Mario Merola
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Napoli, Italy
Birthday: April 06, 1934
Deathday: November 12, 2006
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Totò Sapore and the Magical Story of Pizza
Overview: Naples, 18th century. Salvatore "Totò" Sapore, an unemployed minstrel, always manages to cheer up the hungry with his songs about good food, always upsetting Vesuvia, a magma witch who lives inside the Vesuvius.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family Adventure Music Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-12-19
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Sud Side Stori
Overview: In Roberta Torre's "true story of Romeo and Julet", Toni Giulietto is a vulnerable street singer and Little Tony-impersonator (who is himself an Italian Elvis-impersonator) who is constantly deceived and hoodwinked by almost everyone he knows. Romea is an attractive Nigerian immigrant who sells sex on the streets of Palermo to pay off her huge fee to the man who smuggled her in to the country. Various characters plot against each other and the plots, which draw in people from all the different social strata, spiral out of control as the tug-of-war between these different factions of Sicilian society is fought to the last.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-09-21
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Hundred Years
Overview: Gigi, an orphan boy adopted by Mario Merola, works as a clerk in a clothing store but cultivates within himself the dream of becoming a famous singer. Gigi is in love with the girlfriend of his employer.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-06-07
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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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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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Naples... Serenade Caliber 9
Overview: Don Salvatore Savastano, a boss involved in the smuggling of contraband cigarettes, is forced to watch four masked robbers kill his wife and his only son in a restaurant where he and his family are celebrating the young boy's first Holy Communion. From that moment on Don Salvatore has no other purpose in life but to get his revenge on the four assassins.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-12-08
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Inmate
Overview: Francesco Improta is an honest fruit and vegetable peddler who lives with his elderly mother Assunta and daughter Fiorella. His wife Lucia left home two years earlier, as, in order to help the family, she did not hesitate to give herself to the boss Peppino Ascalone, with whom she is now forced to live together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-08-15
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Lacrime napulitane
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Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-06-28
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Giuramento
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-04-24
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Children are Pieces of Your Heart
Overview: A humble organ grinder is married to a barren woman. The pair would like to adopt a child but are too poor. Suddenly a miracle seems to happen: she's pregnant. Unfortunately the baby dies and the man is forced, through hardship, to buy one from a chorus girl who wants to get rid of him. After a short time even his wife dies and the poor man brings up the child on his own, singing in taverns to make ends meet. The father and son's humble life is upset when the real father of the boy reappears and wants his child back. The two men fight to get the custody of the boy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-11-28
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The New Godfathers
Overview: A revolution in Iran halts a heroin shipment, but an alliance of crime families is set on getting it to the US. They decide to run the drug through an unsuspecting network of good-natured, local smugglers in Naples, while an international anti-narcotics agent rushes to shut their operation down. Betrayals and divided loyalties lead to a final, bloody confrontation in America.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-08-24
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Guapparia
Overview: Salvatore Di Donato is one of the most feared and respected members of the Mafia in Naples. His wife, Assuntina, is a young theater actress. During a pilgrimage to Madonna of the Arch, Salvatore and Assuntina meet Margaret, a woman proud and beautiful. Salvatore falls in love with her, leaves Assuntina and goes to live with his new love. Margaret, however, is a strong woman, free, resistant to bring controlled by Salvatore, and ultimately he is forced to return home, ridiculed in the eyes of all.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Il mammasantissima
Overview: Don Vincenzo is a well respected boss from Naples, but he protects people from other criminals, like gypsies, loan sharks and Don Bufalo...but as they say in Naples, a Mammasantissima either ends in jail or inside a grave.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-02-10
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La tua vita per mio figlio
Overview: Eurocrime/Poliziotteschi movie from 1980
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-08-10
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L'ultimo guappo
Overview: Eurocrime/Poliziotteschi movie from 1978
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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The Mafia Triangle
Overview: A Neapolitan camorra boss has retired from business but when his wife gets killed he gets back into action, and goes to the States to get his revenge.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-04-03
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Naples... The Camorra Challenges, the City Hits Back
Overview: Italian crime movie from 1979 directed by Alfonso Brescia.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Sgarro alla camorra
Overview: Andrea leaves the prison in advance through Cecere who wants to use him for his shady dealings. Tidied a boat, would be given to the fishing with his friend Peter, but first must do justice.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Zappatore
Overview: Francesco Esposito and his wife Maddalena are two farmers who raised Mario, their only son, with loving devotion. To help him study, they also incurred debts to the city's loan shark. The boy has since become a brilliant lawyer and in Naples, where he moved for work, he met Nancy, the daughter of an Italian-American industrialist, and fell in love with her; it would seem like a story with a happy ending, if it weren't for the fact that Mario is ashamed of his parents' humble origins.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-12-05
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The Creeping Crimson
Overview: A short film by George Kuchar.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-31
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Tradimento
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Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-09-09
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Torna
Overview: Salvatore manages a gas station and a cafeteria in the outskirts of Naples, but bad luck has stolen his beloved wife, left alone, the pain has crushed all the projects and removed any desire to live. Then one night, Angela, eager for a different and simple life, enters his life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-03-08
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Il Re di Napoli - Storia e leggenda di Mario Merola
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-10-22
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