James Franco Movies

Experimental film series featuring actors trashing a room.

On the first day of shooting, James Franco, David Shields, and Caleb Powell throw out the script when a real-life argument breaks out between the...

Culled from the real life experiences of its star/co-writer/producer Stephanie Bennett, and starring some of her real life ex-lovers, this is the...

A no-budget production, focused on the perverse candour of young sexuality, where release and sterility become tied to larger cultural constructions....

Michael Shannon stars in the role of Herbert White, a character based on the poem of the same name by Frank Bidart. The story follows Herbert as he...

Birth of a Poet is a dramatic short film that captures the moment Stephen Dobyns transitions from a disillusioned journalist to an emerging poet. It...

Stephen watches a group of boys playing basketball. The look in his eyes betrays his sexual interests. When the boys realize, he becomes a victim of...

A mysterious outsider's life turns upside down when she is blackmailed by an evil filmmaker to carry out an extraordinary act of violence. She winds...

A worker who spends his days underground indexing and destroying objects from the civilization that was.

DIY filmmakers who simultaneously commit a star-crossed armed robbery and shoot a vérité film of it

Based on the eponymous poem by Spencer Reece, The Clerk's Tale is a psychological portrait of a gay man trapped in the monotonous routine of life at...

Goat Boy is the cobbled-together remains of a student film James Franco made based on Frank Bidart's poem, “Herbert White”.

A mini-thriller comprised of TV footage of actor James Franco's guest-starring appearances on the American daytime drama, "General Hospital."

In Development. Adapted from Chuck Palahniuk's novel by James Franco.

La Passione is a decadent and beautifully shot trip that riffs on Theodor Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc, if it were shot on acid and...

Three friends struggle with the pursuit of happiness.

Three stubborn teenagers place a bet over which one of them is the meanest.

Short film by James Franco. Part of the collective film One Dream Rush.

James Franco re-enacts scenes from his filmography and reinterprets Julianne Moore's role in Todd Haynes' Safe.