Jesús Franco

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Age

Movies

127

Born: May 12, 1930 – April 2, 2013
From: Madrid, Spain

Biography

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.

Works

127 films

Sex Is Crazy

19815.7

Around the World in 80 Days

19566.7

White Cannibal Queen

19804.6

Eugenie

19704.9

Eugenie de Sade

19735.6

Call Him Jess

20007.2

See you later Cowabunga: La maldición del cenachero diabólico!

20047.0

Marquis de Sade: Justine

19695.1

Vampyros Lesbos

19715.7

Strange Voyage

19647.3

A Virgin Among the Living Dead

19734.7

Female Vampire

19754.5

Celestine

19745.6

99 Women

19695.4

Lorna, the Exorcist

19744.9

Greta, the Mad Butcher

19774.8

Kiss Me Monster

19694.7

Count Dracula

19705.9

Vampir Cuadecuc

19726.2

Midnight Party

19765.0

The Girl from Rio

19694.8

Sadomania

19815.1

Jesús Franco, manera de vivir

20076.0

Kiss Me Killer

19774.1

Call Me Jess Redux

20144.6

The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein

19735.1

Succubus

19685.4

Jailhouse Wardress

19813.9

Barbed Wire Dolls

19764.7

En busca del dragón dorado

19834.8

Two Undercover Angels

19695.0

Beloved Count

2007

Black Boots, Leather Whip

19834.5

Ladies House of Pleasure

19763.6

The Castle of Fu Manchu

19693.7

The Blood of Fu Manchu

19684.4

Dolls for Sale

19734.9

She Killed in Ecstasy

19715.1

Venus in Furs

19695.4

Idoru

20095.0

Exorcismo: The Transgressive Legacy of Clasificada “S”

20246.8

Downtown

19755.6

The Vengeance of Dr. Mabuse

19726.1

Bloody Moon

19815.0

Women Behind Bars

19754.4

Night Has a Thousand Desires

19844.5

Slaves

19775.2

The Sinister Doctor Orloff

19844.5

Bloody Jess

20077.0

The Hot Nights of Linda

19753.2

The Other Side of the Mirror

19735.2

Macumba Sexual

19835.1

The Well

20059.0

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

20217.3

Daughter of Dracula

19724.4

Night of the Skull

19746.4

Lucky, the Inscrutable

19674.9

Exorcism

19754.5

The Devil Came from Akasava

19714.6

Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac

19735.3

Bahia Blanca

19845.3

The Diabolical Dr. Z

19665.8

Trip to Bangkok, Coffin Included

19856.5

Residence for Spies

19684.5

The Sadist of Notre Dame

19794.8

Your Caresses

19694.8

The Night Of Open Sex

19834.2

Death Whistles the Blues

19645.0

Debris Documentar

20124.8

Flesh-Eating Mothers

19884.6

Attack of the Robots

19665.4

Lonely Road

19844.7

Anna Said Yes

19586.4

Jesús in Furs

20056.0

Ban the Sadist Videos!

20056.8

The Awful Dr. Orlof

19625.9

X312 - Flight to Hell

19714.5

Drácula Barcelona

20175.8

Take-Away Spirit

2009

La última película de Jess Franco

20136.0

Clawing! A Journey Through the Spanish Horror

20146.0

Robinson and His Tempestuous Slaves

19723.9

Jess' Women

2005

Revenge of the Alligator Ladies

20133.6

Coffins of Light

200910.0

Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote

20006.3

Al Pereira vs. the Alligator Ladies

20133.1

Blood on My Shoes

19836.6

The Corpse Packs His Bags

19725.1

Wild Session

20196.8

Esmeralda Bay

19895.2

The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff

19734.4

The Troublemakers

19764.0

Dr. Orloff's Monster

19654.6

Death Karate in Torremolinos

20035.0

Macumba sexual: Voodoo Jess

2010

Soledad Miranda, Flower in the Desert

20153.7

What a Honeymoon

19805.7

Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell

19992.2

Perversion Stories

2002

Sexorcismes

19751.0

Girl with the Red Lips

198610.0

The Rhythm of Jess

20135.5

Vampire Blues

19994.1

La cripta de las condenadas

20123.1

El abuelo, la condesa y Escarlata la traviesa

19927.5

Queridos monstruos

20145.5

Ellos robaron la picha de Hitler

20085.5

The Blues of Pop Street

19835.1

El misterio del castillo rojo

2026

Falks Frauen

2014

Los profundos sueños de Jennifer

20137.0

Por la gracia de Luis

20095.0

Judoka Shadow versus Doctor Wong

19855.0

Antena Criminal: Making a Jess Franco Movie

20028.4

On the Threshold to Another World

2003

Journey into Perversion

2001

Tío Jess

20125.0

The Bizarre World of Jess Franco

1983

Esa cosa con plumas

19887.0

A Crack for Two

19847.0

Shining Sex

19764.4

Red Venice

20034.9

Angel of Death 2: The Prison Island Massacre

20076.0

Justine and the Whip

19795.7

Lilian, the Perverted Virgin

19846.3

White Skin Black Thighs

19764.9