
Jesús Franco
Directing
Born: 1930-05-12 · Madrid, Spain
Died: 2013-04-02
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 th
🎬 Movies (20)

Exorcismo: The Transgressive Legacy of Clasificada “S”
2024
Self - Archive footage

Inferno Rosso: Joe D'Amato on the Road of Excess
2021
Self (archive footage)

Wild Session
2019
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Drácula Barcelona
2017
Himself

Soledad Miranda, Flower in the Desert
2015
Himself (archive footage)

Queridos monstruos
2014
Self

Call Me Jess Redux
2014
Himself

Clawing! A Journey Through the Spanish Horror
2014
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Falks Frauen
2014
(archive footage)

Revenge of the Alligator Ladies
2013
Himself

La última película de Jess Franco
2013
Self

The Rhythm of Jess
2013
Self

Al Pereira vs. the Alligator Ladies
2013
The Director
Los profundos sueños de Jennifer
2013
Voz

Tío Jess
2012
Self

La cripta de las condenadas
2012

Debris Documentar
2012
Himself
Macumba sexual: Voodoo Jess
2010
Self

Por la gracia de Luis
2009
Himself

Idoru
2009


