Dante's Inferno - Abandon All Hope (2008) was Boris Acosta's first professional film, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in France, and later was part of the Rhode Island Film Festival in the United States and the Fantastik Film Festival in Lund, Sweden, all out of competition. It was certainly a thrilling experience in all respects. This film features many illustrations by Gustave Dore as well as clips from Inferno (1911) film, so it made sense to make the whole documentary in black and white, which later inspired the film "The Artist" to be produced in black and white as well, which ended up winning an Oscar.  

Dante's Inferno - Abandon All Hope, a 42-minute film, features Jeff Conaway, Vincent Spano, Nia Peeples, Patrick Kilpatrick and Martin Cove among other celebrities. Watch the trailer by clicking here.   This film is available on Amazon here.

Dante's Hell Animated (2013) was not a film planned in itself. There was no budget for it, nor the intention to make it the way it ended up to be. It started with Mr. Acosta's idea of making a few clips to enhance a new documentary in color and full feature. So, after a few clips were produced based on Dino Di Durante's 72-piece collection, the excitement of seeing art coming alive in motion, the idea of putting together some clips ended up in producing more and more until it became a film in itself. So, later on with Eric Roberts coming on board, as well as other celebrities now in this film, the rest is history. Dante's Hell Animated, a 39-minute film, is a real jewel which features Eric Roberts as Dante, Vincent Spano as Virgil and Nia Peeples as Beatrice, among a long list of celebrities. Watch the trailer by clicking here.   This film is available on Amazon here.

Divine Journey (2017–2018) is a webseries about how Boris Acosta got to produce and direct films, art, and music based on Dante's Divine Comedy, starting with Inferno. He explains how difficult the road has been to achieve his purpose in life, why some films have taken so long to produce and finally be released for public viewing one film at a time. "Divine Journey" is a semi-finalist in the Los Angeles CineFest film festival. Webisodes in order of production are as follows:

"My Divine Comedy Experience". Click here to read
"The Beginning, Dante's Inferno live action film script". Click here to read
"The Divine Team, Investors". Click here to read
"Producing First Inferno films". Click here to read
"Producing Inferno animation films and the Inferno Art Collection". Click here to read

Dante's Infernal Journey (2019) is the Dante's Inferno story told in 9 minutes featuring the complete 72-piece art collection by Dino Di Durante. Dante's Infernal Journey is a music video from the official song of the film Dante's Inferno feature film, see below. This short film, featuring the voices of Dino Di Durante, Gennady Tkachenko-Papizh, and Ella Jebelean, is now participating in several festivals worldwide, which premiered out of competition at the Animation Day in Cannes. Currently, it has been selected as a semi-finalist at the Los Angeles CineFest and Roma Cinema DOC. Also, it is a finalist at "Euro Fest" European International Film Festival, the Grecanica International Film Festival, Rosarito International Film Festival and the European Film Festival (Mainstream & Underground).  This film is available on Amazon here.

Inferno Dantesco Animato (2020) is the Italian version of Dante's Hell Animated, spoken in primitive Italian and Dante's own words. It features Franco Nero as the narrator, Vittorio Gassman as Dante, Silvia Colloca as Beatrice, and Vittorio Matteucci as Virgil, among several known Italian celebrities.

Inferno Dantesco Animato has just been released on Amazon Prime, it won "Best Edited Film" at the Rosarito International Film Festival in Mexico, although it was a work-in-progress film at the time. Inferno Dantesco Animato premiered as a final version at the Ravenna Nightmare film festival in November 2020 and soon after it was released as VOD.

Watch the trailer by clicking here.  This film is available on Amazon here.

Dante's Glorious Return is presented by Franco Nero, introduced by Armand Mastroianni and features Loreena McKennitt's famous song “Dante's Prayer” in its complete and instrumental version. Boris Acosta is the sole narrator. This film is available for free on YouTube here. Feel free to share it.

Dante Alighieri passed away in Ravenna, Italy in 1321 and since then his remains have been highly protected by Ravenna's Frati Francescani for the last 700 years. However, Mr. Acosta argues that time has come for them to let go and put all politics and economics aside for Dante's love. Read the Press Release issued on December 25, 2021 by clicking here.

Dante's Inferno (2024) is a very special film, which has taken 15 years to produce, simply because Mr. Acosta was not fully satisfied until he made it easy for people to understand such a complex story. In the production process, he had to direct a 72-piece art collection painted by Dino Di Durante, which is now printed in books and available in 33 languages and several formats. This alone took 9 years to finalize. Mr. Acosta also wrote a thesis titled "Dante's Hell Decoded", where he explains how Hell was a natural development in a hollow Earth and how it took place, circle by circle. This is the first time in film history that somebody has attempted to document Dante's Inferno in as much detail as possible while at the same time engaging the audience tight to their seats. "Dante's Inferno" certainly has a spectacular value in itself, especially for anyone who has the desire to approach Dante's literary masterpiece and be transported to the discovery of the rich descriptions of his universe, but also it has all the characteristics to become an indispensable learning tool.