The best Jesús Franco’s 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.
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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.

99 Women

99 Women
4.7/10
Jesus Franco's campy women's prison film is worthwhile for genre devotees primarily due to an outstanding cast. Mercedes McCambridge is unintentionally hilarious as sadistic lesbian warden Thelma Diaz, spitting tacky dialogue with exuberant venom in a performance so overbearing that it verges on classic. The plot is standard for the genre, as three women (Maria Rohm, Elisa Montes, Luciana Paluzzi) are sentenced to an island prison off the Panamanian coast, only to encounter torture, rape, and lesbianism. When sympathetic Warden Caroll (Maria Schell) replaces Diaz, the prisoners assume that conditions will improve, but their agony only worsens until they decide to escape. Rosalba Neri co-stars, and Herbert Lom runs the corrupt men's prison nearby. 99 Mujeres was heavily censored in various prints, with versions running anywhere between 70 and 108 minutes. Edits running 84, 86, and 94 minutes are most commonly available.

Count Dracula

Count Dracula
5.6/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 03/04/1970
  • Character: Van Helsing's servant (uncredited)
Jess Franco's version of the Bram Stoker classic has Count Dracula as an old man who grows younger whenever he dines on the blood of young maidens.

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.

Greta, the Mad Butcher

Greta, the Mad Butcher
4.5/10
  • Genre: DramaHorror
  • Release: 21/01/1977
  • Character: Dr. Milton Arcos (as Jess Franco)
Greta a vicious warden, runs a mental-hospital for young women. A girl deliberately "checks" in to the hospital to find out what has happened to her sister who stayed there. Meanwhile Greta and one of the guards are forcing the inmates to have sex with male prisoners, filming them and selling the recordings as pornoflicks.

Vampyros Lesbos

Vampyros Lesbos
5.4/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 15/07/1971
  • Character: Memmet
An erotic horror tale about a vixen vampiress seducing and killing women to appease her insatiable thirst for female blood.

Sadomania

Sadomania
4.7/10
Soon after newlyweds Olga and Michel set foot on the grounds of a notorious women's prison, they're arrested by topless guards and ushered behind bars where the warden quickly dismisses Michel but demands that Olga do a little time.

Barbed Wire Dolls

Barbed Wire Dolls
4.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaHorror
  • Release: 22/04/1976
  • Character: Maria's Father (uncredited)
After killing her father who had attempted to rape her, Maria da Guerra is sentenced to prison for life. The wardress is a sadistic lesbian without mercy or humanity. Upon her arrival Maria is taken to a special section for mentally disturbed prisoners where torture and rape are part of the day-to-day reality. One day the Regional Governor arrives, claiming to have received a letter from one of the prisoners describing incredible events in the prison. The writer of the letter was clearly unaware that the Governor is also part of the conspiracy. Carlos Costa, a male nurse pretending to be the prison doctor Moore, falls in love with Maria. After seducing him, Maria kills him with a pair of scissors and escapes with her friends Bertha and the disturbed Rosario, hoping to find safety in the Governor's house, unaware that he will not help them...

A Virgin Among the Living Dead

A Virgin Among the Living Dead
4.9/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 15/11/1973
  • Character: Basilio (as Jesus Manera)
A girl arrives from London to visit her estranged relatives in a remote castle for the reading of her father's will. After a while she discovers that they are all in fact dead and her decision to live with them turns into a nightmare. Unable to leave she's drawn into a macabre underworld through visions of nude satanic rituals and her own impending sacrifice.

Female Vampire

Female Vampire
4.7/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 07/04/1973
  • Character: Dr. Roberts
Countess Irina of Karlstein resides quietly in a hotel on the island of Madeira, where she sustains her immortality by feeding on the life essence of men and women. When new victims are found fatally drained of potency, forensic scientist Dr. Roberts consults his colleague, Dr. Orloff, who confirms that a vampire is responsible. Meanwhile, Irina is confronted by a poet who believes he is destined to become her lover and join her among the immortals!

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.

Slaves

Slaves
4.4/10
A brothel owner is questioned in the disappearance of the daughter of a wealthy man after she is still not returned, or told of her possible whereabouts, after the $5,000,000 ransom was paid.

The Girl from Rio

The Girl from Rio
4.2/10
Sumuru, the beautiful leader of the all-female kingdom of Femina, plans to use her women to take over the world.

The Hot Nights of Linda

The Hot Nights of Linda
5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/07/1975
  • Character: Dr. Roberts (as Jess Franck)
A young woman is hired to care for an elderly man who lives on an island off the Greek coast. When she arrives there the man warns her that his daughters are evil and dangerous. The woman discovers that one of the daughters is a crazed nymphomaniac who pursues, and seduces, everyone in the house, including her crippled sister.

Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac

Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac
5.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/06/1973
  • Character: Inspecteur Hernandez
Linda comes to the big city in search of fun and excitement. What she finds is exploitation and abuse at the hands of a succession of sleazy guys. Searching for love, she enters into a lesbian relationship with a beautiful countess, discovers drugs and swingers' parties and starts acting in porno movies. She also begins to write a secret diary... With a cast of some of the most stunning Euro actresses of the period, wall-to-wall sex and nudity, pot parties, porno shoots and a psychedelic soundtrack, this is a gem of 1970s exploitation cinema from Jess Franco. Street scenes shot in Benidorm (Alicante, Spain) and Las Palmas (Gran Canaria, Spain).

Eugenie

Eugenie
5.2/10
  • Genre: DramaHorror
  • Release: 20/02/1970
  • Character: Man in Red Ritual Scene (uncredited)
Eugenie, an innocent young woman, is taken to an island paradise where she initiated into a world of pleasure and pain controlled by the sinister Dolmance. But when she surrenders to her own forbidden fantasies, Eugenie becomes trapped in a frenzy of drugs, sadomasochism and murder. Can a frightened girl in the grip of carnal perversion find sanctuary in the orgies of the depraved?

Bloody Moon

Bloody Moon
5.2/10
Miguel, a horribly disfigured young man, goes on a rampage at a masquerade party and rapes and then mutilates a girl. Institutionalized at a mental asylum, he is released five years later, into the care of his sister, Manuela who, along with their wheelchair bound mother operates a boarding school for young women. Miguel becomes obsessed with one of the girls at the school, and wants to resume his incestuous relationship with his sister.

Eugenie de Sade

Eugenie de Sade
5.6/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 05/04/1973
  • Character: Attila Tanner
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 herself sexually attracted to her stepfather. He notices this, and eventually brings her into his dark world of sexual perversion and murder.

Succubus

Succubus
5.3/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 19/04/1968
  • Character: Writer
Janine Reynaud stars as a nightclub stripper who free-floats through a spectral 60's landscape littered with dream-figures, dancing midgets and bizarre S&M games.

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.

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