The best Maurizio Merli’s movies

Maurizio Merli

Maurizio Merli

08/02/1940- 10/03/1989
Today we present the best Maurizio Merli’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Maurizio Merli’s movies.
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The Leopard

The Leopard
7.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/03/1963
  • Character: Soldato
As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi, to marry Angelica, the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family's accustomed level of comfort and political clout.

Rome, Armed to the Teeth

Rome, Armed to the Teeth
6.9/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 10/10/1976
  • Character: Commissioner Leonardo Tanzi
A tough, violent cop who doesn't mind bending the law goes after a machine-gun-carrying, hunchbacked psychotic killer.

Priest of Love

Priest of Love
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/10/1981
  • Character: Angelo Ravagli
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. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they return to England for a short time, then to Italy, where Lawrence writes "Lady Chatterley's Lover."

Sexy Sinners

Sexy Sinners
4.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/08/1972
  • Character: Cecco - friend of Rinaldo
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 the city of Florence, shares different stories of adultery and forbidden love.

A Special Cop in Action

A Special Cop in Action
6.6/10
A school bus with young children being kidnapped. Commissario Betti will solve the case. High action is promised, including hostage, bank robberies, car chases, prison scenes and mafia bosses!

The Cynic, the Rat & the Fist

The Cynic, the Rat & the Fist
6.7/10
Luigi "Chinaman" Maietto escapes from prison. As soon as he is free he assigns immediately two henchman to murder the inspector whose testimonial once led to his prison sentence. Inspector Tanzi is left for dead but survives. The local newspapers cover up for him and pretend the assassination had succeeded. When Tanzi gets better, his superior wants him to hide in Switzerland. But Tanzi defies him because he intends to make sure himself that Maietto is put back in prison. He goes for it.

Fear in the City

Fear in the City
5.8/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 17/11/1976
  • Character: Murri
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 picking off various informers and people they don't like. Murri investigates; hooking up with one of the criminal's nieces along the way. He uses his own methods; which mostly involve breaking all the rules, and thus comes under a lot of scrutiny from his superiors who don't take too kindly to the cop's way of working.

Covert Action

Covert Action
5.4/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 03/03/1978
  • Character: John Florio
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 novels. The CIA is on his case, in the person of Arthur Kennedy, CIA chief in Athens, where Janssen is staying. Janssen is pursuing a case that interests him, while dodging the traps set for him by Kennedy and trying to help Maurizio Merli, a former colleague with personal problems.

Highway Racer

Highway Racer
6.4/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 19/10/1977
  • Character: Marco Palma
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 once a legendary police interceptor responsible for numerous large scale arrests.

A Man Called Blade

A Man Called Blade
6.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 13/08/1977
  • Character: Mannaja
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 power in a corrupt mining town, he unleashes a firestorm of brutality, betrayal and cold-blooded murder. Now, one man stalks a savage land where justice walks a razor and no bullets slice deeper than vengeance. He is A MAN CALLED BLADE.

Violent City

Violent City
6.6/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 13/08/1975
  • Character: Commissario Betti
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 department for a "questionable" shooting of a vicious criminal. However, he is soon approached by a representative for a group of citizens who themselves are fed up with what they see as criminals going unpunished, and they make him an offer he may very well not refuse.

White Fang to the Rescue

White Fang to the Rescue
5/10
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. Together they try to avenge his death.

Two R-R-Ringos from Texas

Two R-R-Ringos from Texas
5/10
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 Good, the Bad And the Ugly". Ciccio is sergeant in the army and Franco volunteers to join (after too many drinks). Franco has a talking horse telling him where a treasure is buried. They have to get behind enemy lines in the civil war to get hold of it, though. (via IMDB- user unbroken metal)

Le mille e una notte all'italiana

Le mille e una notte all'italiana
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/10/1972
Two young friends - one poet, the other a sculptor - have fun conquering the wives of others.

From Corleone to Brooklyn

From Corleone to Brooklyn
6.4/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 13/04/1979
  • Character: Commissario Giorgio Berni
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 City in order to testify against a mob boss on trial for murder. Along the way, Berni and his prisoner face a series of traps set up by the Mafia.

Violent Naples

Violent Naples
7/10
Inspector Betti (Maurizio Merli) is transferred to Naples and immediately after his arrival receives a warm welcome from The Commandante (Barry Sullivan), the city's crime lord. Betti then goes on a personal mission against corruption and organized crime, and tries to force the syndicate out of town with any means necessary.

The Iron Commissioner

The Iron Commissioner
5.8/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 01/01/1978
  • Character: Commissario Mauro Mariani
Pretty solid Merli/Massi collaboration. The plot is a simple one that centers on various kidnapping episodes. With each scenario, the stakes increase for Merli's character and he must race against the clock to resolve each standoff.

Convoy Busters

Convoy Busters
6.3/10
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 follow a trail that leads him toward high government officials. When his methods leave an innocent bystander dead, the corrupt officials have an excuse to get Olmi transferred to a coastal town where the pace is slow and he has time for a romantic dalliance. Soon, Olmi discovers that fishing isn't the only local occupation, and out comes his gun and his ruthless tactics of investigation.

Eros e Thanatos

Eros e Thanatos
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1969
  • Character: Giornalista Barni
Franco Adami injures a condescending prostitute to photograph her, but escaped from guilt, causing her death by bleeding.

Hunted City

Hunted City
5.7/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 27/09/1979
  • Character: Commissario Paolo Ferro
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 corporation. Acampora (Mario Merola) is believed to be the prime suspect although he later proves to be one of the mafia's targets. As if all that wasn't enough, Paolo has to face his own nephew who seems to be involved in all sorts of dirty business.

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