Jesús Franco
Directing
Born 1930-05-12
Died 2013-04-02
Madrid, Spain
273 credits
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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.
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Filmography
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Eurotrash
The Story of Linda
Sex Is Crazy
Around the World in 80 Days
Eugenie
Eugenie de Sade
White Cannibal Queen
55 Days at Peking
Marquis de Sade: Justine
See you later Cowabunga: La maldición del cenachero diabólico!
Devil Hunter
The Hotel of Love Affairs
Fury in the Tropics
Call Him Jess
Cecilia
Blind Target
Vampyros Lesbos
Female Vampire
Slave of Crime
Call of the Blonde Goddess
Vampiresas 1930
Downtown Heat
Sexy Sisters
Pick-Up Girls
Greta, the Mad Butcher
Celestine
Golden Jail
Oro español
Lorna, the Exorcist
Chimes at Midnight
A Virgin Among the Living Dead
99 Women
Cuadrilátero
Eurotika!
Sadomania
Women in Cellblock 9
Las playas vacías
Vampir Cuadecuc
The Girls of the Copacabana
Mondo Weirdo
Strange Voyage
Nightmares Come at Night
Erotic Symphony
Blue Rita
Kiss Me Monster
Golden Temple Amazons
Midnight Party
Love Camp
Count Dracula
Beloved Count
Countess Perverse
The Ticklish Ones
The Demons
Call Me Jess Redux
The House of the Lost Dolls
Trapped Women
The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein
Zombie Lake
Jesús Franco, manera de vivir
Voces de muerte
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