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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Jesus Franco, also known as Jess Franco, was one of the most important names in "B" cinema worldwide...
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An action movie directed by Jess Franco based on Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Gold-Bug"....
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An action movie directed by Jess Franco....
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Brother and sister meet again after 15 years and fall in love with each other....
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An in-depth analysis of the "Video Nasty" scandal of the early 1980s in Britain....
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In the construction of a building, the bunker where Adolf Hitler committed suicide was discovered by...
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Jess Franco and members of the cast of his 1970 cult classic "Eugenie" discuss the film...
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Jess Franco and Christopher Lee discuss their 1970 collaboration, The Bloody Judge....
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A plane leaving the turmoil of a South American country in the midst of a revolution crash-lands in ...
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Spain, 1975. Franco's death opens the door to the possibility of uncensored cinema. After two years ...
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A depraved religious fanatic uses medieval torture practices to exorcise the members of a satanic cu...
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A lengthy sit-down video interview with Jess Franco and Lina Romay (the cutest couple in showbiz) th...
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Jess Franco and Lina Romay recall the making of Macumba Sexual....
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The hardcore XXX version of L'éventreur de Notre-Dame (1975) and The Sadist of Notre Dame (1979)....
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The colonel Daniel Blimp, of the secret British service, travels to Bangkok to investigate the murde...
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A nightclub singer is haunted by the ghost of her late father. The dead man summons her through a mi...
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