The best Jesús Franco’s comedy movies

Jesús Franco

Jesús Franco

12/05/1930- 02/04/2013
We present our ranking of the best Jesús Franco’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Jesús Franco.

Celestine

Celestine
4.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/10/1974
  • Character: Sleeping Man
The story opens with Celestine eluding arrest with a friend as the police raid a brothel. While hiding out in the hayloft of the Count de la Braquette's estate, she meets the hayseed handyman Sébastien and the butler Malou, who reward her favors with the offer of employment. In a manner recalling Terence Stamp's effect on the household in TEOREMA, Celestine's open and relaxed attitude toward sexuality has a transformative effect on the isolated, moribund inhabitants of the mansion, imbuing them with gift of renewed life for the men and women alike, that remains even after a third act twist that forces her to betray them.

Around the World in Eighty Days

Around the World in Eighty Days
6.7/10
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.

Downtown

Downtown
4.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 28/08/1975
  • Character: Al Pereira
A private eye who's over his head in debt takes on a job snapping photos of his client's rich husband in bed with another woman. But when the husband winds up with three bullet holes that seem to have come from the private eye's own gun, he's got to prove he's not the murderer meanwhile getting tangled deeper in a web of deceit, lies, and steamy night club dancers!

Midnight Party

Midnight Party
4.4/10
Sylvia, a stripper, attends a party where the theme is a mock spy adventure. Unfortunately, she soon finds herself thrust in a real espionage adventure. There are these two playboys that invite her to their midnight orgy. Later, her communist rock star lover shows up in her dressing room and starts shouting anti-capitalist rhetoric. In the mean time, her hypochondriac husband keeps loosing money in poker games. And in between, she talks directly into the camera, trying to entertain us.

Attack of the Robots

Attack of the Robots
5.8/10
A mad scientist uses his army of mechanical monsters to control people who have Type O blood.

Strange Voyage

Strange Voyage
7.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 09/08/1964
  • Character: Venancio Vidal
Paquita and her brother Venancio, both single and childish, live in a small town near Madrid. Their bossy eldest sister Ignacia, also an old maid, dominates them. One night, Paquita hears her sister tell somebody about her intention to sell all the family wealth. Once the money is gathered, she wishes to travel to Paris with the mysterious person and get rid of her brother and sister.

Sex is Crazy

Sex is Crazy
4.2/10
Adult film actresses get abducted and impregnated by aliens after appearing in a sci-fi porno in this outrageous sex comedy from Jess Franco. Knocked up with high-powered extraterrestrial sperm that allows them to conceive and give birth in a matter of seconds, the starlets become human breeding machines for a race of ultra-horny invaders.

Al Pereira vs. the Alligator Ladies

Al Pereira vs. the Alligator Ladies
3.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 22/03/2013
  • Character: The Director
Al Pereira, the one and only original private-private detective, is fighting against all the shameless women on earth - especially the Alligator Ladies.

Robinson and His Tempestuous Slaves

Robinson and His Tempestuous Slaves
4.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/10/1972
  • Character: Director
Robinson, a down-on-his-luck pharmacist who’s pestered by his nagging wife and overbearing mother-in-law, dreams of seclusion on a remote island with the girl of his fantasies. Finally fed up, he decides to leave and make his dream a reality. But beware! there are cannibals.

Two Undercover Angels

Two Undercover Angels
4.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/03/1969
  • Character: Napoleon Bolivard
"Red Lips" are two female detectives trying to find missing models and dancers. A pop artist called Klaus Thriller and his werewolf-like assistant, Morpho, are the main suspects for the murderers.

Martes de Carnaval

Martes de Carnaval
5.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/01/2008
Mr.Manolito and Mr.Estrafalario– characters of Valle-Inclán’s plays– spend the last days of Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship chasing the plays written by their admired Valle-Inclán whose works are banned by a Government Law. One day, they find a piece of The Daughter of the Captain, a portrait of the crazy soldiers who returned home after losing the Spanish Colonies. In other occasion, they attend one of the limited performances of Valle-Inclán’s:The deceiving Mr. Friolera. They are just longing for the best premiere ever: the Second Spanish Republic, a drama on for a very short time. It was a beautiful dream thought, like the Esperpentos (strange-looking characters) of Valle-Inclán. Movie Soulmates' ratings Register so you can access movie re

Los blues de la calle Pop (Aventuras de Felipe Malboro, volumen 8)

Los blues de la calle Pop (Aventuras de Felipe Malboro, volumen 8)
6.3/10
Felipe Malboro, a private eye, is contracted by a girl to find her boyfriend who has disappeared.

Les emmerdeuses

Les emmerdeuses
5.8/10
An adventure comedy directed by Jess Franco.

Death Karate in Torremolinos

Death Karate in Torremolinos
3.5/10

Ana dice sí

Ana dice sí
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/10/1958
  • Character: Pianista (uncredited)
Juan does not have a cent but lives beautifully. His nights of revelry and cabaret are famous in the night city environments. As heir to his old and very rich uncle Don Patricio, lives subsidized by creditors on account of his future inheritance. But John keeps a terrible secret: he has long been disinherited. When a telegram arrives announcing the death of the uncle, Juan returns to the family home in the Costa Brava. There he meets Anna, a wonderful woman who is the current heir to the family fortune.

Blood on My Shoes

Blood on My Shoes
5.6/10
Agents across the globe take turns spying on and double-crossing one another in an attempt to locate a valuable formula encrypted in the music code.

Ladies House of Pleasure

Ladies House of Pleasure
4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 23/06/1976
A lovely summer day in Paris. Roger and Martine are on their way to work. "Work" is a euphemism because Martine is a prostitute in Pigalle. She is saving money to buy the house of her dreams in the country. Her husband Roger "works" for the same goal, but in a brothel for women. There, duchesses rub elbows with businesswomen, militant members of women's lib and other female pleasure-seekers.

Ellos robaron la picha de Hitler

Ellos robaron la picha de Hitler
3.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/06/2008
  • Character: Padre del Dr. Weissman
Na construção de um prédio é descoberto por acaso o bunker onde Adolf Hitler cometeu suicidio. No seu interior, juntamente com o esqueleto da sua companheira, encontrava-se dentro de um boião de formol o seu viril membro. Este peculiar achado levou a que um grupo de neo-nazis espanhóis fossem recrutados por um cientista maluco para o roubarem o dito pênis conservado, para que assim se pudesse reconstruir o clone do Führer.

El abuelo, la condesa y Escarlata la traviesa

El abuelo, la condesa y Escarlata la traviesa
7.2/10
An action movie directed by Jess Franco.

Revenge of the Alligator Ladies

Revenge of the Alligator Ladies
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/10/2013
  • Character: Himself
After the passing of director Jesús Franco the movie was finished by Antonio Mayans. It follows "Al Pereira vs. the Alligator Ladies".

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