James Franco

Season 3 brings us into the world of 1985, just as VHS overtakes film as the primary medium for porn production and distribution. With the party of the 1970s winding down, 42nd Street has deteriorated into a hive of uncontrolled violent crime and seedy video stores, making urban renewal seem more unlikely than ever before.

An ex-convict (Jack Reynor, Glassland) and his brother are forced on the run by a vengeful criminal (James Franco) in this sci-fi actioner.

Tim Blake Nelson, Liam Neeson, James Franco and Tom Waits feature in this six-chapter Western anthology film from the Coen Brothers.

James Franco directs and gives a Golden Globe-winning performance in this comedic account of the making of cult film phenomenon The Room.

Two sisters rob a bank in order to free their brother (James Franco) of his debt in this heist movie with a supernatural twist.

Directer Ridley Scott follows up 2012's sci-fi thriller Prometheus. Stars Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston and Danny McBride.

A former war journalist (Dominic Rains) now living in California becomes embroiled in a series of grisly murders in this thriller co-starring Melissa Leo and James Franco.

A loving father (Bryan Cranston) cannot allow a happy-go-douchie millenial millionare (James Franco) to marry his daughter in this comedy. From the director of I Love You, Man.

Animated comedy from the writers of Superbad, Pineapple Express and This Is the End, following a gang of supermarket foods who discover the horrible truth about their existence.

Werner Herzog directs Nicole Kidman as British explorer and archaeologist Gertrude Bell in this sweeping historial drama. Co-stars James Franco and Robert Pattinson.

Seth Rogen, Anthony Mackie and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are three not-so-wise men in this R-rated Christmas comedy. These lifelong best friends hit their annual Eve tradition – potentially for the last time. From the director of The Wackness.

Jonah Hill is disgraced reporter Michael Finkel and James Franco is killer Christian Longo in this drama, based on Finkel's memoir about his bizarre encounter with the murderer in 2006. Co-stars Felicity Jones.

Idiosyncratic drama starring Catherine Keener and James Franco. A successful actor, who has retired at a young age due to a perceived mental illness, moves to the small seaside town of his equally deranged sister. 

James Franco and Seth Rogen's onscreen partnership continues, here playing a talk show host and producer who land an interview with Korean dictator Kim Jong-un - but are asked to assassinate him instead. Hits screens two months later than planned after Sony's hacking.

The feature debut from writer-director Gia Coppola (the granddaughter of Francis Ford and niece of Sofia Coppola), based on the book of short stories written by James Franco...

Reaffirming his love of multi-stranded narrative, Oscar-winning writer-director Paul Haggis (Crash) examines three interconnected love stories that take place in Paris, New York and Rome. The character studies are inhabited by an A-list ensemble including Liam Neeson, Mila Kunis, James Franco, Adrien Brody and Olivia Wilde.

Hardman Jason Statham takes on meth-head hick James Franco in this action thriller, written by Sylvester Stallone. Ex-DEA agent Phil Broker (Statham) relocates to a small American town for the sake of his 10-year-old daughter, but when a playground incident attracts the attention of crime-involved parents (Franco and Kate Bosworth), a violent conflict commences.

James Franco and Kate Hudson star in this London thriller as a cash-strapped couple who discover stacks of money in their dead tenant's apartment. Taking it for themselves, they soon become the target of a deadly adversary...

James Franco writes, directs and stars in this adaptation of William Faulkner’s classic 1930 novel about the death of a mother, and her family’s quest to honour her wish to be buried in the town of Jefferson. Franco plays the lead son Darl, co-starring with Logan Marshall-Green (Prometheus), Tim Blake Nelson (Lincoln) and Danny McBride (Pineapple Express).

Apocalyptic comedy following the fate of Seth Rogen, Michael Cera, Jonah Hill, Danny McBride, James Franco, Craig Robinson and other celebs (playing unflattering versions of themselves) as the end of days strikes in the heart of Hollywood.

Described by the Hollywood Reporter as "porn-pulp" and nominated for top honours at the Venice Film Festival, Spring Breakers follows four college girls on a decadent spree of partying and crime as they head off on Spring Break. Starring James Franco and former Disney starlets Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez.

Michael Shannon stars in this crime thriller biopic of Richard Kuklinski, a devoted suburban family man and ruthless Mafia contract killer said to have claimed the lives of over 250 men between 1948 and 1986. 

Sam Raimi (Spider-Man) imagines the origins of the Wizard of Oz in this prequel to the 1939 cinema classic. Stars Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz, Michelle Williams, and James Franco as the morally dubious young magician destined to become Oz. 

Psychological thriller in which a mentally unstable playwright (Winona Ryder) questions her grip on reality when she appears to be the focus of a devious manipulator (James Franco).