Jesús Franco
notum enim: Directing
dies natalis: 1930-05-12
Locus Natus: Madrid, Spain
Et ut: Clifford Brown, A.L. Mariaux, Jess Franco, Pablo Villa, Joan Almirall, Rosa M. Almirall, Rosa María Almirall, Juan G. Cabral, Betty Carter, Candy Coster, Terry de Corsia, Rick Deconinck, Raymond Dubois, Chuck Evans, Toni Falt, Dennis Farnon, Jess Franck, Lennie Hayden, Frank Hollman, B.F. Johnson, J.P. Johnson, James Lee Johnson, James P. Johnson, David J. Khune, David Khunn, Lulú Laverne, Franco Manera, Jeff Manner, Roland Marceignac, C. Plaut, Robert Zinnermann, Dan L. Simon, Lowel Richmond, Jesus Manera, 헤수스 프랑코, Jack Griffin
The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein
Dr. Frankenstein is left for dead in the woods. His daughter, Dr. Vera Frankenstein, hunts for his attacker: Dr. Cagliostro, a mad scientist...
release : 1973.05.31popularis : 5.59
The Castle of Fu Manchu
The evil mastermind Fu Manchu plots his latest scheme to basically freeze over the Earth's oceans with his diabolical new device. Opposing him is his...
release : 1969.05.29popularis : 6.371
The Devil Came from Akasava
A mineral is discovered which can turn metal to gold or humans into zombies. When the mineral is stolen, secret agents are sent in to get the mineral...
release : 1971.03.05popularis : 2.516
Count Dracula
Jess Franco's version of the Bram Stoker classic has Count Dracula as an old man who grows younger whenever he dines on the blood of young maidens.
release : 1970.04.03popularis : 8.011
The Corpse Packs His Bags
A London slasher pack the suitcases of his victims before stabbing them to death in this adaptation of Edgar Wallace's 'Secret of the Black...
release : 1972.10.01popularis : 2.758
Vampire Blues
A pretty American teenager from New Jersey goes on vacation in the south of Spain where she is unknowingly stalked by the vampire.
release : 1999.01.01popularis : 2.16
Antena Criminal: Making a Jess Franco Movie
A behind-the-scenes look at the creation of "Blind Target", Jesus Franco's story of a woman who becomes a celebrity in America with her exposure of...
release : 2002.01.15popularis : 1.285
Journey into Perversion
A short film about the production of Incubus by Jess Franco.
release : 2001.07.17popularis : 0.605
The Diabolical Dr. Z
A woman seeks to avenge her father's death using a local dancer, with long poisonous fingernails, to do her bidding.
release : 1966.08.01popularis : 3.032
Falks Frauen
Featurette starring actor Eric Falk and producer Erwin C. Dietrich about the making of Jess Franco's 'Barbed Wire Dolls'.
release : 2014.02.25popularis : 1.726
Inferno Rosso: Joe D'Amato on the Road of Excess
Who was Joe D'Amato aka. Aristide Massaccesi? A genius of horror in the USA, a master of eroticism in France, the king of porn in Italy. A man with a...
release : 2021.09.05popularis : 4.132
Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell
Rachel Sheppard is a millionaire’s daughter, kidnapped for ransom and tortured in the weird and wonderful Virtual Hell of Dr Wong. Nelly and...
release : 1999.01.01popularis : 1.326
She Killed in Ecstasy
A young doctor kills himself after a medical committee terminates his research into human embryos, considering it too inhumane. His wife then seeks...
release : 1971.12.10popularis : 4.144
Venus in Furs
A musician finds the corpse of a beautiful woman on the beach. The woman returns from the dead to take revenge on the group of wealthy sadists...
release : 1969.08.19popularis : 6.312
Dr. Orloff's Monster
A mad scientist creates a hideous monster to carry out his murderous plans...
release : 1964.01.01popularis : 3.733
Succubus
Lorna Green is a performer at a Lisbon nightclub who performs fictionalized acts that involve erotically charged sadomasochistic murders. As she...
release : 1968.04.19popularis : 4.145
Attack of the Robots
Al Pereira, a wise-cracking superspy, investigates a series of assassinations being performed by ruthless killers with bronze skin and horn-rimmed...
release : 1966.04.27popularis : 1.203
Eugenie de Sade
Eugenie, a beautiful but shy young girl, lives with her stepfather, a famous writer specializing in stories of erotica. One day she happens to read...
release : 1973.04.05popularis : 4.051
Kiss Me Killer
A deadly look into the savage world of gangsters. The aftermath of a holdup turns into a game of deceit and doublecross. A vengeful woman brings...
release : 1977.03.31popularis : 4.115
Barbed Wire Dolls
Maria, an unfortunate young woman, kills her rapist father in self-defense, and is later tried, sentenced, and shipped off to a woman's penitentiary...
release : 1976.04.22popularis : 11.395
Night of the Skull
After Lord Archibald Marion is brutally murdered by an unknown assailant, his bitter and feuding family members gather for a reading of the will,...
release : 1974.09.29popularis : 2.328
Female Vampire
A mute noblewoman's vampiric heritage compels her to drain the life force from all of her lovers.
release : 1973.04.07popularis : 9.981
The Sinister Doctor Orloff
The son of the infamous Dr. Orloff clashes with his father when he begins to stalk and dismember prostitutes to get parts to reanimate his dead...
release : 1984.06.18popularis : 2.328
The Vengeance of Dr. Mabuse
Dr. Mabuse and his accomplices steal all kinds of attributes from a National Research Institute (including female staff members) in order to complete...
release : 1972.12.26popularis : 1.042
Jailhouse Wardress
After the fall of the Third Reich, all Nazi SS officers ran away in Latin American countries. There they created special laboratories to crate...
release : 1981.08.05popularis : 2.71
Sex Is Crazy
Adult film actresses get abducted and impregnated by aliens after appearing in a sci-fi porno. Knocked up with high-powered extraterrestrial sperm...
release : 1981.01.01popularis : 2.962
The Girl from Rio
Sumuru, the beautiful leader of the all-female kingdom of Femina, plans to use her women to take over the world.
release : 1969.03.14popularis : 5.058
Vampyros Lesbos
An erotic horror tale about a vixen vampiress seducing and killing women to appease her insatiable thirst for female blood.
release : 1971.07.15popularis : 21.157
Downtown
A private eye who's over his head in debt takes on a job snapping photos of his client's rich husband in bed with another woman. But when the husband...
release : 1975.08.28popularis : 7.194
Women Behind Bars
A small-time hood brings the attention of the law with an insurance scam and diamond theft, but things become even more interesting when his moll...
release : 1975.01.01popularis : 2.19
Exorcism
A disturbed priest, who witness an occult ritual, thinks the people are possessed and start a private inquisition to exorcise the demons by torturing...
release : 1975.08.25popularis : 5.216
Sadomania
Soon after newlyweds Olga and Michel set foot on the grounds of a notorious women's prison, they're arrested by topless guards and ushered behind...
release : 1981.03.27popularis : 11.817
Judoka Shadow versus Doctor Wong
Dr. Wong (Jess Franco) sends his gangsters to eliminate Mr. Jung. The "shadow of the judoka" of Bruce Lyn (Jose Llamas) appears projected in the wall...
release : 1985.01.01popularis : 1.366
Midnight Party
Sylvia, a stripper, attends a party where the theme is a mock spy adventure. Unfortunately, she soon finds herself thrust in a real espionage...
release : 1976.01.23popularis : 18.742
Death Karate in Torremolinos
Dr. Malvedades intends to bring back Jocántaro, a Beast of the Apocalypse. To do this, he uses underwater ninja zombies to kidnap five women...
release : 2003.03.14popularis : 3.512
Eugenie
Eugenie, an innocent young woman, is taken to an island paradise where she is initiated into a world of pleasure and pain controlled by the sinister...
release : 1970.02.20popularis : 6.195
Celestine
The story opens with Celestine eluding arrest with a friend as the police raid a brothel. While hiding out in the hayloft of the Count de la...
release : 1974.10.16popularis : 8.236
Al Pereira vs. the Alligator Ladies
Al Pereira, the one and only original private-private detective, is fighting against all the shameless women on earth - especially the Alligator...
release : 2013.03.22popularis : 2.342
La cripta de las condenadas
A group of women are locked in a cemetery crypt, convicted of an old curse. This kind of succubi, lewd and wicked, indulging years pass all kinds of...
release : 2012.10.05popularis : 1.596
Robinson and His Tempestuous Slaves
Robinson, a down-on-his-luck pharmacist who’s pestered by his nagging wife and overbearing mother-in-law, dreams of seclusion on a remote...
release : 1972.10.01popularis : 5.989
Slaves
A brothel owner is questioned in the disappearance of the daughter of a wealthy man after she is still not returned, or told of her possible...
release : 1977.04.15popularis : 5.258
Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac
Linda comes to the big city in search of fun and excitement. What she finds is exploitation and abuse at the hands of a succession of sleazy guys. ...
release : 1973.06.21popularis : 11.178
The Rhythm of Jess
Málaga, July 2012. With a nonexistent budget, the legendary director Jesus "Jess" Franco faces, at 82 years of age, what will end up being his...
release : 2013.04.26popularis : 0.486
Macumba Sexual
Princess Obongo, the Goddess of Unspeakable Lust, uses dark powers to ensnare a hapless couple of yuppies, so that she can imbue them with evil and...
release : 1983.10.20popularis : 5.308
Bloody Moon
Miguel, a horribly disfigured young man, goes on a rampage at a masquerade party and rapes and then mutilates a girl. Institutionalized at a mental...
release : 1981.03.27popularis : 7.665
Call Me Jess Redux
Jesus Franco, also known as Jess Franco, was one of the most important names in "B" cinema worldwide. With more than 200 works and a wide and...
release : 2014.09.26popularis : 1.547
On the Threshold to Another World
A documentary shot on the set of "Killer Barbys vs. Dracula" directed by Viktor Seastrom.
release : 2003.09.29popularis : 1.187
Marquis de Sade: Justine
Without a family, penniless and separated from her sister, a beautiful chaste woman will have to cope with an endless parade of villains, perverts...
release : 1969.04.03popularis : 9.648
Strange Voyage
In a small town near Madrid, Paquita and her brother Venancio, both single and with a childish personality, live under the shadow of their bossy...
release : 1964.08.09popularis : 4.856
White Cannibal Queen
A man is on safari in the jungle with his wife and daughter when the wife gets eaten and the daughter is captured by cannibals. Several years later...
release : 1980.09.15popularis : 3.056
A Crack for Two
Secret agents against spies who hide microfilm up their behinds.
release : 1984.08.01popularis : 0
Vampir Cuadecuc
An atmospheric essay, which is an alternative version of Count Dracula, a film directed by Jess Franco in 1970; a ghostly narration between fiction...
release : 1972.05.05popularis : 6.333
En busca del dragón dorado
An action movie directed by Jess Franco based on Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Gold-Bug".
release : 1983.01.01popularis : 1.26
Dolls for Sale
Al Pereira arrives at the "House of Vice" and receives orders to stop spying on three women and a man, known as the Quadriumvirate, who deal in...
release : 1973.11.29popularis : 2.516
The Blues of Pop Street
Mary Ocky, a beautiful girl from Mondonedo, Ohio, comes to seek the help of the famous PI Philip Marlboro in order to find her boyfriend Macho Jim...
release : 1983.01.01popularis : 2.235
Blood on My Shoes
Agents across the globe take turns spying on and double-crossing one another in an attempt to locate a valuable formula encrypted in the music code.
release : 1983.01.01popularis : 1.91
Les emmerdeuses
Pina and Tina, two cabaret artists with a passion for espionage and theft, discover that a carpet seller named Kashfi has some extraordinary diamonds...
release : 1976.07.22popularis : 2.743
El abuelo, la condesa y Escarlata la traviesa
An action movie directed by Jess Franco.
release : 1992.01.01popularis : 1.358
The Sadist of Notre Dame
Jesus Franco directs and stars in this cut-copy-and-paste-version of one of his own movies. Here, he plays a mad priest going around killing sinful...
release : 1979.06.15popularis : 3.316
Kiss Me Monster
On an island somewhere in the Caribbean a professor is experimenting with mankind. Meanwhile, The Red Lips are moonlighting on a striptease world...
release : 1969.03.28popularis : 2.997
Shining Sex
Cynthia, an exotic dancer in a upscale resort in Southern France, is seduced by a strange couple, Alpha, a being from another dimension and her human...
release : 1976.08.21popularis : 0
The Night Of Open Sex
Moira, a beautiful cabaret dancer, is hired to impersonate another woman — who turns out to be a secret agent who must receive an important...
release : 1983.02.23popularis : 2.968
Your Caresses
Brother and sister meet again after 15 years and fall in love with each other.
release : 1969.11.06popularis : 3.308
The Blood of Fu Manchu
Fu Manchu inoculates ten women with poison, to kill ten world leaders.
release : 1968.08.23popularis : 6.544
Red Venice
After Nathalie Baldassar has murdered her husband so she is sentenced to ten years imprisonment. She is tortured, humiliated and beaten in prison...
release : 2003.01.01popularis : 0
The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff
Amid the craggy, dusty hills of southern France, a woman screams in the night. Gorgeous Melissa Comfort, a wealthy heiress confined to a wheelchair...
release : 1973.01.01popularis : 1.667
Revenge of the Alligator Ladies
After the passing of director Jesús Franco the movie was finished by Antonio Mayans. It follows "Al Pereira vs. the Alligator Ladies".
release : 2013.10.12popularis : 2.201
Debris Documentar
The film, released on DVD in 2014 as part of a boxset also containitng Melancholie der Engel (2009) and Reise nach Agatis (2010), deals with the...
release : 2012.09.28popularis : 1.328
Flesh Eating Mothers
A venereal disease turns an entire town of two-timing mothers into cannibals!
release : 1988.09.16popularis : 5.496
Lucky, the Inscrutable
An American secret agent is sent to Europe to track down a ring of counterfeiters. His investigation takes him from Rome to Albania, where he gets...
release : 1967.06.23popularis : 4.381
Justine and the Whip
A prostitute tries to explain why she's involved in an S&M relationship with a hippie poet.
release : 1979.09.13popularis : 0
Angel of Death 2: The Prison Island Massacre
A young girl is wrongfully arrested and sent to an isolated prison located on a small island. She claims her innocence, but is still subjected to all...
release : 2007.01.15popularis : 0
See you later Cowabunga: La maldición del cenachero diabólico!
Ultra low budget horror-comedy involving a demonic cenachero (dancing fisherman).
release : 2004.03.06popularis : 1.648
Night Has a Thousand Desires
A telepathic nightclub act becomes the backdrop for murder.
release : 1984.03.05popularis : 2.766
Camino solitario
Private detective Alfredo Pereira is hired by eccentric couple Raden and Eve to find their missing sister, Adriana. Despite his limitations, Pereira...
release : 1984.01.23popularis : 1.744
Black Boots, Leather Whip
Al Pereira is hired by Lina, the wife of a wealthy man, to recover some compromising photos. She has sex with him by way of a retainer. In the course...
release : 1983.01.24popularis : 3.103
The Hot Nights of Linda
A young woman is hired to care for an elderly man who lives on an island off the Greek coast. When she arrives there the man warns her that his...
release : 1975.07.16popularis : 5.756
Around the World in Eighty Days
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a...
release : 1956.10.17popularis : 10.79
Esa cosa con plumas
Ladoire is a womanizer, with a monotonous life and few illusions, a sad condition that will redeem Olvido, an attractive young woman who casually...
release : 1988.04.08popularis : 0.22
Drácula Barcelona
In 1969, Jesús Franco and Christopher Lee shot Count Dracula in Barcelona. At the same time, Pere Portabella became aware of this filming,...
release : 2017.10.05popularis : 3.021
Two Undercover Angels
"Red Lips" are two female detectives trying to find missing models and dancers. A pop artist called Klaus Thriller and his werewolf-like assistant,...
release : 1969.03.28popularis : 2.63
The Well
Tracing Orson Welles time in Spain.
release : 2005.03.11popularis : 1.42
Idoru
70's trash movie queen Soledad Miranda wakes up from the dead, to find herself not in heaven but trapped in a film - the vision of a devoted fan. As...
release : 2009.09.27popularis : 1.247
Martes de Carnaval
Mr.Manolito and Mr.Estrafalario– characters of Valle-Inclán’s plays– spend the last days of Primo de Rivera’s...
release : 2008.01.05popularis : 1.202
99 Women
Female prisoners endure the horrors of drug abuse, prostitution and rampant sadism at an island prison. When an escape attempt goes awry, the...
release : 1969.03.05popularis : 8.606
Ban the Sadist Videos!
An in-depth analysis of the "Video Nasty" scandal of the early 1980s in Britain.
release : 2005.09.06popularis : 4.431
Soledad Miranda, Flower in the Desert
The life of an Andalusian actress who had a brilliant career in cinema, but died early in a car accident at 27 years old.
release : 2015.10.01popularis : 1.006
Coffins of Light
In December 1974, a Spanish filmmaker named Sergio del Monte died under strange circumstances while shooting his debut film. Only a few people were...
release : 2009.01.01popularis : 0.525
Por la gracia de Luis
A walk through the work of Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) that is neither a documentary nor a narrative movie, but a tribute to one of the...
release : 2009.10.17popularis : 0.708
What a Honeymoon
Two newlyweds, Yolanda, an adventurer, and Simón, a young bookworm, travel to Banana Island, where they enjoy the days of wine and roses of...
release : 1980.01.01popularis : 2.057
Clawing! A Journey Through the Spanish Horror
In the late sixties, Spanish cinema began to produce a huge amount of horror genre films: international markets were opened, the production was...
release : 2014.06.20popularis : 2.706
Esmeralda Bay
A priest secretly leads rebels in their struggle against the corrupt military dictatorship of the Central American country of Puerto Santo.
release : 1989.05.18popularis : 1.998
Attack of the Robots
Al Pereira, a wise-cracking superspy, investigates a series of assassinations being performed by ruthless killers with bronze skin and horn-rimmed...
release : 1966.04.27popularis : 1.203
Jesús in Furs
Retrospective documentary on Jesús Franco's film "Venus in Furs".
release : 2005.02.22popularis : 2.056
Wild Session
A walk through the golden age of Spanish exploitation cinema, from the sixties to the eighties; a low-budget cinema and great popular acceptance that...
release : 2019.12.13popularis : 2.119
Daughter of Dracula
Luisa is called to the bed of her dying mother Edith at Karlstein Castle. Before she dies, she tells Luisa that the Karlsteins are a family of...
release : 1972.12.14popularis : 2.631
Greta, the Mad Butcher
A young woman feigns illness in order to infiltrate a mental hospital, where she investigates the disappearance of her sister, a former patient....
release : 1977.01.21popularis : 6.729
The Awful Dr. Orlof
Dr. Orlof, a former prison doctor, abducts beautiful women from nightclubs to use their skin to repair his daughter's fire-scarred face. He is...
release : 1962.05.14popularis : 3.715
A Virgin Among the Living Dead
A girl arrives from London to visit her estranged relatives in a remote castle for the reading of her father's will. After a while she discovers that...
release : 1973.11.15popularis : 7.004
Ladies House of Pleasure
A lovely summer day in Paris. Roger and Martine are on their way to work. "Work" is a euphemism because Martine is a prostitute in Pigalle. She is...
release : 1976.06.23popularis : 4.577
Bahia Blanca
Pocho Martin's body is found dead on the shore of a fishing village. According to the forensic Ramiro, Pocho has been assassinated, which alerts the...
release : 1984.01.01popularis : 6.297
Residence for Spies
Ms. Pendleton is the commander-in-chief of a women's training camp for western spies, recently established in Turkey. CIA agent Leyton receives a...
release : 1966.01.01popularis : 6.388
Death Whistles the Blues
Vogel, an important trafficker, betrayed two of his accomplices, Castro and Smith. The first was shot by police, while the latter was imprisoned....
release : 1964.07.04popularis : 2.336
Lilian, the Perverted Virgin
A runaway girl is kidnapped by a gang of wealthy sadists and turned into their drug-addicted sex slave.
release : 1984.06.25popularis : 0
Ellos robaron la picha de Hitler
Na construção de um prédio é descoberto por acaso o bunker onde Adolf Hitler cometeu suicidio. No seu interior,...
release : 2008.06.06popularis : 2.102
Anna Said Yes
Juan does not have a cent but lives beautifully. His nights of revelry and cabaret are famous in the night city environments. As heir to his old and...
release : 1958.10.23popularis : 1.597
Bloody Jess
Jess Franco and Christopher Lee discuss their 1970 collaboration, The Bloody Judge.
release : 2007.01.01popularis : 4.649
Perversion Stories
Jess Franco and members of the cast of his 1970 cult classic "Eugenie" discuss the film
release : 2002.11.05popularis : 1.229
Beloved Count
Cult director Jess Franco recalls the making of his adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula starring Christopher Lee.
release : 2007.02.27popularis : 1.524
White Skin Black Thighs
Robert Kuhn is looking forward to a nice evening in the brothel: First he enjoys the strip show, then he runs with his chosen ones back to a room. A...
release : 1976.07.29popularis : 0
X312 - Flight to Hell
A plane leaving the turmoil of a South American country in the midst of a revolution crash-lands in the Amazon jungle in Brazil. Among the passengers...
release : 1971.08.20popularis : 2.786