Richard Franklin

Directing

Richard Franklin

Born July 15, 1948 · Brighton, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Died July 11, 2007 · aged 58

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Richard Franklin (15 July 1948 – 11 July 2007) was an Australian-born film director. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Franklin (director), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Into the NightInto the Night · 1985
Into the Night
6.51985
MovieThrillerComedy
Ed Okin used to have a boring life. He used to have trouble getting to sleep. Then one night, he met Diana. Now, Ed's having trouble staying alive.
Psycho IIPsycho II · 1983
Psycho II
6.51983
MovieHorrorMystery
Norman Bates is declared sane and released from the facility in which he was being held, despite the complaints of Lila Loomis, sister of his most famous victim. Is he really cured, or will he kill again?
F/X2F/X2 · 1991
F/X2
6.31991
MovieActionThriller
F/X man Rollie Tyler is now a toymaker. Mike, the ex-husband of his girlfriend Kim, is a cop. He asks Rollie to help catch a killer. The operation goes well until some unknown man kills both the killer and Mike. Mike's boss, Silak says it was the killer who killed Mike but Rollie knows it wasn't. Obviously, Silak is involved with Mike's death, so he calls on Leo McCarthy, the cop from the last movie, who is now a P.I., for help and they discover it's not just Silak they have to worry about.
Cloak & DaggerCloak & Dagger · 1984
Cloak & Dagger
6.41984
MovieAdventureAction
Davey Osborne is an average 11-year-old boy with an overactive imagination. He spends his days playing video games and pretending to be a spy with his imaginary father-figure, Jack Flack - a substitute for his real father, who is struggling with the recent death of Davey's mother. However, fantasy becomes reality for Davey after he witnesses the murder of an FBI agent, who in his dying breath, gives Davey a mysterious video game cartridge called Cloak & Dagger, which in actuality contains top-secret government information. With the help of his younger friend Kim, the tech savvy Morris, and even a little help from his fictional secret agent mentor, Davey must stay one step ahead of pursuers as he tries to survive a real-life game of espionage in the streets of San Antonio, Texas.
RoadgamesRoadgames · 1981
Roadgames
6.51981
MovieMysteryThriller
A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer in a van who lures young female hitchhiker victims on a desolate Australian highway.
FantasmFantasm · 1976
Fantasm
4.51976
MovieComedyRomance
Jurgen Noetafreud is a professor of the psyche of human sexuality, who introduces 10 short segments from his case studies of the most common female sexual fantasies.
LinkLink · 1986
Link
6.21986
MovieHorrorThriller
Young graduate student Jane Chase becomes the new assistant to an eccentric zoology professor at the remote home he shares with two brilliant chimpanzees and an elderly orangutan butler named Link. But when one of the chimps is found dead and the professor mysteriously disappears, Link becomes dangerously aggressive towards Jane. Now, the time for “monkey business” is over and the true terror is about to begin.
PatrickPatrick · 1978
Patrick
6.11978
MovieHorrorScience Fiction
A comatose hospital patient harasses and kills through his powers of telekinesis to claim his private nurse as his own.

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Cloak & DaggerCloak & Dagger · 1984
Cloak & Dagger
6.41984
MovieAdventureAction
Davey Osborne is an average 11-year-old boy with an overactive imagination. He spends his days playing video games and pretending to be a spy with his imaginary father-figure, Jack Flack - a substitute for his real father, who is struggling with the recent death of Davey's mother. However, fantasy becomes reality for Davey after he witnesses the murder of an FBI agent, who in his dying breath, gives Davey a mysterious video game cartridge called Cloak & Dagger, which in actuality contains top-secret government information. With the help of his younger friend Kim, the tech savvy Morris, and even a little help from his fictional secret agent mentor, Davey must stay one step ahead of pursuers as he tries to survive a real-life game of espionage in the streets of San Antonio, Texas.

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