Direction: Freddie Francis

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Freddie Francis. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Paranoiac

1963 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Freddie Francis

Cast Janette Scott · Oliver Reed · Sheila Burrell · Maurice Denham

Synopsis Simon Ashby is a wealthy psychotic who is is coddled by his aunt in their palatial mansion outside of London. One day, Ashby's long lost brother mysteriously arrives at the house, but events prove that he is an impostor, sent...

6.6

265 votes

6.6

265 votes

Tales from the Crypt (TV Series)

1989 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Steven Dodd · Russell Mulcahy · Elliot Silverstein · Robert Zemeckis

Cast John Kassir · Roy Brocksmith · Miguel Ferrer · Larry Drake

Synopsis TV Series (1989-1996). 7 Seasons. 93 Episodes. Based on the legendary and gruesome 1950's EC Comics from publisher, William M. Gaines, this horror anthology featured stories of murder, greed, lust, gore and the supernatural, with touches of humor sprinkled throughout,...

6.5

6K votes

6.5

6K votes

Nightmare

1964 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Freddie Francis

Cast David Knight · Moira Redmond · Jennie Linden · Brenda Bruce

Synopsis Janet is a young student at a private school; her nights are troubled by horrible dreams in which she sees her mother, who is in fact locked in an insane asylum, haunting her. Expelled because of her persistent nightmares, Janet...

6.5

254 votes

6.5

254 votes

The Saint (TV Series)

1962 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Leslie Charteris · Leslie Norman · Roy Ward Baker · Jeremy Summers

Cast Roger Moore · Ivor Dean · Leslie Crawford · Justine Lord

Synopsis TV Series (1962-1969). 6 Seasons. 118 Episodes. Simon Templar is The Saint - adored by women, feared by his adversaries and a constant thorn in the side of police forces everywhere. A smooth-talking adventurer, the Saint goes in where angels...

6.3

1K votes

6.3

1K votes

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

1965 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Freddie Francis

Cast Peter Cushing · Christopher Lee · Donald Sutherland · Michael Gough

Synopsis Five men in a carriage on a train journey are joined by the mysterious Dr Schreck who produces a set of tarot cards and offers to tell the fate that will befall each of them. Werewolf: Realtor Jim Dawson is...

6.2

827 votes

6.2

827 votes

The Doctor and the Devils

1985 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Freddie Francis

Cast Timothy Dalton · Jonathan Pryce · Stephen Rea · Twiggy

Synopsis Grave robbers supply a doctor with bodies to test on.

6.0

105 votes

6.0

105 votes

Tales from the Crypt

1972 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Freddie Francis

Cast Joan Collins · Peter Cushing · Roy Dotrice · Richard Greene

Synopsis Five people get lost in a crypt and meet up with a strange crypt keeper who tells them stories of how they died.

5.9

694 votes

5.9

694 votes

Dracula Has Risen from the Grave

1968 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Freddie Francis

Cast Christopher Lee · Rupert Davies · Veronica Carlson · Barbara Ewing

Synopsis When his castle is exorcised, Dracula plots his revenge against the Monsignor who performed the rites by attempting to make the holy man's young neice his bride.

5.8

965 votes

5.8

965 votes

The Psychopath

1966 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Freddie Francis

Cast Patrick Wymark · Margaret Johnston · John Standing · Colin Gordon

Synopsis Four men who were involved in the investigation of a German millionaire at the end of WW II are found murdered with tiny dolls left next to their corpses.

5.8

41 votes

5.8

41 votes

The Skull

1965 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Freddie Francis

Cast Peter Cushing · Christopher Lee · Patrick Wymark · Jill Bennett

Synopsis A collector of esoterica, Dr. Maitland, buys an unusual skull from his ordinary source of artifacts. The skull is what remains of marquis De Sade. Much too soon he discovers how the skull affects him: by turning him into a...

5.7

326 votes

5.7

326 votes

Hysteria

1965 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Freddie Francis

Cast Robert Webber · Anthony Newlands · Lelia Goldoni · Jennifer Jayne

Synopsis An American wakes up in an English hospital unable to remember anything of his life before a recent car accident. With only a photograph torn from a newspaper to guide him, and an unknown benefactor, he attempts to unravel what...

5.7

41 votes

5.7

41 votes

Girly

1970 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Freddie Francis

Cast Michael Bryant · Ursula Howells · Pat Heywood · Howard Trevor

Synopsis Sexy, teenaged, immature Girly and her camera-wielding brother Sonny bring home unsuspecting men to Mumsy and Nanny, where they play games, and if they don't follow the rules, they're sent to the angels. One day they bring home a New...

5.7

74 votes

5.7

74 votes

The Evil of Frankenstein

1964 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Freddie Francis

Cast Peter Cushing · Peter Woodthorpe · Duncan Lamont · Sandor Elès

Synopsis Forced to leave town because of their experiments, Frankenstein and Hans return to Frankenstein’s hometown Karlstad and set up laboratory in the abandoned Frankenstein chateau. Frankenstein then finds his original creation frozen inside a glacier and restores it to life....

5.6

339 votes

5.6

339 votes

The Day of the Triffids

1962 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Steve Sekely · Freddie Francis

Cast Howard Keel · Janette Scott · Nicole Maurey · Kieron Moore

Synopsis A meteor shower disrupts the earth's ecosystem, blinds all who observed it and awakens meat-eating plants. As the hungry foliage grow ever faster, a sighted sailor and an alcoholic scientist help save humanity from becoming plant food. Script originally credited...

5.5

496 votes

5.5

496 votes

Torture Garden

1967 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Freddie Francis

Cast Jack Palance · Beverly Adams · Burgess Meredith · Peter Cushing

Synopsis A special sideshow torture exhibit has the power, according to the showman Dr. Diablo, to warn people of evil in their futures. The skeptical customers are shown the greed and violence they're hiding.

5.5

160 votes

5.5

160 votes

The Creeping Flesh

1973 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Freddie Francis

Cast Christopher Lee · Peter Cushing · Lorna Heilbron · George Benson

Synopsis A Victorian-age scientist returns to London with his paleontological bag-of-bones discovery from Papua New Guinea. Unfortunately, when exposed to water, flesh returns to the bones unleashing a malevolent being on the scientist's family and friends.

5.5

248 votes

5.5

248 votes

Legend of the Werewolf

1975 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Freddie Francis

Cast Peter Cushing · Ron Moody · Hugh Griffith · Roy Castle

Synopsis A travelling circus in 19th century France adopts and showcases a feral "wolf boy", who grows into adulthood only to kill the one-man band. He runs off to Paris, where he develops a jealous, overprotective crush on a prostitute, leading...

5.2

89 votes

5.2

89 votes

The Ghoul

1975 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Freddie Francis

Cast Peter Cushing · John Hurt · Alexandra Bastedo · Gwen Watford

Synopsis Two pairs of party-goers embark on a car race to Land's End, but as fog closes in one of the couples, Daphne and Billy, they are forced to stop and seek petrol. Whilst Billy searches for a garage, Daphne is...

5.0

134 votes

5.0

134 votes

Tales That Witness Madness

1973 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Freddie Francis

Cast Jack Hawkins · Donald Pleasence · Peter McEnery · Joan Collins

Synopsis Dr Tremayne is an enigmatic Psychiatrist running a Futuristic asylum housing four very special cases. Visited by colleague Nicholas, Tremayne explains his amazing and controversial theories as to why each of the four patients went mad... cue four distinct tales...

4.8

106 votes

4.8

106 votes

The Brain

1962 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Freddie Francis

Cast Anne Heywood · Peter van Eyck · Cecil Parker · Bernard Lee

Synopsis A millionaire businessman's brain is kept alive after a fatal accident, and communicates clues to a doctor on the trail of the killer.

4.7

31 votes

4.7

31 votes