88% Wake in Fright 109 min, R, [Drama, Thriller] [Ted Kotcheff] [09 Oct 1971]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 7.7/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, Metacritic 88/100, External Reviews
Awards: 1 nomination.
Actors: Chips Rafferty, Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Sylvia Kay
Plot: After a bad gambling bet, a schoolteacher is marooned in a town full of crazy, drunk, violent men who threaten to make him just as crazy, drunk, and violent.
Writer: Evan Jones (screenplay), Kenneth Cook (based on the novel "Wake in Fright" by)
Language: English Country: Australia, USA, UK More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
83% Halloween 91 min, R, [Horror, Thriller] [John Carpenter] [27 Oct 1978]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 7.8/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 93%, Metacritic 78/100, External Reviews
Awards: 5 wins & 2 nominations.
Actors: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nancy Kyes, P.J. Soles, Tony Moran
Plot: Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield to kill again.
Writer: John Carpenter (screenplay), Debra Hill (screenplay)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
80% Fantastic Voyage 100 min, PG, [Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi] [Richard Fleischer] [14 Oct 1966]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 6.8/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 93%, External Reviews
Awards: Won 2 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 6 nominations.
Actors: Donald Pleasence, Edmond O'Brien, Raquel Welch, Stephen Boyd
Plot: A scientist is nearly assassinated. In order to save him, a submarine is shrunken to microscopic size and injected into his blood stream with a small crew. Problems arise almost as soon as they enter the bloodstream.
Writer: Harry Kleiner (screenplay), David Duncan (adaptation), Otto Klement (story), Jerome Bixby (story)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
78% Escape from New York 99 min, R, [Action, Sci-Fi] [John Carpenter] [10 Jul 1981]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 7.2/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 86%, Metacritic 76/100, External Reviews
Awards: 4 nominations.
Actors: Donald Pleasence, Ernest Borgnine, Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef
Plot: In 1997, when the U.S. president crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in to rescue him.
Writer: John Carpenter, Nick Castle
Language: English Country: UK, USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
77% Cul-De-Sac 113 min, [Comedy, Drama, Thriller] [Roman Polanski] [07 Nov 1966]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 7.2/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 82%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 win.
Actors: Donald Pleasence, Françoise Dorléac, Jack MacGowran, Lionel Stander
Plot: In search of help, two wounded gangsters on the run find refuge in the secluded castle of a feeble man and his wife; however, under the point of a gun, nothing is what it seems.
Writer: Roman Polanski (original screenplay), Gérard Brach (original screenplay)
Language: English Country: UK More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
76% THX 1138 86 min, R, [Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller] [George Lucas] [11 Mar 1971]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 6.8/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 87%, Metacritic 75/100, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win & 2 nominations.
Actors: Don Pedro Colley, Donald Pleasence, Maggie McOmie, Robert Duvall
Plot: In the twenty-fifth century, a time when people have designations instead of names, a man, THX 1138, and a woman, LUH 3417, rebel against their rigidly controlled society.
Writer: George Lucas (story by), George Lucas (screenplay by), Walter Murch (screenplay by)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
74% No Love for Johnnie 110 min, [Drama] [Ralph Thomas] [05 Jul 1961]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 7.4/10, External Reviews
Awards: Won 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 win & 1 nomination.
Actors: Donald Pleasence, Mary Peach, Peter Finch, Stanley Holloway
Plot: Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his life and his personal as well as professional problems tower up over him. His desires to ...
Writer: Wilfred Fienburgh (novel), Nicholas Phipps (screenplay), Mordecai Richler (screenplay)
Language: English Country: UK More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
73% The Night of the Generals 148 min, PG, [Crime, Drama, Mystery] [Anatole Litvak] [24 Feb 1967]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 7.3/10, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win.
Actors: Donald Pleasence, Omar Sharif, Peter O'Toole, Tom Courtenay
Plot: In 1942, a Polish prostitute is murdered in Warsaw. Suspicion falls on three generals, and Major Grau of German Intelligence seeks justice despite the ongoing atrocities committed during WWII.
Writer: Joseph Kessel (adapted for the screen by), Paul Dehn (adapted for the screen by), Paul Dehn (additional dialogue), Hans Hellmut Kirst (novel), James Hadley Chase (based on an incident written by)
Language: English, Italian, Spanish, French Country: UK, France More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
72% Phenomena 116 min, R, [Horror, Mystery] [Dario Argento] [02 Aug 1985]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 6.9/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 76%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 nomination.
Actors: Daria Nicolodi, Donald Pleasence, Federica Mastroianni, Fiore Argento, Jennifer Connelly
Plot: A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.
Writer: Dario Argento (story), Franco Ferrini (story), Dario Argento (screenplay), Franco Ferrini (screenplay)
Language: English, Italian, German, Swiss German, Danish Country: Italy More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
72% Hell Is a City 93 min, [Crime, Thriller] [Val Guest] [13 Nov 1960]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 7.2/10, External Reviews
Actors: Billie Whitelaw, Donald Pleasence, John Crawford, Stanley Baker
Plot: In Britain, a Manchester police inspector becomes obsessed with capturing a criminal who escapes from prison.
Writer: Val Guest (screenplay), Maurice Procter (novel)
Language: English Country: UK More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
72% Hearts of the West 102 min, PG, [Western, Comedy] [Howard Zieff] [08 Oct 1975]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 6.5/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 80%, External Reviews
Awards: 2 wins & 1 nomination.
Actors: Andy Griffith, Blythe Danner, Donald Pleasence, Jeff Bridges
Plot: Lewis Tater writes Wild West dime novels and dreams of actually becoming a cowboy. When he goes west to find his dream, he finds himself in possession of the loot box of two crooks who ...
Writer: Rob Thompson
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
71% All Quiet on the Western Front 150 min, [Drama, War] [Delbert Mann] [14 Nov 1979]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 7.1/10, External Reviews
Awards: Won 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 6 nominations.
Actors: Donald Pleasence, Ernest Borgnine, Ian Holm, Richard Thomas
Plot: A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I.
Writer: Paul Monash (screenplay), Erich Maria Remarque (novel)
Language: English Country: USA, UK More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
71% Henry VIII and His Six Wives 125 min, PG, [Drama] [Waris Hussein] [01 Feb 1973]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 7.1/10, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win.
Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Donald Pleasence, Jane Asher, Keith Michell
Plot: On his deathbed, King Henry VIII looks back over his eventful life and his six marriages.
Writer: Ian Thorne (original screenplay)
Language: English Country: UK More Info: IMDB
70% Escape to Witch Mountain 97 min, G, [Adventure, Family, Fantasy] [John Hough] [21 Mar 1975]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 6.4/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 76%, External Reviews
Actors: Donald Pleasence, Eddie Albert, Kim Richards, Ray Milland
Plot: Two mysterious orphan children have extraordinary powers and are chased by a scheming millionaire. But where do these kids really call home?
Writer: Robert M. Young (screenplay), Alexander Key (based on the book by)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
70% Alone in the Dark 92 min, R, [Horror, Thriller] [Jack Sholder] [12 Nov 1982]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 6.2/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 78%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win.
Actors: Donald Pleasence, Dwight Schultz, Jack Palance, Martin Landau
Plot: A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.
Writer: Jack Sholder (story), Robert Shaye (story), Michael Harrpster (story), Jack Sholder
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
69% Oh, God! 98 min, PG, [Comedy, Fantasy] [Carl Reiner] [07 Oct 1977]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 6.6/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 72%, External Reviews
Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 2 nominations.
Actors: Donald Pleasence, George Burns, John Denver, Teri Garr
Plot: When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.
Writer: Larry Gelbart (screenplay), Avery Corman (based on the novel by)
Language: English, Spanish Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
66% Ground Zero 109 min, PG-13, [Action, Drama, Mystery] [Bruce Myles, Michael Pattinson] [01 Oct 1987]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 6.6/10, External Reviews
Awards: 4 wins & 6 nominations.
Actors: Colin Friels, Donald Pleasence, Jack Thompson, Natalie Bate
Plot: A second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test that allowed aboriginies to be exposed to and killed by radiation. He begins a search for...
Writer: Mac Gudgeon, Jan Sardi
Language: English Country: Australia More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
64% Dracula 109 min, R, [Horror, Romance] [John Badham] [20 Jul 1979]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 6.5/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 64%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win & 4 nominations.
Actors: Donald Pleasence, Frank Langella, Kate Nelligan, Laurence Olivier
Plot: In 1913, the charming, seductive and sinister vampire Count Dracula travels to England in search of an immortal bride.
Writer: W.D. Richter (screenplay), Hamilton Deane (play), John L. Balderston (play), Bram Stoker (novel)
Language: English, Dutch, Romanian, Russian Country: UK, USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
63% The Black Windmill 106 min, PG, [Action, Crime, Thriller] [Don Siegel] [02 Aug 1974]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 6.3/10, External Reviews
Actors: Clive Revill, Delphine Seyrig, Donald Pleasence, Michael Caine
Plot: A British Agent's son is kidnapped and held for ransom.
Writer: Leigh Vance (screenplay), Clive Egleton (novel)
Language: English Country: UK, USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
62% Circus of Horrors 88 min, APPROVED, [Horror, Drama] [Sidney Hayers] [01 Apr 1960]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 6.2/10, External Reviews
Actors: Anton Diffring, Donald Pleasence, Erika Remberg, Yvonne Monlaur
Plot: In 1947 England, a plastic surgeon must beat a hasty retreat to France when one of his patients has ghastly problems with her surgery. Once there, he operates on a circus owner's daughter, ...
Writer: George Baxt (original screenplay)
Language: English Country: UK More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
62% Hanna's War 148 min, PG-13, [Biography, Drama, War] [Menahem Golan] [21 Sep 1988]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 6.2/10, External Reviews
Actors: Anthony Andrews, Donald Pleasence, Ellen Burstyn, Maruschka Detmers
Plot: During WW2 Hanna Szenes, a Hungarian Jew living in British Palestine, volunteers to go behind enemy lines to rescue Jews from deportation to death camps.
Writer: Menahem Golan, Stanley Mann
Language: English, Hungarian Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
61% Eye of the Devil 92 min, [Crime, Horror, Mystery] [J. Lee Thompson] [01 Jul 1966]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 6.1/10, External Reviews
Actors: David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Donald Pleasence, Edward Mulhare, Sharon Tate
Plot: Vineyard owner marquis Philippe de Montfaucon is called back to his castle Bellenac because of another dry season. He asks his wife and children to remain in Paris, but they still come ...
Writer: Robin Estridge (screenplay), Dennis Murphy (screenplay), Robin Estridge (novel)
Language: English Country: UK More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
60% Terror in the Aisles 84 min, R, [Horror, Documentary, Thriller] [Andrew J. Kuehn] [26 Oct 1984]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 6.4/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 57%, External Reviews
Actors: Donald Pleasence, Fred Asparagus, Lainie Cooke, Nancy Allen
Plot: A compilation of scenes from science fiction, crime drama and horror films of the 1930s through 1980s.
Writer: Margery Doppelt
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
58% Prince of Darkness 102 min, R, [Horror] [John Carpenter] [23 Oct 1987]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 6.7/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 58%, Metacritic 50/100, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win & 1 nomination.
Actors: Donald Pleasence, Jameson Parker, Lisa Blount, Victor Wong
Plot: A research team finds a mysterious cylinder in a deserted church. If opened, it could mean the end of the world.
Writer: John Carpenter
Language: English, Latin Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
58% Barry McKenzie Holds His Own 93 min, [Comedy] [Bruce Beresford] [12 Dec 1974]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 5.8/10, External Reviews
Actors: Barry Crocker, Barry Humphries, Donald Pleasence, Ed Devereaux
Plot: Barry McKenzie's Aunt Edna is kidnapped by Count Von Plasma, the vampire head of an isolated Eastern European dictatorship who mistakes her for the Queen of England and thinks that ...
Writer: Barry Humphries (original photoplay), Bruce Beresford (written in collaboration with)
Language: English Country: Australia More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
56% Phantom of Death 90 min, R, [Horror, Thriller] [Ruggero Deodato] [01 Dec 1988]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 5.6/10, External Reviews
Actors: Donald Pleasence, Edwige Fenech, Mapi Galán, Michael York
Plot: In Italy, a pianist suffering from the Progeria genetic disease becomes distraught and goes on a mad killing spree prompting a police inspector to investigate.
Writer: Gianfranco Clerici (story), Vincenzo Mannino (story), Gianfranco Clerici (screenplay), Vincenzo Mannino (screenplay), Gigliola Battaglini (screenplay)
Language: Italian Country: Italy More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
56% Soldier Blue 112 min, R, [Western] [Ralph Nelson] [30 Oct 1970]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 6.9/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 43%, External Reviews
Actors: Candice Bergen, Donald Pleasence, John Anderson, Peter Strauss
Plot: After a cavalry patrol is ambushed by the Cheyenne, the two survivors, a soldier and a woman, must reach the safety of the nearest fort.
Writer: Theodore V. Olsen (novel), John Gay (screenplay)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
52% Arthur! Arthur! 94 min, GP, [Comedy] [Samuel Gallu] [N/A]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 5.2/10, External Reviews
Actors: Donald Pleasence, Shelley Winters, Tammy Grimes, Terry-Thomas
Plot: The inventor of sure-fire failures leads such an abysmal life that he creates a second identity that of a dashing, debonair womaniser.
Writer: John Esmonde (additional material), Simeon George (screenplay), Bob Larbey (additional material), Julian Symons (novel)
Language: English Country: UK More Info: IMDB
49% Telefon 102 min, PG, [Action, Crime, Drama] [Don Siegel] [16 Dec 1977]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 6.6/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 33%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 nomination.
Actors: Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence, Lee Remick, Tyne Daly
Plot: A Russian officer is sent to USA to try and stop sleeper agents who will mindlessly attack government entities when they hear certain coded words.
Writer: Peter Hyams (screenplay), Stirling Silliphant (screenplay), Walter Wager (based upon the novel by), Robert Frost (excerpts from poem)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
47% Ten Little Indians 98 min, PG, [Crime, Mystery, Thriller] [Alan Birkinshaw] [01 Nov 1989]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 4.7/10, External Reviews
Actors: Brenda Vaccaro, Donald Pleasence, Frank Stallone, Herbert Lom
Plot: Ten people are invited to go on an African safari, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?
Writer: Agatha Christie (novel), Jackson Hunsicker (screenplay), Gerry O'Hara (screenplay)
Language: English Country: UK More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
45% Halloween II 92 min, R, [Horror] [Rick Rosenthal] [30 Oct 1981]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 6.6/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 31%, Metacritic 40/100, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win & 3 nominations.
Actors: Charles Cyphers, Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jeffrey Kramer
Plot: While Sheriff Brackett and Dr. Loomis hunt for Michael Myers, a traumatized Laurie is rushed to hospital, and the serial killer is not far behind her.
Writer: John Carpenter, Debra Hill
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
43% Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers 88 min, R, [Horror, Thriller] [Dwight H. Little] [21 Oct 1988]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 5.9/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 29%, Metacritic 43/100, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win & 2 nominations.
Actors: Danielle Harris, Donald Pleasence, Ellie Cornell, George P. Wilbur
Plot: Ten years after his original massacre, the invalid Michael Myers awakens and returns to Haddonfield to kill his seven-year-old niece on Halloween. Can Dr. Loomis stop him?
Writer: Dhani Lipsius (story), Larry Rattner (story), Benjamin Ruffner (story), Alan B. McElroy (story), Alan B. McElroy (screenplay)
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia
22% Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers 87 min, R, [Horror, Thriller] [Joe Chappelle] [29 Sep 1995]Ratings & Reviews: IMDB 5.0/10, Rotten Tomatoes: 6%, Metacritic 10/100, External Reviews
Awards: 2 wins & 1 nomination.
Actors: Donald Pleasence, Marianne Hagan, Mitchell Ryan, Paul Rudd
Plot: Six years after Michael Myers last terrorized Haddonfield, he returns there in pursuit of his niece, Jamie Lloyd, who has escaped with her newborn child, for which Michael and a mysterious cult have sinister plans.
Writer: Debra Hill (characters), John Carpenter (characters), Daniel Farrands
Language: English Country: USA More Info: IMDB Wikipedia