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Jess Franco - filmography
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Vampire Killer Barbys
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Maria Angela Giordano, Sylvia Superstar, Santiago Segura
Director: Jess Franco
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The Killer Barbys are a touring rock band with a problem. They're stranded in the middle of nowhere, and they need to find someone willing to put them up for the night. They end up at the mansion of the countess Von Fledermaus, an ancient woman shrouded in evil. She needs the fresh blood of young ..read more »
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40%
from 39 members
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Faceless
(1988)
Starring: Helmut Berger, Caroline Munro, Brigitte Lahaie
Director: Jess Franco
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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 »
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50%
from 25 members
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Revenge In The House Of Usher
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Howard Vernon, Anthony Mayans, Lina Romay
Director: Jess Franco
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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 »
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31%
from 57 members
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Bloody Moon
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Olivia Pascal, Christopher Brugger
Director: Jess Franco
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Deep in the Spanish countryside lies the Youth Boarding Club for Languages. The scene of a recent murder. And the killer is about to strike again...
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34%
from 118 members
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Cannibals
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Al Cliver
Director: Jess Franco
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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 »
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36%
from 146 members
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The Devil Hunter
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Burt Altman, Victoria Adams, Gisela Hahn
Director: Jess Franco
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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 »
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36%
from 52 members
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Love Letters Of A Portuguese Nun
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Susan Hemingway, Ana Zanatti
Director: Jess Franco
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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 »
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35%
from 391 members
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Ilsa The Wicked Warden
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Lina Romay, Dyanne Thorne, Tania Busselier
Director: Jess Franco
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Infamous Spanish director Jess Franco (VAMPYROS LESBOS) was the perfect choice to helm this third installment in the Ilsa series. It's a surprisingly well-photographed little piece of sado-masochistic erotic schlock, with Isla (Dyanne Thorne) now operating a clinic for sexually aberrant women in ..read more »
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39%
from 425 members
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Demoniac
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Lina Romay, Catherine Laferriere
Director: Jess Franco
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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.
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40%
from 208 members
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Devil's Island Lovers
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Dennis Price, Howard Vernon, William Berger
Director: Jess Franco
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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.
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33%
from 65 members
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Female Vampire
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Lina Romay, Jack Taylor
Director: Jess Franco
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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 »
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44%
from 434 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
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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 »
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44%
from 19 members
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Dracula's Daughter
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Anne Libert, Britt Nichols
Director: Jess Franco
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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.
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39%
from 126 members
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Virgin Among The Living Dead
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Christina Von Blanc, Britt Nichols, Howard Vernon
Director: Jess Franco
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A castle named the Monserrat Mansion forms the foreboding backdrop to this creepy chiller from legendary horror maestro Jess Franco. Cristina Reiner arrives to witness the reading of her fathers will, only to discover that the rest of her family are already there, awaiting the impending death of ..read more »
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37%
from 364 members
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X312 - Flight To Hell
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Thomas Hunter, Esperanza Roy, Gila Van Weitershausen
Director: Jess Franco
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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 »
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34%
from 65 members
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She Killed In Ecstasy
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Soledad Miranda, Fred Williams, Paul Muller
Director: Jess Franco
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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 »
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43%
from 279 members
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Eugenie De Sade
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Soledad Miranda, Paul Muller, Alice Arno
Director: Jess Franco
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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...
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36%
from 675 members
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The Devil Came From Akasava
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Fred Williams, Susann Korda, Horst Tappert
Director: Jess Franco
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After discovering a stone with phenomenal magical properties Professor Forrester mysteriously disappears. The race to find him becomes a race for power as it emerges that whoever possesses the stone can control the world.
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46%
from 90 members
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The Bloody Judge
(1970)
Starring: Christopher Lee, Leo Genn, Maria Schell
Director: Jess Franco
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"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.
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57%
from 16 members
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Venus In Furs
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Maria Rohm, Manfred Mann, Klaus Kinski
Director: Jess Franco
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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 »
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43%
from 208 members
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Succubus
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Janine Reynaud, Jack Taylor, Adrian Hoven
Director: Jess Franco
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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...
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40%
from 131 members
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The Awful Doctor Orlof
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Howard Vernon, Riccardo Valle
Director: Jess Franco
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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.
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43%
from 167 members
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Oasis Of The Zombies
on DVD
Starring: Manuel Gelin, France Jordan, Eric Viellard
Director: Jess Franco
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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 »
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35%
from 162 members
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The Demons
Starring: Britt Nichols, Anne Libert
Director: Jess Franco
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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 »
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42%
from 7 members
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Night Of The Assassins
on DVD
Starring: Dennis Price, Howard Vernon, William Berger
Director: Jess Franco
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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 »
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40%
from 48 members
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Jess Franco facts
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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...
This must be the worst movie ever made 6 May 2004
Erotic Drama 26 November 2004
