Donald Pleasence Movies

In the Indian Ocean, the new British Resident of the Welcome Islands tangles with loneliness, angry natives, a drunken troublemaker and a sudden outbreak of cholera.

An American movie company wants to shoot a science-fiction film using a British army barracks as a location, and its soldiers as actors.

A wealthy young man from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer. She decides to take him for every penny he is worth, and he decides to let her.

In a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.

In the African desert, a British soldier romances a native chief's daughter and helps the tribe fight off a German attack.

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.

A middle-aged steamboat captain who believes in a rigorous self-control when it comes to needs, desires and emotions, slowly falls for a pretty female stowaway.

A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition.

During the turbulent days of the French Revolution, Frenchwoman Lucie Manette falls in love with Englishman Charles Darnay, who's hiding his true identity and purpose.

A boy's love for his dog in face of his father's opposition.

During World War II, a British officer stationed in India is recruited by Army Intelligence and tasked with learning Japanese to interrogate Japanese P.O.W.s, and he falls in love with his pretty Japanese teacher, Sabby.

A jeweler's bookkeeper steals a gem and kills someone while escaping to Europe, where he lives luxuriously and chases women. A detective follows his trail, realizing others are hunting him too, suggesting a deeper mystery.

A long-entrenched British agent planted in the German Army is urged to continue his work during the Second World War, but struggles to keep secret his true identity from the Third Reich.

A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.

In the 19th century, during the German colonial rule, railway engineer Robert Adamson arrives in the Kilimanjaro Region to finish building a railroad through hostile territory.

A former pimp, released from prison, disregards his ex-cellmate's advice and reverts to criminal activities, this time involving a photographic model racket.

In 1828 Scotland, Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Knox does medical research on cadavers he buys from murderers Burke and Hare, without questioning the unethical procurement methods.

Angela Barrows, an accomplished business analyst from the US, attempts to contemporise the late MacPherson's tweed factory, shaking the very foundation of a men-only company.

Dr. Rossiter, a plastic surgeon wanted by the police, flees to France and under an assumed name acquires, by murder, a run-down circus. His first recruit is a woman criminal. He transforms her face by surgery and trains her.

In Britain, a Manchester police inspector becomes obsessed with capturing a criminal who escapes from prison.

A young man with artistic talent lives in a close-knit coal-mining town and finds himself inhibited by his emotionally manipulative mother.

Three very different men compete for a top job; the result of the interviews comes as a surprise to everyone.

UK scientists find a cure for plague but their government, fearing its military-biological potential, keeps the discovery secret until a scientist is duped into giving it to a foreign power.

A pianist who loses his hands in a plane crash receives the transplanted hands of an executed criminal but his new hands have the murderous tendencies of their previous owner.

After winning re-election, British Labour Party M.P. Johnnie Byrne faces a series of setbacks in his political career, as well as in his marriage, and must act wisely in order to save both.