James Franco Movies

Fighting to escape the demons of his past, a young man involves his best friend in a struggle for survival.

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...

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....

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

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

The tragic story of two people fighting to break down the walls which stand in the way of communicating...

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.

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

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

When Charlie and his family move to a warmer climate for the sake of his father's illness, he finds himself teetering between battles of the thought...

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

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...