Tinto Brass

Inferno Rosso: Joe D'Amato on the Road of Excess (2021)

Who was Joe D'Amato aka. Aristide Massaccesi? A genius of horror in the USA, a master of eroticism in France, the king of porn in Italy. A man with a thousand pseudonyms capable of making over 200 films while simultaneously holding the roles of producer, d ...

Searching for Valentina: The World of Guido Crepax (2019)

1965: Paris, London and Milan all move at the same fast pace, fueled by a fresh creative and rebellious impetus. Guido Crepax picks up on this energy and transfers it to a comic strip in which art, music, design, film and fashion all blend together, breaki ...

Burning Love (2015)

July 2006. Leonardo Zuliani has vanished. The news from Trastevere in Rome turns into a real national emergency, while a huge throng of followers gathers around the young activist's house. His mother is beside herself with grief and the entire neighbourhoo ...

Tinto Brass: Maestro of Erotic Cinema (2014)

Tinto Brass gives the stories behind his films. ...

Istintobrass (2013)

One of the most controversial, original and loved figures of Italian cinema. The most censored director of all time. An anarchist of the film, a gifted experimenter, an inventor of dreams. A truly great artist. ...

Crazy Dog (2012)

Twenty years ago Marco's father was brutally murdered by a cold-blooded serial killer known as the Crazy Dog. Since then, he has been ceaselessly trying to unveil the chain of events that have resulted in dad's death. Marco contacts Raul Chinna, a well-kno ...

Case Chiuse (2011)

February 20, 1958: the Italian Parliament approved Law No. 75, the "Merlin Law": the end of an institution of Italian society for ages: the brothel. The Italian writer Dino Buzzati likens the event to the fire in the library of Alexandria in Egypt. The bro ...

Impotenti esistenziali (2009)

Giuseppe, psychologist and professor of sex education, meets Francesca, Riccardo's wife, in a private club and has a relationship with her. ...

Kick the Cock (2008)

Kick the Cock is an old Dutch saying, meaning Peek in the Kitchen. ...

Il nostro messia (2008)

Five young girls share an apartment in Rome, different precarious conditions and a common desire for actresses. ...

La rabbia (2008)

A young director years old, lives with a girl. Active part of the Intellectual society, he represents perfectly the union between fear and determination, that changes deeply his way of understanding the world that surrounds him. His only aim is to leave a ...

Tinto Brass: The Orgy Of Power (2007)

An Italian language interview recounting his work featuring erotica on Caligula and other films ...

My Roman Holiday With John Steiner (2007)

Interview with John Stiener about his career and views and perspectives on Caligula and some of his other movies. ...

Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds (2006)

Created by his son Leonardo, this portrait of Adolfo Celi reconstructs his personal and artistic journey between Italy and Brazil. Through interviews, film clips, testimonials, photos, and extraordinary footage from the Celi family's personal archive, we w ...

Western all'italiana (2004)

"Western all'italiana" is a documentary produced and broadcast by the satellite broadcaster Studio Universal in 2004, on the occasion of the broadcasting of a selection of Italian western films, the so-called "spaghetti westerns". In the course of the vide ...

Black Angel (2002)

Livia, the attractive wife of a high-ranking Ministry of the People's Republic official, is accompanied by Ugo, a lawyer, her admirer and her husband's spy, to Venice. There, she is to meet her lover Helmut Schultz, a lieutenant in the infamous SS with who ...

Unchaste Relationships (2002)

Cheeky (2000)

While scouting out apartments in London for her Venetian boyfriend, Carla rents an apartment overlooking the Thames. There, she meets a real estate agent by the name of Moira. ...

Candlewick (1999)

Red-haired, sex-obsessed manchild Lucio lazes all day long with his friend Pino until he falls for the beautiful head of the local loony bin. ...

Dream (1999)

Alone on a deserted beach, a girl undresses and falls asleep. The sun rises. As a reflection of the erotic dream she is having, the girl touches herself moaning and enjoying. The beach fills up... ...

Ladybird (1999)

Sunday afternoon, it's hot and the city is deserted. A beautiful woman, married without children, meets a sperm donor. The man invited by the couple is greatly embarrassed because he fails in his task. After waiting and trying, the lady moves on to direct ...

A Magic Mirror (1999)

A jerk husband Sandro and his young wife Giulia have moved into a new apartment. She is unpacking, and he his lounging in the bath. When his brother Walter comes over to deliver a new wall mirror. The brother makes a pass at the young wife, as he has secre ...

Julia (1999)

Giulia is an independent young woman who is prepared to offer her body and her spirit against all the religious taboos. ...

Blessed Transgression! (1999)

A young separated couple meets by chance on the terrace of a Roman park. The husband hardly recognizes in the woman's uninhibited and provocative behavior his ex-wife, who, realizing the exciting effect it has on her ex-spouse, even offers him a threesome. ...

Tinto Brass Presents Erotic Short Stories: Part 2 - Quattro (1999)

Segment 1 :- An unmarried middle aged couple, Dominique and Gerard checks into a hotel. They proceed to seduce the chambermaid Mara while the desk clerk, Bartolomeo watches over CCTV every erotic encounter going on in various rooms throughout the hotel. ...

Hold My Wrists Tight (1999)

When working in a doctor's office, afternoons do not seem to pass badly. But an imaginative secretary spends her time in solitary and bizarre erotic games. Meanwhile, the doctor treats a very young and mysterious patient who seems to like much more carnal ...

Weekend in Lecco (1999)

Mischievous and spicy chronicle of the meeting between two friends who, after playing the slave and the mistress, vent their excitement on a talented and enthusiastic gardener. ...

The Last Subway (1999)

It can happen. Any night in any metro station. It can happen that a hurried girl comes out of the bathroom without realizing that she is badly arranged in her skirt. And it can happen that two guys are going to commit behind her to attend a fabulous show. ...

I Am the Way You Want Me (1999)

A ghost eye spies on her. A ritual begins, the woman puts on makeup, shaves, prepares to do what perhaps her man told her to do. A bowl of milk, a white linen shirt, a razor sharp red nail polish, white milk inside his mouth. A shower drips on her... And e ...

Quattro (1999)

'Quattro' is set on the eve of the new millenium: New Year's Eve, 1999. To celebrate the beginning of a new century, two men and a woman have a wild night of passion together in a hotel room. ...

Tinto Brass Presents Erotic Short Stories: Part 3 - Hold My Wrists Tight (1999)

Segment 1 - Coccinella (Laydbird): An impotent husband and her wife, Livio ask a painter, Ilarioto give some sperm to get her pregnant. But the donor has some trouble providing a specimen whilst the eager lady thinks up elaborate ways to get him going. But ...

Tinto Brass Presents Erotic Short Stories: Part 4 (1999)

Another 3 short films from the master of erotic cinema. Improper Liaisons (Rapporti impropri): After the death of her mother, Silvia leaves boarding school to stay with her recently remarried uncle in Rome. Everyone welcomes her into the household, except ...

Tinto Brass Presents Erotic Short Stories: Part 4 - Improper Liaisons (1998)

Another 3 short films from the master of erotic cinema. Improper Liaisons (Rapporti impropri): After the death of her mother, Silvia leaves boarding school to stay with her recently remarried uncle in Rome. Everyone welcomes her into the household, except ...

Erotic Short Circuits Vol. 1 (1998)

L'Ultimo Metro: It can happen. Any night in any metro station. It can happen that a hurried girl comes out of the bathroom without realizing that she is badly arranged in her skirt. And it can happen that two guys are going to commit behind her to attend a ...

Erotic Short Circuits Vol.2 (1998)

Rapporti Impropri: After the death of her mother, Silvia, a sexually jaunty 16-year-old girl, is welcomed for a certain period by her uncle Carlo where as a child she spent the summer holidays and of which she is always secretly in love. Silvia's goal is t ...

Erotic Short Circuits Vol.3 (1998)

Stringimi Forte I Polsi: When working in a doctor's office, afternoons do not seem to pass badly. But an imaginative secretary spends her time in solitary and bizarre erotic games. Meanwhile, the doctor treats a very young and mysterious patient who seems ...

Frivolous Lola (1998)

In 1950s northern Italy, a woman tests her fiancé's love and passion by trying to break his commitment to premarital chastity. ...

Quando l'Italia non era un paese povero (1997)

P.O. Box Tinto Brass (1995)

A successful erotic film producer from Rome regularly receives letters from female fans seeking his advice on how to spice up their sex lives. Thanks to his years of experience in both the film business and the sex industry, he has all sorts of tips at the ...

The Voyeur (1994)

At a college in Rome, a professor, nicknamed "Dodo" is in a deep depression. His stunningly beautiful wife has just left him for another man. Dodo wants her back very badly and has erotic daydreams about her. A beautiful young student in his class asks him ...

All Ladies Do It (1992)

After five years of marriage, Diana discovers the joys of adultery, claiming that she can save her failing relationship through betrayal. ...

Paprika (1991)

In 1957 Trieste, a few months before the general ban on brothels, inexperienced country girl Mimma becomes Paprika to finance her useless boyfriend as a prostitute. Amid the hustle and bustle of Rome, Paprika drifts from one brothel to another as she learn ...

Snack Bar Budapest (1988)

While his girlfriend recovers from a medical procedure, a corrupt lawyer becomes entranced by the grand visions of a mob boss. ...

The Key (1983)

In 1940s Venice, after twenty years' marriage, retired art critic Nino Rolfe and his younger wife Teresa feel their passion waning. To help her shed her inhibitions and rekindle their relationship, the professor records his sexual fantasies in a diary. ...

A Documentary on the Making of 'Gore Vidal's Caligula' (1981)

A Documentary on the Making of 'Gore Vidal's Caligula' ...

Action (1980)

Z-movie actor Bruno Martel has hero syndrome, often quarrelling with directors. He meets fellow actor Doris, who is obsessed with Ophelia but cannot get any Shakespearean bookings. One day, during a nervous breakdown, Bruno 'rescues' Doris from the set, le ...

The Howl (1970)

A young bride flees the ceremony with a stranger and, together, they set off on an epic journey though increasingly bizarre lands. They encounter talking animals and mournful exhibitionists, converse with a discoursing rock, journey through a surrealist's ...

Woman Is a Wonderful Thing (1964)

Italian episode movie ...

Tempo libero (1964)

Avantgarde short by Brass. ...

Tempo lavorativo (1964)

Avantgarde short by Brass. ...

Hotel Courbet (2009)

The woman lets herself go so she can assuage her erotic affliction. The provocative intimacy, violated unseen, is worth more for the burglar than any of the things he has stolen... ...

Kick the Cock (2008)

Kick the Cock is an old Dutch saying, meaning Peek in the Kitchen. ...

Black Angel (2002)

Livia, the attractive wife of a high-ranking Ministry of the People's Republic official, is accompanied by Ugo, a lawyer, her admirer and her husband's spy, to Venice. There, she is to meet her lover Helmut Schultz, a lieutenant in the infamous SS with who ...

Unchaste Relationships (2002)

Cheeky (2000)

While scouting out apartments in London for her Venetian boyfriend, Carla rents an apartment overlooking the Thames. There, she meets a real estate agent by the name of Moira. ...

Dream (1999)

Alone on a deserted beach, a girl undresses and falls asleep. The sun rises. As a reflection of the erotic dream she is having, the girl touches herself moaning and enjoying. The beach fills up... ...

Ladybird (1999)

Sunday afternoon, it's hot and the city is deserted. A beautiful woman, married without children, meets a sperm donor. The man invited by the couple is greatly embarrassed because he fails in his task. After waiting and trying, the lady moves on to direct ...

A Magic Mirror (1999)

A jerk husband Sandro and his young wife Giulia have moved into a new apartment. She is unpacking, and he his lounging in the bath. When his brother Walter comes over to deliver a new wall mirror. The brother makes a pass at the young wife, as he has secre ...

Julia (1999)

Giulia is an independent young woman who is prepared to offer her body and her spirit against all the religious taboos. ...

Blessed Transgression! (1999)

A young separated couple meets by chance on the terrace of a Roman park. The husband hardly recognizes in the woman's uninhibited and provocative behavior his ex-wife, who, realizing the exciting effect it has on her ex-spouse, even offers him a threesome. ...

Tinto Brass Presents Erotic Short Stories: Part 2 - Quattro (1999)

Segment 1 :- An unmarried middle aged couple, Dominique and Gerard checks into a hotel. They proceed to seduce the chambermaid Mara while the desk clerk, Bartolomeo watches over CCTV every erotic encounter going on in various rooms throughout the hotel. ...

Hold My Wrists Tight (1999)

When working in a doctor's office, afternoons do not seem to pass badly. But an imaginative secretary spends her time in solitary and bizarre erotic games. Meanwhile, the doctor treats a very young and mysterious patient who seems to like much more carnal ...

Weekend in Lecco (1999)

Mischievous and spicy chronicle of the meeting between two friends who, after playing the slave and the mistress, vent their excitement on a talented and enthusiastic gardener. ...

The Last Subway (1999)

It can happen. Any night in any metro station. It can happen that a hurried girl comes out of the bathroom without realizing that she is badly arranged in her skirt. And it can happen that two guys are going to commit behind her to attend a fabulous show. ...

I Am the Way You Want Me (1999)

A ghost eye spies on her. A ritual begins, the woman puts on makeup, shaves, prepares to do what perhaps her man told her to do. A bowl of milk, a white linen shirt, a razor sharp red nail polish, white milk inside his mouth. A shower drips on her... And e ...

Tinto Brass Presents Erotic Short Stories: Part 3 - Hold My Wrists Tight (1999)

Segment 1 - Coccinella (Laydbird): An impotent husband and her wife, Livio ask a painter, Ilarioto give some sperm to get her pregnant. But the donor has some trouble providing a specimen whilst the eager lady thinks up elaborate ways to get him going. But ...

Quattro (1999)

'Quattro' is set on the eve of the new millenium: New Year's Eve, 1999. To celebrate the beginning of a new century, two men and a woman have a wild night of passion together in a hotel room. ...

Tinto Brass Presents Erotic Short Stories: Part 4 - Improper Liaisons (1998)

Another 3 short films from the master of erotic cinema. Improper Liaisons (Rapporti impropri): After the death of her mother, Silvia leaves boarding school to stay with her recently remarried uncle in Rome. Everyone welcomes her into the household, except ...

Erotic Short Circuits Vol. 1 (1998)

L'Ultimo Metro: It can happen. Any night in any metro station. It can happen that a hurried girl comes out of the bathroom without realizing that she is badly arranged in her skirt. And it can happen that two guys are going to commit behind her to attend a ...

Erotic Short Circuits Vol.2 (1998)

Rapporti Impropri: After the death of her mother, Silvia, a sexually jaunty 16-year-old girl, is welcomed for a certain period by her uncle Carlo where as a child she spent the summer holidays and of which she is always secretly in love. Silvia's goal is t ...

Erotic Short Circuits Vol.3 (1998)

Stringimi Forte I Polsi: When working in a doctor's office, afternoons do not seem to pass badly. But an imaginative secretary spends her time in solitary and bizarre erotic games. Meanwhile, the doctor treats a very young and mysterious patient who seems ...

Frivolous Lola (1998)

In 1950s northern Italy, a woman tests her fiancé's love and passion by trying to break his commitment to premarital chastity. ...

P.O. Box Tinto Brass (1995)

A successful erotic film producer from Rome regularly receives letters from female fans seeking his advice on how to spice up their sex lives. Thanks to his years of experience in both the film business and the sex industry, he has all sorts of tips at the ...

The Voyeur (1994)

At a college in Rome, a professor, nicknamed "Dodo" is in a deep depression. His stunningly beautiful wife has just left him for another man. Dodo wants her back very badly and has erotic daydreams about her. A beautiful young student in his class asks him ...

All Ladies Do It (1992)

After five years of marriage, Diana discovers the joys of adultery, claiming that she can save her failing relationship through betrayal. ...

Paprika (1991)

In 1957 Trieste, a few months before the general ban on brothels, inexperienced country girl Mimma becomes Paprika to finance her useless boyfriend as a prostitute. Amid the hustle and bustle of Rome, Paprika drifts from one brothel to another as she learn ...

Snack Bar Budapest (1988)

While his girlfriend recovers from a medical procedure, a corrupt lawyer becomes entranced by the grand visions of a mob boss. ...

Love & Passion (1987)

After the renewed flings with their former lovers prove to be disastrously unlike the romantic memories, an unfaithful couple returns to each other. ...

Miranda (1985)

In 1950s Ferrara, a lonely innkeeper explores a series of relationships while awaiting her missing husband's return from war. ...

The Key (1983)

In 1940s Venice, after twenty years' marriage, retired art critic Nino Rolfe and his younger wife Teresa feel their passion waning. To help her shed her inhibitions and rekindle their relationship, the professor records his sexual fantasies in a diary. ...

Action (1980)

Z-movie actor Bruno Martel has hero syndrome, often quarrelling with directors. He meets fellow actor Doris, who is obsessed with Ophelia but cannot get any Shakespearean bookings. One day, during a nervous breakdown, Bruno 'rescues' Doris from the set, le ...

Caligula (1979)

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and depravity. ...

Salon Kitty (1976)

In Nazi Germany, Kitty runs a brothel where the soldiers come to 'relax'. Recording devices have been installed by a power-hungry official who plans to use the information to blackmail and usurp Hitler. One of the girls discovers the ploy and, with the mad ...

Vacation (1971)

An allegedly insane woman is allowed to finally leave the madhouse to see if she is capable of functioning normally… ...

I Miss Sonia Henie (1971)

One camera in one setting, one attic and eight young directors – the result is a unique Dadaistic collage of seven short sketches. The original task for each filmmaker was to keep each short under three minutes, to set it in one hotel room, and to includ ...

Dropout (1970)

Disillusioned English banker's wife Mary meets troubled Italian immigrant Bruno, with whom she is captivated by and they set off on a voyage on which they meet a variety of society's dropouts. ...

The Howl (1970)

A young bride flees the ceremony with a stranger and, together, they set off on an epic journey though increasingly bizarre lands. They encounter talking animals and mournful exhibitionists, converse with a discoursing rock, journey through a surrealist's ...

Attraction (1969)

A married woman's journey through the psychedelic English youth scene awakens her to the carnal offerings of an African-American man. ...

Deadly Sweet (1967)

Bernard meets Jane in a Night Club, in London, and he likes her. Her father was killed in a car accident, but Jane thinks he has been killed because he was blackmailed for a picture of his second wife, Jane's mother in law. In the same Night Club Bernard f ...

Yankee (1966)

A man known only as 'Yankee' rides into a dying, desolate frontier New Mexico town completely controlled by 'The Grand Cougar', setting off a chain of events where dominance is the prize. ...

The Flying Saucer (1964)

An exasperated police inspector receives different eyewitness accounts surrounding a downed saucer and its female occupant. ...

Ça ira - Il fiume della rivolta (1964)

My Wife (1964)

Five comedic episodes, all starring Alberto Sordi and Silvana Mangano. ...

Tempo libero (1964)

Avantgarde short by Brass. ...

Tempo lavorativo (1964)

Avantgarde short by Brass. ...

Who Works Is Lost (1963)

Bonifacio is 27 years old and he is roaming about Venice. He is trying to decide whether to accept a job or not. In so doing, he recalls all his past life: his love story with Gabriella, his old friend Claudio, who had always regarded working as a worthwhi ...

General Della Rovere (1959)

The Gestapo forces con man Victorio Bardone to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to extract information from his fellow inmates. ...

Venetian Honeymoon (1959)

There is a lot of excitement in the high society of Venice: An Arab prince, who always travels incognito, is said to be in the city. By chance, the elegant Isabella gets to know the handsome heir to the throne - and it does not take long for her to fall ma ...

Spatiodynamisme (1958)

Spatiodynamisme is six-minute silent color 16mm record of Nicolas Schöffer's interactive robotic sculpture, CYSP 1, which reacted in unpredictable ways to light and color. ...