Jesús Franco
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Biography
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 Necronomicon, his first women-in-prison film Ninety-Nine Women, and his two Christopher Lee films, The Bloody Judge and Count Dracula, he never achieved wide commercial success. Franco moved from Spain to France in 1970 so that he could make more violent and sexual films, and it was at this point that his career began to go…
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Clifford Brown · A.L. Mariaux · Jess Franco · Pablo Villa · Juan G. Cabral · Betty Carter
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Eurotrash
1993 · TV
Around the World in 80 Days
1956 · Movie
55 Days at Peking
1963 · Movie
Female Vampire
1975 · Movie
Eurotika!
1999 · TV
Marquis de Sade: Justine
1969 · Movie
Chimes at Midnight
1965 · Movie
The Girl from Rio
1969 · Movie
Count Dracula
1970 · Movie
Countess Perverse
1975 · Movie
Vampyros Lesbos
1971 · Movie
White Cannibal Queen
1980 · Movie