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

Marquis de Sade: Justine

19695.1

See you later Cowabunga: La maldición del cenachero diabólico!

20047.0

Eugenie de Sade

19735.6

Call Him Jess

20007.2

Vampyros Lesbos

19715.7

Female Vampire

19754.5

Strange Voyage

19647.3

Celestine

19745.6

Greta, the Mad Butcher

19774.8

Kiss Me Monster

19694.7

Lorna, the Exorcist

19744.9

A Virgin Among the Living Dead

19734.7

99 Women

19695.4

Count Dracula

19705.9

Vampir Cuadecuc

19726.2

Sadomania

19815.1

The Girl from Rio

19694.8

Midnight Party

19765.0

Call Me Jess Redux

20144.6

Beloved Count

2007

Jesús Franco, manera de vivir

20076.0

Jailhouse Wardress

19813.9

Kiss Me Killer

19774.1

The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein

19735.1

Succubus

19685.4

Two Undercover Angels

19695.0

Barbed Wire Dolls

19764.7

Dolls for Sale

19734.9

Venus in Furs

19695.4

En busca del dragón dorado

19834.8

The Sinister Doctor Orloff

19844.5

Black Boots, Leather Whip

19834.5

She Killed in Ecstasy

19715.1

Bloody Moon

19815.0

Idoru

20095.0

Downtown

19755.6

The Blood of Fu Manchu

19684.4

The Other Side of the Mirror

19735.2

Ladies House of Pleasure

19763.6

The Castle of Fu Manchu

19693.7

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

20217.3

Trip to Bangkok, Coffin Included

19856.5

Exorcismo: The Transgressive Legacy of Clasificada “S”

20246.8

Night Has a Thousand Desires

19844.5

Daughter of Dracula

19724.4

Slaves

19775.2

Bloody Jess

20077.0

The Vengeance of Dr. Mabuse

19726.1

Women Behind Bars

19754.4

The Well

20059.0

Exorcism

19754.5

Night of the Skull

19746.4

Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac

19735.3

The Hot Nights of Linda

19753.2

Blood on My Shoes

19836.6

The Devil Came from Akasava

19714.6

La última película de Jess Franco

20136.0

The Diabolical Dr. Z

19665.8

Death Whistles the Blues

19645.0

Macumba Sexual

19835.1

Jesús in Furs

20056.0

Take-Away Spirit

2009

Macumba sexual: Voodoo Jess

2010

Lucky, the Inscrutable

19674.9

Coffins of Light

200910.0

Bahia Blanca

19845.3

The Night Of Open Sex

19834.2

Residence for Spies

19684.5

Attack of the Robots

19665.4

The Sadist of Notre Dame

19794.8

Clawing! A Journey Through the Spanish Horror

20146.0

Your Caresses

19694.8

The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff

19734.4

The Awful Dr. Orlof

19625.9

Wild Session

20196.8

Robinson and His Tempestuous Slaves

19723.9

Debris Documentar

20124.8

The Troublemakers

19764.0

Al Pereira vs. the Alligator Ladies

20133.1

Flesh-Eating Mothers

19884.6

Drácula Barcelona

20175.8

The Corpse Packs His Bags

19725.1

Dr. Orloff's Monster

19654.6

Jess' Women

2005

La cripta de las condenadas

20123.1

The Blues of Pop Street

19835.1

Ban the Sadist Videos!

20056.8

Death Karate in Torremolinos

20035.0

X312 - Flight to Hell

19714.5

Anna Said Yes

19586.4

Esmeralda Bay

19895.2

Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell

19992.2

Lonely Road

19844.7

Girl with the Red Lips

198610.0

Perversion Stories

2002

Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote

20006.3

Soledad Miranda, Flower in the Desert

20153.7

What a Honeymoon

19805.7

Ellos robaron la picha de Hitler

20085.5

Revenge of the Alligator Ladies

20133.6

The Rhythm of Jess

20135.5

Queridos monstruos

20145.5

Falks Frauen

2014

Los profundos sueños de Jennifer

20137.0

On the Threshold to Another World

2003

El abuelo, la condesa y Escarlata la traviesa

19927.5

Vampire Blues

19994.1

El misterio del castillo rojo

2026

Sexorcismes

19751.0

Tío Jess

20125.0

Antena Criminal: Making a Jess Franco Movie

20028.4

Journey into Perversion

2001

The Bizarre World of Jess Franco

1983

Judoka Shadow versus Doctor Wong

19855.0

Por la gracia de Luis

20095.0

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