Jesús Franco
Directing
1930-05-12 · 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.
Filmography
Exorcismo: The Transgressive Legacy of Clasificada “S”
2024 · Movie
Inferno Rosso: Joe D'Amato on the Road of Excess
2021 · Movie
Wild Session
2019 · Movie
Drácula Barcelona
2017 · Movie
Soledad Miranda, Flower in the Desert
2015 · Movie
Queridos monstruos
2014 · Movie
Call Me Jess Redux
2014 · Movie
Clawing! A Journey Through the Spanish Horror
2014 · Movie
Falks Frauen
2014 · Movie
Revenge of the Alligator Ladies
2013 · Movie
La última película de Jess Franco
2013 · Movie
The Rhythm of Jess
2013 · Movie
Al Pereira vs. the Alligator Ladies
2013 · Movie
Los profundos sueños de Jennifer
2013 · Movie
Tío Jess
2012 · Movie
La cripta de las condenadas: Parte II
2012 · Movie
La cripta de las condenadas
2012 · Movie
Debris Documentar
2012 · Movie
Macumba sexual: Voodoo Jess
2010 · Movie
Paula-Paula
2010 · Movie
Por la gracia de Luis
2009 · Movie
Idoru
2009 · Movie
Martes de Carnaval
2009 · Series
Take-Away Spirit
2009 · Movie
Coffins of Light
2009 · Movie
A Bad Day at the Cemetery
2008 · Movie
Ellos robaron la picha de Hitler
2008 · Movie
Vampyros Lesbos
2008 · Movie
Jesús Franco, manera de vivir
2007 · Movie
Beloved Count
2007 · Movie
Angel of Death 2: The Prison Island Massacre
2007 · Movie
Bloody Jess
2007 · Movie
Lascivia
2007 · Movie
Montes de Venus
2006 · Movie
Snakewoman
2005 · Movie
Ban the Sadist Videos!
2005 · Movie
Jess Franco's Passion
2005 · Movie
Jess Franco's Perversion
2005 · Movie
The Well
2005 · Movie
Jess' Women
2005 · Movie
Jesús in Furs
2005 · Movie
See you later Cowabunga: La maldición del cenachero diabólico!
2004 · Movie
On the Threshold to Another World
2003 · Movie
Death Karate in Torremolinos
2003 · Movie
Red Venice
2003 · Movie
Killer Barbys vs. Dracula
2002 · Movie
Perversion Stories
2002 · Movie
Incubus
2002 · Movie
Antena Criminal: Making a Jess Franco Movie
2002 · Movie
Journey into Perversion
2001 · Movie
Vampire Junction
2001 · Movie
Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote
2000 · Movie
Call Him Jess
2000 · Movie
Blind Target
2000 · Movie
Helter Skelter
2000 · Movie
Eurotika!
1999 · Series
Broken Dolls
1999 · Movie
Red Silk
1999 · Movie
Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell
1999 · Movie
Vampire Blues
1999 · Movie
Lust for Frankenstein
1998 · Movie
Mari-Cookie and the Killer Tarantula
1998 · Movie
Tender Flesh
1997 · Movie
Vampire Killer Barbys
1996 · Movie
Downtown Heat
1994 · Movie
Eurotrash
1993 · Series
Jungle of Fear
1993 · Movie
Don Quixote
1992 · Movie
El abuelo, la condesa y Escarlata la traviesa
1992 · Movie
In Pursuit of Barbara
1991 · Movie
Mondo Weirdo
1990 · Movie
Esmeralda Bay
1989 · Movie
Night of the Eagles
1989 · Movie
Flesh-Eating Mothers
1988 · Movie
Dark Mission: Flowers of Evil
1988 · Movie
Esa cosa con plumas
1988 · Movie
Faceless
1988 · Movie
Slave of Crime
1987 · Movie
Falo Crest
1987 · Movie
Trapped Women
1987 · Movie
¡Biba la banda!
1987 · Movie
Thong Girls
1987 · Movie
Phollastía
1987 · Movie
Golden Temple Amazons
1986 · Movie
Para las nenas, leche calentita
1986 · Movie
Alone Against Terror
1986 · Movie
Entre pitos anda el juego
1986 · Movie
The Voyeur and the Exhibitionist
1986 · Movie
Lulu's Talking Ass
1986 · Movie
Las chuponas
1986 · Movie
Fury in the Tropics
1986 · Movie
Sida, la peste del siglo XX
1986 · Movie
The Last from Philippines
1986 · Movie
Girl with the Red Lips
1986 · Movie
Angel of Death
1985 · Movie
Un pito para tres
1985 · Movie
Dirty Game in Casablanca
1985 · Movie
Trip to Bangkok, Coffin Included
1985 · Movie
Judoka Shadow versus Doctor Wong
1985 · Movie
White Jungle Slave
1985 · Movie
Bangkok, City of the Dead
1985 · Movie
The Sexual Story of O
1984 · Movie
A Crack for Two
1984 · Movie
Lilian, the Perverted Virgin
1984 · Movie
The Sinister Doctor Orloff
1984 · Movie
How Much Does a Spy Make?
1984 · Movie
Night Has a Thousand Desires
1984 · Movie
Lonely Road
1984 · Movie
Bahia Blanca
1984 · Movie
Macumba Sexual
1983 · Movie
The Hotel of Love Affairs
1983 · Movie
Cries of Pleasure
1983 · Movie
The House of Lost Women
1983 · Movie
Intimate Confessions of an Exhibitionist
1983 · Movie
Diamonds of Kilimandjaro
1983 · Movie
Cecilia
1983 · Movie
Revenge in the House of Usher
1983 · Movie
The Night Of Open Sex
1983 · Movie
Black Boots, Leather Whip
1983 · Movie
En busca del dragón dorado
1983 · Movie
Voces de muerte
1983 · Movie
Blood on My Shoes
1983 · Movie
The Bizarre World of Jess Franco
1983 · Movie
The Blues of Pop Street
1983 · Movie
Claire
1983 · Movie
Mansion of the Living Dead
1982 · Movie
Oasis of the Zombies
1982 · Movie
Lake of the Virgins
1982 · Movie
The Inconfessable Orgies of Emmanuelle
1982 · Movie
El huésped de la niebla
1982 · Movie
Pick-Up Girls
1981 · Movie
Jailhouse Wardress
1981 · Movie
Lola 2000
1981 · Movie
The Story of Linda
1981 · Movie
Sexual Perversions of a Married Woman
1981 · Movie
Zombie Lake
1981 · Movie
The Girls of the Copacabana
1981 · Movie
Sadomania
1981 · Movie
Bloody Moon
1981 · Movie
Sex Is Crazy
1981 · Movie
Devil Hunter
1980 · Movie
Cannibal Terror
1980 · Movie
White Cannibal Queen
1980 · Movie
Wicked Memoirs of Eugenie
1980 · Movie
Two Female Spies with Flowered Panties
1980 · Movie
Erotic Symphony
1980 · Movie
What a Honeymoon
1980 · Movie
Justine and the Whip
1979 · Movie
Convoy of Girls
1979 · Movie
The Sadist of Notre Dame
1979 · Movie
Burning Up Inside
1979 · Movie
They Do Everything
1979 · Movie
Obscene Desire
1978 · Movie
Cocktail spécial
1978 · Movie
Women in Cellblock 9
1978 · Movie
Women Without Innocence
1978 · Movie
Call of the Blonde Goddess
1977 · Movie
Love Camp
1977 · Movie
Sexy Sisters
1977 · Movie
Blue Rita
1977 · Movie
Slaves
1977 · Movie
Kiss Me Killer
1977 · Movie
Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun
1977 · Movie
Greta, the Mad Butcher
1977 · Movie
Doriana Grey
1977 · Movie
Silence of the Grave
1976 · Movie
Around the World in 80 Beds
1976 · Movie
Jack the Ripper
1976 · Movie
Shining Sex
1976 · Movie
Girls in the Night Traffic
1976 · Movie
White Skin Black Thighs
1976 · Movie
Downtown
1976 · Movie
The Troublemakers
1976 · Movie
Ladies House of Pleasure
1976 · Movie
Barbed Wire Dolls
1976 · Movie
Golden Jail
1976 · Movie
Midnight Party
1976 · Movie
Countess Perverse
1975 · Movie
Rolls-Royce Baby
1975 · Movie
Exorcism
1975 · Movie
The Ticklish Ones
1975 · Movie
The Hot Nights of Linda
1975 · Movie
Sexy Erotic Job
1975 · Movie
A Virgin for St. Tropez
1975 · Movie
Female Vampire
1975 · Movie
Women Behind Bars
1975 · Movie
Sexorcismes
1975 · Movie
Lorna, the Exorcist
1974 · Movie
Celestine
1974 · Movie
Night of the Skull
1974 · Movie
The House of the Lost Dolls
1974 · Movie
How to Seduce a Virgin
1974 · Movie
The Lustful Amazons
1974 · Movie
The Greedy Ones
1974 · Movie
Dolls for Sale
1973 · Movie
A Virgin Among the Living Dead
1973 · Movie
Lovers of Devil's Island
1973 · Movie
The Other Side of the Mirror
1973 · Movie
Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac
1973 · Movie
The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein
1973 · Movie
Fifteen Year Old Captain
1973 · Movie
Eugenie de Sade
1973 · Movie
The Demons
1973 · Movie
Nightmares Come at Night
1973 · Movie
Tender and Perverse Emmanuelle
1973 · Movie
The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff
1973 · Movie
The Vengeance of Dr. Mabuse
1972 · Movie
Daughter of Dracula
1972 · Movie
Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein
1972 · Movie
Robinson and His Tempestuous Slaves
1972 · Movie
The Corpse Packs His Bags
1972 · Movie
Vampir Cuadecuc
1972 · Movie
Virgin Report
1972 · Movie
She Killed in Ecstasy
1971 · Movie
X312 - Flight to Hell
1971 · Movie
Vampyros Lesbos
1971 · Movie
The Devil Came from Akasava
1971 · Movie
Cuadrilátero
1970 · Movie
Count Dracula
1970 · Movie
Eugenie
1970 · Movie
The Bloody Judge
1970 · Movie
Your Caresses
1969 · Movie
Venus in Furs
1969 · Movie
The Castle of Fu Manchu
1969 · Movie
Marquis de Sade: Justine
1969 · Movie
Kiss Me Monster
1969 · Movie
Two Undercover Angels
1969 · Movie
The Girl from Rio
1969 · Movie
99 Women
1969 · Movie
A Man, Eight Girls
1968 · Movie
The Blood of Fu Manchu
1968 · Movie
Castle of the Creeping Flesh
1968 · Movie
Succubus
1968 · Movie
Residence for Spies
1968 · Movie
Lucky, the Inscrutable
1967 · Movie
The Diabolical Dr. Z
1966 · Movie
Attack of the Robots
1966 · Movie
Chimes at Midnight
1965 · Movie
Dr. Orloff's Monster
1965 · Movie
Rififi in the City
1964 · Movie
Strange Voyage
1964 · Movie
Death Whistles the Blues
1964 · Movie
Jaguar
1963 · Movie
55 Days at Peking
1963 · Movie
Zorro the Avenger
1962 · Movie
The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus
1962 · Movie
The Awful Dr. Orlof
1962 · Movie
Vampiresas 1930
1962 · Movie
Queen of the Tabarin Club
1960 · Movie
Ama Rosa
1960 · Movie
Estampas guipuzcoanas número 2: Pío Baroja
1960 · Movie
Red Lips
1960 · Movie
El destierro del Cid
1960 · Movie
We Are 18 Years Old
1959 · Movie
Oro español
1959 · Movie
Las playas vacías
1959 · Movie
Llegaron los franceses
1959 · Movie
Anna Said Yes
1958 · Movie
Historias de Madrid
1958 · Movie
Fulano y Mengano
1957 · Movie
El hombre que viajaba despacito
1957 · Movie
The Tree from Spain
1957 · Movie
The Mysterious Melody AKA Ce soir les souris dansent
1956 · Movie
Around the World in 80 Days
1956 · Movie
The Coyote's Justice
1956 · Movie
Death of a Cyclist
1955 · Movie
The Coyote
1955 · Movie
Merry Christmas
1954 · Movie
Comedians
1954 · Movie
Juliette
Movie
El misterio del castillo rojo
Movie
Fly Story
Movie
Shining Sex
Movie