Jesús Franco
by sun-o2 | created - 02 Feb 2022 | updated - 02 Mar 2022 | Public(12 May 1930 – 2 April 2013) was a Spanish filmmaker, composer, and actor, known as a prolific director of low-budget exploitation and B-movies. In a career spanning from 1954 to 2013, he wrote, directed, produced, acted in, and scored approximately 173 feature films, working both in his native Spain and (during the rule of Francisco Franco), in France, West Germany, Switzerland and Portugal. Additionally, during the 1960s, he made several films in Rio de Janeiro and Istanbul.
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1. The Devil Came from Akasava (1971)
84 min | Adventure, Thriller
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 back!
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Fred Williams, Soledad Miranda, Horst Tappert, Ewa Strömberg
Votes: 722
2. She Killed in Ecstasy (1971)
Unrated | 80 min | Horror
After a doctor commits suicide when his research into human embryos is terminated, his widow seduces and then executes revenge upon those she holds responsible.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Soledad Miranda, Fred Williams, Paul Muller, Howard Vernon
Votes: 2,026
3. Vampyros Lesbos (1971)
Unrated | 89 min | Drama, Horror
An erotic horror tale about a vixen vampiress seducing and killing women to appease her insatiable thirst for female blood.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Soledad Miranda, Dennis Price, Paul Muller, Ewa Strömberg
Votes: 5,199
4. Female Vampire (1973)
Not Rated | 72 min | Horror
A beautiful female vampire lures men to their doom.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Lina Romay, Jack Taylor, Alice Arno, Monica Swinn
Votes: 2,077
5. The Diabolical Dr. Z (1966)
Unrated | 86 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Woman seeks to avenge her father's death by using a local dancer, with long poisonous fingernails, to do her bidding.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Estella Blain, Mabel Karr, Howard Vernon, Fernando Montes
Votes: 1,190
6. The Awful Dr. Orlof (1962)
Approved | 90 min | Horror
Dr. Orlof, a former prison doctor, abducts beautiful women from nightclubs and tries to use their skin to repair his daughter's fire-scarred face.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Conrado San Martín, Diana Lorys, Howard Vernon, Perla Cristal
Votes: 1,805
7. Succubus (1968)
X | 79 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A performer at an S&M nightclub begins to lose her grip on reality, and is plunged into a nightmarish mental landscape.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Janine Reynaud, Jack Taylor, Adrian Hoven, Howard Vernon
Votes: 1,241
8. Venus in Furs (1969)
R | 86 min | Horror, Thriller
A jazz trumpeter becomes obsessed with a beautiful woman whose corpse he discovers on a beach, after which she seemingly returns to life to take revenge on those responsible for her death.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: James Darren, Barbara McNair, Maria Rohm, Klaus Kinski
Votes: 2,218
9. Voodoo Passion (1977)
Not Rated | 89 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Susan comes to Haiti to be with her husband. His naked sister asks her, if she's ever made love to a woman. Susan dreams vividly of nudity, Voodoo rituals and killing.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Vicky Adams, Ada Tauler, Karine Gambier, Jack Taylor
Votes: 788
10. Caged Women (1980)
Not Rated | 80 min | Adventure, Action
Delinquent women are shipped to an island prison run by the sadistic warden Carla. Forced into situations of sexual perversion and violence and torture, the prisoners band together to try to overthrow Carla and escape the island.
Director: Erwin C. Dietrich | Stars: Karine Gambier, Brigitte Lahaie, Nadine Pascal, France Lomay
Votes: 575
11. Down Town (1975)
86 min | Comedy, Crime
In Puerto Rico, a down-on-his-luck private detective is hired by a woman to take photos of her husband, a notorious nightclub owner.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Martina Domingo, Jesús Franco, Roman Huber, Lina Romay
Votes: 480
12. Women in Cellblock 9 (1978)
Not Rated | 75 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Somewhere in the jungles of South America mercenaries stop a truck which has allegedly loaded fruit. The cargo turns out to be six young women. Apprehended and handed over to the custody of the local women's prison.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Susan Hemingway, Karine Gambier, Howard Vernon, Cesar Anahory
Votes: 1,043
13. Barbed Wire Dolls (1976)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Women's prison tale, with Lina Romay as Maria who is jailed after killing her father, played by director Jess Franco, who tries to rape her. Lesbian wardens, torture, nudity, sex, insanity and conspiracy round out the formula.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Lina Romay, Paul Muller, Monica Swinn, Roger Darton
Votes: 1,503
14. Shining Sex (1976)
Unrated | 105 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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 slave, Andros.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Lina Romay, Evelyne Scott, Monica Swinn, Olivier Mathot
Votes: 463
15. Lorna the Exorcist (1974)
X | 81 min | Horror
A man is tormented by an ex-lover, Lorna, who posseses a strange power over a women, including the man's daughter.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Pamela Stanford, Guy Delorme, Lina Romay, Jacqueline Laurent
Votes: 806
16. Love Camp (1977)
Not Rated | 79 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
A group of women are kidnapped by guerrillas and forced to serve as prostitutes for them in a jungle brothel. The sadistic female warden decapitates uncooperative girls.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Nanda van Bergen, Ada Tauler, Monica Swinn, Esther Studer
Votes: 580
17. Blue Rita (1977)
Not Rated | 79 min | Action, Crime, Horror
Nightclub owner and erotic dancer Rita Blue uses her place as a front for working undercover as a spy. Motivated by her vehement hatred of men that stems from having been sexually abused as... See full summary »
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Martine Fléty, Sarah Strasberg, Dagmar Bürger, Pamela Stanford
Votes: 639
18. Night of the Skull (1974)
82 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
After the unexpected death of a rich relative, the reading of his will brings a motley crew of greedy family members to a mansion by the sea to collect.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Alberto Dalbés, Evelyne Scott, William Berger, Maribel Hidalgo
Votes: 419
19. Night of the Skull (1974)
82 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
After the unexpected death of a rich relative, the reading of his will brings a motley crew of greedy family members to a mansion by the sea to collect.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Alberto Dalbés, Evelyne Scott, William Berger, Maribel Hidalgo
Votes: 419
20. Quartier de femmes (1973)
97 min | Drama
A lawyer finds out that a young couple convicted of murder was in fact framed for the crime and goes to the prison with the hope of freeing them and learns the events that happened to the two from a fellow prisoner who helped them escape.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Andrés Resino, Geneviève Robert, Dennis Price, Rosa Palomar
Votes: 249
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