James Franco Movies

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

Best friends Miguel and Bryan have their relationship tested by peer pressure when a local gang attempts to recruit Bryan in this short written by...

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...

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...

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

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....

Experimental film series featuring actors trashing a room.

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

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

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

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...

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...

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....

Two unlikely heroes become connected through their love of music, and on the day they meet, their lives are changed forever.

Lurid monologues about rape and murder.

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

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