Mario Montez Movies

The film — a mix of music, colors, abstract scenes and little dialogue — is based loosely on the life and death of Mexican-American...

Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” Flaming Creatures begins humorously...

Part of the Dirt Trilogy

Black-and-white version of Mario Banana I, in which Mario enjoys another banana.

The New York underground linked the paths of the actor and playwright Charles Ludlam, the superstar of avant-garde cinema Mario Montez and the...

Nico hires a babysitter drag queen (Mario Montez) to babysit her 3-year-old son Ari so Nico can go shopping.

Two nuns take a bath, then meet a sailor on the Staten Island Ferry.

Smith's third feature film was originally titled "The Kidnapping of Wendell Willkie by the Love Bandit," in reaction to the 1968 Presidential...

A tropical island fantasy.

Warhol offers his own version of the notorious 1958 Johnny Stompanato murder case.

Warhol and scenarist Ronald Tavel offer a brutal vision of the Hollywood casting couch with this record of ingenue Mario Montez performing a...

The three faces (two women and one tranvestized man) in the series of close up, which are shot separately in their sexual process of the acting and...

Features underground film makers and stars Jack Smith, Charles Ludlum, and Bill Vehr. A satirical film, comprising a collection of vignettes of the...