Donald Pleasence — Actor (102)
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Lonely Water (1973)
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Jeff Grant actor: Donald Pleasence / Terry Sue-Patt
Warning children not to play near 'dark and lonely' water, a horror film style look and voice-over is used in this film to highlight the dangers.
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Hell Is a City (1960)
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Val Guest actor: Stanley Baker / John Crawford …
other title: L'assassino è alla porta / Hetzjagd …
Set in Manchester, heartland of England's industrial north, Don Starling escapes from jail becoming England's most wanted man. Ruthless villain Starling together with his cronies engineered a robbery that resulted in the violent death of a young girl. Detective Inspector Martineau has been assigned to hunt him down and bring him in. From seedy barrooms, through gambling dens the trail leads to an explosive climax high on the rooftops of the city.
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)
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Michael Schultz actor: Peter Frampton / Barry Gibb …
A small town band makes it big, but loses track of their roots, as they get caught up into the big-time machinations of the music biz. Now, they must thwart a plot to destroy their home town. Built around the music of The Beatles, this musical uses some big name groups like Peter Frampton and Aerosmith.
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The Pied Piper (1972)
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Jacques Demy actor: Donovan / Diana Dors …
other title: Il pifferaio di Hamelin / O Tocador de Flauta …
Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor's daughter's wedding to the Baron's son. He wants her dowry to pay his army while his father taxes the people to build a cathedral he thinks will save his soul. A local apothecary who's a Jew seeks a treatment for the plague; the priests charge him with witchcraft. One of the minstrels, who has soothed the Mayor's daughter with his music, promises to rid the town of rats for the fee. The Mayor agrees, then renigs. In the morning, the plague, the Jew's trial, and the Piper's revenge come at once.
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River of Death (1989)
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Steve Carver actor: Michael Dudikoff / Robert Vaughn …
other title: Il fiume della morte / Dødens flod …
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.
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The Devonsville Terror (1983)
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Ulli Lommel actor: Suzanna Love / Robert Walker Jr. …
other title: Totentanz der Hexen / Terror en Devonsville …
Dr. Worley investigates a 300-year-old witch's curse in the New England town of Devonsville. Three liberated, assertive women move into town, which angers the bigoted, male-dominated town fathers. One of the women is a reincarnation of the witch, who proceeds to exact revenge on them.
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1984 (1956)
1984
Michael Anderson actor: Edmond O'Brien / Jan Sterling …
other title: Nel 2000 non sorge il sole / 一九八四 …
In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
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Telefon (1977)
Telefon
Don Siegel actor: Charles Bronson / Lee Remick …
other title: Telefonen / Un espion de trop …
Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB agents sent to the U.S. in the 1950's. These agents got their assignments under hypnosis, so they can't remember their missions until they're told a line of a Robert Frost poem. Dalchimski flees to the U.S. and starts phoning these agents who perform sabotage acts against military targets.
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Specters (1987)
Spettri
Marcello Avallone actor: John R. Pepper / Trine Michelsen …
other title: Spettri / Specters - Mächte des Bösen …
A mysterious tomb is unearthed in the catacombs under Rome, the contents of which contain evidence of an ageless evil that may once have preyed on man.
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Specters (1987)
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Marcello Avallone actor: John R. Pepper / Trine Michelsen …
other title: Spettri / Specters - Mächte des Bösen …
A mysterious tomb is unearthed in the catacombs under Rome, the contents of which contain evidence of an ageless evil that may once have preyed on man.
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Watch Out, We're Mad (1974)
...altrimenti ci arrabbiamo!
Marcello Fondato actor: Terence Hill / Bud Spencer …
other title: ...altrimenti ci arrabbiamo! / Pas på! Vi er rasende... …
After a tied 1st place in a local stunt race, two drivers start a contest to decide who of them will own the prize, a dune buggy. But when a mobster destroys the car, they are determined to get it back.
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Last In, First Out (1978)
L'Ordre et la sécurité du monde TMDB
Claude d'Anna actor: Bruno Cremer / Donald Pleasence …
other title: L'Ordre et la sécurité du monde
A woman on a train becomes the center of attention when she is mistaken for a spy by opposing factions who are traveling on the same line.
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Jesus of Nazareth (1977)
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Franco Zeffirelli actor: Robert Powell / Olivia Hussey …
other title: Gesù di Nazareth / Jesus von Nazareth …
Dramatizes the Birth, Life, Ministry, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, largely according to the Holy Bible's New Testament Gospels.
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The Caretaker (1964)
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Clive Donner actor: Alan Bates / Donald Pleasence …
other title: The Caretaker - Il guardiano / O Encarregado …
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...
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Cul-de-sac (1966)
Cul-de-sac
Roman Polanski actor: Lionel Stander / Donald Pleasence …
other title: Cul de sac / Cul-de-Sac - O Beco …
On the run and in search of help, two wounded gangsters 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.
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Pumaman (1980)
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Alberto De Martino actor: Walter George Alton / Donald Pleasence …
other title: L'uomo puma / Der Puma-Man …
Thousands of years ago, aliens visited Earth and fathered the Pumaman, a man-god with supernatural powers entrusted by a gold mask with the ability to control people's minds, which in present-day London, falls into the wrong hands.
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The Great Escape (1963)
The Great Escape
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John Sturges actor: Steve McQueen / James Garner …
other title: La grande fuga / Den store flugt …
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.