Sandro Merli
1931 - 2001The Reluctant Saint
Edward Dmytryk
Maximilian Schell, Ricardo Montalban
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
Il Boom
Vittorio De Sica
Alberto Sordi, Gianna Maria Canale
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
Il prof. Dott. Guido Tersilli, primario della clinica Villa Celeste convenzionata con le mutue
Luciano Salce
Alberto Sordi, Ida Galli
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
La torta in cielo
Lino Del Fra
Paolo Villaggio, Gaby André
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). –IMDb
Cake in the Sky
Rugantino
Pasquale Festa Campanile
Adriano Celentano, Claudia Mori
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
Giovannona Coscialunga disonorata con onore
Sergio Martino
Pippo Franco, Edwige Fenech
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
