Jesús FrancoFilmography

Born:: May 12, 1930
Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: Jesús Franco began directing low-budget films in the late '50s, and, by the '60s, found his specialty in horror movies. His 1962 Gritos en la Noche (aka The Awful Dr. Orloff) found many admirers internationally, and spawned several sequels. A prolific filmmaker, Franco's lurid shockers embrace...Read More

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Ellos robaron la picha de Hitler

Actors: Pablo Cassinello, Jesús Franco, Manuel Gancedo

2006
Snakewoman

Crew: Director, Screen Story

Actors: Carmen Montes, Fata Morgana, Christie Levin, Ezekiel "Zeke" Cohen, Lina Romay

Synopsis: Cult cinema legend Jess Franco takes the helm for a film he claims is, "among the most sincere and creative films of my career," an erotic tale of vampirism that offers a bizarre twist on the familiar mythos. A publicist's agent seeking to secure the rights to a 20th Century cult movie icon's life Read More

2005
Incubus

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Jess Franco directs the low-budget erotic thriller Incubus. Artist Johan Harker (Carsten Frank) meets a woman (Fata Morgana) who possesses the power to grant wishes. After he becomes rich and famous, the woman demands the soul of his daughter Lucy (Carina Palmer). Also starring Lina Romay and Zeke Read More

2002
Vampire Junction

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Samantha Olsen, Lina Romay, Viktor Seastrom, Fata Morgana, Paul Lapidus

Synopsis: From infamous schlock-master Jess Franco (Vampyros Lesbos) comes this gory flick that blends elements of horror and Western films. When an unsuspecting female doctor arrives in Fallas, NM, she soon realizes the town is like none other. Before long, she's encountering undead vampire cowboys who Read More

2001
Vampire Blues

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Euro-horror cult hero Jesus Franco directed this horror story which features his trademark blend of scares and sensuality. Rachel Crosby (Rachel Sheppard) is a pretty but naive American student visiting Southern Spain. While in Spain, Rachel attracts the attention of Countess Irina von Murnau (Analia Ivars Read More

2001
Killer Barbys

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Euro-horror master Jesús Franco directed this oddball blend of terror, comedy, and music video. The Killer Barbys are a flashy and trashy hard rock band out on the road. En route to their next show, they find themselves hopelessly lost and are forced to take shelter at the estate of Countess Von Read More

2001
Helter Skelter

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

2000
Broken Dolls

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

1999
Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jesús Franco, Lina Romay, Analia Ivars, Howard Vernon, Candice Coster

Synopsis: Having previously laid waste to the Occidental police forces of Hong Kong and mainland China before being dispatched by Cagliostro the Ancient Wizard, malevolent criminal mastermind Dr. James Wong and his cruel daughter Tsai Ming return to usher in a whole new era of crime years after the powerful Read More

1999
Mari-Cookie and the Killer Tarantula

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Scream queens Michelle Bauer and Linnea Quigley star in this sexy mystery from cult filmmaker Jess Franco. When several local people turn up missing, Sheriff Marga (Bauer) investigates. Soon she finds herself thrust into the lurid world surrounding the mysterious nightclub owner Tarantula (Lina Read More

1998
Don Quixote de Orson Welles

Crew: Editor, Post Production Supervisor

Actors: Francisco Reiguera, Akim Tamiroff, Orson Welles

Synopsis: Over the course of his lifetime, the legendary director Orson Welles (1915-1985) was forced to leave many of his grander movie-making projects unfinished, generally for want of sustained financial backing. Each successive unfinished effort generated buzz throughout the worshipful film community Read More

1992
El Abuelo, la condesa y Escarlata la traviesa

Crew: Director

1992
Faceless

Crew: Director

Actors: Helmut Berger, Brigitte Lahaie, Christopher Mitchum, Telly Savalas, Caroline Munro, Anton Diffring

Synopsis: The demented Dr. Flamand (Helmut Berger) and his beautiful but deadly assistant Nathalie (Brigitte Lahaie) lure unsuspecting victims in this horror feature. The doctor uses the young skins of his victims to perform plastic surgery on his disfigured sister. Telly Savalas is Hallen, the New York Read More

1989
Esmeralda Bay

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

1988
Biba la Banda!

Crew: Producer

1987
Dark Mission

Crew: Director

1987
Golden Temple Amazons

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Jess Franco presents another tale of breasts, blood, and inhumanity as a woman takes revenge on the Amazonian tribe that killed her parents in Golden Temple Amazons. Raised by a jungle tribe, Llana makes her way to the gold mine where the slaughter occurred and encounters the devilish leader Uruck Read More

1985
Diamonds of Kilimandjaro

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: A small British girl named Diana was lost in a jungle somewhere on the continent of Africa many years ago, and now a treasure hunting expedition has begun searching for the her as well as for precious artifacts. What the rich Brits couldn't imagine, however, is that the little girl in question has Read More

1983
Revenge in the House of Usher

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Spanish exploitation king Jésus "Jess" Franco helmed this gothic horror outing, as a very loose adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The House of Usher." As it opens, Dr. Alan Harker (Antonio Mayans) receives a distressed letter from his former university professor-cum-mentor, Dr. Eric Read More

1982
Gemidos De Placer

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Filmed in Spanish, this movie follows the events that befall a sex-fixated couple when they get tangled up in a murder. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1982
Botas Negras, Látigo De Cuero

Crew: Director

1982
Die Säge des Todes

Crew: Director

Actors: Olivia Pascal, Christoph Moosbrugger, Nadja Gerganhoff, Alexander Waechter

Synopsis: Originally banned in England due to its potent combination of graphic violence, gratuitous nudity, and outrageous gore, Jess Franco's gruesome "body count" frightener doesn't stop delivering the nasty thrills until the final credits have rolled. Vanessa star Olivia Pascal headlines this stylish Read More

1981
Las Chicas de Copacabana

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Michele Hermet, Jerome Foulon, Leonardo De Costa, Lina Romay, Nadine Pascale

1981
Macumba Sexual

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Jesus Franco's surrealistic voodoo film stars Ajita Wilson as Princess Obongo, who lives in a strange castle on a sunny desert island. Through sexual rituals and seduction of vacationers, the princess seeks to spread her evil around the world. A rather bizarre, dreamlike film recalling Franco's Vampyros Lesbos Read More

1981
Orgia De Ninfomanas

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this typical Jesus Franco S&M/sex opus, Katja Bienert plays a young woman who was raised in a convent. Searching throughout Europe for her sister, she finally arrives in Spain, where she finds her held prisoner in a brothel. ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide Read More

1980
La Noche de Los Asesinos

Crew: Director

Actors: William Berger, Lina Romay

Synopsis: Cult director Jesus Franco's adaptation of John Willard's oft-filmed The Cat and the Canary is a fairly routine mystery about the residents of a Louisiana castle being murdered by a masked killer. Alberto Dalbes appears in a dual role as Maj. Brooks and the castle's doomed owner, Lord Marion, the Read More

1979
Une Fille pour les Cannibales

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A man who had been stranded on a cannibal-infested island (and had his arm eaten by them) returns to the island ten years later to rescue the daughter he had to leave behind. However, he is astounded to discover that the cannibals have adopted her and installed her as their queen. ~ Brian Gusse Read More

1979
Jack the Ripper

Crew: Director

Synopsis: One of the better efforts from prolific cult director Jesus Franco, this Swiss-German horror film stars Klaus Kinski, in his final film for Franco, as the notorious Jack the Ripper. A respected doctor by day, Kinski bloodily dismembers London prostitutes by night, until the local Inspector's Read More

1979
Robinson und Seine Wilden Sklavinnen

Crew: Director

Actors: Anne Libert, Andrea Rau, Ingeborg Steinbach, Howard Vernon

Synopsis: Presented as the drug-induced fantasies of a shy chemist, this cartoonish exploitation comedy from cult director Jesus Franco is a minor entry without much to recommend it. The chemist, Robinson Crusoe (Yuda Barkan), is an ineffectual Walter Mitty character who develops a potion allowing his Read More

1978
Je Brule de Partout

Crew: Director

1978
Demoniac

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Demoniac originally went out as Ripper of Notre Dame. Director Jess Franco, discreetly avoiding his given name of Jesus Franco, plays the title role. He's fun to watch in a disgusting sort of way, but the production values and supporting cast don't come up to his admittedly unexacting Read More

1977
De Sade's Juliette

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This middle-period effort from prolific cult director Jesus Franco (directing here as "Dave Tough," a jazz drummer he admired) benefits only from the presence of Lina Romay as Juliette. Otherwise, it is an embarrassing paste-up job masquerading as sophisticated Continental erotica. A Read More

1975
Caged Women

Crew: Director

Synopsis: One of cult director Jesus Franco's best-known efforts, this Swiss-West German co-production was his first collaboration with producer Erwin C. Dietrich, who would release numerous Franco efforts through his Elite Film studio. It seems like a standard women's prison tale, with Lina Romay as Maria Read More

1975
Women Behind Bars

Crew: Director

Actors: Lina Romay

Synopsis: Cult siren Lina Romay stars in legendary sleaze merchant Jess Franco's perverse women in prison flick about a cunning vixen who winds up in the big doll house after stealing a priceless cache of diamonds. A dangerous diamond heist has turned into a bloody shootout following a treacherous double Read More

1975
Midnight Party

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Numerous versions of this French-Belgian hardcore effort from cult director Jesus Franco exist, most falsely credited to James Gardner or Julio Perez Tabernero. Lina Romay stars as Sylvia, a stripper who attends a party where the theme is a mock spy adventure. Unfortunately, Sylvia soon finds Read More

1975
Shining Sex, La Fille au Sexe Brilliant

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Jesus Franco directed this French-Belgian sci-fi sex film under the pseudonym "Dan L. Simon," a name also sometimes used by producer Daniel Lesoeur. The plot revolves around a Vegas dancer named Cynthia (Lina Romay) who is seduced by a pair of aliens, Alpha (Evelyne Deher) and Andros (Ramon Read More

1975
Exorcisme

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this intensely Sadean sex-horror film, cult filmmaker Jesus Franco directed himself as Vogel, an insanely paranoid religious fanatic who works as a reporter for a sexy tabloid. Vogel's editor Raymond Franval (Pierre Taylou) and his secretary Anne (Lina Romay) are in charge of secret Read More

1974
Les Nonnes en Folie

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This unfortunate sex-comedy from prolific director Jesus Franco (here using the pseudonym "Clifford Brown") is set in 1915 Central America, where some prostitutes hide a rebel leader, Carlos Ribas (Fred Williams) in a brothel. Invading government troops take the girls prisoner, and they escape to Read More

1974
Les Emmerdeuses

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This rarely-seen film from cult director Jesus Franco (under the pseudonym "Clifford Brown") stars Lina Romay and Monique Delaunay as Pina and Tina, who travel to Istanbul to sell some stolen diamonds. A pair of police officers follow them, saving them from an unscrupulous fence named Kashfi (Guy Read More

1974
Les Possédées du Diable

Crew: Director

Actors: Lina Romay, Jacqueline Laurent, Guy Delorme

Synopsis: In this erotic horror film from cult director Jesus Franco (using the pseudonym "Clifford Brown"), wealthy businessman Patrick Mariel (Guy Delorme) takes his wife Marianne (Jacqueline Laurent) and daughter Linda (Lina Romay) on a French vacation. Patrick's old friend Lorna (Monique Delaunay, using Read More

1974
A Virgin Among the Living Dead

Crew: Director

Actors: Howard Vernon, Paul Muller, Brit Nichols, Christina von Blanc

Synopsis: Pretty Christina (Christina von Blanc) encounters ghostly apparitions when she travels to a mansion in Honduras for the reading of her father's will. Thinking that she is going mad, Christina investigates further and discovers some horrible family secrets which could consume her. This witty erotic Read More

11/15/73
Les Exploits Erotiques de Maciste dans L'Atlantide

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Waldemar Wohlfahrt (under the pseudonym "Wal Davis") appears as the legendary Maciste in one of two films shot back-to-back by cult filmmaker Jesus Franco. Unlike the Italian Maciste films of the 1950s and '60s, Wohlfahrt's character is not only less muscular, but exists in the Medieval era rather Read More

1973
Tango au Clair de Lune

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Cult filmmaker Jesus Franco directed this remake of his own 1962 thriller La Muerte Silba un Blues under the pseudonym "Roland Marceignac." The film begins in 1973 Spain, where several drug smugglers are killed during a botched pickup. Two of the smugglers, Paul Fougere (Francisco Acosta) and Read More

1973
Los Ojos Siniestros del Dr. Orloff

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Unrelated to the 1960s Dr. Orloff films, which began with Gritos en la Noche, this tedious thriller deals with a young woman named Melissa (Montserrat Prous), who believes that she committed a murder in her sleep. Her relatives call on Dr. Orloff (William Berger) to help her, unaware that Read More

1973
La Comtesse Perverse

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Prolific cult director Jesus Franco turned his attention to adapting The Most Dangerous Game in this superior erotic horror film. Young Silvia Aguado (Lina Romay) visits her friends Bob and Moira (Robert Woods, Tania Busselier) at their isolated beachfront house for a few days of relaxation. Read More

1973
Al Otro Lado del Espejo

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This macabre horror film directed by cult filmmaker Jesus Franco appeared in two rather different versions. The Spanish original stars Emma Cohen as Ana, whose announcement of her impending marriage drives her unbalanced father (Howard Vernon) to suicide. Traumatized, Ana abandons her fiancee and Read More

1973
Mais Qui Donc a Viole Linda? Plaisir Solitaire

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Marie-France Broquet stars in Jesus Franco's sex thriller as a French au-pair named Marie-France Bertrand, who takes a job at an isolated house on a Greek island. Mr. Steiner (Paul Muller) lives there with daughters Olivia (Lina Romay) and Linda (Catherine Laferriere). Steiner is insane and sees Read More

1973
Female Vampire

Crew: Director

Actors: Lina Romay, Jesús Franco, Jack Taylor, Alice Arno

Synopsis: This erotic vampire film from cult filmmaker Jesus Franco concerns the mute Countess Irina Karlstein (Lina Romay), who lives in the hills of Madeira and preys on passersby. Austrian novelist Baron Von Rathony (Jack Taylor) follows the Countess, knowing that she is his destiny, even if it means Read More

1973
Des Frissons sur la Peau

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This engaging erotic mystery was directed by cult filmmaker Jesus Franco using the pseudonym "James P. Johnson" (or "Michel Breuil," depending on the print). Alberto Dalbes plays Gordon, whose wife Emmanuelle (Norma Castel) starts behaving strangely, making him question her sanity. A psychiatrist Read More

1973
Un Capitan de Quince Años

Crew: Director

Actors: Marc Cassot, Edmund Purdom, Armand Mestral

Synopsis: This atypical adventure film from cult director Jesus Franco was based on a story by Jules Verne. Jose Manuel Marcos portrays 15-year-old Dick Sands, whose lifelong dream is to be a sailor like his godfather, Adm. Marlowe (Edmund Purdom). Marlowe gets Dick a job as a cabin-boy on a ship commanded Read More

1972
La Fille de Dracula

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This uneven erotic horror film from cult director Jesus Franco stars Britt Nichols as Luisa Karlstein, who visits the family mansion in Portugal to see her dying grandmother, the Baroness (Carmen Carbonell). Luisa soon learns that the family is cursed with vampirism, but moves into the mansion Read More

1972
Les Demons

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Cult filmmaker Jesus Franco (as "Clifford Brown") directed this semi-sequel to his own Der Hexentoeter von Blackmoor without Christopher Lee but with copious amounts of sadism and sleazy sex. Cihangir Gaffari takes over Lee's role as the witchfinder Lord Jeffreys, cursed along with Lady de Winter (Karin Field Read More

1972
El Muerto Hace las Maletas

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Horst Tappert, Fred Williams

Synopsis: This strange comic-thriller was one the final entries in the West German "krimi" series based on the mystery novels of Edgar Wallace and his son. Fred Williams plays Scotland Yard detective Robert Redford, who is hunting a mysterious knife-throwing murderer through London. His search leads him to Read More

1972
Un Silencio de Tumba

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This adaptation of Enrique Jarber Bergua's horror novel is very similar in tone and story to Mario Bava's Cinque Bambole per la Luna d'Agosto (1970), itself a variant of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None. A movie actress named Annette Lamark (Glenda Allen) and several of her friends spend Read More

1972
The Bloody Judge

Crew: Director

Actors: Christopher Lee, Leo Genn, Maria Schell, Maria Rohm, Margaret Lee

Synopsis: This erotic horror film from cult director Jesus Franco is based on the witch-hunting exploits of Lord Chief Justice Jeffreys (Christopher Lee), a real historical figure who died in prison in 1702 at the age of 54. In 1685 England, young Alicia Gray is burnt for witchcraft. Alicia's sister Mary (Maria Rohm Read More

2/5/70
Nightmares Come at Night

Crew: Director

Actors: Diana Lorys

Synopsis: Director Jesus Franco remade his 1965 thriller Miss Muerte as a pure exploitation piece in this Liechtenstein-produced film starring Diana Lorys. The film concerns Anne, a dancer at a Yugoslavian nightclub who moves in with a conniving lesbian named Cincia. Cincia is scheming with Anne's doctor to Read More

1970
Vampyros Lesbos

Crew: Director

Actors: Ewa Strömberg, Soledad Miranda, Dennis Price, Paul Muller

Synopsis: Director Jesus Franco's surrealistic reworking of Bram Stoker's short story "Dracula's Guest" has acquired a substantial cult following due to its hallucinatory erotic imagery and a sexy performance by Soledad Miranda as vampiric Princess Nadine Korody. Ewa Stroemberg stars as Lucy Westinghouse Read More

1970
Dracula Contra Frankenstein

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Howard Vernon, Dennis Price, Brit Nichols, Anne Libert

Synopsis: In this comedic horror film from cult director Jesus Franco, Jonathan Seward (Alberto Dalbes) tracks the evil vampire Count Dracula (Howard Vernon) to his castle and kills him with a stake through the heart. The nightmare has hardly begun, however, as the mad Dr. Frankenstein (Dennis Price) Read More

1970
Sex Charade

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Soledad Miranda stars as Anne, a single woman forced to harbor a fugitive from an asylum in this rarely seen adult drama directed by cult filmmaker Jesus Franco. Anne lives alone in a cottage, and the escaped maniac (Paul Muller) forces his way into her home, vowing not to harm her if she does not Read More

1970
The Devil Came From Akasava

Crew: Director

Actors: Ewa Strömberg

Synopsis: This average spy film from cult director Jesus Franco was loosely derived from the Edgar Wallace novel Akasava. Fred Williams stars as an Interpol agent undercover as Walter Forrester, nephew of the esteemed scientist Dr. Henry Forrester (Paul Muller). Beautiful actress Soledad Miranda, in her Read More

1970
La Venganza del Dr. Mabuse

Crew: Director

Actors: Ewa Strömberg

Synopsis: This comically-tinged horror film from cult director Jesus Franco bears little resemblance to the classic Dr. Mabuse films of Fritz Lang. Instead, it is yet another variant on Gritos en la Noche, which Franco seemed to remake at least once a year throughout his early career. Jack Taylor portrays Read More

1970
She Killed In Ecstasy

Crew: Director

Actors: Ewa Strömberg

Synopsis: Cult filmmaker Jesus Franco directed this erotic horror film using the pseudonym "Frank Hollmann." The plot concerns Dr. Johnson (Fred Williams), who is driven to suicide after being exiled from the medical profession for his unorthodox experiments involving human embryos. Blaming the medical Read More

1970
X-312: Flug zur Hölle

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This silly jungle adventure from cult director Jesus Franco concerns an American reporter named Tom Nilson (Thomas Hunter) who takes a charter flight to Rio de Janeiro. One of Tom's fellow passengers tries to hijack the plane, which crashes in the jungle. The rest of the film traces the strange Read More

1970
99 Women

Crew: Director

Actors: Maria Schell, Mercedes McCambridge, Luciana Paluzzi, Herbert Lom, Maria Rohm

Synopsis: Jesus Franco's campy women's prison film, though both stereotypical and rare to find in its original version, is worthwhile for genre devotees primarily due to an outstanding cast. Mercedes McCambridge is unintentionally hilarious as sadistic lesbian warden Thelma Diaz, spitting tacky dialogue Read More

1969
The Girl From Rio

Crew: Director

Actors: Shirley Eaton, Richard Wyler, George Sanders

Synopsis: From Jesus Franco, the infamous director behind such exploitation classics as Sadomania and Vampyros Lesbos, comes this low-budget erotic adventure starring Bond girl Shirley Eaton as a maniacal lesbian warlord. Eaton plays Sumitra, the bisexual leader of a clan of oversexed women bent on Read More

1969
Venus in Furs

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: James Darren, Barbara McNair, Klaus Kinski, Dennis Price

Synopsis: Not to be confused with Massimo Dallamano's contemporaneous treatment of the Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch classic, this unrelated (but quite entertaining) thriller from cult director Jesus Franco was originally known as Black Angel. James Darren stars as Jimmy Logan, an American jazz musician in Read More

1969
El Conde Dracula

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Christopher Lee, Klaus Kinski, Soledad Miranda, Maria Rohm, Herbert Lom

Synopsis: This doggedly faithful adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel about a vampiric nobleman was helmed by cult director Jesus Franco. Despite its textual loyalty and atmospheric photography by Manuel Merino, the film -- a co-production from Spain, Italy, Germany, and Liechtenstein -- is plodding and dull. Read More

1969
Two Undercover Angels

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Cult director Jesus Franco revived the sexy female detectives of the Red Lips Agency (first seen in 1960's Labios Rojos) for this entertainingly bizarre comedic thriller. Diana (Janine Reynaud) and Regina (Rossana Yanni) investigate the disappearances of several models and nightclub performers Read More

1969
La Ciudad sin Hombres

Crew: Director

Actors: Shirley Eaton, George Sanders, Richard Wyler

Synopsis: Shirley Eaton stars as Sumuru, the barbaric leader of an Amazon tribe, in Jesus Franco's uninspired adventure based on characters created by Sax Rohmer. Banker Ennio Rossini (Walter Rilla) hires a detective named Jeff Sutton (Richard Wyler) to travel from Barcelona to Brazil in search of his Read More

1968
The Castle of Fu Manchu

Crew: Director

Actors: Christopher Lee, Werner Abrolat

Synopsis: This extremely low-budget adventure was director Jesus Franco's second Fu Manchu film for British producer Harry Alan Towers. Christopher Lee returns as the Asian madman, who has developed a way to turn the oceans into ice as part of his plan to rule the world. Kidnapping famed Prof. Herakles (Gustavo Re Read More

1968
The Blood of Fu Manchu

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Greene, Christopher Lee

Synopsis: The first of several collaborations between cult director Jesus Franco and British producer Harry Alan Towers, this horror-tinged adventure is full of jungle action, creative murders, and violent sexual sadism. Christopher Lee portrays the mysterious Asian madman Fu Manchu, plotting world Read More

1968
Lucky, El Intrepido

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This breezy spy comedy from cult director Jesus Franco is among his most enjoyable films. Ray Danton stars as secret agent Lucky, hired by a powerful corporation to locate a counterfeiting operation. Crafty mad scientist Gold Glasses (Marcelo Arroita Jauregui) and a series of femme fatales -- one Read More

6/23/67
Kiss Me, Monster

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Janine Reynaud and Rossana Yanni return as Diana and Regina, the sexy female detectives from the Red Lips Agency, in cult filmmaker Jesus Franco's enjoyable sequel to El Caso de las Dos Bellezas. The women receive some song lyrics from a messenger who has been stabbed in the back, and they visit Read More

1967
Succubus

Crew: Director

Actors: Janine Reynaud, Jack Taylor, Howard Vernon, Michel Lemoine

Synopsis: This strange, surrealistic German horror film from cult director Jesus Franco stars Janine Reynaud as Lorna Green, who performs a pseudo-snuff nightclub act involving erotically staged S&M murders. Lorna's mind is controlled by a man who might be Satan (Michel Lemoine), and she slowly loses her Read More

1967
Residencia para Espias

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Michael Loggan's novel Leyton et les Chatelaines was the basis for this uneven spy film from cult filmmaker Jesus Franco. Eddie Constantine stars as Dan Leyton, an American secret agent investigating a spy ring in Istanbul. The ring is working out of a women's boarding house, so Dan's girlfriend Read More

1967
Attack of the Robots

Crew: Director

Actors: Eddie Constantine, Françoise Brion, Sophie Hardy, Fernando Rey

Synopsis: This entertaining spy comedy marks the first appearance of suave secret agent Al Pereira, portrayed here by actor-singer Eddie Constantine, best known as the similar Lemmy Caution in Alphaville and other films. Cult director Jesus Franco's final black-and-white film has Pereira on the trail of Read More

1966
Miss Muerte

Crew: Director

1965
The Diabolical Doctor Z

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Estella Blain, Howard Vernon, Mabel Karr, Guy Mairesse

Synopsis: This dark, surrealistic horror film from cult filmmaker Jesus Franco is perhaps best-remembered for its images of the lethal Miss Muerte (Estella Blain) luring victims with razor-sharp fingernails while clad in a skull-mask and a revealing bodysuit. The real star of the film is Mabel Karr Read More

1964
Dr. Orloff's Monster

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This dull sequel to Gritos en la Noche stars Marcelo Arroita Jauregui as Dr. Conrad Fisherman, a mad scientist whose experiments in mind control were spurred on by the dying Dr. Orloff. Angry that his brother Andros (Hugo Blanco) is having an affair with his wife (Luisa Sala), Fisherman turns the Read More

1964
El Llanero

Crew: Director

Actors: Jean Servais, Robert Manuel, Maria Vincent

Synopsis: This unusual western from prolific director Jesus Franco begins in 1863 Venezuela during the closing days of the civil war. Georges Rollin, in his final role, portrays Col. Saltierra, who storms the hacienda of ruling Colonel Mendoza (Felix Dafauce) and kills everyone inside except for Mendoza's Read More

1963
Rififi En la Ciudad

Crew: Director

Actors: Antonio Prieto, Jean Servais

Synopsis: Wily police officials set a trap for corrupt Central American politician Maurice Leprince (Jean Servais) in this rare thriller from director Jesus Franco. Leprince's gang murders all those who stand in their way, including a bartending informant (Manuel Gas), but they are soon murdered as well. Fernando Fernan Gomez Read More

1963
The Sadistic Baron von Klaus

Crew: Director

Actors: Hugo Blanco, Mary Frances, Georges Rollin, Howard Vernon

Synopsis: This plodding, sadistic horror film from director Jesus Franco concerns an Austrian legend about a ghostly Baron who supposedly rises from the swamps and murders women. When real murders are discovered, Inspector Borowsky (Georges Rollin) is immediately suspicious of the Baron's descendant, Max Read More

1962
La Muerta Silba un Blues

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The fact that this Jesus Franco spy film was widely released with a title referring to an "Agent 077" while the film itself contains the jokey "Agent 069" is indicative of the confusion surrounding its filming. Several actors who were slated to star (including Franco regular Howard Vernon) left Read More

1962
The Awful Dr. Orlof

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Cult director Jesus Franco had his greatest popular success with this horrific variation on George Franju's classic Les Yeux sans Visage. Set in 1912, the film concerns the efforts of mad surgeon Dr. Orloff (Howard Vernon) to reconstruct the face of his disfigured daughter Melissa (Diana Lorys). Read More

1962
Vampiresas 1930

Crew: Director

Actors: Lina Morgan, Yves Massard, Antonio Ozores

Synopsis: This entertaining musical from director Jesus Franco is set at the end of France's silent-film period. Recording star Mikaela Wood portrays Dora, a vampy starlet who falls for Tony (Yves Massard), a set musician. Tony's friend Daniel (Antonio Ozores) is in love with an unemployed circus performer Read More

1960
La Reina del Tabarin

Crew: Director

Actors: Yves Massard, Dora Doll, Antonio Garisa

Synopsis: This musical romance directed by Jesus Franco concerns the tragic entanglements of a beautiful Gypsy girl named Lolita (Mikaela Wood) in 1913 Madrid. Dancing for money at a party, Lolita meets the wealthy Fernando (Yves Massard), who disguises himself as a waiter to woo her. Upon learning the Read More

1960
Labios Rojos

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Christina (Isana Medel) and Lola (Ana Castor) are pretty female detectives who run the Red Lips Agency in this stylish crime film from director Jesus Franco. A man claiming to be a renowned diamond collector hires the women to get back a valuable gem stolen by Radeck (Felix Dafauce). After Read More

1960
Tenemos 18 Años

Crew: Director

Actors: Antonio Ozores

Synopsis: Prolific director Jesus Franco's first feature film is an episodic comedy-fantasy concerning a pair of girls on vacation from the University of Madrid. Isana Medel and Mari Tere Penella star as Maria and Pili, who buy an old car and drive off into the countryside, imagining many fantastic Read More

1959

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