James Franco Movies

Haunted by the disappearance of his sister and plagued by his parent's expectations, young artist Ovid uses mythology and drawings to understand the...

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...

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

A short comedic film.

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

Haunted by his past and clawing his way through sobriety, Donald 'Don' Foster just wants some peace. When a troubled addict leaves her young son on...

Killing Animals is a portrait of a lost generation of California youths. The lives of troubled teenage misfits intertwine as they experiment with...

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 shy tattoo artist must infiltrate a notorious gang of surf witches to discover what happened to her missing brother.

Billy Hobbs is a social outcast with dreams of becoming the next great movie director. When Billy gets hired as a night watchman at a film studio,...

It's the fall of 1985. The intertwining tales of three 5th grade friends, Chris, Joe and Ted, unfold in the suburban paradise of Palo Alto, as the...

Tom (Tennessee) Williams, an aspiring writer in his 20s, lives with and negligent father. Tom attempts to maintain peace in the family while also...

James Franco's Sal chronicles the final hours of the life of actor Sal Mineo, one-time teen idol and star of the blockbuster films Rebel Without a...

Follows the Golden State Killer, a serial rapist and murderer who terrorized California during the 1970s and '80s.

A documentary following a year in the life of Jesse Heiman, Hollywood's most recognizable background actor - as he tries to parlay overnight...

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....

"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...

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