Directing · b. 1930 · Madrid, Spain

Jesús Franco

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...

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Al Pereira vs. the Alligator Ladies 2013 Revenge of the Alligator Ladies 2013 La cripta de las condenadas 2012 La cripta de las condenadas: Parte II 2012 Paula-Paula 2010 A Bad Day at the Cemetery 2008 Lascivia 2007 Montes de Venus 2006 Jess Franco's Perversion 2005 Jess Franco's Passion 2005 Snakewoman 2005 Incubus 2002 Killer Barbys vs. Dracula 2002 Vampire Junction 2001 Blind Target 2000 Helter Skelter 2000 Vampire Blues 1999 Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell 1999 Broken Dolls 1999 Red Silk 1999 Lust for Frankenstein 1998 Mari-Cookie and the Killer Tarantula 1998 Tender Flesh 1997 Vampire Killer Barbys 1996 Downtown Heat 1994 Jungle of Fear 1993 El abuelo, la condesa y Escarlata la traviesa 1992 In Pursuit of Barbara 1991 Night of the Eagles 1989 Esmeralda Bay 1989 Faceless 1988 Dark Mission: Flowers of Evil 1988 Falo Crest 1987 Thong Girls 1987 Phollastía 1987 Slave of Crime 1987 Trapped Women 1987 Alone Against Terror 1986 Golden Temple Amazons 1986 Lulu's Talking Ass 1986 Fly Story 1986 The Voyeur and the Exhibitionist 1986 The Last from Philippines 1986 Girl with the Red Lips 1986 Entre pitos anda el juego 1986 Para las nenas, leche calentita 1986 Sida, la peste del siglo XX 1986 Fury in the Tropics 1986 Las chuponas 1986 Angel of Death 1985 White Jungle Slave 1985 Judoka Shadow versus Doctor Wong 1985 Dirty Game in Casablanca 1985 Bangkok, City of the Dead 1985 Trip to Bangkok, Coffin included 1985 Un pito para tres 1985 The Sinister Doctor Orloff 1984 The Sexual Story of O 1984 Lilian, the Perverted Virgin 1984 Night Has a Thousand Desires 1984 A Crack for Two 1984 Lonely Road 1984 How Much Does a Spy Make? 1984 Bahia Blanca 1984 Revenge in the House of Usher 1983 Diamonds of Kilimandjaro 1983 Cries of Pleasure 1983 Macumba Sexual 1983 Voces de muerte 1983 Blood on My Shoes 1983 The Hotel of Love Affairs 1983 The House of Lost Women 1983 En busca del dragón dorado 1983 The Blues of Pop Street 1983 Black Boots, Leather Whip 1983 Intimate Confessions of an Exhibitionist 1983 The Night Of Open Sex 1983 Claire 1983 Mansion of the Living Dead 1982 El lago de las vírgenes 1982 The Inconfessable Orgies of Emmanuelle 1982 Oasis of the Zombies 1982 El huésped de la niebla 1982 Sex Is Crazy 1981 Jailhouse Wardress 1981 Bloody Moon 1981 The Story of Linda 1981 Sadomania 1981 The Girls of the Copacabana 1981 Sexual Perversions of a Married Woman 1981 Pick-Up Girls 1981 Lola 2000 1981 Erotic Symphony 1980 Devil Hunter 1980 White Cannibal Queen 1980 Two Female Spies with Flowered Panties 1980 Wicked Memoirs of Eugenie 1980 What a Honeymoon 1980 Convoy of Girls 1979 They Do Everything 1979 The Sadist of Notre Dame 1979 Burning Up Inside 1979 Justine and the Whip 1979 Women in Cellblock 9 1978 Women Without Innocence 1978 Cocktail spécial 1978 Kiss Me Killer 1977 Greta, the Mad Butcher 1977 Call of the Blonde Goddess 1977 Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun 1977 Love Camp 1977 Blue Rita 1977 Sexy Sisters 1977 Slaves 1977 Around the World in 80 Beds 1977 Barbed Wire Dolls 1976 Jack the Ripper 1976 Midnight Party 1976 Doriana Grey 1976 Silence of the Grave 1976 Girls in the Night Traffic 1976 White Skin Black Thighs 1976 Golden Jail 1976 The Troublemakers 1976 Shining Sex 1976 Sexy Erotic Job 1975 Female Vampire 1975 Downtown 1975 Women Behind Bars 1975 Exorcism 1975 Countess Perverse 1975 The Hot Nights of Linda 1975 The Ticklish Ones 1975 Sexorcismes 1975 A Virgin for St. Tropez 1975 Night of the Skull 1974 The Greedy Ones 1974 Lorna, the Exorcist 1974 How to Seduce a Virgin 1974 Celestine 1974 Fifteen Year Old Captain 1974 The Lustful Amazons 1974 The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein 1973 Eugenie de Sade 1973 A Virgin Among the Living Dead 1973 The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff 1973 Lovers of Devil's Island 1973 The Demons 1973 Nightmares Come at Night 1973 The Other Side of the Mirror 1973 Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac 1973 Tender and Perverse Emmanuelle 1973 Dolls for Sale 1973 Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein 1972 The Corpse Packs His Bags 1972 The Vengeance of Dr. Mabuse 1972 Virgin Report 1972 Daughter of Dracula 1972 Robinson and His Tempestuous Slaves 1972 Sex Charade 1972 The Devil Came from Akasava 1971 She Killed in Ecstasy 1971 Vampyros Lesbos 1971 X312 - Flight to Hell 1971 Count Dracula 1970 The Bloody Judge 1970 Eugenie 1970 The Castle of Fu Manchu 1969 99 Women 1969 Venus in Furs 1969 The Girl from Rio 1969 Marquis de Sade: Justine 1969 Two Undercover Angels 1969 Kiss Me Monster 1969 The Blood of Fu Manchu 1968 Succubus 1968 Residence for Spies 1968 A Man, Eight Girls 1968 Lucky, the Inscrutable 1967 Attack of the Robots 1966 The Diabolical Dr. Z 1966 Dr. Orloff's Monster 1965 Death Whistles the Blues 1964 Rififi in the City 1964 Jaguar 1963 The Awful Dr. Orlof 1962 The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus 1962 Vampiresas 1930 1962 Queen of the Tabarin Club 1960 Red Lips 1960 El destierro del Cid 1960 Estampas guipuzcoanas número 2: Pío Baroja 1960 We Are 18 Years Old 1959 Oro español 1959 Las playas vacías 1959 The Tree from Spain 1957
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