Maurizio Merli
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1940-02-08
Locus Natus: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Et ut:
The Leopard
As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes...
release : 1963.03.27popularis : 17.739
Priest of Love
Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow," D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico....
release : 1981.10.11popularis : 1.981
A Man Called Blade
Maurizio Merli stars as a hatchet-wielding bounty hunter with a dark past and an even more desperate future. But when he disrupts the balance of...
release : 1977.08.13popularis : 5.152
The Cynic, the Rat & the Fist
Luigi "Chinaman" Maietto escapes from prison. As soon as he is free he assigns immediately two henchman to murder the inspector whose testimonial...
release : 1977.02.03popularis : 3.615
Rome, Armed to the Teeth
A tough, violent cop who doesn't mind bending the law goes after a machine-gun-carrying, hunchbacked psychotic killer.
release : 1976.10.10popularis : 5.054
Magnum Cop
A low-rent private investigator and former cop is sent to Austria on a job, and while there sees a number of seemingly unrelated coincidences that...
release : 1978.02.03popularis : 1.883
Violent Naples
Inspector Betti (Maurizio Merli) is transferred to Naples and immediately after his arrival receives a warm welcome from The Commandante (Barry...
release : 1976.08.07popularis : 14.829
Highway Racer
Maurizio Merli stars as a hot-shot police driver who has more guts than brains, often landing him in hot water with his middle-aged mentor, who was...
release : 1977.10.19popularis : 5.039
Violent Rome
A detective sick and tired of the rampant crime and violence in his city, and constantly at odds with his superiors, is finally kicked out of the...
release : 1975.08.13popularis : 5.937
From Corleone to Brooklyn
Maurizio Merli takes up a familiar role as Commissioner Berni; a cop who puts his life on the line to transport a witness from Corleone to New York...
release : 1979.04.13popularis : 2.897
Fear in the City
The film focuses on Murri; the token maverick cop. He is called in after a bunch of criminals pull off a successful prison break and spend the night...
release : 1976.09.14popularis : 2.744
Convoy Busters
In Rome, a vagrant finds the body of a teen girl, her throat professional slashed. Police inspector Olmi uses his brutal and violent methods to...
release : 1978.12.23popularis : 1.945
Vultures Over the City
Merli, teamed with Mexican star Hugo Stiglitz as his photographer buddy, plays a journalist investigating the shady activities of the local Mafia....
release : 1980.01.01popularis : 1.429
A Special Cop in Action
A school bus with young children being kidnapped. Commissario Betti will solve the case. High action is promised, including hostage, bank robberies,...
release : 1976.11.27popularis : 3.322
White Fang to the Rescue
Set at the end of the 19th century in Canada's gold rush Klondike area, wolf-dog White Fang teams up with a prospector when his master is killed....
release : 1975.02.09popularis : 4.178
The Rebel
"Poliziotti solitudine e rabbia" or "Ein Mann namens Venedig" (A Man called Venice), as it was called in Germany, is an Italian-German crime drama...
release : 1980.01.01popularis : 2.276
Hunted City
Commissario Paolo Ferro (Maurizio Merli) stars as a (typical) tough cop again. This time he returns to the city of Milan to go after a murder...
release : 1979.09.27popularis : 0.84
Seagulls Fly Low
An ex-Vietnam vet is forced to become a hit-man and gets caught in the middle of a conspiracy.
release : 1978.11.01popularis : 0.784
Spy Connection
Musante plays a man blackmailed and forced to assassinate a highly guarded KGB official. Two British agents have kidnapped his daughter and want him...
release : 1983.01.14popularis : 1.968
The Iron Commissioner
Comissioneer Mariani leads investigates a group of kidnappers.
release : 1978.12.07popularis : 2.865
Covert Action
Janssen plays an ex-CIA agent who has become an author, writing both non-fiction exposes (Phillip Agee was in the news at this time) and fiction spy...
release : 1978.03.03popularis : 0.94
Chains
Catene is a 1974 Italian melodramatic film directed by Silvio Amadio. The film is the re-make of the 1949 top grossing film with the same title by...
release : 1974.04.25popularis : 0.71
Blue Tango
Tango blu is a night club in Milan where various bizarre characters meet. Among them a womanizing photographer and a porter who works in a...
release : 1987.02.02popularis : 1.739
Two R-R-Ringos from Texas
A western comedy starring the Sicilian comedians Franco and Ciccio who produced dozens of such spoofs in the 1960s. This time, they quote mainly "The...
release : 1967.08.25popularis : 3.503
Massacre Mania
A high level criminal attempts to slave the world by thought control through TV.
release : 1967.11.14popularis : 1.451
Phenomenal and the Treasure of Tutankamen
A masked superhero searches for a magical golden relic while trying to prevent the plundering of an Egyptian tomb.
release : 1968.03.04popularis : 2.873
Philadelphia Story
Italian made-for-TV movie remake of the 1942 Philadelphia Story, also based on the 1939 play by Philip Barry.
release : 1974.10.04popularis : 0.661
Sexy Sinners
During the early Italian Renaissance and the Black Death epidemic, a group of young men and women, seeking refuge in a secluded villa just outside...
release : 1972.08.04popularis : 3.739
Eros e Thanatos
Franco Adami injures a condescending prostitute to photograph her, but escaped from guilt, causing her death by bleeding.
release : 1969.01.01popularis : 2.112
Le mille e una notte all'italiana
Two young friends - one poet, the other a sculptor - have fun conquering the wives of others.
release : 1972.10.10popularis : 1.102
The Man in the Movie Camera
Marcello is a professional film restorer and an avid cinephile. While working on some of the most popular titles of Italian cinema, he comes across a...
release : 2017.09.22popularis : 0.869