Riccardo Freda

Riccardo Freda
Country: Italy
Total Credits at Criticker: 29 (Director), 16 (Writer)
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I Vampiri
In Paris, France, a crazed duchess, obsessed with retaining her youth, has her scientist lover kill various women and draining their blood for her use while a smug journalist seeks out leads for the so-called 'vampire murders' and links a local drug addict to the case whom is connected to the mad scientist. (imdb)
The Ghost
A woman and her lover murder her husband, a doctor. Soon, however, strange things start happening, and they wonder if they really killed him, or if he is coming back from the dead to haunt them. (imdb)
Tragic Ceremony
Italian horror icon Riccardo Freda directs I Spit on Your Grave star Camille Keaton in this gory shocker concerning four hippies who seek shelter from a summer storm in a seemingly-abandoned villa, only to realize that they have stumbled into a satanic sacrifice. (All Movie Guide)
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
The year is 1885, and necrophiliac Dr. Hichcock likes to drug his wife for sexual funeral games. One day he accidentally administers an overdose and kills her. Several years later he remarries, with the intention of using the blood of his new bride to bring his first wife's rotting corpse back to life. (imdb)
Caltiki, the Immortal Monster
Archaeologists investigating some Mayan ruins come across a blob-like monster. They manage to destroy it with fire, but keep a sample. Meanwhile, a comet is due to pass close to the Earth - the same comet passed near the Earth at the time the Mayan civilization mysteriously collapsed. (imdb)
Double Face
The plot centres on John Alexander, a successful business man whose wife just happens to be a lesbian. She is, unfortunately, killed in a car crash towards the start of the film and John then encounters Christine; a sexy and uninhibited blonde seductress who seems to have a keen interest in him. One thing leads to another, and John ends up seeing a blue movie starring Christine and, apparently, his wife! The mystery then builds as John comes to believe that his wife is still alive. (imdb)
The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire
In Dublin, a young woman is brutally murdered in her home by a maniac that throws acid in her face and then slits her throat with a razor. Her mangled body is later discovered in the boot of a limousine owned by the Swiss Ambassador Sobiesky. (imdb)
Murder Obsession
Michael is a successful actor, but he has a scandal in his past: at a tender age he knifed his father to death. He and his girlfriend Deborah go to his mother's for the weekend, and are joined by the director and others from a recent film project, who are given a rather cool reception by the superstitious housekeeper Oliver. Soon rude things begin happening to some of the guests, and Michael fears a repeat of his nightmare past is in progress. (imdb)
White Warrior
The story of Hadji Murad, a 19th-century Chechen chieftain who led his warriors in a fight against the invading forces of the Russian Czar. (imdb)
Samson and the Seven Miracles of the World
Sam must rescue a beautiful Chinese princess from a marauding horde of warriors. (imdb)
Maciste all\
Maciste travels to Hell to find a witch and make her undo a curse she put on the surface world. (imdb)
I giganti della Tessaglia (Gli argonauti)
In order to placate the angry gods, who have allowed Thessaly to be overrun with barbarian invaders and beset with natural disasters, King Jason takes his Argonauts on a search for the fabled Golden Fleece. Meanwhile, back at home, his scheming regent is plotting to get his hands on the kingdom--and the queen. (imdb)
No Killing Without Dollars
Lawrence White returns to the town of Owell Rock to avenge the murder of his father, but in order to carry out his plans, he changes his name and arranges for another man to pose as "Lawrence White." (spaghetti-western.net)
Le sette spade del vendicatore
Count Carlos learns about a plot against King Filippo but is not aware that the responsible is his cousin, the Duke of Sloavedra! Carlos is arrested and is about to fall in his ruthless cousin's trap when accomplice Isabella - now truly in love with the Count - saves both him and the king! With the help of goodhearted bandits the Duke is killed and Isabella can finally marry Carlos. (movie-time)
Il tradimento
Pietro, an honest businessman, is wrongly accused of the murder of his business associate and jailed. Actually the man is alive and has set him up to avoid bankruptcy. Pietro's life is shattered of course and when after many years he is released from prison, he seeks revenge. (imdb)
Il cavaliere misterioso
Adventures of Casanova with a secret Slav organisation in the time of Catherine II of Russia. (imdb)
I miserabili
Jean Valjean, pursued through the years for a minor infraction by the implacable policeman Javert, attempts to create a life for himself and for his adopted daughter Cosette amid the revolutionary struggles of France. (imdb)
The Magnificent Adventurer
This historical war drama follows the command of 16th-century artist Benvenuto Cellini as he and his troops defend Rome against the attack of Charles V and his armies. (allmovie.com)
Don Cesare di Bazan
A poor Spanish nobleman fights a duel against a cruel captain to save a boy's life. Since a royal edict forbids duelling during Holy Week, the nobleman is sentenced to death by hanging, but he eventually manages to escape this injustice.
Beatrice Cenci
The film portrays the story of the sixteenth century Italian noblewoman Beatrice Cenci (Wiki)
Coplan FX 18 casse tout
A French agent is sent to save an atomic scientist uncovers a plot by terrorists and a secret atomic site in Turkey. (imdb)
Roger la honte
In the period following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, Roger Laroque became the owner of a small factory. But business was bad and Laroque found himself forced to borrow a huge sum of money. He finally managed to acquit his debt but the day after, Larouette, his creditor, was found murdered. Laroque, although innocent, was charged with the crime. Now Roger is back, determined to clear his name... (imdb)
Les deux orphelines
18th century adventures of the rescue of two orphan girls, kidnapped and maltreated in Paris by a wicked uncle, by a handsome hero. (BFI)
Teodora, imperatrice di Bisanzio
Teodora, a Roman courtesan and former slave girl, marries the Roman emperor Justinian and assumes the throne as Empress of Rome. But the divide between nobility and slave is too great. Teodora seeks justice for her people, and revolution and armed conflict erupt in both Byzantium and Rome. (imdb)
Spartacus the Gladiator
Somewhere in the Roman Empire, Spartacus, a young officer, is condemned to be a slave because he hit a superior. Brought back to Roma in a gladiators' school, he escapes and stirs up all the slaves in a revolt against the Roman Empire. (imdb)
Romeo e Giulietta
Two teenagers fall in love, but their feuding families and fate itself cause the relationship to end in tragedy.
Sign of the Gladiator
Zenobia, Queen of Palmira, revolts against Rome and defeats the Roman troops... But she makes a big mistake when she falls in love with enemy officer Marco Valerio. (imdb)
La vendetta di Aquila Nera
When a soldier returns home from the wars, he finds that a local landowner has been terrorizing his family. He disguises himself as a bandit known as "The Black Eagle" and begins taking revenge on the landowner by ravaging his "empire". However, things take a different turn when he falls for the landowner's beautiful daughter.
Tempesta su Parigi
The story of Jean Valjean, still pursued by Javert, continues with a love developing between Cosette and radical student Marius, a blackmailing attempt by suspicious innkeeper Thenardier, and a climax on the barricades of Paris.