Donald Pleasence — Actor (70)
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Buried Alive (1989) [Movie] IMDb WikiData
Buried Alive
director: Gérard Kikoïne actor: Robert Vaughn / Donald Pleasence …
other title: Sepolti vivi / Lost Girls - Verloren in der Dunkelheit …
A young woman goes to teach at the Ravenscroft Institute, a spooky old girls' school overrun by ants and staffed by some unusual types. Spurred on by a series of horrific hallucinations, she begins to investigate the mysterious disappearances of several students.
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Reel Horror (1985) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Reel Horror
director: Ross Hagen actor: Alexandra / John Hayden …
Evil spirits that emerge from cans of old movie film terrorize a neighborhood.
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Suspect (1960) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Suspect
director: Roy Boulting / John Boulting actor: Tony Britton / Virginia Maskell …
other title: Sospechosos
A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list. One of their number is so incensed by this that he lets the maimed and jealous companion of a female colleague draw him into what, technically, could be a treasonable act.
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The Passover Plot (1976) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Passover Plot
director: Michael Campus actor: Harry Andrews / Hugh Griffith …
other title: Jesus von Nazareth
Yeshua of Nazareth carefully plans his own crucifixion — and subsequent resurrection — to strengthen his political position against the Roman occupation of Palestine.
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The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Madwoman of Chaillot
director: Bryan Forbes actor: Katharine Hepburn / Charles Boyer …
other title: La pazza di Chaillot / Die Irre von Chaillot …
An eccentric Parisian woman's optimistic perception of life begins to sound more rational than the traditional beliefs of others. The story is set in a 20th-century society endangered by power and greed and imagines the rebellion of the "little people" against corrupt and soulless authority.
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Alice Through the Looking Box (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Alice Through the Looking Box
director: Michael Mills actor: Bernard Braden / Barbara Kelly …
A Christmas TV special in which Alice does not go through a looking glass, but through a TV set.
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Spare the Rod (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Spare the Rod
director: Leslie Norman actor: Max Bygraves / Geoffrey Keen …
It is London in the year 1960 and John Saunders enthusiastically begins his new teaching career at a tough slum-area school. His class are bored pupils in their last term before leaving. Will he handle the grave problems that lie ahead?
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1973) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
director: David Winters actor: Kirk Douglas / Susan George …
other title: Dr. Jekyll und Mr. Hyde / Dr Jekyll et Mr Hyde …
Musical version of the story in which Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
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Warrior of the Lost World (1983) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Warrior of the Lost World
director: David Worth actor: Robert Ginty / Persis Khambatta …
other title: I predatori dell'anno Omega / The Last Warrior …
A nomad mercenary on a high-tech motorcycle helps bring about the downfall of the evil Orwellian government, the Omega.
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Fatal Frames (1996) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Fatal Frames - Fotogrammi mortali
director: Al Festa actor: Stefania Stella / Rick Gianasi …
other title: Fatal Frames - Fotogrammi mortali / Fatal Frames - Okkulte Morde …
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.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB
Nineteen Eighty-Four
director: Rudolph Cartier actor: Peter Cushing / Yvonne Mitchell …
other title: 1984 / BBC周日晚间剧场：1984 …
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.
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Cobra Mission (1986) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Cobra Mission
director: Fabrizio De Angelis actor: Christopher Connelly / Oliver Tobias …
other title: Die Rückkehr der Wildgänse / Commando Cobra …
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.
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To Kill a Stranger (1986) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
To Kill a Stranger
director: Juan López Moctezuma actor: Angélica María / Dean Stockwell …
other title: Missing and Killed - Der Massenmörder / Matar a un extraño …
Cristina Carver (Angelica Maria) finds herself in dire straits after she arrives to spend some time with her TV-reporter husband (Dean Stockwell) who is visiting a Latin American country run by a military dictator. After a car accident one day, Cristina brings the helpful Col. Kostik (Donald Pleasence) home and then kills him in self-defense when he violently attempts to rape and murder her. Terrified, she covers up her act and hides the body, yet in spite of her husband's efforts to protect her, a local police detective starts to figure out what really happened.
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Night Creature (1978) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Night Creature
director: Lee Madden actor: Donald Pleasence / Jennifer Rhodes …
other title: Out of the Darkness
A big-game hunter brings a killer leopard to his private island and turns it loose so he can hunt it down. However, unexpected visitors arrive at the island and interrupt his hunt. Meanwhile, the leopard begins to hunt the inhabitants of the island.
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The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (1978) [TV] WikiData TMDB IMDb
The Dark Secret of Harvest Home
actor: Bette Davis / David Ackroyd …
A New York commercial artist and his wife and daughter move to a quiet, rustic New England village they visited during their travels, only to find themselves mixed up in ritualistic lifestyle full of foreboding secrets.
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Tomorrow Never Comes (1978) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Tomorrow Never Comes
director: Peter Collinson actor: Oliver Reed / Susan George …
other title: A Última Jogada / Morgen gibt es kein Erwachen …
Coming back from an extended business trip, Frank discovers that his girlfriend Janie is now working at a new resort hotel where the owner has given her a permanent place to stay, as well as other gifts, in exchange for her affections. The two of them get into a fight and things quickly get out of control and the police are called and in turns into a hostage situation...
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Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1979) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff
director: Marvin J. Chomsky actor: Anne Heywood / Donald Pleasence …
other title: Relazioni disperate / Buena suerte, Miss Wyckoff …
An abusive sexual relationship between a white spinster schoolteacher and a young black janitor in 1956 Kansas complicates her struggle to come to grips with her sexuality and emotions.
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The Hands of Orlac (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Hands of Orlac
director: Edmond T. Gréville actor: Mel Ferrer / Christopher Lee …
other title: Le mani dell'altro / Die unheimlichen Hände des Dr. Orlak …
Famed concert pianist Stephen Orlac survives a plane crash, but his hands are permanently destroyed. Helpful surgeon Volcheff grafts a pair of new hands on the hapless Orlac. Unfortunately, they're the hands of an executed murderer – useless for a pianist, but quite handy for less delicate work...