Filmography

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Acting

The Daily Show
1996 · Acting

Late Show with David Letterman
1993 · Acting

Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Acting

Conan
2010 · Acting

Saturday Night Live
1975 · Acting

The Colbert Report
2005 · Acting

LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988 · Acting

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Acting

The X-Files
1993 · Acting

Hot Ones
2015 · Acting

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992 · Acting

The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003 · Acting

30 Rock
2006 · Acting

The Mindy Project
2012 · Acting

Profiler
1996 · Acting

Spider-Man
2002 · Acting
- No Poster
The Tony Danza Show
2004 · Acting

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015 · Acting

Pacific Blue
1996 · Acting

Spider-Man 3
2007 · Acting

Angie Tribeca
2016 · Acting

The Deuce
2017 · Director, Acting

Freaks and Geeks
1999 · Acting

Marcians
2017 · Acting

Alien: Covenant
2017 · Acting

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
2014 · Acting

Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011 · Acting

11.22.63
2016 · Director, Acting

Spider-Man 2
2004 · Acting

The Early Show
1999 · Acting

Sausage Party
2016 · Acting

The Interview
2014 · Acting

Homefront
2013 · Acting

This Is the End
2013 · Acting

The Little Prince
2015 · Acting

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018 · Acting

127 Hours
2010 · Acting

Oz the Great and Powerful
2013 · Acting

Knocked Up
2007 · Acting

In Dubious Battle
2016 · Director, Acting

Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
2008 · Acting

Pineapple Express
2008 · Acting

Deadbeat
2014 · Acting

Confession
2026 · Acting

Eat Pray Love
2010 · Acting

Spring Breakers
2013 · Acting

The Green Hornet
2011 · Acting

Lovelace
2013 · Acting

The Frame
2013 · Acting

Milk
2008 · Acting

Why Him?
2016 · Acting

The Disaster Artist
2017 · Director, Acting

Your Highness
2011 · Acting

King Cobra
2016 · Acting

The Wicker Man
2006 · Acting

Arctic Dogs
2019 · Acting

Flyboys
2006 · Acting

Never Been Kissed
1999 · Acting

Date Night
2010 · Acting

Hamish and Andy's Gap Year
2011 · Acting

Largo Winch: The Price of Money
2024 · Acting

The Night Before
2015 · Acting
- No Poster
The Caged Pillows
2016 · Acting

Tristan & Isolde
2006 · Acting

Kin
2018 · Acting

In the Valley of Elah
2007 · Acting

An American Crime
2007 · Acting

True Story
2015 · Acting

The Iceman
2012 · Acting

SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
2025 · Acting

Queen of the Desert
2015 · Acting

The Great Raid
2005 · Acting

Palo Alto
2014 · Writer, Acting

Veronica Mars
2014 · Acting

Deuces Wild
2002 · Acting

Whatever It Takes
2000 · Acting

City by the Sea
2002 · Acting

About Cherry
2012 · Acting

Good People
2014 · Acting

Third Person
2014 · Acting

Cultureshock
2018 · Acting

The Institute
2017 · Director, Acting

The Dead Girl
2006 · Acting

Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013 · Director, Acting

Wild Horses
2015 · Acting

Nights in Rodanthe
2008 · Acting

Every Thing Will Be Fine
2015 · Acting

Annapolis
2006 · Acting

Future World
2018 · Director, Acting

Zeroville
2019 · Director, Acting

John Rambo
2027 · Acting

Howl
2010 · Acting

Naya: Legend of the Golden Dolphin
Acting

The Sound and the Fury
2015 · Director, Acting

As I Lay Dying
2013 · Director, Writer, Acting

The Show
2017 · Acting

The Adderall Diaries
2016 · Acting

I Am Michael
2015 · Acting

Goat
2016 · Acting

Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present
2012 · Acting

Call Me Lucky
2015 · Acting

James Dean
2001 · Acting

With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
2010 · Acting

The Vault
2017 · Acting

The Letter
2012 · Acting

Interview
2007 · Acting

Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?
2016 · Writer, Acting

Camille
2008 · Acting

The Company
2003 · Acting

Sonny
2002 · Acting

Love and Distrust
2010 · Acting

Child of God
2014 · Director, Writer, Acting
- No Poster
The Long Home
Director, Acting

The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
2015 · Acting

Comedy Central Roast of James Franco
2013 · Acting

Blood Meridian Test Reel
2011 · Director

My Own Private River
2012 · Director

The Color of Time
2012 · Acting

Mademoiselle C
2013 · Acting

On the Set: Spider-Man 3
2007 · Acting

SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas
2009 · Acting

My Journey in Oz
2013 · Director, Acting

What Is Cinema?
2013 · Acting

Behind the Ultimate Spin: The Making of Spider-Man
2002 · Acting

To Serve and Protect
1999 · Acting

Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha
2015 · Acting

High School Lover
2017 · Acting

Eames: The Architect and the Painter
2011 · Acting

Actors Anonymous
2017 · Writer, Acting

Fighting, Flying and Driving: The Stunts of 'Spider-Man 3'
2007 · Acting

Behind the Scenes of Palo Alto
2014 · Acting

Pretenders
2019 · Director, Acting

Drugs, Skate & Violence: Filmmaker Harmony Korine
2017 · Acting

Making A Scene With James Franco
2014 · Acting

Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary
2018 · Acting

Black Dog, Red Dog
2015 · Director, Writer, Acting
- No Poster
Castro's Daughter
Acting
- No Poster
Love Meets in the Sunshine
Acting

Good Time Max
2008 · Director, Writer, Acting

Spider-Mania
2002 · Acting

A Fuller Life
2013 · Acting

Interior. Leather Bar.
2013 · Director, Acting

42 One Dream Rush
2010 · Director

Oh, Hi Mark: Making a Disaster
2018 · Director, Acting

Two Films, One Legacy
2011 · Acting

Here Comes the Night Time
2013 · Acting

Finishing the Game: The Search for a New Bruce Lee
2007 · Acting

Playtime
2013 · Acting

Maladies
2012 · Acting

The Labyrinth
2016 · Acting

Obituaries
2014 · Acting

Hey Joe
2024 · Acting

The Ape
2005 · Director, Writer, Acting

The Broken Tower
2012 · Director, Writer, Acting

Blood Surf
2016 · Acting

The 4%: Film's Gender Problem
2016 · Acting

Tangled Web: The Love Triangles of 'Spider-Man 3'
2007 · Acting

At Any Cost
2000 · Acting

To Serve and Protect
1999 · Acting
- No Poster
Jesse Heiman: World's Greatest Extra
Acting

National Theatre Live: Of Mice and Men
2014 · Acting

The Car Kid
2002 · Acting

A Walk in Winter
2015 · Acting

Bunny-Man
Acting

Squali
2025 · Acting

Foster
2026 · Acting

The Feast of Stephen
2009 · Director, Writer

Memoria
2016 · Acting

Saturday Night
2010 · Director, Acting

Burn Country
2016 · Acting

Mississippi Requiem
2018 · Writer, Acting

Shadows & Lies
2010 · Acting

The Razor's Edge
Acting
- No Poster
Roast of James Franco: Red Carpet Pre-Show
2013 · Acting
- No Poster
Making A Scene
Acting

Yosemite
2016 · Writer, Acting

The Room Before and After - Part 1: James Franco
2009 · Acting

Re-Imagining the Goblin
2007 · Acting

'Spider-Man 3' on Location: New York, from Rooftops to Backstreets
2007 · Acting

Toad
Acting

Don't Come Back from the Moon
2017 · Acting

The Mad Whale
2017 · Acting
- No Poster
Some Body
2001 · Acting

Mother Ghost
2002 · Acting

Sal
2013 · Director, Writer, Acting

I Think You're Totally Wrong: A Quarrel
2014 · Director, Acting
- No Poster
Blind Spot
2003 · Acting

Jodi Lyn O'Keefe: A Life on Screen
Acting

127 Hours: An extraordinary view
2011 · Acting

Dave Skylark's Very Special VMA Special
2014 · Acting
- No Poster
The Clerk's Tale
2010 · Director, Writer
- No Poster
Something's in There
Acting

The Hills with James Franco and Mila Kunis
2007 · Acting
- No Poster
You Always Stalk the Ones You Love
2002 · Acting
- No Poster
Kyle
Director, Writer

If Tomorrow Comes
2000 · Acting

Birth of a Poet
2020 · Director, Writer

Saturday Night Live: The Best of '09/'10
2011 · Acting
- No Poster
Catblock (The Ultimate Co%kblock)
2010 · Acting

Hart Crane: An Exegesis
2012 · Director, Acting
- No Poster
Runaway
Acting

Killing Animals
2015 · Writer, Acting

Tenn
2017 · Director

Richard Peter Johnson
2015 · Acting

Fool's Gold
2005 · Director, Writer, Acting
- No Poster
Goat Boy
2010 · Director
- No Poster
Golden State Killer
Acting
- No Poster
Kill the Czar
Acting

Francophrenia
2012 · Director
- No Poster
Mean People Suck
2001 · Acting

Caput
2011 · Acting

Herbert White
2010 · Director, Writer
- No Poster
Dumpster Diving
2017 · Acting
- No Poster
Grasshopper
2006 · Acting

Erased James Franco
2009 · Acting

DREAM
2013 · Director
- No Poster
Masculinity & Me
2010 · Director, Writer, Acting
- No Poster
Rant
Writer

Future Relic 02
2014 · Acting

Blood Heist
2017 · Acting
- No Poster
La Passione
2013 · Director
