Jesús Franco — Playwright (23)
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The Vengeance of Dr. Mabuse (1972) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Dr. M schlägt zu
director: Jesús Franco actor: Fred Williams / Jack Taylor …
other title: Dr. M schlägt zu / La venganza del Doctor Mabuse …
Dr. Mabuse and his accomplices steal all kinds of attributes from a National Research Institute (including female staff members) in order to complete his own evil mind-control ray. Dr. Mabuse has this impressive and horribly scarred man-monster that kills for him while the entire police force desperately tries to catch him.
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Revenge in the House of Usher (1983) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
El hundimiento
director: Jesús Franco actor: Howard Vernon / Daniel White …
other title: Die Rache des Hauses Usher / La chute de la maison Usher …
Upon arriving at the dilapidated estate of his mentor, Dr. Harker finds his former professor, Dr. Usher, radically changed. Instead of the reasoned scholar he once knew, a paranoid man is in his place and he's spiraling into madness.
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Castle of the Creeping Flesh (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Im Schloß der blutigen Begierde
director: Adrian Hoven actor: Janine Reynaud / Howard Vernon …
other title: Im Schloß der blutigen Begierde / Le Château des passions sanglantes
In an ancient castle, a mad scientist is trying to revive his dead daughter by an operation, but there are certain body parts he needs that he can't get. His problem is solved when a group of drunken party-goers stumble into his castle.
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Alone Against Terror (1986) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Sola ante el terror
director: Jesús Franco actor: Lina Romay / Mabel Escaño …
other title: Sola ante el terror
Melissa is a paralysed woman who is being taken care of by her two sisters. Their father was mysteriously killed when she was still a child. Somehow Melissa got it in her head, that her father is still able to speak to her, and wants her to punish those responsible for his death.
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99 Women (1969) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Der heiße Tod
director: Jesús Franco actor: Maria Schell / Herbert Lom …
other title: 99 donne / 99 kvinder …
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.
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The Hot Nights of Linda (1975) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Les nuits brûlantes de Linda
director: Jesús Franco actor: Alice Arno / Paul Müller …
other title: La felicità nel peccato / 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.
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Judoka Shadow versus Doctor Wong (1985) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
La Sombra del Judoka contra el Doctor Wong
director: Jesús Franco actor: Jose Llamas / Lina Romay …
other title: La Sombra del Judoka contra el Doctor Wong
Dr. Wong (Jess Franco) sends his gangsters to eliminate Mr. Jung. The "shadow of the judoka" of Bruce Lyn (Jose Llamas) appears projected in the wall and swears for revenge. In the meantime, Lina Romay and Albino Graziani, two british secret service agents, investigate Jung's murder. Wongs wants to get rid of Macedo, a phillippinean gangster in bad business, and dominate the market.
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Lust for Frankenstein (1998) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Lust for Frankenstein
director: Jesús Franco actor: Michelle Bauer / Lina Romay …
other title: Lust für Frankenstein / Lady Frankenstein
Moira Frankenstein, the grand-daughter of noted mad scientist Dr. Frankenstein, has become obsessed with the work of her ancestor and she decides to pick up the family business where he left off.
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Esmeralda Bay (1989) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
La bahía esmeralda
director: Jesús Franco actor: Robert Forster / George Kennedy …
other title: Esmeralda Bay - Countdown zur Hölle / La bahía esmeralda
A priest secretly leads rebels in their struggle against the corrupt military dictatorship of the Central American country of Puerto Santo.
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Night of the Eagles (1989) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
La chute des aigles
director: Jesús Franco actor: Christopher Lee / Mark Hamill …
other title: La chute des aigles / Una canción para Berlín …
In World War II Germany, two young men, one, an ardent Nazi, and the other, a secret anti-Nazi, are in love with the same woman, the daughter of a wealthy banker. The two join the Army, and the young woman becomes a nightclub singer. Eventually she joins the Army too, to entertain the troops, but circumstances soon result in her entire world being changed.
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Two Female Spies with Flowered Panties (1980) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Ópalo de fuego (Mercaderes del sexo)
director: Jesús Franco actor: Lina Romay / Nadine Pascal …
other title: Deux espionnes avec un petit slip à fleurs / Ópalo de fuego (Mercaderes del sexo) …
Two pretty chorus girls, Cecile and Brigitte, who have been sentenced to prison terms, agree to undertake risky undercover work for Senator Conolly in exchange for their freedom. Investigating the disappearance of well-known personalities, as well as young women, Conolly wants the dancers to get hired by a Canary Islands nightclub to keep tabs on the owners, Mr. and Mrs. Forbes...
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Kiss Me Monster (1969) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Küß mich, Monster
director: Jesús Franco actor: Janine Reynaud / Rosanna Yanni …
other title: Küss mich, Monster / Bésame monstruo …
On an island somewhere in the Caribbean a professor is experimenting with mankind. Meanwhile, The Red Lips are moonlighting on a striptease world tour, but as soon as they hit the stage, the girls are up to their pasties in stiffs, Satanists and Sapphic sadists, all after the professor's secret formula for human clones!
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Barbed Wire Dolls (1976) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Frauengefängnis
director: Jesús Franco actor: Lina Romay / Paul Müller …
other title: Penitenziario femminile per reati sessuali / Femmes en cage …
Maria, an unfortunate young woman, kills her rapist father in self-defense, and is later tried, sentenced, and shipped off to a woman's penitentiary where she and her fellow inmates are subjected to psychological and sexual abuse at the hands of a psychotic lesbian warden.
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Sadomania (1981) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Sadomania - Hölle der Lust
director: Jesús Franco actor: Ajita Wilson / Andrea Guzon …
other title: Sadomania - Hölle der Lust / Sadomanía (El infierno de la pasión) …
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.
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Daughter of Dracula (1972) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
La Fille de Dracula
director: Jesús Franco actor: Carmen Yazalde / Anne Libert …
other title: La figlia di Dracula / Eine Jungfrau in den Krallen von Vampiren …
Luisa is called to the bed of her dying mother Edith at Karlstein Castle. Before she dies, she tells Luisa that the Karlsteins are a family of vampires and that her ancestor, the original Count Karlstein, lies buried in the crypt. Afterwards, Luisa goes and finds the count's coffin and discovers that he is undead. As she takes Karine, her cousin as her lover, a police inspector, Ptuschko investigates a series of killings around the town, dismissing the locals who insist these are being caused by vampires.
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Cannibal Terror (1980) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Terreur cannibale
director: Alain Deruelle actor: Antonio Mayans / Silvia Solar …
other title: Terreur cannibale / Terror caníbal
After botching a kidnapping, two criminals hide with their victim in a friends house in the jungle. After one of them rapes the friend's wife, they're left to be eaten by a nearby cannibal tribe.