn on each other, swayed by the uncertain influence of the planet and its strange inhabitants.
Release Date1965-09-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count241
A wealthy playboy gathers a group of bourgeois friends at his isolated beach house for a weekend of relaxation. When bodies start pilling up, they realize they’re trapped with a killer in their midst, sending them in a frenzy to figure out who amongst them is killing the others before they are killed next.
Release Date1970-03-14
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count131
The epic story of Moses, who led the Israelites out of slavery, parted the Red Sea and received the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai. Originally a TV Miniseries recut for theaters
Release Date1974-12-22
DepartmentCrew
JobSpecial Effects Coordinator
Episode Count7
Two outlaws compete with each other over a treasure map that will lead them to buried gold while one of them is in league with a sadistic priest-turned-crime lord, while a young Native American girl helps both outlaws and plays both sides against each other.
Release Date1970-08-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count26
En route to Thebes for an important diplomatic mission, Hercules drinks from a magic spring and loses his memory. He spends most of the movie in the pleasure gardens of Queen Omphale of Lydia. While young Ulysses tries to help him regain his memory, political tensions escalate in Thebes, and Hercules' new wife Iole finds herself in mortal danger.
Release Date1959-02-14
DepartmentCrew
JobSpecial Effects
Vote Count48
Esposito is a thief who cons tourists in Rome. Officer Bottoni manages to catch him and starts persecuting him. When Esposito manages to flee, Bottoni's superiors inform him that he'll lose his job if he can't catch Esposito.
Release Date1951-11-29
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count175
A night of attempted seduction is recalled from the perspectives of the woman, the man, a lecherous doorman and a psychoanalyst.
Release Date1971-07-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count30
Disowned in the past by his father, Kurt Menliff, a cruel and sadistic nobleman, returns to the family castle to reclaim his inheritance.
Release Date1963-08-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count141
A young man, Peter, returns to Austria in search of his heritage. There he visits the castle of an ancestor, a sadistic Baron who was cursed to a violent death by a witch whom the Baron had burned at the stake. Peter reads aloud the incantation that causes Baron Blood to return and continue his murderous tortures.
Release Date1972-02-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count133
Maciste travels to Egypt, where he leads a revolt against an evil queen. In Son of Samson, Maciste (Mark Forrest) -- scion of the famed muscleman -- travels to the Egyptian city of Tanis to checkmate villainous Queen Smedes (Chelo Alonso), who's persecuting the citizenry.
Release Date1960-11-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobSecond Unit Director
Vote Count16
The epic story of Moses, who led the Israelites out of slavery, parted the Red Sea and received the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai. Originally a TV Miniseries recut for theaters
Release Date1974-12-22
DepartmentCrew
JobSpecial Effects Coordinator
Vote Count7
Lina, a music hall singer, has fallen in love with Sergei, a Russian prince. Maestro Doria, who gives her voice lessons and who hopes to make her his mistress, takes her to Paris where she becomes the star of the "Folies-Plastiques".
Release Date1955-10-21
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count25
Nero is on holiday at the seaside. Poppea, Seneca and many other guests are with him. Nero is preparing a great show where he will be the star. When Agrippina, his mother, arrives with her German praetorians and decides Nero has to conquer Britain, she is asking for trouble. Many attempts of murder and poisoning will happen on the eve of his great show.
Release Date1956-09-13
DepartmentCrew
JobSpecial Effects
Vote Count29
Recently widowed Persian King Ahasuerus wants to marry the beautiful Esther. But Esther is a Jewess, and Haman, the king's evil minister, is spreading hatred against the Jews.
Release Date1960-11-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count15
In the 9th Century, two Viking children, separated since their early childhood with one raised by the British and the other by Vikings, meet after nearly 20 years as rivals as war breaks out between Britian and the Vikings for control of England.
Release Date1961-12-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count42
A Welsh pirate raids up and down the Caribbean, battling the Spanish, the English and other pirates.
Release Date1960-11-17
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count6
Young Aladdin has a series of wild adventures after he discovers a magic lamp containing a genie.
Release Date1961-10-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count15
Gino Bardi is a centre-forward in a football team which is about to be relegated to the second division. Just before a very important match a girl he has a relationship with proposes him to rig it. He refuses the offer but he actually begins playing like an amateur and the crowd begin to smell something fishy going on.
Release Date1952-12-30
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count5
1760 Spain provides the setting for Giacomo Casanova's romantic escapades, every woman he encounters unable to resist his disarming charm, be they single, engaged, or even married.
Release Date1954-12-22
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count3
A mad scientist captures young women and drains their blood, in order to keep alive an ancient, evil duchess.
Release Date1957-04-05
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count73
In this historical drama, a Viking prince returns to his homeland only to learn that his father has been murdered by King Sven of Norway. Sven is forcing his sister to marry in order to create an alliance with the Danes. The prince must defeat Sven and save his sister.
Release Date1961-02-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobAdditional Second Assistant Director
Vote Count5
Odysseus' journey told in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. After fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus spends years trying to return home to Itaka.
Release Date1968-03-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count25
While casing a bank he intends to rob, gangster Leo discovers one of the clerks, Antonio, is his exact double. He kidnaps Antonio and robs the bank, posing as Antonio. But Leo hadn't accounted for the involvement of Antonio's wife, Dorothy.
Release Date1950-05-11
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count4
A Greek soldier leads the fight against an invading Persian army.
Release Date1959-12-03
DepartmentCrew
JobSpecial Effects
Vote Count27
A re-edited version of Mario Bava's "Lisa and the Devil" for the U.S. market, including newly filmed scenes involving a possessed Lisa.
Release Date1975-04-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count29
A lone rider comes across a dying soldier, the victim of an Indian attack, who gives him a paper authorizing the payment of $150,000 to the U.S. Army. The rider gathers some colleagues who disguise themselves as soldiers and who take the paper to a bank. They get the money but a shoot-out occurs, an old woman is killed, and the gang acrimoniously splits up. Later some members of the gang meet up with some real U.S. Cavalry soldiers and together they must fight off new Indian attacks.
Release Date1964-10-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count18
A woman is strangled in the bath by a black-gloved killer who disposes of her body in a large trunk. The trunk is delivered to St. Hilda College, an exclusive finishing school. Betty-Anne, one of the female students, is strangled in the school cellar. The police, led by Inspector Durand, are called in to investigate. Suspects include La Floret, the voyeuristic gardener; Di Brazzi, the new swimming instructor; Mrs. Clay, the summer school French mistress; an old professor who collects birds; and a philandering young teacher called Richard. The murders continue but Jill, a keen amateur detective, helps the police identify the unlikely killer...
Release Date1968-02-20
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count29
Villa Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are consumed. The movie is made of six vignettes set there.
Release Date1953-12-18
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count9
The story of Hadji Murad, a 19th-century Chechen chieftain who led his warriors in a fight against the invading forces of the Russian Czar.
Release Date1959-06-21
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count10
Journalist decides to report on Miss Italy candidates, in which detective intrigue is added.
Release Date1950-02-15
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Scientists discover that a group of meteors are hurtling on a collison course with Earth, and if they hit, the planet will be destroyed.
Release Date1958-09-04
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count21
Cesare Mancini is a tram driver who lives in Bologna. One day he accidentally hits a woman on a bicycle, the accident costs Cesare the relegation to a ticket seller.
Release Date1954-12-28
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count9
Pagliacci, is a 1948 Italian film based on Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci, directed by Mario Costa. The film stars Tito Gobbi and Gina Lollobrigida. It recounts the tragedy of Canio, the lead clown (or pagliaccio in Italian) in a commedia dell'arte troupe, his wife Nedda, and her lover, Silvio. When Nedda spurns the advances of Tonio, another player in the troupe, he tells Canio about Nedda's betrayal. In a jealous rage Canio murders both Nedda and Silvio. The only actor in the cast who also sang his role was the celebrated Italian baritone, Tito Gobbi, but the film is largely very faithful to its source material, presenting the opera nearly complete.
Release Date1948-12-02
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
While her new husband is away looking for work, the wife loses the child she was expecting and uses another woman's baby as a substitute so she won't have to upset her spouse when he returns.
Release Date1955-08-06
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
When young Dalia is mistakenly admitted to a mental institution, she is declared sane - but by a truly mad person pretending to be a doctor. The real doctor thinks she is insane - how can she escape this madness?
Release Date1954-03-20
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count2
Gina tries to commit suicide by jumping into the river but is saved by Teodoro, an innocent young man. Antonio, Teodoro's brother, tries in every way to seduce her.
Release Date1951-12-07
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count2
A lawyer, married but temporarily alone at home, finds himself in the house a beautiful lady who tries to escape from her jealous husband. Fascinated by the beauty of the unexpected guest, the lawyer is determined to conquer her, in vain. But when the woman leaves, she discovers that she has been stolen some money.
Release Date1955-03-16
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count13
It's the last year of highschool of a group of teenagers, and now they have to face their final exam, and the loves, happy or not, that sprung during those years of school.
Release Date1954-04-01
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count1
Tragicomedy telling of the trials and tribulations of a troupe of variety show artists.
Release Date1950-09-30
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count14
To get ahead after he answers a newspaper ad for a business proposition, Passaguai borrows the more impressive apartment of a retired actor and arranges an elaborate luncheon there.
Release Date1952-03-07
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count8
According to Ferrara, Rossellini told him it was a satire in which “Perfidious Albion,” a big turkey representing England, goes around pecking at the hens representing the nations of Europe, until defied by a rooster representing Italy. “Rossellini detested it,” said Ferrara, “[though his] genius was such that he could achieve extraordinary effects out of nothing.
Release Date1939-12-01
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count4
Although released anonymously, as was the custom with all films produced by the Italian Navy, La Nave Bianca is the first feature-length effort directed by Roberto Rossellini; it is also very much the work of its co-writer and supervisor Francesco De Robertis. The film combines a documentary look at the Italian Navy during World War II with newsreel combat footage and a scripted love story performed by non-professional actors.
Release Date1941-09-14
DepartmentCamera
JobAssistant Camera
Vote Count13
A strange vagrant makes repeated attempts to rescue land inhabited by hawkers from being taken over by building development and a subway installation.
Release Date1950-12-06
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count1
In the 70s Matteusz Gdula invented an acting method that was supposed to make every actor “shine”. Still, lots of his students die mysteriously and Gdula commits suicide. His method gets banned. Now: Stella, an ambitious, but rather untalented drama student, gets accepted at the „Matteusz Gdula“-school. When she bears witness to some strange occurrences, she gets drawn into the bizarre and deadly web that surrounds the dark secret of the school...
Release Date2011-07-28
DepartmentCrew
JobThanks
Vote Count33
Release Date1948-08-10
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count2
A mysterious knife-throwing viking warrior protects a young peasant woman and her young son from the clutches of a evil regent bent on claiming the title of king and the woman for himself.
Release Date1966-05-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count33
Naples 1821. Alphonse, a young poet belonging to a noble French family, is caught by a storm at sea. Fortunately the boat manage to reach the shores of Procida, where Alphonse is welcomed by the family of Andrea. Here he meets the beautiful Graziella.
Release Date1954-10-28
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count1
Nemorino is hopelessly in love with Adina but she is attracted to a dashing captain.
Release Date1947-01-31
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count2
Second World War . Field 119 in California (USA ) . War is long over , but the Italian Prisoners Still waiting to return home , preparing to celebrate , away from families , another sad Christmas. To dare a little rein to Their longing , they tell Episodes of Their Life . A Roman tells the USA difficult married life . A Neapolitan soldier tells of His lieutenant, a Neapolitan duke penniless . Meanwhile , the camp commander gave : Prisoners and a gramophone , So , Ai stories intertwine songs . Another soldier recalls the parties and the songs of the Sicilian spring , WHILE a Venetian gondolier evokes A HIS love affair . Sometimes , From Radio shabby listening news from abroad and Italy . Finally , one day , comes the ' pending release and All They return home .
Release Date1947-12-22
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count4
Release Date1951-03-23
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
The story of a woman who marries the brother of a guardian who was killed by her brother.
Release Date1953-02-18
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count1
When Passaguai family patriarch Giuseppe (Fabrizi) decides to take advantage of a corporate discount to bring his wife (Ninchi) and children to spend a Sunday at the beach of Fiumicino, a series of troubles begins for everyone, in the form of a comic nightmare.
Release Date1951-12-20
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count18
Release Date1943-03-31
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
The Passaguai family is living peacefully, but then they go to see the magician Bhorman, starting a series of problem for them.
Release Date1952-09-26
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count6
The last days of Napoleon on the island of Saint Helena.
Release Date1943-06-26
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count1
An evil duke kidnaps the good king and tries to make the virtuous queen his bride and the peasants take arms.
Release Date1962-08-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobSecond Unit Director
Vote Count1
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 runs away. Then everybody try to find her.
Release Date1958-03-06
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Release Date1941-05-06
DepartmentCamera
JobCamera Operator
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 save it.
Release Date1939-12-01
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count7
Documentary filmed in the judicial asylum of Aversa which testifies to the systems of care still based on violence and segregation.
Release Date1950-01-01
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Documentary short
Release Date1947-11-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Joys and disappointments of three young girls who dreaming of making a career in film: Luisa has talent and triumphs; Franca tries to seduce a producer, however no artistic skills, Giuditta, the most inexperienced and naive, will have to choose between the dream of cinema and the reality of a marriage.
Release Date1953-04-09
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count8
In this sword-and-sandal saga set on the steppes of Asia, Roland, leader of the Paladin troops, who must proves his mettle against the dreaded Saracen invaders, and withstand their evil plots
Release Date1956-12-06
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count2
Release Date1949-03-20
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Release Date1946-01-01
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
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.
Release Date1947-01-05
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Documentary short
Release Date1949-03-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Release Date1953-01-01
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
A wealthy landowner uncovers a bronze statue of Venus on his property. He asks an antique expert to examine the statue and confirm its wealth. Upon arrival, the expert is striken with love by the landowner’s daughter-in-law who bears an uncanny resemblance to the statue.
Release Date1981-05-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Release Date1948-09-01
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Documentary short.
Release Date1947-04-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Early documentary short by Mario Bava.
Release Date1947-04-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A short film by Mario Bava about the representation of music, the very language of the soul.
Release Date1950-11-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A featurette on the making of I Vampiri
Release Date2013-10-01
