Jesús Franco
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.
99 Women
as Official (uncredited)Female prisoners endure the horrors of drug abuse, prostitution and rampant sadism at an island...
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Around the World in Eighty Days
as Extra (uncredited)Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the...
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Barbed Wire Dolls
as Maria's Father (uncredited)Maria, an unfortunate young woman, kills her rapist father in self-defense, and is later tried,...
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Vampyros Lesbos
as MemmetAn erotic horror tale about a vixen vampiress seducing and killing women to appease her...
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Count Dracula
as Van Helsing's servant (uncredited)Jess Franco's version of the Bram Stoker classic has Count Dracula as an old man who grows...
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Marquis de Sade: Justine
as uncreditedWithout a family, penniless and separated from her sister, a beautiful chaste woman will have to...
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Celestine
as Sleeping ManThe story opens with Celestine eluding arrest with a friend as the police raid a brothel. While...
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Venus in Furs
as Jazz Musician (uncredited)A musician finds the corpse of a beautiful woman on the beach. The woman returns from the dead...
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Bloody Moon
as Doctor (uncredited)Miguel, a horribly disfigured young man, goes on a rampage at a masquerade party and rapes and...
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Eugenie de Sade
as Attila TannerEugenie, a beautiful but shy young girl, lives with her stepfather, a famous writer specializing...
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Greta, the Mad Butcher
as Dr. Milton Arcos (as Jess Franco)A young woman feigns illness in order to infiltrate a mental hospital, where she investigates...
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Macumba Sexual
as RecepcionistPrincess Obongo, the Goddess of Unspeakable Lust, uses dark powers to ensnare a hapless couple...
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Vampir Cuadecuc
as SelfAn atmospheric essay, which is an alternative version of Count Dracula, a film directed by Jess...
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White Cannibal Queen
as Mr. MartinA man is on safari in the jungle with his wife and daughter when the wife gets eaten and the...
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A Virgin Among the Living Dead
as BasilioA girl arrives from London to visit her estranged relatives in a remote castle for the reading...
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Slaves
as Radeck's AssistantA brothel owner is questioned in the disappearance of the daughter of a wealthy man after she...
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Sadomania
as LucasSoon after newlyweds Olga and Michel set foot on the grounds of a notorious women's prison,...
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Inferno Rosso: Joe D'Amato on the Road of Excess
as Self (archive footage)Who was Joe D'Amato aka. Aristide Massaccesi? A genius of horror in the USA, a master of...
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Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac
as Inspecteur HernandezLinda comes to the big city in search of fun and excitement. What she finds is exploitation and...
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The Girl from Rio
as Guitar PlayerSumuru, the beautiful leader of the all-female kingdom of Femina, plans to use her women to take...
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The Castle of Fu Manchu
as Insp. AhmetThe evil mastermind Fu Manchu plots his latest scheme to basically freeze over the Earth's...
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Female Vampire
as Dr. RobertsA mute noblewoman's vampiric heritage compels her to drain the life force from all of her lovers.
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Eugenie
as Man in Red Ritual Scene (uncredited)Eugenie, an innocent young woman, is taken to an island paradise where she is initiated into a...
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The Blood of Fu Manchu
as uncreditedFu Manchu inoculates ten women with poison, to kill ten world leaders.
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Downtown
as Al PereiraA private eye who's over his head in debt takes on a job snapping photos of his client's rich...
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She Killed in Ecstasy
as Dr. DonenA young doctor kills himself after a medical committee terminates his research into human...
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The Hot Nights of Linda
as Dr. Roberts (as Jess Franck)A young woman is hired to care for an elderly man who lives on an island off the Greek coast....
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Robinson and His Tempestuous Slaves
as DirectorRobinson, a down-on-his-luck pharmacist who’s pestered by his nagging wife and overbearing...
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Exorcism
as Mathis Vogel, aka Laforgue (as Jess Frank)A disturbed priest, who witness an occult ritual, thinks the people are possessed and start a...
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Succubus
as WriterJanine Reynaud stars as a nightclub stripper who free-floats through a spectral 60's landscape...
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The Awful Dr. Orlof
as Pianist (uncredited)Dr. Orlof, a former prison doctor, abducts beautiful women from nightclubs to use their skin to...
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The Blues of Pop Street
as Sam ChesterfieldMary Ocky, a beautiful girl from Mondonedo, Ohio, comes to seek the help of the famous PI Philip...
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The Diabolical Dr. Z
as Inspector TannerA woman seeks to avenge her father's death using a local dancer, with long poisonous...
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Attack of the Robots
as Piano PlayerAl Pereira, a wise-cracking superspy, investigates a series of assassinations being performed by...
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Attack of the Robots
as Pianist (uncredited)Al Pereira, a wise-cracking superspy, investigates a series of assassinations being performed by...
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as Tino CelliA mineral is discovered which can turn metal to gold or humans into zombies. When the mineral is...
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The Corpse Packs His Bags
as GonzalesA London slasher pack the suitcases of his victims before stabbing them to death in this...
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Beloved Count
as SelfCult director Jess Franco recalls the making of his adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula starring...
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Debris Documentar
as HimselfThe film, released on DVD in 2014 as part of a boxset also containitng Melancholie der Engel...
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Night Has a Thousand Desires
as Psychiatrist (uncredited)A telepathic nightclub act becomes the backdrop for murder.
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Strange Voyage
as Don VenancioIn a small town near Madrid, Paquita and her brother Venancio, both single and with a childish...
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Vampire Blues
as The MerchantA pretty American teenager from New Jersey goes on vacation in the south of Spain where she is...
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Your Caresses
as uncreditedBrother and sister meet again after 15 years and fall in love with each other.
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Drácula Barcelona
as HimselfIn 1969, Jesús Franco and Christopher Lee shot Count Dracula in Barcelona. At the same time,...
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Death Karate in Torremolinos
as MiyagiDr. Malvedades intends to bring back Jocántaro, a Beast of the Apocalypse. To do this, he uses...
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Anna Said Yes
as Pianista (uncredited)Juan does not have a cent but lives beautifully. His nights of revelry and cabaret are famous in...
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Les emmerdeuses
as uncreditedPina and Tina, two cabaret artists with a passion for espionage and theft, discover that a...
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Two Undercover Angels
as Napoleon Bolivard"Red Lips" are two female detectives trying to find missing models and dancers. A pop artist...
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Daughter of Dracula
as Cyril JeffersonLuisa is called to the bed of her dying mother Edith at Karlstein Castle. Before she dies, she...
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Women Behind Bars
as BillA small-time hood brings the attention of the law with an insurance scam and diamond theft, but...
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Bahia Blanca
as The Miseries (uncredited)Pocho Martin's body is found dead on the shore of a fishing village. According to the forensic...
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The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein
as MorphoDr. Frankenstein is left for dead in the woods. His daughter, Dr. Vera Frankenstein, hunts for...
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Jailhouse Wardress
as Uncle JessAfter the fall of the Third Reich, all Nazi SS officers ran away in Latin American countries....
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Midnight Party
as Janos RadeckSylvia, a stripper, attends a party where the theme is a mock spy adventure. Unfortunately, she...
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Wild Session
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)A walk through the golden age of Spanish exploitation cinema, from the sixties to the eighties;...
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The Vengeance of Dr. Mabuse
as Crosby / Drunk Man in NightclubDr. Mabuse and his accomplices steal all kinds of attributes from a National Research Institute...
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Kiss Me Killer
as MarcelA deadly look into the savage world of gangsters. The aftermath of a holdup turns into a game of...
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Camino solitario
as Doctor CallmanPrivate detective Alfredo Pereira is hired by eccentric couple Raden and Eve to find their...
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The Night Of Open Sex
as CountMoira, a beautiful cabaret dancer, is hired to impersonate another woman — who turns out to be a...
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The Sadist of Notre Dame
as Mathis VogelJesus Franco directs and stars in this cut-copy-and-paste-version of one of his own movies....
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Death Whistles the Blues
as Saxofonista en Club de Nueva Orleans (uncredited)Vogel, an important trafficker, betrayed two of his accomplices, Castro and Smith. The first was...
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The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff
as Lord Comfort (uncredited)Amid the craggy, dusty hills of southern France, a woman screams in the night. Gorgeous Melissa...
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Dr. Orloff's Monster
as Piano PlayerA mad scientist creates a hideous monster to carry out his murderous plans...
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Ladies House of Pleasure
as uncreditedA lovely summer day in Paris. Roger and Martine are on their way to work. "Work" is a euphemism...
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Judoka Shadow versus Doctor Wong
as Dr. WongDr. Wong (Jess Franco) sends his gangsters to eliminate Mr. Jung. The "shadow of the judoka" of...
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Night of the Skull
as AndyAfter Lord Archibald Marion is brutally murdered by an unknown assailant, his bitter and feuding...
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Sex Is Crazy
as Film DirectorAdult film actresses get abducted and impregnated by aliens after appearing in a sci-fi porno....
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The Sinister Doctor Orloff
as ManoloThe son of the infamous Dr. Orloff clashes with his father when he begins to stalk and dismember...
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Lucky, the Inscrutable
as Ciego / Zoltan / GuitarristaAn American secret agent is sent to Europe to track down a ring of counterfeiters. His...
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Ban the Sadist Videos!
as SelfAn in-depth analysis of the "Video Nasty" scandal of the early 1980s in Britain.
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Soledad Miranda, Flower in the Desert
as Himself (archive footage)The life of an Andalusian actress who had a brilliant career in cinema, but died early in a car...
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Clawing! A Journey Through the Spanish Horror
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)In the late sixties, Spanish cinema began to produce a huge amount of horror genre films:...
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Dolls for Sale
as uncreditedAl Pereira arrives at the "House of Vice" and receives orders to stop spying on three women and...
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X312 - Flight to Hell
as Man at John Somers'A plane leaving the turmoil of a South American country in the midst of a revolution crash-lands...
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Esmeralda Bay
as Boat CaptainA priest secretly leads rebels in their struggle against the corrupt military dictatorship of...
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Residence for Spies
as Casino Piano Player (uncredited)Ms. Pendleton is the commander-in-chief of a women's training camp for western spies, recently...
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Idoru
as uncredited70's trash movie queen Soledad Miranda wakes up from the dead, to find herself not in heaven but...
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Por la gracia de Luis
as HimselfA walk through the work of Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) that is neither a documentary nor a...
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Martes de Carnaval
as uncreditedMr.Manolito and Mr.Estrafalario– characters of Valle-Inclán’s plays– spend the last days of...
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The Rhythm of Jess
as SelfMálaga, July 2012. With a nonexistent budget, the legendary director Jesus "Jess" Franco faces,...
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Jesús in Furs
as HimselfRetrospective documentary on Jesús Franco's film "Venus in Furs".
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Kiss Me Monster
as Abilene's Contact ManOn an island somewhere in the Caribbean a professor is experimenting with mankind. Meanwhile,...
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What a Honeymoon
as Dying Man (uncredited)Two newlyweds, Yolanda, an adventurer, and Simón, a young bookworm, travel to Banana Island,...
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Blood on My Shoes
as AbductorAgents across the globe take turns spying on and double-crossing one another in an attempt to...
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Black Boots, Leather Whip
as Matón en cementerio de coches (voice) (uncredited)Al Pereira is hired by Lina, the wife of a wealthy man, to recover some compromising photos. She...
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Al Pereira vs. the Alligator Ladies
as The DirectorAl Pereira, the one and only original private-private detective, is fighting against all the...
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La cripta de las condenadas
as uncreditedA group of women are locked in a cemetery crypt, convicted of an old curse. This kind of...
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Revenge of the Alligator Ladies
as HimselfAfter the passing of director Jesús Franco the movie was finished by Antonio Mayans. It follows...
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El abuelo, la condesa y Escarlata la traviesa
as uncreditedAn action movie directed by Jess Franco.
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Journey into Perversion
as HimselfA short film about the production of Incubus by Jess Franco.
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Esa cosa con plumas
as uncreditedLadoire is a womanizer, with a monotonous life and few illusions, a sad condition that will...
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Girl with the Red Lips
as Professor KarameA comedy directed by Jess Franco.
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Ellos robaron la picha de Hitler
as Padre del Dr. WeissmanNa construção de um prédio é descoberto por acaso o bunker onde Adolf Hitler cometeu suicidio....
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Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell
as Dr. James WongRachel Sheppard is a millionaire’s daughter, kidnapped for ransom and tortured in the weird and...
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Call Me Jess Redux
as HimselfJesus Franco, also known as Jess Franco, was one of the most important names in "B" cinema...
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A Crack for Two
as TomSecret agents against spies who hide microfilm up their behinds.
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Shining Sex
as Dr. SewardCynthia, an exotic dancer in a upscale resort in Southern France, is seduced by a strange...
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Red Venice
as Jess FrancoAfter Nathalie Baldassar has murdered her husband so she is sentenced to ten years imprisonment....
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Angel of Death 2: The Prison Island Massacre
as PeteA young girl is wrongfully arrested and sent to an isolated prison located on a small island....
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Justine and the Whip
as Strange GuyA prostitute tries to explain why she's involved in an S&M relationship with a hippie poet.
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Lilian, the Perverted Virgin
as BernardoA runaway girl is kidnapped by a gang of wealthy sadists and turned into their drug-addicted sex...
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White Skin Black Thighs
as Graf AnastasioRobert Kuhn is looking forward to a nice evening in the brothel: First he enjoys the strip show,...
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Eurotika!
as HimselfEurotika is a Channel 4 documentary film on European exploitation cinema. The documentary is...
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