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  • The Awful Doctor Orlof
  • The Awful Doctor Orlof review by A customer from London
    Rated - 2.0 stars The Good , the Bad and the Ugly (mostly bad) 8 October 2004
    ...The Awful Dr. Orloff was one of the first movies legendary shock director Jess Franco did, and it's probably as cheap and silly as most of his other stuff. Dr. Orloff h...   Read customer review
  • Female Vampire
  • Female Vampire review by A customer from London, UK
    Rated - 1.0 stars This must be the worst movie ever made 6 May 2004
    ...ible way that it fails even as porn - it is the least sexy film I've ever seen. Jess Franco, the director, who also appears in the film - I won't say 'act' because that wo...   Read customer review
  • Virgin Among The Living Dead
  • Virgin Among The Living Dead review by juradino from
    Rated - 4.0 stars she was only in it for the money 1 November 2011
    ...Let me be buff with this one. Jess Franco is probably one of most prolific film directors ever (I think back in 70s he was making something like 10 movies per year). Spain...   Read customer review

Jess Franco - filmography


  • Faceless (1988)
    Starring: Helmut Berger,  Caroline Munro,  Brigitte Lahaie
    Director: Jess Franco
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Christopher Mitchum stars in this film from Jess Franco, the legendary purveyor of sleaze and director of such films as VAMPYROS LESBOS and LILIAN, THE PERVERTED VIRGIN, as a private investigator named Sam Morgan. Hired by a wealthy industrialist to track down his missing daughter, Morgan travels ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 29 members
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  • Mansion of the Living Dead on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Lina Romay,  Mabel Escano,  Albino Graziani
    Director: Jess Franco
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Robert Foster (Macumba Sexual) co-stars in this jaw-dropping saga of sex and sadism that Franco scholars have called an insane homage to the Blind Dead series. Anchor Bay is proud to present it now fully restored from original Spanish elements.
    2 stars out of 5 38% from 17 members
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  • Macumba Sexual on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Lina Romay,  Monika Swinn,  Martine Stedile
    Director: Jess Franco
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Robert Foster (Mansion Of The Living Dead) and Jess Franco himself co-star in this lushly atmospheric and relentlessly erotic shocker, now fully restored from the recently discovered original negative and presented totally uncut for the first time ever!
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 25 members
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  • The Inconfessable Orgies of Emmanuelle (1982)
    Starring: Lina Romay,  Mabel Escano,  Albino Graziani
    Director: Jess Franco
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Robert Foster of Macumba Sexual and Carmen Carrión of the Sexual Story of O co-star in this rarely-seen slice of EuroSleaze - also known as Emanuelle Exposed - now lovingly restored from the original negative and presented uncut for the first time ever!
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 21 members
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  • Revenge In The House Of Usher on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Howard Vernon,  Anthony Mayans,  Lina Romay
    Director: Jess Franco
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Directed by J.P. Johnson with special effects by Steve Russell, REVENGE IN THE HOUSE OF USHER is based on Poe's 'Fall of the House of Usher'. Allen comes across a clifftop house that possesses the last macabre decendant of the Usher family. Usher leads him down and down into greater and greater ..read more »
    1.5 stars out of 5 32% from 66 members
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  • Oasis of the Zombies on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Manuel Gelin,  France Jordan,  Eric Viellard
    Director: Jess Franco
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    When a young student receives word of his father's death, he gathers up his strength and leaves the campus of his beautiful English university to travel back to Africa, his home. While going through personal effects, he discovers his father's diaries and in them reads of a secret stash of Nazi gold ..read more »
    1.5 stars out of 5 34% from 211 members
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  • The Devil Hunter on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Burt Altman,  Victoria Adams,  Gisela Hahn
    Director: Jess Franco
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    King Of EuroSleaze Jess Franco (BLOODY MOON, MACUMBA SEXUAL) takes on the '80s Cannibal genre and delivers a jungle sickie like no other! When a safari of sexy babes and violent boneheads ventures into native-crazed wilderness, Uncle Jess unleashes a deluge of relentless nudity, dubious ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 36% from 106 members
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  • Cannibals on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Al Cliver
    Director: Jess Franco
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Jess Franco directs this tale of cannibal carnage (also known as White Cannibal Queen and Mondo Cannibale)! Dr Taylor (Al Cliver), his wife and two daughters are on their way to a hospital deep in the jungle when they are set upon by bloodthirsty cannibals. The youngest daughter escapes and later ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 36% from 165 members
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  • Love Letters Of A Portuguese Nun on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Susan Hemingway,  Ana Zanatti
    Director: Jess Franco
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A young girl, Maria, is caught in with her lover by a priest who then persuades her parents to send her to the nunnery at Serreda Iris. Once here, Maria soon realises that the nuns have a more that usual interest in her body. The nuns soon begin to torture Maria and subject her to sexual trials. ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 35% from 418 members
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  • Devil's Island Lovers on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Dennis Price,  Howard Vernon,  William Berger
    Director: Jess Franco
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Devil's Island Lovers (1974) sees a beautiful young couple framed for murder and imprisoned in a camp somewhere in South America where torture and abuse are the trademarks of the sadistic warden. British stalwart Denis Price joins Franco regulars Howard Vernon and Anne Libert in this depraved drama.
    1.5 stars out of 5 33% from 87 members
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  • Demoniac on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Lina Romay,  Catherine Laferriere
    Director: Jess Franco
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    An ex-priest imagines sin and demonic possession after witnessing a satanic ritual. In order to exorcise the demons possessing the participants, he decides to torture them to death in the manner of the Inquisition.
    2 stars out of 5 40% from 227 members
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  • Female Vampire on DVD (1973)
    Starring: Lina Romay,  Jack Taylor
    Director: Jess Franco
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A countess who lives alone on the island of Madeira sustains her youth and beauty through regular infusions of the life essence of her visitors. She is soon entangled with a romance-clouded poet who believes it is his fate to join her in the world of eternal life. However, a forensic scientist has ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 506 members
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  • Dracula's Daughter on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Anne Libert,  Britt Nichols
    Director: Jess Franco
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A young woman must come to terms with her family's curse after visiting her critically ill grandmother and it is revealed that she's last in line of a clan of vampires.
    2 stars out of 5 39% from 161 members
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  • Jess Franco Collection - Vol. 1 (2 discs) on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Howard Vernon,  Dennis Price,  Fernando Bilbao
    Director: Jess Franco
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Includes two features, "Dracula Prisoner Of Frankenstein" and "Curse Of Frankenstein": Dracula Prisoner Of Frankenstein (1972): Yesterday they were cold and dead. Today they're hot and bothered! When Dracula despatches another innocent victim Dr. Seward decides it's time to eradicate the evil ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 40% from 46 members
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  • The Demons on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Britt Nichols,  Anne Libert
    Director: Jess Franco
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The films centres on a witch who is burned at the stake by the inquisition but who, before the flames consume her, manages to curse the principal witchfinder and his minions with dire results. What follows is a catalogue of depravity and sexual violence on a truly orgiastic scale while Franco's ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 102 members
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  • She Killed In Ecstasy on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Soledad Miranda,  Fred Williams,  Paul Muller
    Director: Jess Franco
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Jess Franco, one of the most celebrated sleaze directors of the 1960s and 70s, followed up his classic VAMPYROS LESBOS with this film, which, like LESBOS, stars the incomparable Soledad Miranda. Here, the fetching Ms. Miranda stars as the wife of a doctor who is condemned by his colleagues for the ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 44% from 329 members
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  • X312 - Flight To Hell on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Thomas Hunter,  Esperanza Roy,  Gila Van Weitershausen
    Director: Jess Franco
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    When a banker smuggles jewels out of the country on a passenger plane a gangster who has been pursuing him forces the pilot to land in the jungle. The landing is poor and the gangster is killed on impact but the banker is among the handful of survivors who must make their way through the tropical ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 35% from 73 members
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  • Eugenie De Sade on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Soledad Miranda,  Paul Muller,  Alice Arno
    Director: Jess Franco
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Based on the novel by the Marquis De Sade, this is the story of Eugenie Radeck, who discovers the true nature of her stepfather's character. They set out to commit the perfect crime together...
    2 stars out of 5 36% from 766 members
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  • The Bloody Judge (1970)
    Starring: Leo Genn,  Maria Schell,  Christopher Lee
    Director: Jess Franco
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    "The Bloody Judge", Jesus Franco's version of the classic "Witchfinder General", stars horror icon Christopher Lee. The film is a dark look at the infamous witch-hunter, Judge George Jeffreys.
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 30 members
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  • Venus In Furs on DVD (1969)
    Starring: Maria Rohm,  Manfred Mann,  Klaus Kinski
    Director: Jess Franco
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    This bizarre European jazz-horror film is named after the controversial novel by Leopold Sacher Masoch, but the similarities end with the title. James Darren stars as Jimmy, a mixed-up trumpet player who finds the body of a beautiful woman, Wanda (Maria Rohm), washed up in the surf. He remembers ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 253 members
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  • Succubus on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Janine Reynaud,  Jack Taylor,  Adrian Hoven
    Director: Jess Franco
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Lorna is a nightclub dancer in Lisbon's Snob Club. But as the character she portrays begins to take over her identity, she finds it increasingly difficult to separate fiction and reality...
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 153 members
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  • The Awful Doctor Orlof on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Howard Vernon,  Riccardo Valle
    Director: Jess Franco
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In THE AWFUL DR. ORLOF, a sicko doctor (Howard Vernon) kidnaps girls off the foggy streets of London, murders them, drains their blood, and grafts their skin on his disfigured daughter's face. This cult classic is another decadent work by the king of European trash cinema, Jess Franco.
    2 stars out of 5 44% from 186 members
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  • Down Town on DVD
    Starring: Lina Romay,  Monika Swinn,  Martine Stedile
    Director: Jess Franco
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In Puerto Rico a mysterious woman, (Lina Romay), appears at the office of Al Pereira (Jess Franco), an out of work private detective. She wants him to take some compromising pictures of her unfaithful husband, Tefeiro Ramoz, a notorious nightclub owner. Pereira, is really not keen on this kind of ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 39% from 10 members
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  • Downtown Heat on DVD
    Starring: Lina Romay,  Mabel Escano,  Albino Graziani
    Director: Jess Franco
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Blinded by rage after finding his wife's murdered body, a man's journey for revenge leads him into the underbelly of a violent downtown world. A world where sex and souls are sold for drugs on ruthless city streets. The ruler here is Don Radeck, a sophisticated Mafia Drug Lord who holds judges, ..read more »
    1.5 stars out of 5 34% from 5 members
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  • The Sexual Story of O
    Starring: Lina Romay,  Mabel Escano,  Albino Graziani
    Director: Jess Franco
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    No erotic filmmaker can blur the line between pleasure and pain quite like the notorious Jess Franco! Gorgeous young Alicia Principe stars as Odile, a succulent American tourist whose innocent afternoon of voyerism soon leads her to the bed of a mysterious couple. But what begins as a torrid ménage-..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 37% from 32 members
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  • Night Of The Assassins on DVD
    Starring: Dennis Price,  Howard Vernon,  William Berger
    Director: Jess Franco
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In Night of the Assassins (1976) a group of greedy relatives gather for the reading of a will. A dark mansion provides the perfect setting for a masked maniac to stalk and slaughter the undeserving kinfolk in the most unpleasant ways imaginable. Genre star William Berger joins Franco's leading lady,..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 58 members
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Jess Franco facts

5 most recent films

Vampire Killer Barbys - 2.0 stars
Faceless - 2.5 stars
Mansion of the Living Dead - 2.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Blood Of Fu Manchu / Castle Of Fu Manchu - 2.5 stars
Female Vampire - 2.5 stars
The Devil Came From Akasava - 2.5 stars
She Killed In Ecstasy - 2.0 stars
The Awful Doctor Orlof - 2.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Downtown Heat - 1.5 stars
The Sexual Story of O - 2.0 stars
Mansion of the Living Dead - 2.0 stars
Down Town - 2.0 stars
Jess Franco Collection - Vol. 1 - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Lina Romay - 16 times - show films
Josephine Chaplin - 9 times - show films
Howard Vernon - 8 times - show films
Mike Connors - 7 times - show films
Mabel Escano - 7 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Jesus Franco - 3 times - show films