James Franco Movies

A former mob hitman faces a dilemma when his daughter is kidnapped and his love interest targeted. He must take on a final dangerous job while...

Things take a turn for the worst when a group of bickering filmmakers join a suspicious film festival on the site of a mysterious murder.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

James Franco interviews three experts on the poet Hart Crane, whose life was the subject of his feature The Broken Tower (2011).

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

Experimental film series featuring actors trashing a room.

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...

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

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...

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

Three friends struggle with the pursuit of happiness.

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

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

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

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

The cinematic polymath artist / actor / director, James Franco, creates a lyrical short film as the very first Dazed Visionary.