Jesús Franco
Birthday: 1930-05-12
Place of Birth: Madrid, Spain
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 downhill commercially, as he turned to low-budget filmmaking with a heavier accent on adult-oriented films. Although he produced a few well-received, low budget horror films in the early 70's, many people in the industry considered him a porn director due to the huge number of X-rated adult films he began churning out. Franco returned to low-budget horror in a brief comeback period from 1980-1983, but after 1983, his career took a second downturn. With the exception of Faceless and Killer Barbies, his films after 1984 are quite disliked and obscure due to their incredibly low budgets. Franco has nevertheless retained a large cult following through the years with his sexually-charged horror films, some of which are regarded as masterpieces by his avid followers.
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The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein
After the death of Victor Frankenstein, two figures vie for control of his monster and the radical t...
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The Castle of Fu Manchu
The evil mastermind Fu Manchu plots his latest scheme to basically freeze over the Earth's oceans wi...
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Count Dracula
A faithful adaptation of the classic tale portrays Dracula as an old man who grows younger whenever ...
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The Devil Came from Akasava
A mineral is discovered which can turn metal to gold or humans into zombies. When the mineral is sto...
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The Corpse Packs His Bags
A London slasher pack the suitcases of his victims before stabbing them to death in this adaptation ...
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Vampire Blues
A pretty American teenager from New Jersey goes on vacation in the south of Spain where she is unkno...
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Antena Criminal: Making a Jess Franco Movie
A behind-the-scenes look at the creation of "Blind Target", Jesus Franco's story of a woman who beco...
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The Diabolical Dr. Z
A woman seeks to avenge her father's death using a local dancer, with long poisonous fingernails, to...
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Falks Frauen
Featurette starring actor Eric Falk and producer Erwin C. Dietrich about the making of Jess Franco's...
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Inferno Rosso: Joe D'Amato on the Road of Excess
Who was Joe D'Amato aka. Aristide Massaccesi? A genius of horror in the USA, a master of eroticism i...
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Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell
Rachel Sheppard is a millionaire’s daughter, kidnapped for ransom and tortured in the weird and wond...
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Succubus
Lorna Green is a performer at a Lisbon nightclub who performs fictionalized acts that involve erotic...
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Attack of the Robots
Al Pereira, a wise-cracking superspy, investigates a series of assassinations being performed by rut...
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Dr. Orloff's Monster
A mad scientist creates a hideous monster to carry out his murderous plans......
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Eugenie de Sade
Eugenie, a beautiful but shy young girl, lives with her stepfather, a famous writer specializing in ...
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She Killed in Ecstasy
A young doctor kills himself after a medical committee terminates his research into human embryos, c...
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Venus in Furs
A musician finds the corpse of a beautiful woman on the beach. The woman returns from the dead to ta...
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Barbed Wire Dolls
Maria, an unfortunate young woman, kills her rapist father in self-defense, and is later tried, sent...
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Kiss Me Killer
A deadly look into the savage world of gangsters. The aftermath of a holdup turns into a game of dec...
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Night of the Skull
After Lord Archibald Marion is brutally murdered by an unknown assailant, his bitter and feuding fam...
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Female Vampire
A mute noblewoman's vampiric heritage compels her to drain the life force from all of her lovers....
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The Sinister Doctor Orloff
The son of the infamous Dr. Orloff clashes with his father when he begins to stalk and dismember pro...
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The Vengeance of Dr. Mabuse
Dr. Mabuse and his accomplices steal all kinds of attributes from a National Research Institute (inc...
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Jailhouse Wardress
After the fall of the Third Reich, all Nazi SS officers ran away in Latin American countries. There ...
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Sex Is Crazy
Adult film actresses get abducted and impregnated by aliens after appearing in a sci-fi porno. Knock...
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The Girl from Rio
Sumuru, the beautiful leader of the all-female kingdom of Femina, plans to use her women to take ove...
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Vampyros Lesbos
An erotic horror tale about a vixen vampiress seducing and killing women to appease her insatiable t...
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Downtown
A private eye who's over his head in debt takes on a job snapping photos of his client's rich husban...
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Women Behind Bars
A small-time hood brings the attention of the law with an insurance scam and diamond theft, but thin...
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Exorcism
A disturbed priest, who witness an occult ritual, thinks the people are possessed and start a privat...
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Sadomania
Soon after newlyweds Olga and Michel set foot on the grounds of a notorious women's prison, they're ...
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Judoka Shadow versus Doctor Wong
Dr. Wong (Jess Franco) sends his gangsters to eliminate Mr. Jung. The "shadow of the judoka" of Bruc...
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Midnight Party
Sylvia, a stripper, attends a party where the theme is a mock spy adventure. Unfortunately, she soon...
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Death Karate in Torremolinos
Dr. Malvedades intends to bring back Jocántaro, a Beast of the Apocalypse. To do this, he uses under...
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Eugenie
A young woman is lured to an island paradise, where she is drawn into a dark world of pleasure, pain...
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Celestine
The story opens with Celestine eluding arrest with a friend as the police raid a brothel. While hidi...
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Al Pereira vs. the Alligator Ladies
Al Pereira, the one and only original private-private detective, is fighting against all the shamele...
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La cripta de las condenadas
A group of women are locked in a cemetery crypt, convicted of an old curse. This kind of succubi, le...
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Robinson and His Tempestuous Slaves
Robinson, a down-on-his-luck pharmacist who’s pestered by his nagging wife and overbearing mother-in...
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Slaves
A brothel owner is questioned in the disappearance of the daughter of a wealthy man after she is st...
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Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac
Linda comes to the big city in search of fun and excitement. What she finds is exploitation and abu...
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The Rhythm of Jess
Málaga, July 2012. With a nonexistent budget, the legendary director Jesus "Jess" Franco faces, at 8...
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Macumba Sexual
Princess Obongo, the Goddess of Unspeakable Lust, uses dark powers to ensnare a hapless couple of yu...
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Bloody Moon
After being released from a mental asylum, a disfigured man becomes obsessed with a student at his s...
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Call Me Jess Redux
Jesus Franco, also known as Jess Franco, was one of the most important names in "B" cinema worldwide...
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On the Threshold to Another World
A documentary shot on the set of "Killer Barbys vs. Dracula" directed by Viktor Seastrom....
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Marquis de Sade: Justine
Without a family, penniless and separated from her sister, a beautiful chaste woman will have to cop...
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Strange Voyage
In a small town near Madrid, Paquita and her brother Venancio, both single and with a childish perso...
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White Cannibal Queen
A man is on safari in the jungle with his wife and daughter when the wife gets eaten and the daughte...
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Vampir Cuadecuc
An atmospheric essay, which is an alternative version of Count Dracula, a film directed by Jess Fran...
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Dolls for Sale
Al Pereira arrives at the "House of Vice" and receives orders to spy on a crime ring called the Quad...
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En busca del dragón dorado
An action movie directed by Jess Franco based on Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Gold-Bug"....
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Les emmerdeuses
Pina and Tina, two cabaret artists with a passion for espionage and theft, discover that a carpet se...
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Blood on My Shoes
Agents across the globe take turns spying on and double-crossing one another in an attempt to locate...
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The Blues of Pop Street
Mary Ocky, a beautiful girl from Mondonedo, Ohio, comes to seek the help of the famous PI Philip Mar...
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Girl with the Red Lips
A couple of female detectives investigates the robbery of a valuable diamond. A comedy directed by ...
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El abuelo, la condesa y Escarlata la traviesa
An action movie directed by Jess Franco....
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Los profundos sueños de Jennifer
Jennifer, an unemployed waitress, is looking for work while a strange entity is stalking her....
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The Sadist of Notre Dame
Jesus Franco directs and stars in this cut-copy-and-paste-version of one of his own movies. Here, he...
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Kiss Me Monster
On an island somewhere in the Caribbean a professor is experimenting with mankind. Meanwhile, The Re...
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Shining Sex
Cynthia, an exotic dancer in a upscale resort in Southern France, is seduced by a strange couple, Al...
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The Night Of Open Sex
Moira, a beautiful cabaret dancer, is hired to impersonate another woman — who turns out to be a sec...
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Your Caresses
Brother and sister meet again after 15 years and fall in love with each other....
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The Blood of Fu Manchu
In his remote jungle hideout, the evil Fu Manchu and his sadistic daughter Lin Tang have discovered ...
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Red Venice
After Nathalie Baldassar has murdered her husband so she is sentenced to ten years imprisonment. She...
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The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff
Amid the craggy, dusty hills of southern France, a woman screams in the night. Gorgeous Melissa Comf...
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Revenge of the Alligator Ladies
After the passing of director Jesús Franco the movie was finished by Antonio Mayans. It follows "Al ...
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Debris Documentar
The film deals with the everyday life of a man who works on the set of the 2004 Ulli Lommel film Zom...
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Flesh-Eating Mothers
A venereal disease turns an entire town of two-timing mothers into cannibals!...
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Lucky, the Inscrutable
An American secret agent is sent to Europe to track down a ring of counterfeiters. His investigation...
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Angel of Death 2: The Prison Island Massacre
A young girl is wrongfully arrested and sent to an isolated prison located on a small island. She cl...
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See you later Cowabunga: La maldición del cenachero diabólico!
Ultra low budget horror-comedy involving a demonic cenachero (dancing fisherman)....
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Night Has a Thousand Desires
A telepathic nightclub act becomes the backdrop for murder....
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Justine and the Whip
A prostitute tries to explain why she's involved in an S&M relationship with a hippie poet....
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Camino solitario
Private detective Alfredo Pereira is hired by eccentric couple Raden and Eve to find their missing s...
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Black Boots, Leather Whip
Al Pereira is hired by Lina, the wife of a wealthy man, to recover some compromising photos. She has...
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The Hot Nights of Linda
A young woman is hired to care for an elderly man who lives on an island off the Greek coast. When s...
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Around the World in 80 Days
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the wor...
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Esa cosa con plumas
Ladoire is a womanizer, with a monotonous life and few illusions, a sad condition that will redeem O...
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Drácula Barcelona
In 1969, Jesús Franco and Christopher Lee shot Count Dracula in Barcelona. At the same time, Pere Po...
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Two Undercover Angels
"Red Lips" are two female detectives trying to find missing models and dancers. A pop artist called ...
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Idoru
70's trash movie queen Soledad Miranda wakes up from the dead, to find herself not in heaven but tra...
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Martes de Carnaval
Mr.Manolito and Mr.Estrafalario– characters of Valle-Inclán’s plays– spend the last days of Primo de...
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99 Women
Female prisoners endure the horrors of drug abuse, prostitution and rampant sadism at an island pris...
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Ban the Sadist Videos!
An in-depth analysis of the "Video Nasty" scandal of the early 1980s in Britain....
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Soledad Miranda, Flower in the Desert
The life of an Andalusian actress who had a brilliant career in cinema, but died early in a car acci...
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Coffins of Light
In December 1974, a Spanish filmmaker named Sergio del Monte died under strange circumstances while ...
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Por la gracia de Luis
A walk through the work of Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) that is neither a documentary nor a narr...
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What a Honeymoon
Two newlyweds, Yolanda, an adventurer, and Simón, a young bookworm, travel to Banana Island, where t...
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El misterio del castillo rojo
Mad mastermind lives in the Red Castle and plans to dominate the world by turning people into robots...
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Clawing! A Journey Through the Spanish Horror
In the late sixties, Spanish cinema began to produce a huge amount of horror genre films: internatio...
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Esmeralda Bay
A priest secretly leads rebels in their struggle against the corrupt military dictatorship of the Ce...
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Attack of the Robots
Al Pereira, a wise-cracking superspy, investigates a series of assassinations being performed by rut...
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Wild Session
A walk through the golden age of Spanish exploitation cinema, from the sixties to the eighties; a lo...
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Daughter of Dracula
Luisa is called to the bed of her dying mother Edith at Karlstein Castle. Before she dies, she tells...
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Greta, the Mad Butcher
A young woman feigns illness in order to infiltrate a mental hospital, where she investigates the di...
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The Awful Dr. Orlof
Dr. Orlof, a former prison doctor, abducts beautiful women from nightclubs to use their skin to repa...
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A Virgin Among the Living Dead
A girl arrives from London to visit her estranged relatives in a remote castle for the reading of he...
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Ladies House of Pleasure
A lovely summer day in Paris. Roger and Martine are on their way to work. "Work" is a euphemism beca...
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Bahia Blanca
Pocho Martin's body is found dead on the shore of a fishing village. According to the forensic Rami...
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Residence for Spies
Ms. Pendleton is the commander-in-chief of a women's training camp for western spies, recently estab...
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Death Whistles the Blues
Vogel, an important trafficker, betrayed two of his accomplices, Castro and Smith. The first was sho...
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Lilian, the Perverted Virgin
A runaway girl is kidnapped by a gang of wealthy sadists and turned into their drug-addicted sex sla...
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Ellos robaron la picha de Hitler
In the construction of a building, the bunker where Adolf Hitler committed suicide was discovered by...
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Anna Said Yes
Juan does not have a cent but lives beautifully. His nights of revelry and cabaret are famous in the...
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Perversion Stories
Jess Franco and members of the cast of his 1970 cult classic "Eugenie" discuss the film...
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Bloody Jess
Jess Franco and Christopher Lee discuss their 1970 collaboration, The Bloody Judge....
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Beloved Count
Cult director Jess Franco recalls the making of his adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula starring Chr...
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White Skin Black Thighs
Robert Kuhn is looking forward to a nice evening in the brothel: First he enjoys the strip show, the...
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X312 - Flight to Hell
A plane leaving the turmoil of a South American country in the midst of a revolution crash-lands in ...
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Exorcismo: The Transgressive Legacy of Clasificada “S”
Spain, 1975. Franco's death opens the door to the possibility of uncensored cinema. After two years ...
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Exorciseme
A depraved religious fanatic uses medieval torture practices to exorcise the members of a satanic cu...
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The Bizarre World of Jess Franco
A lengthy sit-down video interview with Jess Franco and Lina Romay (the cutest couple in showbiz) th...
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Macumba sexual: Voodoo Jess
Jess Franco and Lina Romay recall the making of Macumba Sexual....
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Sexorcismes
The hardcore XXX version of L'éventreur de Notre-Dame (1975) and The Sadist of Notre Dame (1979)....
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Trip to Bangkok, Coffin included
The colonel Daniel Blimp, of the secret British service, travels to Bangkok to investigate the murde...
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The Other Side of the Mirror
A nightclub singer is haunted by the ghost of her late father. The dead man summons her through a mi...
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