Jesús Franco
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... Read full bio →
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Revenge of the Alligator Ladies
After the passing of director Jesús Franco the movie was finished by Antonio Mayans. It follows "Al Pereira vs. the Alligator Ladies".
Al Pereira vs. the Alligator Ladies
Al Pereira, the one and only original private-private detective, is fighting against all the shameless women on earth - especially the Alligator Ladies.
Ban the Sadist Videos!
An in-depth analysis of the "Video Nasty" scandal of the early 1980s in Britain.
La bahía esmeralda
A priest secretly leads rebels in their struggle against the corrupt military dictatorship of the Central American country of Puerto Santo.
Flesh Eating Mothers
A venereal disease turns an entire town of two-timing mothers into cannibals!
Bahía blanca
Pocho Martin's body is found dead on the shore of a fishing village. According to the forensic Ramiro, Pocho has been assassinated, which alerts the Commissioner Carlos. Young Silvia, Pocho's friend, receives the sad news but is more concerned about her impending wedding with Andy.
Mil sexos tiene la noche
A telepathic nightclub act becomes the backdrop for murder.
El siniestro doctor Orloff
The son of the infamous Dr. Orloff clashes with his father when he begins to stalk and dismember prostitutes to get parts to reanimate his dead mother.
Macumba sexual
Princess Obongo, the Goddess of Unspeakable Lust, uses dark powers to ensnare a hapless couple of yuppies, so that she can imbue them with evil and conquer the world.
La noche de los sexos abiertos
Moira, a beautiful cabaret dancer, is hired to impersonate another woman — who turns out to be a secret agent who must receive an important message that contains the hidden whereabouts of a very important character from World War II who once absconded with a vast fortune in gold.
Botas negras, látigo de cuero
Al Pereira is hired by Lina, the wife of a wealthy man, to recover some compromising photos. She has sex with him by way of a retainer. In the course of his investigation, Al is obliged to commit a couple of murders... and he's left holding the bag when Lina turns out not to be what she seems to be.
Sadomania - Hölle der Lust
A newly-wed couple in love finds a seemingly desolate place to park the car and make love. Soon, they will face the fearsome warden Magda Urtado's cruel reality.
Les gardiennes du pénitencier
After the fall of the Third Reich, all Nazi SS officers ran away in Latin American countries. They created special laboratories to create beautiful women for satisfaction of their sexual desires. The main warden is a cruel woman.
El sexo está loco
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.
Vaya luna de miel
The exotic honeymoon of a dysfunctional newlywed couple, when it coincides with a treasure hunt, in a unique adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Gold-Bug.
Mondo cannibale
A man on safari in the jungle with his wife and daughter when the wife gets eaten and daughter captured by cannibals. Several years later he goes back to see if her daughter is still alive.
El sádico de Notre-Dame
Jesus Franco directs and stars in this cut-copy-and-paste-version of one of his own movies. Here, he plays a mad priest going around killing sinful people in the name of God, all while trying to get a book published.
Greta - Haus ohne Männer
A young woman feigns illness in order to infiltrate a mental hospital, where she investigates the disappearance of her sister, a former patient. Meanwhile, the hospital warden and her attendants abuse and torture their charges, forcing them to star in cheap skinflicks.
Shining Sex
Cynthia, an exotic dancer in a upscale resort in Southern France, is seduced by a strange couple, Alpha, a being from another dimension and her human slave, Andros. Alpha places highly toxic matter (which also has hypnotic powers) into Cynthia's sex during love-making.
Frauengefängnis
Women's prison tale, with Lina Romay as Maria who is jailed after killing her father, played by director Jess Franco, who tries to rape her. Lesbian wardens, torture, nudity, sex, insanity and conspiracy round out the formula.
Die Sklavinnen
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.
Sexorcismes
The hardcore XXX version of L'éventreur de Notre-Dame (1975) and The Sadist of Notre Dame (1979).
Les nuits brûlantes de Linda
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.
L'éventreur de Notre-Dame
A disturbed priest, who witness an occult ritual, thinks the people are possessed and start a private inquisition to exorcise the demons by torturing them to death.
Des diamants pour l'enfer
A small-time hood brings the attention of the law with an insurance scam and diamond theft, but things become even more interesting when his moll murders him and is slammed behind bars where she faces all manner of electric shock treatments to various parts of her anatomy
Les possédées du diable
Twenty years after seducing a businessman, a demonic temptress lays claim to the man's daughter.
La noche de los asesinos
After Lord Archibald Marion is brutally murdered by an unknown assailant, his bitter and feuding family members gather for a reading of the will, setting into motion an increasingly chilling series of deaths when their arrival is marked by a second grisly killing.
Célestine... bonne à tout faire
The police raid a brothel and a prostitute (Lina Romay) escapes into the countryside. The woman, Celestine, ends up at a rich folks house where she ends up sleeping with two of the servants who then get her a job as a maid.
Los ojos siniestros del doctor Orloff
Amid the craggy, dusty hills of southern France, a woman screams in the night. Gorgeous Melissa Comfort, a wealthy heiress confined to a wheelchair since birth, cries out in her nightmares, terrified of a dream that comes night after night. In this night terror, she's 10-years-old. Running from a man who may or may not be her father.
Le journal intime d'une nymphomane
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...
La maldición de Frankenstein
Dr. Frankenstein is left for dead in the woods. His daughter, Dr. Vera Frankenstein, hunts for his attacker: Dr. Cagliostro, a mad scientist who’s created a race of human-animal hybrids.
Eugénie
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.
Christina, princesse de l'érotisme
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.
Al otro lado del espejo
A nightclub singer is haunted by the ghost of her late father. The dead man summons her through a mirror, forcing her to commit a series of violent crimes.
La fille de Dracula
A young woman visits her gravely ill grandmother at the family estate. On her death bed, the old woman reveals to her granddaughter the family curse: they're all vampires. The young woman decides to move into the estate with her uncle and her cousin, and soon finds herself falling victim to the curse.
Der Todesrächer von Soho
A London slasher pack the suitcases of his victims before stabbing them to death in this adaptation of Edgar Wallace's 'Secret of the Black Suitcases.'
Vampiros lesbos
An erotic horror tale about a vixen vampiress seducing and killing women to appease her insatiable thirst for female blood.
Sie tötete in Ekstase
A vengeful widow seduces and murders the men and women responsible for her husband’s suicide.
Der Teufel kam aus Akasava
A mineral is discovered which can turn metal to gold or humans into zombies. When the mineral is stolen, secret agents are sent in to get the mineral back!
Cuadecuc, vampir
An atmospheric essay, which is an alternative version of Count Dracula, a film directed by Jess Franco in 1970; a ghostly narration between fiction and reality.
Nachts, wenn Dracula erwacht
Count Dracula, a vampire who regains his youth by drinking the blood of maidens, is pursued in London and Transylvania by Professor Van Helsing, Jonathan Harker and Quincey Morris.
De Sade 70
An innocent girl spends a weekend on the private island of a libertine woman and her stepbrother, where she soon finds herself entangled in a web of sadistic sexual experiments.
The Castle of Fu Manchu
The evil mastermind Fu Manchu plots his latest scheme to basically freeze over the Earth's oceans with his diabolical new device. Opposing him is his arch-nemesis, Interpol's very British Nayland Smith.
Rote Lippen, Sadisterotica
"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.
Paroxismus
A couple who get involved in an underground scene of kinky sex and sadism have a surprise coming to them...
Küss mich, Monster
It was shot at the same time as Rote Lippen Sadisterotica (1969), and once again features Yanni and Reynaud as statuesque “Red Lips” girls, a detective duo with undefined links to Interpol. It’s a phantasmagoric mixture of ultracamp and virtually incomprehensible hi-jinks.
Die sieben Männer der Sumuru
Sumuru, the beautiful leader of the all-female kingdom of Femina, plans to use her women to take over the world.
Der heiße Tod
Female prisoners endure the horrors of drug abuse, prostitution and rampant sadism at an island prison. When an escape attempt goes awry, the fugitives discover that escaping can be as dangerous as remaining in the prison.
Necronomicon - Geträumte Sünden
Lorna Green is a performer at a Lisbon nightclub who performs fictionalized acts that involve erotically charged sadomasochistic murders. As she begins to suffer violent, surreal nightmares, she starts to believe that she may be under mind control by a man who may be Satan incarnate.
Lucky, el intrépido
An American secret agent is sent to Europe to track down a ring of counterfeiters. His investigation takes him from Rome to Albania, where he gets involved with a sexy Albanian police commissioner.
Miss Muerte
Woman seeks to avenge her father's death by using a local dancer, with long poisonous fingernails, to do her bidding.
Cartes sur table
A mad scientist uses his army of mechanical monsters to control people who have Type O blood.
La muerte silba un blues
Vogel, an important trafficker, betrayed two of his accomplices, Castro and Smith. The first was shot by police, while the latter was imprisoned. Fifteen years later, Vogel adopted a new identity and moved to Jamaica with his wife, Linda. Smith comes back for revenge but Vogel sends his henchmen to kill him.
El secreto del Dr. Orloff
A mad scientist creates a hideous monster to carry out his murderous plans.
El extraño viaje
In a small town near Madrid, Paquita and her brother Venancio, both single and with a childish personality, live under the shadow of their bossy older sister, Ignacia, a grumpy old maid.
Gritos en la noche
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.
Around the World in 80 Days
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.