Ronald Francis Perlman — Actor (74)
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Absolution (2024) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Absolution
director: Hans Petter Moland actor: Liam Neeson / Ron Perlman …
other title: Absolution - Storia criminale / Absolvição …
An aging ex-boxer gangster working as muscle for a Boston crime boss receives an upsetting diagnosis. Despite a faltering memory, he attempts to rectify the sins of his past and reconnect with his estranged children. He is determined to leave a positive legacy for his grandson, but the criminal underworld isn’t done with him and won’t loosen their grip willingly.
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The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space (1995) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space
director: Max Tash actor: Daniel Riordan / Ronald Francis Perlman …
other title: Les aventures de Captain Zoom / Captain Zoom
The forces of evil are attempting to recapture a human-inhabited Earth-like planet that has been liberated by rebels. The son of one of the rebel leaders, an electronic genius, searches the galaxy for a hero and finds Captain Zoom, star of a 1950s TV series. He is transported to the planet as its savior, which role he must play despite himself.
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Down (2001) WikiData IMDb TMDB Skybridge
Down
director: Dick Maas actor: James Marshall / Naomi Watts …
other title: Down - Discesa infernale / L'Ascenseur (niveau 2) …
After the elevators at a New York City skyscraper begin inexplicably malfunctioning, putting its passengers at risk, mechanic Mark Newman and reporter Jennifer Evans begin separate investigations. Newman gets resistance from superiors at his company, which manufactured the elevator, while additional elevator incidents cause several gruesome deaths. The police get involved and suspect that terrorists are responsible, but a far stranger explanation looms.
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The Protector (1997) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Protector
director: Jack Gill actor: Matt McColm / Annabel Schofield …
other title: El protector / Conway …
Soldier of fortune Ken Conway gets a job offer from his former fiancee to look into the whereabouts of a missing scientist. The scientist was working for pharmaceutical researcher Dr. Krago, so Conway goes undercover to infiltrate the doctor's operation. He soon discovers what Krago's scheme is: he creates super-diseases and their cures at the same time, and gets rich by releasing the disease and selling the cure. Ken tries to take this information to the authorities, but finds out too late that he has been infected with the doctor's latest creation, and he has only 48 hours left to live if he can't get his hands on the antidote
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Mr. Stitch (1995) IMDb TMDB
Mr. Stitch
director: Roger Avary actor: Rutger Hauer / Wil Wheaton …
Doctor Rue Wakeman and his team create a young man with skin and organs taken from other men and women. The creature (Lazarus) reads a lot of books and learns all about the humans. But when he meets fascinating doctor Elizabeth English his life changes: he decides to escape from the laboratory.
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Sensation (1994) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Sensation
director: Brian Grant actor: Eric Roberts / Kari Wührer …
other title: Testigo en la sombra (Sensation) / Testigo en la Sombra …
Lila a college student discovers a latent ability to see into the past. When a professor hires her for some psychological tests she becomes the target of the killer of the woman she sees in her dreams.
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Happy, Texas (1999) IMDb TMDB
Happy, Texas
director: Mark Illsley actor: Jeremy Northam / Steve Zahn …
other title: Salvajemente tiernos
Two escaped convicts roll into the village of Happy, Texas, where they're mistaken for a gay couple who work as beauty pageant consultants. They go along with it to duck the police, but the local sheriff has a secret of his own.
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Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy! (2006) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy!
director: Chuck Sheetz actor: Frank Welker / Casey Kasem …
other title: Scooby-Doo! e i pirati dei Caraibi / Scooby-Doo! Pirater i Sigte! …
It's horror on the high seas when Scooby-Doo and the gang take a creepy cruise into one of the world's most mysterious places, the Bermuda Triangle! If Scooby, Shaggy and the gang can't solve this mystery, they may have to walk the plank.
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Operation Sandman (2000) IMDb TMDB
Operation Sandman
director: Nelson McCormick actor: Ron Perlman / Rod Biermann …
In the heat of an American desert, Captain Jean Farrell arrives at a secret military installation, run by the enigmatic Doctor Harlan Jessup. Jessup is conducting 'Operation Sandman', an experiment involving a group of soldiers who have volunteered to be injected with 'the Juice', a drug which enables them to function without sleep. The team of soldiers, led by gruff and abusive 'Gunny' Riggins continually takes part in Virtual Reality scenarios whereby they face terrorists, kidnappers, guerrillas and a plethora of other situations that demand split-second timing, and undying obedience in the face of danger.
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Tbilisi, I Love You (2014) IMDb TMDB
თბილისო, მე შენ მიყვარხარ
director: Irakli Chkhikvadze / Levan Ghlonti … actor: Ron Perlman / Malcolm McDowell …
other title: თბილისო, მე შენ მიყვარხარ
Following "Paris, Je t'aime" "New York,I Love You" and "Rio, Eu Te Amo" “Tbilisi, I Love You” has become the next film in the “Cities of Love” franchise.
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Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster (2021) IMDb TMDB
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
director: Thomas Hamilton actor: Boris Karloff / Sara Karloff …
Beginning just before his debut as Frankenstein’s creation, this documentary compellingly explores the life and legacy of a cinema legend, presenting a perceptive history of the genre he personified. Karloff's films were long derided as hokum and attacked by censors, but his phenomenal popularity and pervasive influence endures, inspiring some of our greatest actors and directors into the 21st Century – among them Guillermo Del Toro, Ron Perlman, Roger Corman, and John Landis, all of whom and many more contribute their personal insights and anecdotes.
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Skin Trade (2014) IMDb TMDB
Skin Trade
director: Ekachai Uekrongtham actor: Dolph Lundgren / Tony Jaa …
other title: Skin Trade - Merce umana / Skin Trade - Em Busca de Vingança …
After his family is killed by a Serbian gangster with international interests. NYC detective Nick goes to S.E. Asia and teams up with a Thai detective to get revenge and destroy the syndicates human trafficking network.
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Prince Valiant (1997) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Prince Valiant
director: Anthony Hickox actor: Stephen Moyer / Katherine Heigl …
other title: Il mistero del principe Valiant / Prinz Eisenherz …
An Arthurian legend of young Prince Valiant, son of the King of Scandia. After the King is exiled by an evil leader, the Prince travels to Camelot to secure the aid of King Arthur in helping restore his family to power and prevent a plot by the Black Knight.
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Pro-Life (2006) IMDb TMDB
Pro-Life
director: John Carpenter actor: Ron Perlman / Caitlin Wachs …
other title: Pro-Life - Des Teufels Brut / Piegée à l'intérieur …
Angelique, a traumatized fifteen year old, is taken to an abortion clinic to end her pregnancy. However, her deeply religious father and three brothers are out to make sure the baby lives.
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Play Dirty (2025) IMDb TMDB
Play Dirty
director: Tom DeNucci actor: Theo Rossi / Ron Perlman …
With Internal Affairs coming down on him, a corrupt cop must take out the competition of the crime boss he moonlights for if he wants to survive long enough to get out of town first.
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The Second Civil War (1997) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Second Civil War
director: Joe Dante actor: Beau Bridges / Joanna Cassidy …
other title: La seconda guerra civile americana / Die Kriegsmacher …
When a planeload of Pakistani orphans are shipped to his state for permanent relocation, the governor of Idaho defies the president and closes the state's border. News Net Television, a cable news program that makes hay by reporting on political scandals, quickly spins the racist act into an overnight media sensation, creating a divide in national opinion over the issue.