Marisa Merlini

The Second Wedding Night (2005)

When his destituite widowed sister-in-law—whom he had never stopped harbouring feelings for—and her ne'er-do-well son come to live with him after World War II, a mentally-ill farmer who spends all his time destroying unexploded ordnance scattered acros ...

Le ali della vita 2 (2001)

Teste di cocco (2000)

Tommaso and Pietro are two brothers who, shortly after their father's funeral, discover that the coffin is actually empty. To find out more they leave for Malaysia, where the man died, but a series of misunderstandings and false clues will take them around ...

Le ali della vita (2000)

The end of the 1950s: Rosanna returns as a music teacher to the claustrophobic confines of the convent boarding school from which she escaped as a young girl. Her happy, understanding ways, unconventional teaching methods and deep love of music soon win he ...

Villa Ada (1999)

Sunday in a large Roman public park, Villa Ada, from dawn to dusk. But it could be any park in any large Italian or European city. ...

Vacanze sulla neve (1999)

The love story between a singer and a beautician is disrupted when an old flame shows up. ...

Pazzo d'amore (1999)

Two teenagers, secretly in love with each other, spend their holidays with their families in the same seaside resort. ...

Ladri si nasce (1997)

Stella's Favor (1996)

Stella works in a restaurant in Rome. She feels frustrated about her life. In spite she has turned 40, she dreams of a film career. ...

Ricky & Barabba (1992)

A wealthy millionaire decided to commit suicide but meets a homeless with whom he experiences a lot of funny adventures until finally makes order in his life. ...

Crazy Underwear (1992)

Alessia, a TV showgirl, tries to win the favor of an official. Amalia, a morning show host, satisfies the masochistic director in order to go to prime time. Stefania "works hard" to act in a risqué film by a famous director, but the part is stolen from he ...

E se poi se ne vanno? (1989)

Una casa a Roma (1989)

Learning to Love (1985)

Ignorance and inexperience in sexual relations afflict many couples. The film aims to deal with a kind of conductor that lists and exposes situations and problems, gradually illustrated that engage several pairs. ...

Aurora (1984)

A single mother is trying to trace previous partners in order to help her fund a life changing operation for her blind son. ...

Sfrattato cerca casa equo canone (1983)

Marino Stroppaghetti is a breadwinner in a layoff fund who, in order to make some money, arranges himself by doing small tailoring jobs at home. Desperate for having received the eviction, he turns to the City of Rome, where he discovers that there are as ...

The Fan, the Referee and the Footballer (1983)

Two soccer stories: Alvaro Presutti is a referee who seems to be the last to know about his wife having an affair with a German soccer star. Amedeo Amedei has to please both his father, a die hard Roma supporter and his future father in law, who supports L ...

Arrivano i miei (1983)

Gian Burrasca (1982)

Giannino Stoppani, called Gian Burrasca, is a boy who loves bad taste jokes. A series of actions will lead him to be detested by everyone except his mother. ...

Desirable Teacher (1981)

In a school where the meeting seems more complete sampling of teachers and professors stupid airhead, there is the class of Peter, repeating in life, which is the "grandfather" to the far more young companions concerning jokes and vulgarity. Even outside t ...

Cream Horn (1981)

Mariana and Domenico are on the run from her jealous boyfriend who just happens to be an over-jealous professional football player. ...

The Honorable with His Lover under the Bed (1981)

An unemployed teacher asks for help from her lover, an MP, and finds out that he is married. ...

My Wife Goes Back to School (1981)

Aristide Buratti is a wealthy grocer married to attractive Valentina. Although they seem to have a happy marriage, Valentina feels herself culturally inferior because she is a high school dropout. Despite her husband's objections, she enrolls at a private ...

The Wife on Vacation... The Lover in Town (1980)

Andrea Damiani sends his wife Valeria off on a skiing holiday so he can spend time with his demanding mistress, Giulia. Little does he suspect that Valeria is having a rendezvous with a Count she recently met. However, Valeria does not know that 'Count' Gi ...

L'altra donna (1980)

Wealthy woman and her Ethiopian maid form a friendship. ...

Top Secret (1978)

A hip American agent and his foxy associate try to recover a hundred pounds of stolen plutonium in Italy before it can be used by terrorists. ...

The Payoff (1978)

Sasà Jovine (Nino Manfredi) is a self-styled lawyer involved in petty businesses with Neapolitan mobsters (camorristi). When one of his clients, don Michele Miletti (Paolo Stoppa) offers him a huge bribe (mazzetta) to search for his daughter who disappear ...

The Rip-Off (1977)

Crime Comedy starring Walter Chiari, Maurizio Arena and Ettore Manni. Directed by Luciano Ercoli in 1977, but shelved when producer Niccolo De Nora was kidnapped... ironically the theme of the movie. A band of criminals plan one final heist, to kidnap a we ...

Batton Story (1976)

Femi is accused of being a prostitute and is thrown into jail with the rest of the clan. Their she befriends the prostitutes and decides to set up an organization for prostitutes' rights. ...

Stangata in famiglia (1976)

Sexy Comedy Italian 70's Style - Must See Performance By Femi Benussi as well as Cristea Avram. ...

Oh, Serafina! (1976)

Augusto Valle is a successful young industrialist who weds Palmira, the girl working in his factory, and the two have a child despite the infant's uncertain legitimacy. Scheming to control her husband's fortune, Palmira has affairs with both the mayor and ...

Una bella governante di colore (1976)

Nicola Salluzzi is the owner of an insecticide company and his teenage son Simone has the habit of sleeping with his female employees. ...

The Sweet Aunts (1975)

An anarchist grandfather has custody of his nephew Free, but three aunts, two of which still handsome, they get the help of a priest and the police. ...

Rookies Go to War (1974)

A Grand Slapstick comedy about four buddies serving in the army. Their long-suffering sergeant attempts to whip them into shape but the conflict spirals out of control. ...

The Tree with Pink Leaves (1974)

Little Marco suffers from his parents' divorce. He runs away from home and is hit by a car. He drags on but eventually dies under a tree with pink leaves, remembering a story his grandmother told him. ...

Naked Fists (1974)

A young man comes out of a reform school properly reformed, but life outside will bring him to the underworld again. His second reform will be short-lived. ...

Il maschio ruspante (1973)

Romulus, a rough but genuine country man, finds, on the occasion of a religious festival, a girl, Rema, already his kindergarten companion. In love with her since then, he welcomes with joy the invitation to follow her to Rome, convinced that the young wom ...

Continuavano a chiamarli i due piloti più matti del mondo (1972)

The sons of a billionaire hijack an airplane because their father is against their love affair with two poor girls. ...

Do Not Commit Adultery (1971)

Pino is a young man who lives in Assisi with his father Damiano, a communist revolutionary, and his partner Nadine. One day Pino sees Maria Teresa studying Latin and starts giving her some lessons. Soon they fall in love. ...

My Father Monsignor (1971)

Against the backdrop of the Unification of Italy, two men have the dream of being recognized by their respective, illustrious, fathers: a bishop and the King. ...

A Drama of Jealousy (and other things) (1970)

Construction worker Oreste and young fiancee Adelaide meet Nello, a cook in a pizzeria. This love triangle often goes to communist rallies, and enjoys the filthy beaches of Ostia. Will the hostile environment pave a way to jealousy? ...

Lisa with the Blue Eyes (1969)

A university student, Mario Buongiovanni, tries to do various jobs to pay for his studies: selling encyclopedias, singing in night clubs, being a tour guide. He then became a science teacher in a female college, where he met Lisa, the daughter of a Lombard ...

The Great Silence (1968)

A mute gunslinger fights in the defense of a group of outlaws and a vengeful young widow, against a group of ruthless bounty hunters. ...

Man Only Cries for Love (1968)

Tony and some friends put together a rock band to do some concerts and earn some money. Unfortunately the military service is incumbent, but fortunately the boys will find themselves in the same barracks. ...

Western, Italian Style (1968)

A featurette (most likely shot for American television) about the Spaghetti Western genre during the late 60's and how it had affected Italy at that particular point in time. Contains behind-the-scenes footage from the films "Il Grande Silenzio" "Vado, Ved ...

Tutto Totò - Totò Ye Ye (1967)

All Mad About Him (1967)

Mathieu is a mild-mannered man engaged to a woman whose father is involved in running a house of prostitution. When the father dies, Mathieu inherits the bordello and is unprepared for his new position. He overcomes his shyness and becomes a sexual dynamo ...

The Corrupt Ones (1967)

Freelance photographer Cliff Wilder (Robert Stack) finds himself the target of various colorful villains in this quest for an ancient Chinese treasure when he accidentally acquires the key to its location, the Peking medallion. ...

Gli altri, gli altri e noi (1966)

An unemployed youth tries different jobs such as waiter, hairdresser, porter, salesman and when desperate, he goes to sleep in a flop-house, where he finds a job as a night watchman. ...

Me, Me, Me... and the Others (1966)

Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his inquiry. Even his own wife, Titta. ...

Les Combinards (1966)

Léo and Claude, two penniless friends turned con artists, answer matrimonial classified ads to trap women. But one of the friends soon finds his own game turned against him. ...

Un amore (1965)

The love life of an aging architect used to love affairs with call girls, who in the end settles down with a girl of his class but still longs for the life he has led so far, which ends in disillusion. ...

Squillo (1965)

A naive girl moves to Rome and falls for a mature man. ...

Loca juventud (1965)

Johnny Durán, who is seventeen years old and son of a multimillionaire, arrives to Madrid for hollidays. In the capital he become friend of a group of boys and girls with whom he shares great moments; but soon he realice that they are a clan of thugs and ...

Italian Engagement (1964)

In this romance, a middle-aged playboy finds himself running his father's fur business after his father's death. He continues to allow his papa's mistress to run the business. The playboy's fiancee gets pregnant and he refuses to marry her. She dumps him i ...

La chica del trébol (1963)

Rocio is a young deliverer of a fashion house who walks the streets of Madrid delivering dresses to clients. Until one day, because a model does not arrive to a parade, there arises an opportunity to replace her to save the situation. Therefore Rocío beco ...

The Monsters (1963)

The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes. ...

Destination Rome (1963)

After WWII, a young man without perspective arrives in Rome. Living in a loft, he gradually discovers the city becoming a tour guide. ...

The Masseuses (1962)

Two industry managers from Milan are in Rome to get the contract to build a YMCA hostel. They get in touch with a masseuses ring and one of the masseuses is introduced to the president of the catholic association as the wife of one of the managers. During ...

Getting Away with It the Italian Way (1962)

Orazio Menicotti is a night policeman in Rome. One night he is present at a quarrel between husband and wife and he volunteers to take the wife to the Police Station. While he goes around Rome with the blonde and beautiful woman, a bank is robbed. ...

The Vendetta (1962)

Arbella is a charming village in Corsica. It's such a pleasant place to live that Monsieur Lauriston has decided to spend his old age there with his wife Marthe. Encouraged by Giuseppe, the owner of the Napoleon bar, he is promoted to mayor. This brings hi ...

Nerone '71 (1962)

A family from the province goes to CinecittÃ, hoping that their daughter will be assigned a part in the blockbuster Nero 71 . ...

His Women (1961)

Stefano Garbelli is employed by a pharmaceutical company. One evening Daniela, a young independent prostitute, approaches Stefano pretending to be a nurse. They get together, but Daniela has a sinister plan. ...

Pesci d'oro e bikini d'argento (1961)

People who take part in a telephone radio quiz get a golden fish as first prize and a silver bikini as second one. ...

Liane, Daughter of the Jungle (1961)

A German expedition is in the African jungles on an unidentified misson. During this mission one of the German explorers, Thoren, is attacked and captured by the local natives called the Botos. ...

The Last Judgment (1961)

In Naples, a voice from the skies announces one morning that the final judgment will be at 6 p.m. on that day. What follows is a series of vignettes depicting various people's reactions (or lack thereof) to the announcement. ...

Mariti a congresso (1961)

Akiko (1961)

The quaint life of Ottavia, a widow living in Rome, is turned upside down when a young and pretty Japanese girl knocks at her door, claiming to be the daughter of her late husband, an Italian military officer who went to Japan on a secret mission during WW ...

On Friday at Eleven (1961)

An enigmatic woman recruits a gang of specialised criminals to rob a US Army payroll armoured truck bound for Marseilles. However, things don't go exactly as planned. ...

Le ambiziose (1961)

Thirty girls arrive in a seaside town to participate in a beauty contest. Marina has no ambitions of victory: she only wants to have the sewing machine promised to each participant. ...

Ferragosto in Bikini (1960)

Sun, Sea, Love and a beautiful Italian beach... ...

Fra' Manisco cerca guai... (1960)

Father Pacifico is a genuine friar with a brisk manner, for this reason he is nicknamed Father Manisco. The religious finds himself grappling with a thorny case, as Don Liborio, a Neapolitan lord, dominates all local events, including the love choices of h ...

The Traffic Policeman (1960)

An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous problems for the poor guy. ...

Il carro armato dell'8 settembre (1960)

Italy signed the armistice and in the general confusion a corporal decides to bring the tank back from the coast to the barracks. ...

I piaceri dello scapolo (1960)

Two middle-aged bachelors use the same apartment for their romantic meetings. ...

Juke Box - Screams of Love (1959)

After serving a conviction for fraud Mario tries to continue with his life and promises Marisa to marry her... ...

La cento chilometri (1959)

During a 100km marathon in Rome, some of the runners get involved in comical and paradoxical situations ...

Il mondo dei miracoli (1959)

An actor fails to find success in the film world but falls in love with a theatre manager's daughter. ...

Everyone's in Love (1959)

Giovanni is a young widower with a son who is attracted to the charming teen Allegra. ...

Il bacio del sole (1958)

The story of homeless boys on the streets of Naples and of a priest who uses unusual methods to try to help them. ...

Resurrection (1958)

Young Prince Nechljudov is summoned as a judge in a murder trial. A rich merchant was found dead in the room of the inn where he was staying and the prostitute Maslova was accused of the crime. Nechljudov recognizes in the woman the maid of the aunts he ha ...

You, Your Mother, and Me (1958)

In 1950s Naples, a couple struggles to be together against the will of the mother-in-law. In the end, not only will they be together, but the mother-in-law-to-be, a widow, finds love as well. ...

He Thief, She Thief (1958)

Cencio, a roman pilferer, periodically is in prison. He meets Cesira that soon become his partner in crime. With Cesira's help Cencio try the big hit to a jewelery. But the lucky break is over. ...

Holiday Island (1957)

Intersecting lives on an island holiday: A lawyer anxious he caused a youth's death.An engineer suspecting his wife after being teased by pranksters.A young man falling for a nurse.A Frenchman seeing his wife wooed by a local. ...

Husbands in the City (1957)

In the summer, while their wives and children are away, four men try to enjoy their free time. ...

Doctor and the Healer (1957)

Francesco, a young doctor, is appointed doctor to the imaginary village of Pianetta in the province of Avellino, but is immediately in competition with Don Antonio, a so-called "healer". ...

Jungle Girl and the Slaver (1957)

The sequel to 1956's "Liane, Jungle Goddess" finds the title character still a jungle goddess, but captured by slave traders. ...

The Most Wonderful Moment (1957)

Pietro is in love with a nurse; they keep their affair secret until she falls pregnant. ...

Fathers and Sons (1957)

The adventures of a young couple of high school students: her father is not opposed to their love, but the other, a doctor of prestige, is not at all happy about it. ...

Time of Vacation (1956)

Holiday time in Corniolo, a resort 40 kilometres from Rome. In a recently opened hotel various characters sojourn and love stories begin and end. ...

The Bigamist (1956)

A traveling salesman is sent to prison after being accused of bigamy, while his wife and son are forced to consider leaving him permanently. ...

Courtyard (1955)

A teenager escapes from a reformatory and is accused of theft. ...

Porta un bacione a Firenze (1955)

After a difficult eye operation, Simonetta, an Italian-American girl, returns for a vacation in Florence, the home town of her family. Here he meets Alberto, a sculptor. ...

Destinazione Piovarolo (1955)

Antonio La Quaglia becomes the railroader in Piovarolo during 1922 meanwhile the fascism is raising. Later he marries a jewish woman. He has career ambitions but can not reach them. ...

La canzone del cuore (1955)

A widow is unjustly imprisoned for theft and her daughter is sent to live with her grandmother. ...

The Young Ladies of 04 (1955)

The lives and loves of five Italian telephone operators. One is betrayed by her husband, one helps a student who wants to take his life, one changes her boyfriend every other day, one is a single mother and the last one tries to inflame a recent-widower ac ...

The Lovers of Manon Lescaut (1954)

In the reign of king Louis XV,a handsome student,Des Grieux, meets his charming cousin,Manon,just when she goes to the convent of Amiens,to take the veil. ...

Frisky (1954)

The relationships between a veteran marshal, his bride-to-be, a rookie and his fiancée are severely tested when the young carabiniere is temporarily sent to a distant town. ...

La prigioniera di Amalfi (1954)

An Italian historical drama. ...

Di qua, di là del Piave (1954)

Due lacrime (1954)

Italian made romanic drama. ...

Bread, Love and Dreams (1953)

When a veteran marshal is sent to a small town, he quickly falls for two women: a midwife and an earthy young woman nicknamed "Frisky". ...

I Always Loved You (1953)

A landowner loves a good girl, but is ensnared by another richer woman who is actually aiming for her fortune. This she will be able to temporarily make the two young men go away but the man makes his girlfriend understand that her is true love; he realize ...

Sua altezza ha detto: no! (1953)

Finalmente libero (1953)

Enrico Rossi is accused of polygamy for having married six different women over the years. ...

Viva la rivista! (1953)

Anna, Forgive Me (1953)

After years of imprisonment in the U.S., an Italian man comes back to Rome to live with his sister. ...

Infame accusa (1953)

Viva il cinema (1953)

Tonino, a young, shy salesman, engaged to his neighbor Pallina, is a cinema enthusiast. He has written a film script and dreams of seeing it made on the big screen. ...

Sunday Heroes (1952)

Gino Bardi is a centre-forward in a football team which is about to be relegated to the second division. Just before a very important match a girl he has a relationship with proposes him to rig it. He refuses the offer but he actually begins playing like a ...

Dogs and Cats (1952)

In a village, the pharmacist and the innkeeper have an intense rivalry fuelled by the fact that they were once romantically involved many years before. To spite her rival, the innkeeper arranges to have her nephew set up a second pharmacy to take business ...

Times Gone By (1952)

A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories. ...

I, Hamlet (1952)

The adventures of Hamlet who, following many adventures, manages to kill Claudio the usurper, marry Ophelia and be elected President of the Republic. ...

Il tallone di Achille (1952)

Tino Scotti plays a man who is tricked into trying to kill himself. When all his attempts fail, he is believed to be immortal. ...

Ergastolo (1952)

Rosa Lulli, has an illegitimate 20-year-old son, named Stefano, who lives with her in the house of Professor Arlotta. Stefano is in love with Lydia, the granddaughter of the professor. The couple has a gambling addiction: the need to obtain a large sum to ...

La famiglia Passaguai fa fortuna (1952)

To get ahead after he answers a newspaper ad for a business proposition, Passaguai borrows the more impressive apartment of a retired actor and arranges an elaborate luncheon there. ...

L'eroe sono io (1952)

Stasera sciopero (1951)

A scientist combines two brains during an operation to create one perfect mind. ...

Napoleone (1951)

A historical farce about Napoleon. ...

Il capitano nero (1951)

Lo zappatore (1950)

A poor farmer who has struggled to advance his son's career as a lawyer is spurned by the ungrateful offspring when he visits him in the big city, to convey the news that the mother is dying. ...

Vivere a sbafo (1950)

Italian comedy starring Peppino De Filippo, Mischa Auer, Dolores Palumbo and Virginia Belmont. Rosa Auricchio (Dolores Palumbo) and her daughter (Virginia Belmont) inherit a large fortune which they use to purchase a luxury hotel, then learning the hotel ...

Totò Looking for Wife (1950)

Aunt Agatha writes to Toto, informing him that she won't send him another penny until he is married. ...

Love and Poison (1950)

Christina of Sweden, in exile in Rome, takes a handsome Italian officer as her lover. But he is in love with the very young wife of an elderly count. After many adventures, duels, settling of old scores, the officer and the countess get married. Former Que ...

The Emperor of Capri (1949)

Beautiful gold-digger Sonia mistakes Antonio, a waiter in a Neapolitan hotel, for Arab Prince Bey of Agapur and makes an appointment with him for the following day in Capri, and Antonio goes there behind the backs of his wife and mother-in-law. A lucky ser ...

Totò Looking for a House (1949)

Beniamino and his family have lived inside a school since the end of the war. After five years they have to move, but in Rome it's not easy to find an apartment. ...

If I Were A Member Of Parliament (1949)

A young dare-devil goes to Rome in search of fortune, with the blessings and money of his loving aunts. While in the city, he is a victim of a series of mishaps. His aunts hear about a man of the same name who is a candidate for Parliament; they think that ...

Marechiaro (1949)

Rome: Free City (1946)

In a post-war Rome (1946) a cat burglar inadvertently saves the life of a would-be suicide man who returns from the war to find that he has been betrayed by his fiancée while fighting in the war. From that moment the thief takes the ex-soldier under his w ...

Stasera niente di nuovo (1942)

A singer saves a heavy alcoholic journalist. Fate has a new meeting for them: the two are found in a police station where she was brought with the accusation of prostitution. ...