Movies: James Franco

A young writer, nearing a mental breakdown caused by his family and boss, moves into an apartment occupied by a walking, talking, foul-mouthed ape in a Hawaiian shirt and Converse High Tops....

Short film for the exhibition Rebel curated by James Franco. 'Caput' premiered as part of the Rebel installation at the Venice Biennale that featured three short films directed by Korine, Franco and Douglas Gordon....

The movie, written and directed by Jordan Gertner, is about rapist and serial killer James DeAngelo, known as the Golden State Killer. Filming for the movie took place in December 2023....

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

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

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

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 their homophobia. Or does it only seem so?...

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

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 story of Samantha (Bennett), a twenty-something Los Angeles schoolteacher, searching for excitement and ...

Jeffrey is a short film that is based on Jeffrey Dahmer, a serial killer who murdered more than twenty young boys in the late 80's and early 90's. But this film explores a different side of the murderer. We get a glimpse into Jeffrey's lonely, mundan...

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 high-end menswear store....

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

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

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 three of them about what can and can't be used in the film. Shields and Franco browbeat Powell to sacrif...

A no-budget production, focused on the perverse candour of young sexuality, where release and sterility become tied to larger cultural constructions. Inspired to the underground movement of the Sixties, the film is made of lurid and improper monologu...

Experimental film series featuring actors trashing a room....

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

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 starred the ATL Twins as demons....