Alfonso Brescia

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Alfonso Brescia

Born January 6, 1930 · Roma, Lazio, Italia

Died June 5, 2001 · aged 71

Alfonso Brescia was an Italian film director and screenwriter, recognized for his work in various genres, including science fiction, peplum, and Spaghetti Westerns. He began his career in the 1960s, directing films such as The Magnificent Gladiator (1964) and The Conqueror of Atlantis (1965). Brescia gained notoriety in the late 1970s for his low-budget science fiction films, often inspired by the…

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Choke CanyonChoke Canyon · 1986
Choke Canyon
5.21986
MovieActionScience Fiction
Pilgrim Corporation has leased Choke Canyon to research physicist David Lowell for 99 years. Lowell has built an impressive research laboratory there. When Pilgrim suddenly needs Choke Canyon for toxic waste storage, they resort to violence to force out the renitent Lowell. However, Pilgrim Corportation vastly underestimates Lowell, who is a tenacious, principled, and ingenious man.
Beast in SpaceBeast in Space · 1980
Beast in Space
4.21980
MovieHorrorScience Fiction
In the future the struggle for space superiority has forced humanity to search the cosmos for a rare element called Antallum that is the key ingredient for the construction of neutron bombs. Starship captain Larry Madison and his crew are assigned to retrieve Antallum from the remote planet Lorigon. However, Madison and crew find themselves under the control of a powerful computer on Lorigon that incites everyone to have sex. Some versions feature brief adult scenes shot with body doubles.
Hell in NormandyHell in Normandy · 1968
Hell in Normandy
5.01968
MovieDramaTV Movie
The movie is set during World War II in the days just prior to the D-Day invasion. A special parachute unit is sent to destroy a German flame thrower installation on Omaha Beach.
Days of ViolenceDays of Violence · 1967
Days of Violence
5.81967
MovieWestern
During the last months of the Civil War, Joe's brother is killed unjustly by Clifford, a captain in the Northen army. Joe decides to join a group of Southerners determined to resist till the end. Joe is considered an outlaw and a reward is posted for his capture. When the war ends, Joe returns to the farm where he used to work only to find Christine, the owner's daughter and his sweetheart, engaged to the hated Captain Clifford.
The War of the RobotsThe War of the Robots · 1978
The War of the Robots
3.51978
MovieActionScience Fiction
An alien civilization, which facing eminent extinction, kidnaps two famous genetic scientists from Earth. A troop of soldiers is dispatched to combat the humanoid robots and rescue the victims.
Naked Girl Killed in the ParkNaked Girl Killed in the Park · 1972
Naked Girl Killed in the Park
5.81972
MovieHorrorMystery
Johan Wallenberger, a rich financier, is killed in the House of Horrors at an amusement park in Madrid. His insurance company assign Chris Buyer, one of their best agents, to investigate because a few days prior to his death, the businessman took out a million dollar life insurance policy. Chris ingratiates himself with Catherine, Wallenberger's beautiful daughter, and it emerges that she is being plagued by a blackmailer. Chris is invited to the Wallenbergers' country house and is soon the centre of attention for several attractive women. Meanwhile, the plot thickens...
Star OdysseyStar Odyssey · 1979
Star Odyssey
2.91979
MovieScience FictionAdventure
Earth is attacked by an intergalactic villain and his army of robotic androids.
The New GodfathersThe New Godfathers · 1979
The New Godfathers
6.91979
MovieCrime
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.

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Loves, Bed and BetrayalsLoves, Bed and Betrayals · 1976
Loves, Bed and Betrayals
4.31976
MovieComedy
A building speculator tries in every way to get their clutches on the lands of a pastor. It loses its fortunes playing broom with him. The Commendatore gag, trafficone building Lombard, bursts like an elephant in the quiet of the shepherd Lazio Baldo which would tear the earth, to be speculation. The hostility of the provincial lazy is fought by the invitation to enjoy the hospitality of the suitor and his bourgeois home. This would not be enough, but the ribs of rustic sent you bring Mrs. Greta, wife of the muzzle, and his daughter Paola, a professional student protester. Of course women Baldo receives several favors that little by little the glimpse a new future. The magic moment, however, that transforms the Lazio is given by a game of broom, which Baldo rips at Lombard its fortunes becoming its equal partner.

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White Slave ShipWhite Slave Ship · 1961
White Slave Ship
6.01961
MovieAdventure
The Albatross travels from England to the New World in 1675, with a number of passengers, a couple of political prisoners along with a dozen other women convicts, these to be sold into slavery on arrival. The woman activist frees the dozen of low-cast women, and they take over the ship. After a storm, the captain takes back control of his ship. Since mutiny is punishable by death in the New World, the mutineers try to reroute the course, tossing Desny and Purdom in the brig. A practical male mutineer wants to throw the women overboard to save rations, but the women free Purdom and the captain to battle the mutineers. A British warship comes to the rescue, and the captain pardons Angeli and Purdom for having saved his life.

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