Jesús Franco

Known for DirectingBorn 1930-05-12Died 2013-04-02Madrid, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Coffins of Light

In Pursuit of Barbara

Girl with the Red Lips

Las playas vacías

The Well

Llegaron los franceses

El hombre que viajaba despacito

Antena Criminal: Making a Jess Franco Movie

Eurotika!

Para las nenas, leche calentita

Las chuponas

Phollastía

Inferno Rosso: Joe D'Amato on the Road of Excess

El abuelo, la condesa y Escarlata la traviesa

Call Him Jess

Los profundos sueños de Jennifer

Zorro the Avenger

Queen of the Tabarin Club

Ama Rosa

Bloody Jess

Falo Crest

See you later Cowabunga: La maldición del cenachero diabólico!

Exorcismo: The Transgressive Legacy of Clasificada “S”

Wild Session

Strange Voyage

Esa cosa con plumas

Sida, la peste del siglo XX

Ban the Sadist Videos!

Chimes at Midnight

Bangkok, City of the Dead

Un pito para tres

A Crack for Two

A Man, Eight Girls

Death of a Cyclist

Jaguar

Estampas guipuzcoanas número 2: Pío Baroja

Oro español

The Tree from Spain

55 Days at Peking

Blood on My Shoes

Eurotrash

Sexual Perversions of a Married Woman

Fulano y Mengano

Entre pitos anda el juego

The Mysterious Melody AKA Ce soir les souris dansent

Trip to Bangkok, Coffin Included

Night of the Skull

Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote