Jesús Franco — Playwright (37)
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Celestine (1974) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Célestine... bonne à tout faire
director: Jesús Franco actor: Lina Romay / Olivier Mathot …
other title: Infedelmente vostra Celestina tuttofare / Celestine - Mädchen für intime Stunden …
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.
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Call of the Blonde Goddess (1977) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Der Ruf der blonden Göttin
director: Jesús Franco actor: Vicky Adams / Ada Tauler …
other title: Porno Shock / Der Ruf der blonden Göttin …
Susan arrives in Haiti to live with her husband Jack, who lives with a lesbian housekeeper and Olga, a nymphomaniac platinum blonde, introduced to her as Jack's sister. Susan begins to have nightmares about voodoo ceremonies and murder.
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Bahia Blanca (1984) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Bahía blanca
director: Jesús Franco actor: Eva León / Lina Romay …
other title: Bahía blanca / 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. Crackpot Oscar speaks to Carlos of the dangerous sirens of Deer Island, evil women who attract sailors and annihilate them. When Ramiro and Carlos go to the island, they find the sisters Lila and Mary, who run a tavern / brothel near the beach. Carlos and Lila are old acquaintances and celebrate the reunion, but the murder of Pocho remains unsolved.
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Trip to Bangkok, Coffin Included (1985) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Viaje a Bangkok, ataúd incluido
director: Jesús Franco actor: Howard Vernon / Helena Garret …
other title: Viaje a Bangkok, ataúd incluido
The colonel Daniel Blimp, of the secret British service, travels to Bangkok to investigate the murder of the Brittish Ambassador happened during a holiday in his residence. Blimp receives the help of Keats, agent of the secret service. Both men discover that the man who shot against the Ambassador is blind, and it takes the black skin as a result of a strange phenomenon of mutation.
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The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff (1973) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Los ojos del doctor Orloff
director: Jesús Franco actor: William Berger / Montserrat Prous …
other title: Los ojos 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.
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Kiss Me Killer (1977) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Embrasse-moi
director: Jesús Franco actor: Alberto Dalbés / Olivier Mathot …
other title: La calda bestia / Embrasse-moi …
A deadly look into the savage world of gangsters. The aftermath of a holdup turns into a game of deceit and doublecross. A vengeful woman brings about the destruction of the entire gang of ruthless killers.
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Residence for Spies (1968) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Residencia para espías
director: Jesús Franco actor: Eddie Constantine / Diana Lorys …
other title: Residencia para espías
Ms. Pendleton is the commander-in-chief of a women's training camp for western spies, recently established in Turkey. CIA agent Leyton receives a mission, to discover and destroy an enemy group operating in the vicinities of that residence. He will manage, with the help, and sometimes extra zeal, of a team of young women recruits.
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Lonely Road (1984) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Camino Solitario
director: Jesús Franco actor: Antonio Mayans / Lina Romay …
other title: Camino Solitario
Private detective Alfredo Pereira is hired by eccentric couple Raden and Eve to find their missing sister, Adriana. Despite his limitations, Pereira soon finds the woman, but foreplay between characters complicates things.
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The Blues of Pop Street (1983) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Los blues de la calle Pop (Aventuras de Felipe Malboro, volumen 8)
director: Jesús Franco actor: Antonio Mayans / Lina Romay …
other title: Los blues de la calle Pop / Los blues de la calle Pop (Aventuras de Felipe Malboro, volumen 8) …
Mary Ocky, a beautiful girl from Mondonedo, Ohio, comes to seek the help of the famous PI Philip Marlboro in order to find her boyfriend Macho Jim who went missing three months earlier under obscure circumstances. Marlboro’s investigations take him to Shit City, a grim place devoured by sin and corruption where punk gangs have taken over.
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The Lustful Amazons (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Maciste contre la reine des Amazones
director: Jesús Franco actor: Wal Davis / Alice Arno …
other title: Karzan contro le donne dal seno nudo / Maciste contre la reine des Amazones
In medieval France, traveler Pygar tells he-man Karzan (Maciste in the French version) of his recent journey to a place called Antigua, and of its entire community of Amazons promising undreamed of sexual satisfaction to any man who comes upon them. More importantly, Pygar tells of a fortune in gold. Karzan/Maciste, is persuaded to undertake the journey in search of riches, unaware that Pygar is in collusion with the Amazon Queen to actually deliver Maciste as a slave stud to help rejuvenate the race.
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Angel of Death (1985) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Commando Mengele
director: Jesús Franco / Andrea Bianchi actor: Christopher Mitchum / Suzan Andrews …
other title: El angel de la muerte / Commando Mengele
A Jewish commando unit hunting Nazi war criminals tracks down the infamous Dr. Mengele in the jungle, and find that he is torturing nubile young virgins and performing horrible medical experiments on the locals. They prepare to battle their way past Mengele's hordes of fanatic Nazi bodyguards in order to get to him.
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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] WikiData TMDB IMDb
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.