Direction: Jesús Franco

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


The Diabolical Dr. Z

1966 · Movie · 86 min. · Spain

Direction Jesús Franco

Cast Antonio Jiménez Escribano · Guy Mairesse · Howard Vernon · Fernando Montes

Synopsis A scientist claims that he’s discovered a way to turn criminals into docile individuals by operating on their nervous system. Subjected to the community’s mocking, the doctor will die as the laughing stock of his colleagues. His daughter will avenge...

6.1

299 votes

6.1

299 votes

Screams in the Night

1962 · Movie · 90 min. · Spain

Direction Jesús Franco

Cast Howard Vernon · Conrado San Martín · Diana Lorys · Perla Cristal

Synopsis Dr. Orlof, a former prison doctor, abducts beautiful women from nightclubs and tries to use their skin to repair his daughter's fire-scarred face. He is assisted by Morpho, a deformed monstrosity who delights in biting his victims. Orlof had better...

6.1

663 votes

6.1

663 votes

6.0

279 votes

The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus

1962 · Movie · 95 min. · Spain

Direction Jesús Franco

Cast Howard Vernon · Hugo Blanco · Gogó Rojo · Fernando Delgado

Synopsis In the village of Holfen, a number of young women are found stabbed to death by what is determined to be an ancient dagger with a curved and rusty blade. The superstitious locals believe the murders to be the fulfillment...

6.0

93 votes

6.0

93 votes

5.6

112 votes

5.6

56 votes

Labios Rojos

1960 · Movie · 97 min. · Spain

Direction Jesús Franco

Cast Isana Medel · Javier Armet · Lina Canalejas · José Canalejas

Synopsis Two girl detectives known as "Labios Rojos" ("Red Lips") outwit both criminals and a bumbling police inspector.

5.6

39 votes

5.6

39 votes

Paroxismus

1969 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jesús Franco

Cast James Darren · Barbara McNair · Maria Rohm · Klaus Kinski

Synopsis In Istanbul, a jazz trumpeter pulls the murdered body of a young woman from the surf. He remembers her from the night before, when he saw her at a millionaire playboy's party and then later watched as she was assaulted...

5.6

115 votes

5.6

115 votes

Don Quixote

1992 · Movie · 111 min. · Spain

Direction Orson Welles · Jesús Franco

Cast Francisco Reiguera · Akim Tamiroff · Orson Welles · Paola Mori

Synopsis Beginning in 1957 and continuing on-and-off for the next 15 years, Welles self-financed and directed an audacious film version of Cervantes' Don Quixote that brought the legendary knight and his rotund aide Sancho Panza out of 16th century Andalusia and...

5.5

1K votes

5.5

1K votes

Los blues de la calle Pop

1983 · Movie · 90 min. · Spain

Direction Jesús Franco

Cast Antonio Mayans · Lina Romay · Agustín García · Jesús Franco

Synopsis Felipe Malboro, a private eye, is contracted by a girl to find her boyfriend who has disappeared.

5.5

35 votes

5.5

35 votes

Jack the Ripper

1976 · Movie · 92 min. · Switzerland

Direction Jesús Franco

Cast Klaus Kinski · Josephine Chaplin · Andreas Mannkopff · Herbert Fux

Synopsis A respected doctor by day, Dennis Orloff (Klaus Kinski) dismembers London prostitutes by night, until the local Inspector's girlfriend (Josephine Chaplin) goes undercover to catch him.

5.5

84 votes

5.5

84 votes

Lovers of Devil's Island

1974 · Movie · 97 min. · France

Direction Jesús Franco

Cast Andrés Resino · Geneviève Robert · Dennis Price · Rosa Palomar

Synopsis A lawyer finds out that a young couple convicted of murder was in fact framed for the crime and goes to the prison with the hope of freeing them and learns the events that happened to the two from a...

5.3

35 votes

5.3

35 votes

Faceless

1988 · Movie · 98 min. · France

Direction Jesús Franco

Cast Helmut Berger · Brigitte Lahaie · Telly Savalas · Christopher Mitchum

Synopsis A model named Barbara Hallen has disappeared and her father gets private detective Sam Morgan to go to Paris to find his daughter. Barbara's trail leads Morgan to a plastic surgery clinic owned by Dr. Flamand. Morgan's investigation reveals the...

5.3

171 votes

5.3

171 votes

Attack of the Robots

1966 · Movie · 92 min. · France

Direction Jesús Franco

Cast Eddie Constantine · Françoise Brion · Fernando Rey · Sophie Hardy

Synopsis A mad scientist uses his army of mechanical monsters to control people who have Type O blood.

5.3

42 votes

5.3

42 votes

We Are 18 Years Old

1959 · Movie · 78 min. · Spain

Direction Jesús Franco

Cast Isana Medel · Terele Pávez · Antonio Ozores · Luis Peña

Synopsis Comedy about the surreal holiday of two teenage Spanish girls, where they meet a bizarre assortment of villains and new friends.

5.2

251 votes

5.2

251 votes

Queen of the Tabarin Club

1960 · Movie · 97 min. · Spain

Direction Jesús Franco

Cast Mikaela · Yves Massard · Dora Doll · Danielle Godet

Synopsis In the year 1913 a family of ambulant musicians is going to the house of a rich marquise. The daughter of the musician, Lolita, jumps the wall of the house and runs up with the son of the wealthy lady,...

5.1

55 votes

5.1

55 votes

Direction Jesús Franco

Cast Soledad Miranda · Fred Williams · Paul Muller · Howard Vernon

Synopsis A young doctor kills himself after a medical committee terminates his research into human embryos, considering it too inhumane. His wife then seeks revenge on those who drove her husband to his death by luring each member of the committee...

5.0

65 votes

5.0

65 votes

Eugénie

1973 · Movie · 86 min. · Liechtenstein

Direction Jesús Franco

Cast Soledad Miranda · Paul Muller · André Montchal · Greta Schmidt

Synopsis Eugenie, a beautiful but shy young girl, lives with her stepfather, a famous writer specializing in stories of erotica. One day she happens to read one of his "erotic" books and its power so affects her that begins to find...

4.9

75 votes

4.9

75 votes

The Perverse Countess

1974 · Movie · 87 min. · France

Direction Jesús Franco

Cast Alice Arno · Howard Vernon · Kali Hansa · Lina Romay

Synopsis Two wealthy aristocrats lure a virginal girl to a Spanish island for a night of sex, death and cannibalism.

4.9

22 votes

4.9

22 votes

Direction Jesús Franco

Cast Fred Williams · Soledad Miranda · Horst Tappert · Ewa Strömberg

Synopsis In Akasawa's African city there has revealed itself a strange substance that blinds the persons. Several persons, representing different international interests, fight for be doing by the product and an agent of the British Service comes to solve the case,...

4.8

51 votes

4.8

51 votes