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Bruno Mattei
Director 1931 - 2007

Bruno Mattei

Rome, Lazio, Italy

Bruno Mattei (30 July 1931 – 21 May 2007) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and editor who directed exploitation films in many genres, including women in prison, nunsploitation, zombie, mondo, cannibal, and Nazisploitation films. Born in 1931, Bruno Mattei grew up in... Read full bio →

Directed Films

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19 titles
Occhi senza volto

Occhi senza volto

Bruno Mattei 1994 1h 23m 3.0

Giovanna Dei, a young cartoonist, works on the violent comic strip "Doctor Dark". Unfortunately, young women are being killed in the style of the comic strip character and she becomes the main suspect.

Non aprite quella porta 3

Non aprite quella porta 3

Claudio Fragasso, Bruno Mattei 1990 1h 33m 7.0

Melanie Beck is the only surviving victim of a killer-rapist who wears a Freddy Krueger-esque mask and claw. Despite having seen the killer's face, Beck has blocked it from her memory. Becoming suicidal, she tries to kill herself on the beach but is saved by Axel, another rapist sleazeball who keeps her locked in his hotel room.

Terminator II

Terminator II

Bruno Mattei 1989 1h 30m

In a polluted future Venice researchers work to improve the situation. One day, unknown forces start killing them. A team of soldiers and a couple of civilians is sent to investigate. Soon, they encounter strange murderous creatures.

Trappola diabolica

Trappola diabolica

Claudio Fragasso, Bruno Mattei 1988 1h 35m 4.0

An ex-army major is kidnapped by terrorists in the Philippines, demanding ten million dollars worth of diamonds. Michael, a Vietnam vet who served under him, goes on a solo mission determined to rescue him.

Robowar - Robot da guerra

Robowar - Robot da guerra

Bruno Mattei 1988 1h 32m 3.0

A group of commandos heads into the jungles of Venezuela on a highly classified mission and encounters a robotic killing machine.

Strike Commando

Strike Commando

Bruno Mattei 1987 1h 44m 5.0

In the Vietnam war, an American soldier survives a botched mission, with help from a group of locals who perceive him as a hero. He's sent back for a reconnaissance mission, only to find his helpers massacred by a brutal Russian soldier.

Scalps

Scalps

Claudio Fragasso, Bruno Mattei 1987 1h 42m 5.0

The commander of a Texan fort in the Civil War refuses to surrender to the Northerners, and tries to buy the local Indian tribe chief's daughter. The sage man refuses, and the Southerners massacre the tribe and abduct the young squaw anyway.

Bianco Apache

Bianco Apache

Claudio Fragasso, Bruno Mattei 1987 1h 40m 4.0

Outlaws attack a band of settlers and kill everyone except a pregnant woman who is rescued by a band of Indians. The woman dies giving birth but Chief White Bear adopts her male baby and raising him as brother to his own son.

Rats - Notte di terrore

Rats - Notte di terrore

Claudio Fragasso, Bruno Mattei 1984 1h 37m 4.0

One hundred years after a nuclear war has devastated the planet, society has been reborn into two factions; the underground society and the scavangers above in the wastelands. A group of scavangers on bikes come across a town infested with flesh eating rats, and soon the gore is spilling everywhere.

Blade Violent - I violenti

Blade Violent - I violenti

Claudio Fragasso, Bruno Mattei 1983 1h 28m

Emanuelle is framed by a corrupt D.A. while investigating a drug smuggling operation and has to tough it out under lock and key, dealing with a strict warden and abusive guards.

Violenza in un carcere femminile

Violenza in un carcere femminile

Bruno Mattei 1982 1h 38m

Laura Kendall, also known as Emanuelle, arrives at a remote prison with a long, fictional rap sheet that will allow her to go undercover to report on the cruelties behind bars.

L'altro inferno

L'altro inferno

Bruno Mattei 1981 1h 28m 6.0

A priest investigates paranormal activity at a nuns' convent where a deep, dark secret is about to resurface in the guise of murder! Could the devil be behind this, or is that just what Mother Superior wants everyone to believe?

Caligula et Messaline

Caligula et Messaline

Bruno Mattei, Antonio Passalia 1981 1h 41m

When the deranged emperor Caligula falls for an insatiable gladiatrix, their reign launches a mind-bending bacchanal of torture, sodomy, incest, castration, and aroused livestock.

Virus

Virus

Bruno Mattei 1980 1h 41m 6.3

A rat causes a chemical leak at a Papua New Guinea research facility, leading a group of eco-terrorists to demand the closure of all facilities. When a team of Interpol commandos are enlisted to eliminate the terrorists, they find themselves embroiled in a zombie outbreak.

La vera storia della monaca di Monza

La vera storia della monaca di Monza

Bruno Mattei 1980 1h 19m 5.0

Sister Virginia de Leyva becomes the new Mother Superior at the convent of Monza. Said convent turns out to be a veritable hotbed of sinful carnality and depravity. Debauched priest Don Arrigone and lecherous womanizer Giampaolo Osio plot to seduce sister Virginia. But will their wicked and lustful actions continue to go unnoticed?

Emanuelle e le porno notti nel mondo n. 2

Emanuelle e le porno notti nel mondo n. 2

Bruno Mattei, Joe D'Amato 1978 1h 23m

Emanuelle hosts this peculiar sexploitation Mondo film that looks at several examples of bizarre sexual behavior.

Notti porno nel mondo

Notti porno nel mondo

Bruno Mattei 1977 1h 28m

Laura Gemser introduces herself, "It's your old friend Emanuelle again..." to present a sexy mondo film, with her voice-off narration over the different sketches, and reproaching comments between them.

KZ9 - Lager di sterminio

KZ9 - Lager di sterminio

Bruno Mattei 1977 1h 37m 4.0

A prisoner is forced to serve as a doctor's assistant, giving her a front row seat for the horrible goings-on. There's the experiment to revive Nazi soldiers who have frozen to death by having nude women rub their bodies all over the corpse (that one works), and the experiment tries to "cure" homosexual men by having nude women dance for them.

Casa privata per le SS

Casa privata per le SS

Bruno Mattei 1977 1h 35m

Top Nazi officials, intent on rooting out traitors and those in the military who may be plotting to overthrow Adolf Hitler, recruit and train a group of beautiful prostitutes whose mission is to use any means necessary to uncover plots against the Fuhrer.

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