Sandro Merli

Acting

Sandro Merli

Born 1931-02-04 · Rome, Lazio, Italy

Acting credits

Medicine Italian Style poster
6.5

Story of an ambitious young doctor through unethical means intend to make a quick career. Now is primary in a luxury clinic where administers the sick with the same cynicism of his young years.

Medicine Italian Style

1969

Giovannona Long-Thigh poster
5.9

When a judge shuts down a high profile cheese factory for violating pollution standards, the owner bribes a monsignor to fix the problem. After they discover the judge has a predilection for married women, the owner employs a prostitute to pose as his wife in an attempt to seduce the judge.

Giovannona Long-Thigh

1973

The Boom poster
6.9

Sweet-sour comedy on Italy's 1950s rage to get rich as fast as possible! The businessman wants to satisfy his wife's craving for luxury and a "respectable life" so he becomes heavily indebted. In desperation he agrees to sell a precious part of his body for a large sum of money. But just before the crucial operation he panics...

The Boom

1963

Esterina poster
5.2

Esterina, a young war orphan, joins two truck drivers, Gino and Piero, on their trips along Northern Italy. She wants to find her luck in the big city, but her dreams turn into disappointing experiences. She falls in love with Gino but he is not interested in her, until she disappears...

Esterina

1959

Rugantino poster
5.9

A beautiful girl Rosina lives In Rome. Her husband is strong as a bull and jealous as Shakespeare's Othello. Once the husband of Rosina kills a wealthy aristocrat, who sang the serenade to his wife, and now he is hiding from justice.

Rugantino

1973

Caprice Italian Style poster
6.1

The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.

Caprice Italian Style

1968

A Matter of Honor poster
6.3

Efisio Mulas is a meek laborer who lives with occasional work, especially in Don Leandro Sanna's salon, and rounds up the slim balance by betting with colleagues in strength with the game "head against head". In the village the Sanna and Porcu families' conflict has lasted over a century.

A Matter of Honor

1966

The Traffic Policeman poster
7.4

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

The Traffic Policeman

1960

Be Sick… It's Free poster
7.0

Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.

Be Sick… It's Free

1968

Let's Have a Riot poster
7.1

Episodes centering on different aspects of early-1970s Italian life, set in a television studio, a factory, a university, and a Catholic parish.

Let's Have a Riot

1970

The Reluctant Saint poster
7.8

Cupertino, Italy, 1623: A simple-minded and clumsy young man joins a Franciscan order as a hired hand, overcoming his intellectual and social challenges with a pure heart and a simple faith. God performs a miracle through him, quite literally raising him to sainthood.

The Reluctant Saint

1962

Cake in the Sky poster
10.0

This movie is an adaptation of a book by Rodari, a famous Italian poet and writer of children literature. A group of children in the outskirts of Rome bump into a spaceship that landed nearby. Soon the event draws the attention of the media, the military and rich entrepreneurs. The spaceship is pointed as the evil to fight against by the authorities, and nobody trusts the kids, who on the other hand try to preserve the spaceship (which is actually a harmless space-cake).

Cake in the Sky

1973

Make Love, Not War poster
7.0

Twenty years after the end of the war, a German submarine has not yet surrendered and continues to wander the seas. Its travelers include a half-witted officer, a meager and dazed crew, and Ombrina, a girl rescued from a shipwreck when she was only one year old and adopted by the men of the strange vessel.

Make Love, Not War

1966

Il generale dorme in piedi poster
6.4

A colonel in the Army has a problem: when resting lying starts screaming anarchist and antimilitarist phrases. Because of his fitful sleep is therefore forced to sleep standing up.

Il generale dorme in piedi

1974