Mario Merola
1934 - 2006
Il mammasantissima
Alfonso Brescia
Mario Merola, Malisa Longo
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.
Il mammasantissima
Da Corleone a Brooklyn
Umberto Lenzi
Maurizio Merli, Mario Merola
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.
From Corleone to Brooklyn
Torna
Stelvio Massi
Mario Merola, Agostina Belli
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.
Torna
Totò Sapore e la magica storia della pizza
Maurizio Forestieri
Lello Arena, Marco Vivio
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.
Toto’ Sapore and the Magic Story
Carcerato
Alfonso Brescia
Mario Merola, Regina Bianchi
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.
Inmate
The New Godfathers
Alfonso Brescia
Mario Merola, Antonio Sabàto
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.
The New Godfathers
Sud Side Stori
Roberta Torre
Forstine Ehobor, Roberto Rondelli
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.
Sud Side Stori
Sbirro, la tua legge è lenta... la mia... no!
Stelvio Massi
Maurizio Merli, Mario Merola
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.
Hunted City
Napoli... Serenata Calibro 9
Alfonso Brescia
Mario Merola, Aldo Canti
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.
Naples... Serenade Caliber 9
