Movies: James Franco

The official prologue to Alien: Covenant introduces the crew of the mission as they gather for a final meal before entering cryosleep. Set aboard the Covenant, a colonization ship on its way to a remote planet to form a new human settlement, the mai...

Two brothers and their best friend start a rock band and try to make it big in Los Angeles....

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....

A chronicle of lives lost in a school shooting. In the wake of another tragedy, we get a glimpse of each victim and see who they were, who they loved, who they hurt, and who they wanted to be....

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...

A documentary about the making and shooting of James Franco's ‘The Disaster Artist’ (2017)...

When Conrad returns to his hometown to identify his mother's body, he is forced to confront the painful memories of his childhood....

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

An in-depth look at the making of Alien: Covenant and broken into four parts that can be watched separately (i.e Story, Characters, Setting and Creatures). This piece features a host of cast and crew interviews interspersed with tons of BTS footage, ...

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

"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 his search to find the galleon and its treasure, his wife Tess divorces him....

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

After a chance encounter, a terminally ill ball of sunshine talks a grumpy drifter into driving him across the desert to meet a maybe-real doctor. What should be a quick trip becomes a wild, chaotic, and heartwarming ride that changes them in ways ne...

The Franco Roast Red Carpet Pre-Show is hosted by Franco's real-life grandmother, Mitzie Verne and comedian Jonah Ray. Mitzie brings the Franco family perspective to the carpet and spends time on her couch with celebrity attendees, while Jonah stumps...

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

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 works in the lumber industry, supports his family, and stalks and murders women he picks up in town. W...

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

Things take a turn for the worst when a group of bickering filmmakers join a suspicious film festival on the site of a mysterious murder....

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

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