Jesús Franco
Known for: Directing
Born: May 12, 1930
Died: April 2, 2013
Place of birth: Madrid, Spain
Jesús "Jess" Franco was a Spanish film director, writer, cinematographer and actor. His career took off in 1961 with his cult classic The Awful Dr. Orloff, which received wide distribution in the United States and England. Though he had some American box office success with Necronomicon, his first women-in-prison film Ninety-Nine Women, and his two Christopher Lee films, The Bloody Judge and Count Dracula, he never achieved wide commercial success. Franco moved from Spain to France in 1970 so that he could make more violent and sexual films, and it was at this point that his career began to go downhill commercially, as he turned to low-budget filmmaking with a heavier accent on adult-oriented films. Although he produced a few well-received, low budget horror films in the early 70's, many people in the industry considered him a porn director due to the huge number of X-rated adult films he began churning out. Franco returned to low-budget horror in a brief comeback period from 1980-1983, but after 1983, his career took a second downturn. With the exception of Faceless and Killer Barbies, his films after 1984 are quite disliked and obscure due to their incredibly low budgets. Franco has nevertheless retained a large cult following through the years with his sexually-charged horror films, some of which are regarded as masterpieces by his avid followers.
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Filmography
270 movies · 3 TV shows, newest first
6.8
Exorcismo: The Transgressive Legacy of Clasificada “S”
2024
7.3
Inferno Rosso: Joe D'Amato on the Road of Excess
2021
6.8
Wild Session
2019
5.8
Drácula Barcelona
2017
3.7
Soledad Miranda, Flower in the Desert
2015
5.5
Queridos monstruos
2014
4.6
Call Me Jess Redux
2014
6.0
Clawing! A Journey Through the Spanish Horror
2014NR
Falks Frauen
2014
3.6
Revenge of the Alligator Ladies
2013
6.0
La última película de Jess Franco
2013
5.5
The Rhythm of Jess
2013
3.7
Al Pereira vs. the Alligator Ladies
20137.0
Los profundos sueños de Jennifer
2013
5.0
Tío Jess
2012
3.5
La cripta de las condenadas: Parte II
2012
3.1
La cripta de las condenadas
2012
4.7
Debris Documentar
2012NR
Macumba sexual: Voodoo Jess
2010
3.8
Paula-Paula
2010
5.0
Por la gracia de Luis
2009
5.0
Idoru
2009
NR
Martes de Carnaval
2009NR
Take-Away Spirit
2009
10.0
Coffins of Light
2009
NR
A Bad Day at the Cemetery
2008
5.0
Ellos robaron la picha de Hitler
2008
5.0
Vampyros Lesbos
2008
6.0
Jesús Franco, manera de vivir
2007NR
Beloved Count
2007
6.0
Angel of Death 2: The Prison Island Massacre
20077.0
Bloody Jess
2007NR
Lascivia
2007
5.5
Montes de Venus
2006
4.0
Snakewoman
2005
6.8
Ban the Sadist Videos!
2005
4.9
Jess Franco's Passion
2005
6.0
Jess Franco's Perversion
2005
9.0
The Well
2005
6.0
Jesús in Furs
2005NR
Jess' Women
20057.0
See you later Cowabunga: La maldición del cenachero diabólico!
2004NR
On the Threshold to Another World
2003
4.8
Death Karate in Torremolinos
2003
4.9
Red Venice
2003
4.1
Killer Barbys vs. Dracula
2002NR
Perversion Stories
2002
2.5
Incubus
20028.4
Antena Criminal: Making a Jess Franco Movie
2002
NR
Journey into Perversion
2001
2.6
Vampire Junction
2001
6.3
Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote
2000
7.2
Call Him Jess
2000
3.4
Blind Target
2000
2.8
Helter Skelter
2000
8.0
Eurotika!
1999
4.1
Vampire Blues
1999
2.2
Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell
1999
2.5
Broken Dolls
1999
3.3
Red Silk
1999
3.1
Lust for Frankenstein
1998
4.0
Mari-Cookie and the Killer Tarantula
1998
3.3
Tender Flesh
1997
4.1
Vampire Killer Barbys
1996
4.1
Downtown Heat
1994
6.5
Eurotrash
1993NR
Jungle of Fear
1993
6.2
Don Quixote
1992
7.5
El abuelo, la condesa y Escarlata la traviesa
199210.0
In Pursuit of Barbara
1991
4.4
Mondo Weirdo
1990
5.2
Esmeralda Bay
1989
3.9
Night of the Eagles
1989
4.6
Flesh-Eating Mothers
1988
3.6
Dark Mission: Flowers of Evil
1988
7.0
Esa cosa con plumas
1988
5.7
Faceless
1988
6.0
Slave of Crime
1987
7.2
Falo Crest
1987
NR
Trapped Women
1987
6.3
¡Biba la banda!
1987
3.7
Thong Girls
1987
7.7
Phollastía
1987
4.1
Golden Temple Amazons
1986
8.0
Para las nenas, leche calentita
1986
4.7
Alone Against Terror
1986
6.5
Entre pitos anda el juego
1986
5.3
The Voyeur and the Exhibitionist
1986
4.7
Lulu's Talking Ass
19868.0
Las chuponas
1986
3.7
Fury in the Tropics
1986
10.0
Girl with the Red Lips
1986
3.2
The Last from Philippines
19867.0
Sida, la peste del siglo XX
1986
4.3
Angel of Death
19857.0
Un pito para tres
1985
3.9
Dirty Game in Casablanca
1985
6.5
Trip to Bangkok, Coffin Included
1985
5.0
Judoka Shadow versus Doctor Wong
1985
3.5
White Jungle Slave
1985
7.0
Bangkok, City of the Dead
1985
4.2
The Sexual Story of O
1984
7.0
A Crack for Two
1984
6.3
Lilian, the Perverted Virgin
1984
4.5
The Sinister Doctor Orloff
1984
5.4
How Much Does a Spy Make?
1984
4.5
Night Has a Thousand Desires
1984
4.7
Lonely Road
1984
5.2
Bahia Blanca
1984
5.1
Macumba Sexual
1983
4.9
The Hotel of Love Affairs
1983
4.4
Cries of Pleasure
1983
5.5
The House of Lost Women
1983
4.0
Intimate Confessions of an Exhibitionist
1983
3.5
Diamonds of Kilimandjaro
1983
4.1
Cecilia
1983
3.6
Revenge in the House of Usher
1983
4.2
The Night Of Open Sex
1983
4.5
Black Boots, Leather Whip
1983
6.6
Blood on My Shoes
1983
5.1
The Blues of Pop Street
1983
4.8
En busca del dragón dorado
1983NR
The Bizarre World of Jess Franco
19835.3
Voces de muerte
1983
NR
Claire
1983
4.5
Mansion of the Living Dead
1982
3.3
Oasis of the Zombies
1982
4.0
Lake of the Virgins
1982
5.2
The Inconfessable Orgies of Emmanuelle
19826.0
El huésped de la niebla
1982
3.8
Pick-Up Girls
1981
3.9
Jailhouse Wardress
1981
NR
Lola 2000
1981
4.9
The Story of Linda
1981
6.6
Sexual Perversions of a Married Woman
1981
3.2
Zombie Lake
1981
4.1
The Girls of the Copacabana
1981
5.1
Sadomania
1981
5.0
Bloody Moon
1981
5.7
Sex Is Crazy
1981
4.4
Devil Hunter
1980
4.1
Cannibal Terror
1980
4.6
White Cannibal Queen
1980
4.6
Wicked Memoirs of Eugenie
1980
5.3
Two Female Spies with Flowered Panties
1980
5.5
Erotic Symphony
1980
5.7
What a Honeymoon
1980
5.7
Justine and the Whip
1979
4.1
Convoy of Girls
1979
4.8
The Sadist of Notre Dame
1979
5.0
Burning Up Inside
1979
5.3
They Do Everything
1979
5.4
Obscene Desire
1978
5.2
Cocktail spécial
1978
4.6
Women in Cellblock 9
1978
4.4
Women Without Innocence
1978
5.5
Call of the Blonde Goddess
1977
4.9
Love Camp
1977
4.9
Sexy Sisters
1977
4.8
Blue Rita
1977
5.2
Slaves
1977
4.1
Kiss Me Killer
1977
5.8
Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun
1977
4.8
Greta, the Mad Butcher
1977
5.3
Doriana Grey
1977
4.8
Silence of the Grave
1976
5.4
Around the World in 80 Beds
1976
5.9
Jack the Ripper
1976
4.4
Shining Sex
1976
5.0
Girls in the Night Traffic
1976
4.9
White Skin Black Thighs
1976
5.6
Downtown
1976
4.0
The Troublemakers
1976
3.6
Ladies House of Pleasure
1976
4.7
Barbed Wire Dolls
1976
3.0
Golden Jail
1976
5.0
Midnight Party
1976
4.6
Countess Perverse
1975
5.5
Rolls-Royce Baby
1975
4.5
Exorcism
1975
3.8
The Ticklish Ones
1975
3.2
The Hot Nights of Linda
1975
3.4
Sexy Erotic Job
1975
4.8
A Virgin for St. Tropez
1975
4.5
Female Vampire
1975
4.4
Women Behind Bars
1975
1.0
Sexorcismes
1975
4.9
Lorna, the Exorcist
1974
5.6
Celestine
1974
6.6
Night of the Skull
1974
3.2
The House of the Lost Dolls
1974
5.0
How to Seduce a Virgin
1974
3.2
The Greedy Ones
1974
3.0
The Lustful Amazons
1974
4.9
Dolls for Sale
1973
4.7
A Virgin Among the Living Dead
1973
5.1
Lovers of Devil's Island
1973
5.2
The Other Side of the Mirror
1973
5.3
Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac
1973
5.1
The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein
1973
5.5
Fifteen Year Old Captain
1973
5.6
Eugenie de Sade
1973
5.3
The Demons
1973
4.7
Nightmares Come at Night
1973
4.4
The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff
1973
4.3
Tender and Perverse Emmanuelle
1973
6.1
The Vengeance of Dr. Mabuse
1972
4.4
Daughter of Dracula
1972
4.7
Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein
1972
5.1
The Corpse Packs His Bags
1972
3.9
Robinson and His Tempestuous Slaves
1972
6.1
Vampir Cuadecuc
1972
4.2
Virgin Report
1972
5.1
She Killed in Ecstasy
1971
4.5
X312 - Flight to Hell
1971
5.7
Vampyros Lesbos
1971
4.6
The Devil Came from Akasava
1971
4.2
Cuadrilátero
1970
5.9
Count Dracula
1970
4.9
Eugenie
1970
5.0
The Bloody Judge
1970
4.8
Your Caresses
1969
5.4
Venus in Furs
1969
3.6
The Castle of Fu Manchu
1969
5.0
Marquis de Sade: Justine
1969
4.7
Kiss Me Monster
1969
5.0
Two Undercover Angels
1969
4.8
The Girl from Rio
1969
5.4
99 Women
1969
7.0
A Man, Eight Girls
1968
4.4
The Blood of Fu Manchu
1968
4.5
Castle of the Creeping Flesh
1968
5.4
Succubus
1968
4.5
Residence for Spies
1968
4.9
Lucky, the Inscrutable
1967
5.8
The Diabolical Dr. Z
1966
5.4
Attack of the Robots
1966
7.2
Chimes at Midnight
1965
4.6
Dr. Orloff's Monster
1965
5.5
Rififi in the City
1964
7.3
Strange Voyage
1964
5.0
Death Whistles the Blues
1964
7.0
Jaguar
1963
6.9
55 Days at Peking
1963
7.5
Zorro the Avenger
1962
5.1
The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus
1962
5.9
The Awful Dr. Orlof
1962
5.3
Vampiresas 1930
1962
7.5
Queen of the Tabarin Club
1960
7.5
Ama Rosa
1960
5.3
Red Lips
19607.0
Estampas guipuzcoanas número 2: Pío Baroja
19605.0
El destierro del Cid
1960
5.7
We Are 18 Years Old
19597.0
Oro español
195910.0
Las playas vacías
1959
9.0
Llegaron los franceses
1959
6.4
Anna Said Yes
1958
6.0
Historias de Madrid
1958
6.8
Fulano y Mengano
1957
9.0
El hombre que viajaba despacito
1957
7.0
The Tree from Spain
1957
6.8
The Mysterious Melody AKA Ce soir les souris dansent
1956
6.7
Around the World in 80 Days
1956
5.5
The Coyote's Justice
1956
7.1
Death of a Cyclist
1955
6.4
The Coyote
1955
5.3
Merry Christmas
1954
5.9
Comedians
1954NR
El misterio del castillo rojo
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7.5
Fly Story
—NR
Juliette
—
NR
Shining Sex
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