James Franco Movies

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...

"Finn" Finnegan is a treasure hunter searching for a sunken Spanish galleon, the Aurelia, that was lost at sea with the 1715 Treasure Fleet. During...

The Caged Pillows is a story about the way we’ve come to communicate, removing ourselves from human touch, alone but together

On a remote Italian island in the early 1960s, a teenage boy haunted by memories of the war falls in love with an older girl who holds a dark secret....

Three friends struggle with the pursuit of happiness.

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....

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

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

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

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

Short film for the exhibition Rebel curated by James Franco. 'Caput' premiered as part of the Rebel installation at the Venice Biennale that featured...

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

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...

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

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...

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