For fans of Jesús Franco: what to watch, read & play next

A wife plots her husband's murder after he takes up with another man — dark domestic betrayal with sexual menace.

A criminal takes aristocratic chambermaids hostage; by nightfall, he realises the women are the real danger.

A woman chains her sister's abuser in her basement and forces him to watch — revenge as prolonged psychological cruelty.

A baron and a young woman separately scheme to ruin their enemies using sex as the weapon.

A prisoner forced to assist a camp doctor witnesses medical horror and exploitation in wartime captivity.

A caretaker hired on a Greek island is warned the old man's daughters are evil and dangerous.

A nineteen-year-old abandons her suburban life, blinded by adoration for a charismatic stranger.

A thief caught breaking into a dominatrix's home falls into an impulsive romance despite the obvious power imbalance.

Paris 1871: women trapped in a luxury brothel navigate survival, agency, and the limits of both.

The rise of the porn industry in 1970s Times Square, traced from street level with unflinching detail.

A young woman becomes a celebrated courtesan in 1950s Brazil while a menacing figure works to control her.

A pregnant woman on a remote ranch senses something wrong; her husband's hunt ends in a supernatural horror.

Thrust to the head of a mafia clan by her uncle's murder, a woman commands a world built to exclude her.

Three couples, three sets of power imbalances — a French riff on *Desperate Housewives* with sharper edges.

A Spanish dressmaker reinvents herself as a spy as civil war and Nazi alliances close in around her.

A poor woman searches a city for her missing husband, only to find him remarried to a scheming rival.

Teens at religious camp face the devil — a queer visual novel built on dread and social cruelty.

A masquerade party in a luxurious mansion where every guest is being systematically murdered.

Alternate 1984 East Germany: the Leviathan Corporation rules through surveillance and mind-altering drugs.

Lies, betrayal, and a mystical atmosphere of loss — an adventure game that prizes unease over resolution.

You run an international erotic entertainment empire — transgressive subject matter as strategy game.

Two players pretend to be separated lovers — longing and simulation blur in this quietly erotic art game.

Three lost films and a missing actress — a mystery solved by obsessively match-cutting through found footage.

Steampunk Paris, class violence, and a murder trial where you construct the accused's story from scratch.

An heiress's scandalous cousin brings Gothic suspense — beauty and danger arrive together.

A study of female desire and psychology — the book examines women's roles in love with analytical cool.

Lady Diana is fashionable London's most desirable beauty — headstrong, reckless, and trapped by propriety.

Two hemopathic friends perform illegally as illusionists in a gangster's 1919 Boston nightclub.

A lingerie mogul's empire is threatened when a TV evangelist is murdered and she becomes a suspect.

A young woman disguises herself as a page to travel to Madrid in pursuit of a destiny her mother named.

America's most sheltered heiress finds herself briefly alone in Paris and discovers freedom — and its dangers.

A dark-hearted, reclusive aristocrat and the woman whose responsibilities bind her to him — Gothic dread under a family curse.