Donald Pleasence

Donald Pleasence films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 22 films on Boxlist

Known for Halloween, Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy and The Great Escape.

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Starring Donald Pleasence

  1. Halloween

    Halloween

    1978 · Film

    7.6/10 · TMDB

    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, Illinois to kill again.

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  2. Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy

    Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy

    2010 · Film

    8.1/10 · TMDB

    For decades, Freddy Krueger has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters, scaring up over half a billion dollars at the box office across eight terrifying, spectacular films.

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  3. The Great Escape

    The Great Escape

    1963 · Film

    8.0/10 · TMDB

    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...

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  4. Escape from New York

    Escape from New York

    1981 · Film

    7.1/10 · TMDB

    In the future, crime is out of control and New York City's Manhattan is a maximum security prison. Grabbing a bargaining chip right out of the air, convicts bring down the President's plane in bad old Gotham. Gruff Snake Plissken, a...

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  5. Cul-de-sac

    Cul-de-sac

    1966 · Film

    6.9/10 · TMDB

    A wounded criminal and his dying partner take refuge at an old beachfront fortress. The owner of the fortress and his young wife, initially unwilling hosts, quickly experience their relationship with the criminal shift in a humorous and...

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  6. THX 1138

    THX 1138

    1971 · Film

    6.5/10 · TMDB

    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...

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  7. You Only Live Twice

    You Only Live Twice

    1967 · Film

    6.6/10 · TMDB

    A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the case in Japan and comes face to face with his archenemy Blofeld.

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  8. Escape to Witch Mountain

    Escape to Witch Mountain

    1975 · Film

    6.3/10 · TMDB

    Tia and Tony are two orphaned youngsters with extraordinary powers. Lucas Deranian poses as their uncle in order to get the kids into the clutches of Deranian's megalomaniacal boss, evil millionaire Aristotle Bolt, who wants to exploit...

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  9. Phenomena

    Phenomena

    1985 · Film

    6.8/10 · TMDB

    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.

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  10. The Eagle Has Landed

    The Eagle Has Landed

    1976 · Film

    6.6/10 · TMDB

    When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations...

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  11. Watch Out, We're Mad

    Watch Out, We're Mad

    1974 · Film

    7.5/10 · TMDB

    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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  12. Alone in the Dark

    Alone in the Dark

    1982 · Film

    6.0/10 · TMDB

    A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.

  13. Dracula

    Dracula

    1979 · Film

    6.4/10 · TMDB

    Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Count Dracula is a subject of fatal attraction to more than one English maiden lady, as he seeks an immortal bride.

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  14. Shadows and Fog

    Shadows and Fog

    1991 · Film

    6.9/10 · TMDB

    With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.

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  15. Prince of Darkness

    Prince of Darkness

    1987 · Film

    6.8/10 · TMDB

    A research team finds a mysterious cylinder in a deserted church. If opened, it could mean the end of the world.

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  16. The Night of the Generals

    The Night of the Generals

    1967 · Film

    6.8/10 · TMDB

    An unusual World War II crime thriller about a Nazi investigation into the murder of a prostitute. Major Grau finds himself focusing on three suspects: the Generals Tanz, Kahlenberg and Seydlitz-Gabler – all three of whom, it seems, are...

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  17. Soldier Blue

    Soldier Blue

    1970 · Film

    7.1/10 · TMDB

    After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive private devoted to his duty, and Cresta, a young woman who had lived with the Cheyenne two years and whose sympathies lie more with them than...

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  18. The Last Tycoon

    The Last Tycoon

    1976 · Film

    6.5/10 · TMDB

    F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.

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  19. Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

    Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

    1988 · Film

    6.1/10 · TMDB

    The apparently comatose Michael Myers is being transferred from one hospital to another, but he wakes up when the ambulance crew talk about his surviving niece, Jamie. After slaughtering his attendants, Myers sets out to find his one...

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  20. Halloween II

    Halloween II

    1981 · Film

    6.5/10 · TMDB

    After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael Myers has followed Laurie to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she's been admitted for Myers' attempt on her...

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  21. Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers

    Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers

    1989 · Film

    5.4/10 · TMDB

    Presumed dead after a shoot-out with the Haddonfield police, Michael Myers is secretly nursed back to health -- and returns a year later to kill again and once more targets his young niece, Jamie. Jamie is now recovering in the local...

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  22. Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers

    Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers

    1995 · Film

    5.2/10 · TMDB

    Six years ago, Michael Myers terrorized the town of Haddonfield, Illinois. He and his niece, Jamie Lloyd, have disappeared. Jamie was kidnapped by a bunch of evil druids who protect Michael Myers. And now, six years later, Jamie has...

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