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5.9

♡ 9

Gerald Potterton Director

Stanley James as

Frederick Earl as

Don Calfa as Mazella

Donald Pleasence as Ralph Logan

Struggling to subsist on negligible and infrequent gold discoveries, prospector Ralph Logan crosses paths with Mazella, a New York City drifter with a three-wheel motorcycle and plenty of time on his hands. After introducing his new acquaintance to the practical but volatile Gladys, Logan suggests the trio join forces for a mission deep into the mountains of British Columbia in search of his father's elusive stash of gold.

Wedding in White

1972

6.5

♡ 4

78%

parent child relationship

Drama

dysfunctional family

William Fruet Director

Stan Ross as

Donald Pleasence as

Gerald Crack as (as Jerry Crack)

Carol Kane as Jeannie Dougall

A young girl's brother comes home from the army, and brings an army buddy with him. The three of them go out that night to celebrate, and after much drinking has been done, the brother's friend rapes the sister. After the two men have gone back, the girl finds that she's pregnant--and discovers that her parents don't blame the soldier, but blame her.

The Guest

1963

7.1

♡ 8

Clive Donner Director

Robert Shaw as Aston

Donald Pleasence as Mac Davies / Bernard Jenkins

Harold Pinter as Man

Alan Bates as Mick

Aston, a quiet, reserved man, lives alone in a top-floor cluttered room of a small abandoned house in a poor London district. He befriends and takes in Mac Davies, an old derelict who has been fired from a menial job in a café. In time Aston offers him a job as caretaker of the house. Aston's brother, Mick - a taunting, quasi-sadist - harasses the derelict when his brother is away, countermanding his orders...

Paganini Horror

1988

4.4

♡ 11

18%

Luigi Cozzi Director

Roberto Giannini as

Pascal Persiano as Daniel

Donald Pleasence as Mr. Pickett

Luana Ravegnini as Rita

A female rock band acquires an infamous composition by Niccolò Paganini that was used in satanic rituals. When the band decides to record the song and film a video in Paganini's old mansion, the spirit of the deceased composer is summoned and the band unlocks a portal to Hell.

American Rickshaw

1989

5.0

♡ 5

Sergio Martino Director

Sherrie Rose as Mary Jo

Donald Pleasence as Reverend Mortom

Darin De Paul as Sgt. Preston

Regina Rodriguez as Young Madame Luna

After a stripper tricks him into filming a sex tape, Miami rickshaw runner Scott Edwards becomes embroiled in the murder of a televangelist's son when he inadvertently takes the wrong videotape. With the help of the stripper and a witch, Edwards sets out to clear his name while avoiding the assassin dead-set on retrieving the tape.

Cobra Mission

1986

5.0

♡ 7

95%

vietnam veteran

War

Fabrizio De Angelis Director

Donald Pleasence as Father Lenoir

John Steiner as James Walcott

Ethan Wayne as Mike

Christopher Connelly as Roger Carson

Ten years after the end of the war in Vietnam, four ex-Marines decide to return to S.E. Asia to investigate reports of American POWs still being held there. These four include Roger, whose daughter's just been married, the unemployed James, Mark, who's quit his job at an Arizona roadside tavern, and Richard, recently a patient at a mental hospital. In the jungles of S.E. Asia they discover American POWs but also find out about a U.S. Government plot to keep this knowledge a secret.

Double Target

1987

4.5

♡ 5

Adventure

War

Bruno Mattei Director

Miles O'Keeffe as Bob Ross

Bo Svenson as Colonel Galckin

Mike Monty as Colonel Waters

Donald Pleasence as Senator Blaster

After several American and British military personnel are killed in suicide attacks throughout southeast Asia, the U.S. begins to suspect a plot by the Vietnam government. To uncover the truth, the U.S. army calls upon a former commando who is looking for his long-lost son in Vietnam. While his military commanders want to see the commando succeed in his mission, his political overseers have a different set of plans.

Diên Biên Phú

1992

French

6.2

♡ 4

Pierre Schoendoerffer Director

Ludmila Mikaël as Béatrice Vergnes

Donald Pleasence as Howard Simpson

Charles Fathy as Rat de la Nam Youn

Sava Lolov as Thade Korzeniowski

Vietnam, 1954. An American reporter finds himself in the middle of the battle of Điện Biên Phủ, between the French army and the Vietminh.

The House of Usher

1989

4.6

♡ 4

29%

Alan Birkinshaw Director

Lenorah Ince as Child

Romy Windsor as Molly McNulty

Oliver Reed as Roderick Usher

Donald Pleasence as Walter Usher

An updated version of the classic horror tale by Edgar Allen Poe. Ryan and his girlfriend Molly are going to visit Ryan's uncle, Roderick Usher, at his mansion. They find, however, that Roderick's brother Walter has gone insane, and Roderick himself isn't far behind. Can Ryan and Molly escape from the doomed mansion before the curse of Usher claims them as well?

THX 1138

1971

6.6

♡ 25

84%

George Lucas Director

Sid Haig as NCH

Ian Wolfe as PTO

Donald Pleasence as SEN

Robert Duvall as THX

People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the first time he has feelings for a woman and they start a secret relationship.

Vampire in Venice

1988

5.1

♡ 8

23%

Klaus Kinski Director

Donald Pleasence as Don Alvise

Klaus Kinski as Nosferatu

Christopher Plummer as Professor Paris Catalano

Elvire Audray as Uta Barneval

Professor Paris Catalano visits Venice, to investigate the last known appearance of the famous vampire Nosferatu during the carnival of 1786.

Death Line

1972

5.9

♡ 12

87%

Gary Sherman Director

David Ladd as Alex Campbell

Donald Pleasence as Inspector Calhoun

Clive Swift as Inspector Richardson

Christopher Lee as Stratton-Villiers, MI5

When a government official disappears in the London tunnels, after several reports of missing people in the same location, Scotland Yard start to take the matter seriously, along with a couple who stumble into a victim by accident.

Nothing Underneath

1985

5.8

♡ 3

36%

Carlo Vanzina Director

Tom Schanley as Bob Crane

Donald Pleasence as Commissioner Danesi

Cyrus Elias as Danesi's assistant

Anna Galiena as Model agency boss

Bob Crane has long maintained a psychic connection to his twin sister, Jessica, who works as a fashion model in Milan. When Bob senses that his sister might be injured or killed, he travels to Italy to look for her, only to discover that she's vanished without a trace. Enlisting the help of about-to-retire Commissioner Danesi, Bob soon finds himself embroiled in a web of mystery and terror, when a scissors wielding killer begins to strike and all clues lead back to Jessica...

Treasure of the Amazon

1985

4.6

♡ 12

23%

René Cardona Jr. Director

Stuart Whitman as Gringo

Jorge Luke as Jairo / Jaime

Donald Pleasence as Klaus von Blantz

John Ireland as Priest

An adventurer and his buddies race a former Nazi and others to diamonds in the South American jungle.

River of Death

1989

4.5

♡ 4

26%

Steve Carver Director

Robert Vaughn as Dr. Wolfgang Manteuffel

L.Q. Jones as Eddie Hiller

Gordon Mulholland as Fanjul

Donald Pleasence as Heinrich Spaatz

An adventurer (Hamilton) decides to go in search of the Lost City in the Amazon jungle. A motley crew of other people decide to join him for the wealth of the city, for reasons of their own. But to their horror they find out that they have bitten off more than they can chew, what with a Nazi doctor still using the place for his human experiments.

Decision Against Time

1957

6.7

♡ 2

Charles Crichton Director

Eddie Byrne as Ashmore

Donald Pleasence as Crabtree

Howard Marion-Crawford as Ingrams

Jack Hawkins as John Mitchell

The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself. At the Conway Aero-Manufacturing Company of Wolverhampton, Mitchell is to take the company's new rocket-propulsion transport plane up for tests, fully loaded and carrying two important passengers - Ministry official Crabtree and buyer's representative Ashmore. Mitchell learns from his boss, Reg Conway, that if Ashmore does not recommend the plane, the company will be out of business and Mitchell out of a job, since the plane is not even insured as the firm's entire capital is tied up in the plane. Aloft, an engine catches fire and the passengers and other crew bail out, but Mitchell refuses to obey orders to jettison the plane in the Irish Sea.

BBC Sunday-Night Theatre Nineteen Eighty-Four

1954

7.7

♡ 14

Rudolph Cartier Director

Arnold Diamond as Emmanuel Goldstein

Leonard Sachs as Mr. Charrington

Donald Pleasence as Syme

Peter Cushing as Winston Smith

A man who works for 'The Party' (an all powerful empire led by a man known only as 'Big Brother') begins to have thoughts of rebellion and love for a fellow member. Together they look to help bring down the party.

Fatal Frames

1996

4.0

♡ 5

22%

Al Festa Director

Alida Valli as Countess Alessandra Mirafiori

Giorgio Albertazzi as Father

Donald Pleasence as Professor Robinson

Linnea Quigley as Wendy Williams

Alex Ritt, a music video director comes to Italy to direct a video for pop sensation Stefania Stella. He soon encounters a mysterious killer who videotapes his victims for the police. As the horrible murders continue, Ritt is unknowingly pushed into the killer's games and he soon becomes a target of the police. The video-killer is on the loose and Ritt must find out the truth before it's too late.

The Black Tent

1956

5.5

♡ 4

40%

Brian Desmond Hurst Director

Donald Pleasence as Ali

Anthony Steel as Capt. David Holland

Nanette Newman as Mabrouka

Michael Craig as Sheik Faris

During the British retreat through Libya, a British officer takes shelter with a group of Arab Bedouin. He marries the chief's daughter. Sometime later, his younger brother, who had believed him to be dead, is informed that he may be alive in Libya - prompting him to set out and search for him.

Treasure of the Yankee Zephyr

1981