Maurizio Merli
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Biography: Maurizio Merli (8 February 1940 in Rome – 10 March 1989) was an Italian film actor. Merli got his first lead role in 1974 in the film White Fang to the Rescue due to his resemblance to the highly popular cult actor Franco Nero, who played the lead role in the first two films. Merli later became one of the most prominent actors of the poliziotteschi genre by starring in almost a dozen films. He died in 1989 of myocardial infarction after a tennismatch. (source Wikipedia)
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Birthday: February 08, 1940
Deathday: March 10, 1989
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Gender: Male
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The Leopard
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-03-27
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Priest of Love
Overview: 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."
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-11
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A Man Called Blade
Overview: 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.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-08-13
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Rome, Armed to the Teeth
Overview: A tough, violent cop who doesn't mind bending the law goes after a machine-gun-carrying, hunchbacked psychotic killer.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-10-10
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The Cynic, the Rat & the Fist
Overview: A vengeful criminal targets the inspector who put him away, but the inspector survives and fakes his death. Ignoring orders to flee, he sets out to bring the fugitive back to justice.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-02-03
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Magnum Cop
Overview: 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 lead him into a strange web of corruption and decadence.
Genres: Thriller Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-02-03
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Violent Naples
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-08-07
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Highway Racer
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-10-19
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Violent Rome
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-08-13
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From Corleone to Brooklyn
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-04-13
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Fear in the City
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-09-14
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Convoy Busters
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-12-23
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White Fang to the Rescue
Overview: 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.
Genres: Western Family Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-02-09
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Vultures Over the City
Overview: Merli, teamed with Mexican star Hugo Stiglitz as his photographer buddy, plays a journalist investigating the shady activities of the local Mafia. Eventually the shit hits the fan, and Merli is cornered and beaten for sticking his nose to close to the action. After his girlfriend is raped, Merli dishes out some vigilante justice and punches, shoots, and bitch slaps his way through the Mafia ranks.
Genres: Thriller Crime Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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A Special Cop in Action
Overview: 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!
Genres: Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-11-27
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Hunted City
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-09-27
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The Rebel
Overview: "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 co-production from 1979, filmed mainly in the snowy winter of bleak West-Berlin. Italian cop Nick, played by gangster movie veteran Maurizio Merli, goes to Berlin to find the head of an International European blackmailing gang who has murdered several people. He investigates undercover as a contract killer for the gangsters, but of course becomes immediately the target of his enemies and has to fight hard to save his life...
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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The Iron Commissioner
Overview: Comissioneer Mariani leads investigates a group of kidnappers.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-12-07
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Seagulls Fly Low
Overview: An ex-Vietnam vet is forced to become a hit-man and gets caught in the middle of a conspiracy.
Genres: Thriller Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-11-01
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Spy Connection
Overview: Musante plays a man blackmailed and forced to assassinate a highly guarded KGB official. Two British agents have kidnapped his daughter and want him to do what they tell him. Why him? He has the ability to see in darkness and is a sharpshooter. Will he get the job done, get his daughter back, and escape from the Russian and British agents that pursue him?
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-01-14
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Blue Tango
Overview: 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 slaughterhouse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-02-02
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Chains
Overview: 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 Raffaello Matarazzo. It was a commercial failure, grossing about 60 million lire.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-04-25
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Covert Action
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-03-03
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Two R-R-Ringos from Texas
Overview: 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.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-08-25
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Massacre Mania
Overview: A high level criminal attempts to enslave the world by thought control through TV.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-11-14
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Phenomenal and the Treasure of Tutankamen
Overview: A masked superhero searches for a magical golden relic while trying to prevent the plundering of an Egyptian tomb.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-03-04
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Philadelphia Story
Overview: Italian made-for-TV movie remake of the 1942 Philadelphia Story, also based on the 1939 play by Philip Barry.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-10-04
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Sexy Sinners
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-08-04
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Raptus
Overview: Franco Adami injures a condescending prostitute to photograph her, but escaped from guilt, causing her death by bleeding.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Le mille e una notte all'italiana
Overview: Two young friends - one poet, the other a sculptor - have fun conquering the wives of others.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-10-10
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The Man in the Movie Camera
Overview: 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 strange figure almost hidden among the extras - a man wearing a bowler hat and looking directly toward the camera, perhaps even at Marcello himself! He finds the same man in many other films from different movie ages. He grows obsessed with this figure, even if it seems Marcello is the only one who can see him.
Genres: History Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-09-22
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