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 1980-198...
Around the World in 80 Days
1956
Drácula Barcelona
2017
A Virgin Among the Living Dead
1973
Bloody Moon
1981
Greta, the Mad Butcher
1977
Barbed Wire Dolls
1976
Wild Session
2019
The Night Of Open Sex
1983
Death Whistles the Blues
1964
Ellos robaron la picha de Hitler
2008
Exorcism
1975
Downtown
1975
99 Women
1969
Por la gracia de Luis
2009
Blood on My Shoes
1983
Martes de Carnaval
2008
Eugenie
1970
Tío Jess
2012
La última película de Jess Franco
2013
Count Dracula
1970
Judoka Shadow versus Doctor Wong
1985
Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac
1973
Eugenie de Sade
1973
The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein
1973
Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote
2000
The Awful Dr. Orlof
1962
The Girl from Rio
1969
The Diabolical Dr. Z
1966
Marquis de Sade: Justine
1969
Vampyros Lesbos
1971
Celestine
1974
Clawing! A Journey Through the Spanish Horror
2014
Female Vampire
1975
Exorcismo: The Transgressive Legacy of Clasificada “S”
2024
Flesh-Eating Mothers
1988
Venus in Furs
1969
Midnight Party
1976