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Riccardo Freda
Director 1909 - 1999

Riccardo Freda

Alexandria, Egypt

Riccardo Freda (24 February 1909 – 20 December 1999) was an Italian film director. He worked in a variety of genres, including sword-and-sandal, horror, giallo and spy films. Freda began directing I Vampiri in 1956. The film became the first Italian sound horror film... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

28 titles
Murder Obsession

Murder Obsession

Riccardo Freda 1981 1h 32m 5.5

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.

Estratto dagli archivi segreti della polizia di una capitale europea

Estratto dagli archivi segreti della polizia di una capitale europea

Riccardo Freda 1972 1h 23m 5.0

After a peaceful sailboat ride, four young people, including rich kid Bill, Joe, Fred and Jane, knock on the door of a secluded villa after their dune buggy runs out of gas. Earlier in the day, Bill had given the lovely Jane a pearl necklace with a supposedly paranormal history, and this later opens up a can of worms.

L'iguana dalla lingua di fuoco

L'iguana dalla lingua di fuoco

Riccardo Freda 1971 1h 32m 5.5

A corpse is found in the trunk of a car that belongs to the Swiss ambassador to the UK. Speculations run wild, as more people around the ambassador keep falling victim to the vicious killer. A former detective is hired to investigate.

A doppia faccia

A doppia faccia

Riccardo Freda 1969 1h 28m 5.5

A millionare is unwittingly led into murder by his lesbian wife.

La morte non conta i dollari

La morte non conta i dollari

Riccardo Freda 1967 1h 33m

Lawrence and Jane White are determined to find the man responsible for their father's murder. They suspect a number of people in the town of Owell Rock and hire a professional gunfighter to help them in their quest for vengeance... Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net

Coplan ouvre le feu à Mexico

Coplan ouvre le feu à Mexico

Riccardo Freda 1967

Secret Agent Francis Coplan, is given the task of finding priceless artwork stolen by the Nazis' in 1943. The trail leads to Mexico, where Coplan challenges a "secret" organization in order to re-gain the paintings.

Les deux orphelines

Les deux orphelines

Riccardo Freda 1965 1h 37m

A story about two girls who grew up as sisters, were separated and finally met again.

Coplan FX 18 casse tout

Coplan FX 18 casse tout

Riccardo Freda 1965 1h 35m

A French agent, who is sent to save an atomic scientist, uncovers a plot by terrorists and a secret atomic site in Turkey.

Lo spettro

Lo spettro

Riccardo Freda 1963 1h 37m

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.

Il magnifico avventuriero

Il magnifico avventuriero

Riccardo Freda 1963 1h 33m 3.0

Benvenuto Cellini knows no obstacles when it comes to creating a work of art or conquering the heart of a woman.

Maciste all'inferno

Maciste all'inferno

Riccardo Freda 1962 1h 31m 5.0

Maciste travels to Hell to find a witch and make her undo a curse she put on the surface world.

L'orribile segreto del Dr. Hichcock

L'orribile segreto del Dr. Hichcock

Riccardo Freda 1962 1h 28m 7.0

The year is 1885, and necrophiliac Dr. Hitchcock 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.

Maciste alla corte del Gran Khan

Maciste alla corte del Gran Khan

Riccardo Freda 1961 1h 32m

Sam must rescue a beautiful Chinese princess from a marauding horde of warriors.

I mongoli

I mongoli

André de Toth, Leopoldo Savona 1961 1h 52m 4.0

During the Mongol invasion of Poland, a conflict between Mongol Emperor Genghis Khan and his oldest son Ogotai ensues when the former aims for peace and the latter itches for war and conquest.

I giganti della Tessaglia

I giganti della Tessaglia

Riccardo Freda 1960 1h 26m

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.

Caltiki - il mostro immortale

Caltiki - il mostro immortale

Riccardo Freda 1959 1h 16m 6.3

A team of archaeologists in Mexico encounter an amorphous, blob-like monster that appears to be connected with the collapse of the Mayan civilization.

Agi Murad il diavolo bianco

Agi Murad il diavolo bianco

Riccardo Freda 1959 1h 31m 8.0

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.

I Vampiri

I Vampiri

Riccardo Freda 1956 1h 18m 7.7

A mad scientist captures young women and drains their blood, in order to keep alive an ancient, evil duchess.

Beatrice Cenci

Beatrice Cenci

Riccardo Freda 1956 1h 33m 8.0

The beautiful Beatrice Cenci, daughter of the noble Francesco, falls in love with Olimpio. But she has to face the jealousy of his violent and morbid father, and the hostility of his stepmother Lucrezia, who has a relationship with her other stepson, James. The stepmother and stepson-lover plan to kill Francesco.

Teodora, imperatrice di Bisanzio

Teodora, imperatrice di Bisanzio

Riccardo Freda 1954 1h 28m 7.0

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.

Vedi Napoli e poi muori

Vedi Napoli e poi muori

Riccardo Freda 1951 6.0
La vendetta di Aquila Nera

La vendetta di Aquila Nera

Riccardo Freda 1951 1h 37m 6.0

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

Il tradimento

Il tradimento

Riccardo Freda 1951 1h 35m 6.0

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.

Il conte Ugolino

Il conte Ugolino

Riccardo Freda 1949 1h 26m 7.0
Il cavaliere misterioso

Il cavaliere misterioso

Riccardo Freda 1948 1h 30m 7.0

Giacomo Casanova returns to Venice, to help his brother, falsely accused of robbery.

I miserabili: Tempesta su Parigi

I miserabili: Tempesta su Parigi

Riccardo Freda 1948 1h 33m 8.0

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.

I miserabili: Caccia all'uomo

I miserabili: Caccia all'uomo

Riccardo Freda 1948 1h 26m 8.0

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.

Don Cesare di Bazan

Don Cesare di Bazan

Riccardo Freda 1942 1h 18m 6.0

In Barcelona, in 1650, Count Don Cesare di Bazan tries to foil, with the help of an actress, a plot hatched against the king by the French ambassador.

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