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
Cecilia
1983 · Movie
Marquis de Sade: Justine
1969 · Movie
55 Days at Peking
1963 · Movie
Call Him Jess
2000 · Movie
Sadomania
1981 · Movie
Call of the Blonde Goddess
1977 · Movie
White Cannibal Queen
1980 · Movie
Women in Cellblock 9
1978 · Movie
Eugenie de Sade
1973 · Movie
Eugenie
1970 · Movie