Bruno Mattei

Directing

Bruno Mattei

Born — Died

1931-07-30 — 2007-05-21

Place of birth

Rome, Lazio, Italy

Known for

Directing

Credits

47 titles

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 Rome, Italy, where his father owned a small film editing studio. Mattei made his debut as a director with the drama Armida, il dramma di una sposa(1970) under the alias "Jordon B. Matthews". He eventually had more pseudonyms than any working director in the world. He returned to editing before making another comeback in 1976 with two low-budget Nazi exploitation films, Women's Camp 119 (1977) (aka "Women's Camp 119") a…

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

Rats: Night of Terror poster
4.8

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.

Rats: Night of Terror

1984

Women's Prison Massacre poster
4.5

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.

Women's Prison Massacre

1983

Caligula and Messalina poster
4.5

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.

Caligula and Messalina

1981

The Seven Magnificent Gladiators poster
3.2

A bandit leader endowed with supernatural powers by his sorceress mother makes yearly raids on a peasant village. However, the women of the village come into possession of a magic sword, and go in search of a hero who is able to wield it and save their village from the evil bandit.

The Seven Magnificent Gladiators

1983

Cruel Jaws poster
4.3

A tiger shark bred by the Navy as a killing machine is wreaking havoc in the sleepy tourist town of Hampton Bay.

Cruel Jaws

1995

Cruel Jaws poster
4.3

A tiger shark bred by the Navy as a killing machine is wreaking havoc in the sleepy tourist town of Hampton Bay.

Cruel Jaws

1995

Violence in a Women's Prison poster
5.7

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.

Violence in a Women's Prison

1982

Emanuelle and the Porno Nights of the World N. 2 poster
5.0

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

Emanuelle and the Porno Nights of the World N. 2

1978

Emanuelle and the Porno Nights of the World N. 2 poster
5.0

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

Emanuelle and the Porno Nights of the World N. 2

1978

Shocking Dark poster
4.5

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.

Shocking Dark

1989

Night of the Zombies poster
5.4

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.

Night of the Zombies

1980

Nero and Poppea - An Orgy of Power poster
4.2

As the Roman Empire slowly declines, Caesar Nero indulges himself in every known debauchery, including incest with his mother.

Nero and Poppea - An Orgy of Power

1982

Nero and Poppea - An Orgy of Power poster
4.2

As the Roman Empire slowly declines, Caesar Nero indulges himself in every known debauchery, including incest with his mother.

Nero and Poppea - An Orgy of Power

1982

Night Killer poster
4.9

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. All this builds to a mind blowing conclusion.

Night Killer

1990

Double Target poster
4.6

After several American and British military personnel are killed in suicide attacks throughout southeast Asia, the U.S. begins to suspect a plot by the Vietnam government. To uncover the truth, the U.S. army calls upon a former commando who is looking for his long-lost son in Vietnam. While his military commanders want to see the commando succeed in his mission, his political overseers have a different set of plans.

Double Target

1987

Double Target poster
4.6

After several American and British military personnel are killed in suicide attacks throughout southeast Asia, the U.S. begins to suspect a plot by the Vietnam government. To uncover the truth, the U.S. army calls upon a former commando who is looking for his long-lost son in Vietnam. While his military commanders want to see the commando succeed in his mission, his political overseers have a different set of plans.

Double Target

1987

Sexy Night Report poster
4.7

Laura Gemser, as Emanuelle, takes viewers on a worldwide perv vacation and introduces footage of bizarre sexual behavior and performances in the style of a Mondo movie.

Sexy Night Report

1977

Sexy Night Report poster
4.7

Laura Gemser, as Emanuelle, takes viewers on a worldwide perv vacation and introduces footage of bizarre sexual behavior and performances in the style of a Mondo movie.

Sexy Night Report

1977

Emanuelle and Françoise poster
5.1

Emanuelle is out to avenge her sister, who committed suicide after escaping from her sadistic lover Carlo. So she chains Carlo up in her basement, drugs him, and forces him to watch her having sex. As Carlo begins to hallucinate all kinds of bloody horrors and cannibalistic doings, he decides he has to break free and kill Emanuelle.

Emanuelle and Françoise

1975

Strike Commando 2 poster
4.8

A commando rescues his squad leader from heroin smugglers in Burma.

Strike Commando 2

1988

Born to Fight poster
6.0

Vietnam War veteran Sam Wood is a survivor of a vicious prison camp where he was brutally and painfully tortured before finally managing to escape. Then he returns to rescue his friends.

Born to Fight

1989

Private House of the SS poster
5.2

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.

Private House of the SS

1977

Private House of the SS poster
5.2

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.

Private House of the SS

1977

The True Story of the Nun of Monza poster
4.4

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?

The True Story of the Nun of Monza

1980

Fellini dice... poster
NR

A story about the mythical film director

Fellini dice...

2006

Snuff Trap poster
4.4

Michelle lives in Paris with René, who is influential politicians. One morning as Michelle discovers that her 18-year-old daughter Lauren has not come home from a pub tonight. René does not want to involve the police, because he does not want a scandal that could affect his political career negative. They decide instead to hire a private investigator. It turns out that Lauren has been kidnapped to be used by a gang producing snuff. Detective withdraws from the case, however, because he fears for his life and Michelle decides to find their own daughter. The hunt goes by porn swamps in Paris, Amsterdam and Hamburg.

Snuff Trap

2004

Snuff Trap poster
4.4

Michelle lives in Paris with René, who is influential politicians. One morning as Michelle discovers that her 18-year-old daughter Lauren has not come home from a pub tonight. René does not want to involve the police, because he does not want a scandal that could affect his political career negative. They decide instead to hire a private investigator. It turns out that Lauren has been kidnapped to be used by a gang producing snuff. Detective withdraws from the case, however, because he fears for his life and Michelle decides to find their own daughter. The hunt goes by porn swamps in Paris, Amsterdam and Hamburg.

Snuff Trap

2004

Cannibal World poster
3.4

The network where the famous anchorwoman Grace Forsyte works, is collapsing and she would do everything to regain the favour of the audience, therefore she convinces her professional team to go to the Amazon jungle for a sensational scoop about the cannibals

Cannibal World

2004

Cannibal World poster
3.4

The network where the famous anchorwoman Grace Forsyte works, is collapsing and she would do everything to regain the favour of the audience, therefore she convinces her professional team to go to the Amazon jungle for a sensational scoop about the cannibals

Cannibal World

2004

Robowar poster
4.4

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

Robowar

1988

Scalps poster
5.6

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. The noble squaw manages to escape, and hides out with a rough rancher, who dislikes Indians, but hates the Southerners more. The odd couple joins forces, and tactics, to exert ultimate vengeance on the men at the fort.

Scalps

1987

Scalps poster
5.6

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. The noble squaw manages to escape, and hides out with a rough rancher, who dislikes Indians, but hates the Southerners more. The odd couple joins forces, and tactics, to exert ultimate vengeance on the men at the fort.

Scalps

1987

The Tomb poster
3.8

A group of young archaeologists flies to Mexico to study the Mayan culture, but they find trouble when they stumble upon an unknown cursed temple.

The Tomb

2006

Cop Game poster
4.6

In the final days of the Vietnam War, someone is killing the officers of the elite Cobra Force. Two undercover M.P.'s are assigned to the case. The trail leads from the streets of Saigon to the war zone.

Cop Game

1988

Strike Commando poster
4.9

The sole survivor of a Vietnam mission is ordered by his commanding officer to photograph Soviets.

Strike Commando

1987

Strike Commando poster
4.9

The sole survivor of a Vietnam mission is ordered by his commanding officer to photograph Soviets.

Strike Commando

1987

White Apache poster
4.8

This film is based on a true story of an Irish baby brought up by the Colorado Apaches. When a group of outlaws attack and destroy a wagon train, the only survivor gives birth to a baby, whom the Indian chief, White Bear brings up as his son and calls him Shining Sky. Shining Sky grows up with the chief's son Black Wolf and by a stroke of fate kills his best friend and brother. Overcome by grief he leaves and goes to live in the world of white men but decides to go back to the world of his youth, leaving an enemy, Redeath, behind him whom he is destined to meet again and again.

White Apache

1987

Women's Camp 119 poster
4.2

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. This is only some of the horrors that are going on there.

Women's Camp 119

1977

Women's Camp 119 poster
4.2

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. This is only some of the horrors that are going on there.

Women's Camp 119

1977

Cicciolina amore mio poster
3.0

Cicciolina stars in this film which is the first showcase of this future Italian porn star and politician. One man, Riccardino, obsesses over her and it begins to effect his relationship with his girlfriend. Cicciolina though helps bring the two together in order for them to experience the ultimate sexual experience.

Cicciolina amore mio

1979