Marisa Mell Movies

Ali Mohammed teaches German in Iran, his native country, and he tries to be a faithful Muslim: he is certainly devout. He has flown to Vienna from Iran with his sister and his son and must wait there until he gets a visa to visit the U.S., which was his planned destination. He has put the family up at a hotel for immigrants and is horrified to see the immoral influence this setting has on his son and sister. In the first place, the hotel is directly across from a brothel, and his son begins to hang out with the establishment's women. Their influence leads him to get involved with some local cut-ups; joining them in a prank, he is arrested. Meanwhile, the teacher's hitherto modest sister is happily being wooed by a Polish man and is behaving more like a Western woman every day. On top of that, his landlady is trying to put the make on him. By the time he has adapted to all these situations, the idea of relocating to the U.S. has become much less appealing to him. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

In this gripping Swedish drama, a South African girl is captured and forced to become a hooker. It is a horrible life, but eventually the girl escapes and finds sanctuary and love on a remote game preserve. Unfortunately, her former employer finds her and carves up the girl's face, causing her lover to head off for bloody revenge. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

There's nothing more terrifying than a Beast With a Gun, and when psychotic criminal Nanni Vitali (Helmut Berger) and three violent thugs stage a jailbreak, the streets will run red with blood in the final film from notorious director Sergio Grieco. Taking to the pavement in a horrific frenzy of rape, robbery, and revenge, Vitali seals his own grim fate when, in brutalizing a beautiful young woman, he catches the attention of a determined cop (Richard Harrison) bent on bringing the murderous madman to justice. As his relentless slide into darkness speeds to a furious race against death, Vitali seems determined to avoid going back into his cage even if it means going down in a hail of bullets and gunsmoke. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

In a way, the title of Some Like It Cool was a piquant comment on the career of star Tony Curtis, whose stardom had chilled since his 1959 appearance in Some Like It Hot. This time around, Curtis plays famed 18th-century lover Giacomo Casanova. The plot would have us believe that Casanova has suddenly turned impotent, and is deploying all manner of subterfuge to hide the fact. One of Casanova's stratagems is to hire a look-alike (also Curtis) to uphold his reputation between the sheets. The stellar supporting cast -- Marisa Berenson, Hugh Griffith, Britt Ekland et. al. -- seem far more embarrassed by their tawdry, topless surroundings than Curtis, who steamrolls his way through the film with the same dogged determination that he'd demonstrated in his "Yonda lies the castle of my fadduh" formative years. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

A beautiful woman from Rome gets caught up in a complex murder plot in this obscure Italian giallo starring Marisa Mell (Danger: Diabolik), and featuring a score by Stelvio Cipriani. Louisa (Mell) is a young, independent woman trying to make something of her life in the Italian capital when she is methodically lured into a life of prostitution. When Louisa rejects the advances of a poetry writing doctor (Farley Granger) in favor of another handsome suitor, she falls prey to a vicious blackmailer with an appetite for killing. Luciano Pigozzi, Mircha Carven, Helga Liné, and Riccardo Salvino co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

In this low-budget, erotic thriller, aptly titled The Diary of a Murderess, a seductive, scheming woman (Marissa Mell) meets and insinuates herself into the mansion of a fabulously wealthy film producer (Richard Conte). When he mysteriously dies, the sinister opportunistic woman is left with his fortune. Or so she believes. The man's suspicious son (Anthony Steffen) pretends to fall in love with her but catches her in her own trap. The film is poorly acted and directed, with a notable lack of suspense, but Mell is quite beautiful and fans of hers should enjoy this silly, gothic murder mystery. ~ Linda Rasmussen, Rovi

Filmed in English, this Italian mystery thriller/melodrama explores the murder of a doctor's wife. The doctor himself (Jean Morel) has long since taken up with a mistress. His wife begged out of engagements as an asthmatic, all the while actually entertaining herself with her part-time job as a stripper. Did the doctor kill her? After all, he took out a large life-insurance policy on his wife. One highlight of this film is the effective use of its San Francisco setting. Another is its gas-chamber sequence, filmed in San Quentin's actual gas chamber. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

Diabolik (John Phillip Law) is the criminal mastermind who has just pulled off a huge heist. He spends most of his free time with his girlfriend, Eva (Marisa Mell), in fond embrace. The police minister (Terry-Thomas) is approached by Valmont (Adolfo Celi), a master criminal who proposes to use his underworld connections to catch Diabolik for the police. In between their gratuitous lovemaking, he and the exotic Eva are chased by police and the mob in this plodding crime drama. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi

Bruno Cremer plays a French Army captain, just released from prison. Model Marisa Mell gets Cremer mixed up in a planned airplane heist: the target is a monthly flight which transports 500 million francs from Paris to Bordeaux. Masterminding the robbery is the very man who was responsible for Cremer's arrest. The ex-captain pulls off the heist, but refuses to blow up the plane as ordered. It isn't that he's averse to murder; it's simply that he chooses to select his own murder victim--such as the man who sent him "up the river". This French/Italian coproduction ends with Cremer being mowed down by police bullets after settling the score with his old enemy. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

In this blend of action-adventure and spy satire, the British government has been negotiating with the Middle Eastern nation of Ramaut to lease their oil fields for drilling by U.K. petroleum companies, but at the last minute, the deal collapses, and Col. Drexel (Jack Hawkins), a military leader who has worked with the authorities in Ramaut before, is given an unusual assignment. The young Prince Jamil of Ramaut (Christopher Witty) is scheduled to take the nation's throne and become the country's leader. Drexel and his men are to kidnap Jamil, hold him until he is of age, and then release him once they've persuaded him to sign the oil lease agreement. American operative David Frazer (Cliff Robertson) is called in to help, and he meets Drexel at the villa where Jamil is being held captive. However, shortly after Frazer is confronted by Sophie (Marisa Mell) and a gang of agents, he's knocked senseless and wakes up to find that Jamil is missing. Drexel's superiors think that Frazer was in on the plot to free Jamil, and while Drexel knows better, it just so happens that he has his own agenda -- Drexel has been negotiating with Jamil's family to release him in exchange for a cash payment that would go directly into his pocket. Incidentally, if you have trouble finding Ramaut on a map, don't worry -- it exists only in the mind of screenwriters William Goldman and Michael Relph. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi