Marisa Merlini

Acting

Marisa Merlini

Born — Died

1923-08-06 — 2008-07-27

Place of birth

Rome, Lazio, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

67 titles

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 8 titles

The Wife on Vacation... The Lover in Town poster
5.5

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' Giovanni is really just a manager's assistant, namely, Andrea's.

The Wife on Vacation... The Lover in Town

1980

My Wife Goes Back to School poster
4.6

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 boarding school.

My Wife Goes Back to School

1981

Desirable Teacher poster
5.6

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 the school walls, in the family or in the streets of the village where he lives, Peter is not far behind and his antics continue to freewheel.

Desirable Teacher

1981

Gian Burrasca poster
5.1

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.

Gian Burrasca

1982

The Honorable with His Lover under the Bed poster
5.7

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

The Honorable with His Lover under the Bed

1981

Cream Horn poster
5.7

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

Cream Horn

1981

Sfrattato cerca casa equo canone poster
5.9

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 many as 80 thousand questions before his. How to do?

Sfrattato cerca casa equo canone

1983

The Fan, the Referee and the Footballer poster
5.4

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 Lazio.

The Fan, the Referee and the Footballer

1983

1970s · 8 titles

Rookies Go to War poster
6.1

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.

Rookies Go to War

1974

A Drama of Jealousy (and other things) poster
7.2

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?

A Drama of Jealousy (and other things)

1970

The Sweet Aunts poster
5.1

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. So take possession of the child and cover it with lust

The Sweet Aunts

1975

Una bella governante di colore poster
4.9

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

Una bella governante di colore

1976

Oh, Serafina! poster
5.3

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 the judge to have Augusto committed to a mental institution. While there, he falls in love with Serafina Vitali, a young woman who was also put away.

Oh, Serafina!

1976

The Payoff poster
6.3

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 disappeared mysteriously taking with her some hot documents, Sasà finds himself trapped into a spiral of homicides.

The Payoff

1978

My Father Monsignor poster
7.3

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.

My Father Monsignor

1971

Batton Story poster
4.8

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.

Batton Story

1976

1960s · 18 titles

The Great Silence poster
7.5

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

The Great Silence

1968

Me, Me, Me... and the Others poster
6.2

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.

Me, Me, Me... and the Others

1966

The Monsters poster
7.4

The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.

The Monsters

1963

The Corrupt Ones poster
5.4

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.

The Corrupt Ones

1967

Loca juventud poster
6.4

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 decides to distance themselves. He also meets Paula, daugther of an italian family that is travelling, and they both feel atracted by each other. Since then, started happening a serie of unexpected events which the guy will have to solve with tenacity and responsibility.

Loca juventud

1965

The Last Judgment poster
6.4

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.

The Last Judgment

1961

Man Only Cries for Love poster
3.8

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.

Man Only Cries for Love

1968

Les Combinards poster
6.0

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.

Les Combinards

1966

His Women poster
5.2

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.

His Women

1961

Gli altri, gli altri e noi poster
8.0

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.

Gli altri, gli altri e noi

1966

An einem Freitag um halb zwölf poster
7.1

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.

An einem Freitag um halb zwölf

1961

Getting Away with It the Italian Way poster
6.6

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.

Getting Away with It the Italian Way

1962

I piaceri dello scapolo poster
8.5

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

I piaceri dello scapolo

1960

Ferragosto in Bikini poster
5.6

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

Ferragosto in Bikini

1960

Italian Engagement poster
10.0

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 in favor of his best friend. Soon the selfish man finds himself deserted by all his friends. He winds up involved with his father's patiently waiting lover.

Italian Engagement

1964

Lisa with the Blue Eyes poster
6.2

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 industrialist, whom he fell in love with. But Lisa's father, unfortunately, already has in mind for her a marriage with a very rich suitor ...

Lisa with the Blue Eyes

1969

The Traffic Policeman poster
7.3

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

All Mad About Him poster
8.0

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 when his workers feed him some powerful amphetamines.

All Mad About Him

1967

1950s · 20 titles

Frisky poster
7.2

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.

Frisky

1954

Bread, Love and Dreams poster
7.0

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".

Bread, Love and Dreams

1953

Resurrection poster
8.0

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 had seduced and abandoned years before and tries to convince the authorities of her of his innocence but to no avail. Convinced that he is responsible for her moral fall, he follows her to Siberia where she must serve her sentence.

Resurrection

1958

Totò Looking for Wife poster
6.3

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

Totò Looking for Wife

1950

Times Gone By poster
5.2

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

Times Gone By

1952

The Bigamist poster
6.6

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

The Bigamist

1956

Il mondo dei miracoli poster
8.0

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

Il mondo dei miracoli

1959

The Young Ladies of 04 poster
6.3

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 accountant.

The Young Ladies of 04

1955

He Thief, She Thief poster
6.2

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.

He Thief, She Thief

1958

Juke Box - Screams of Love poster
5.0

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

Juke Box - Screams of Love

1959

Jungle Girl and the Slaver poster
3.8

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

Jungle Girl and the Slaver

1957

Doctor and the Healer poster
7.1

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".

Doctor and the Healer

1957

The Most Wonderful Moment poster
6.0

Pietro is in love with a nurse; they keep their affair secret until she falls pregnant. Worried that marriage will affect his career, she prepares for the upcoming childbirth

The Most Wonderful Moment

1957

Fathers and Sons poster
6.8

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.

Fathers and Sons

1957

You, Your Mother, and Me poster
6.7

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.

You, Your Mother, and Me

1958

Il bacio del sole poster
7.0

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

Il bacio del sole

1958

Sua altezza ha detto: no! poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sua altezza ha detto: no!

1953

L'eroe sono io poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

L'eroe sono io

1952

Everyone's in Love poster
7.0

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

Everyone's in Love

1959

Lo zappatore poster
9.0

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.

Lo zappatore

1950

1940s · 2 titles

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