Cinematography: Daniel Pearl

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Daniel Pearl. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

1974 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Tobe Hooper

Cast Marilyn Burns · Paul A. Partain · Edwin Neal · Jim Siedow

Synopsis The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) follows a group of friends traveling through rural Texas who encounter a family of cannibalistic killers. After picking up a hitchhiker, they stumble upon an isolated farmhouse where they are hunted by a chainsaw-wielding maniac...

6.7

44K votes

6.7

44K votes

Amazon Women on the Moon

1987 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Joe Dante · Carl Gottlieb · Peter Horton · John Landis

Cast Arsenio Hall · Donald F. Muhich · Monique Gabrielle · Lou Jacobi

Synopsis A series of short sketches, most of which parody late-night television and the low-budget movies one often finds there. Other skits include a man being attacked by his apartment, a funeral hosted by classic comedians, and a teen-age boy's big...

5.8

515 votes

5.8

515 votes

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

2003 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Marcus Nispel

Cast Jessica Biel · Jonathan Tucker · Eric Balfour · Erica Leerhsen

Synopsis In The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), a group of friends traveling through rural Texas picks up a distressed hitchhiker. Their journey takes a dark turn when they encounter a secluded family with a horrifying secret. As they investigate, they stumble...

5.6

14K votes

5.6

14K votes

The Boy

2016 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction William Brent Bell

Cast Lauren Cohan · Rupert Evans · Ben Robson · Diana Hardcastle

Synopsis In The Boy (2016), a young American woman named Greta takes a nanny job in a remote English village, only to discover her charge is a life-sized doll named Brahms. The elderly couple insists she follow strict rules to care...

5.3

7K votes

5.3

7K votes

Mom and Dad

2017 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Brian Taylor

Cast Nicolas Cage · Selma Blair · Anne Winters · Zackary Arthur

Synopsis A teenage girl and her little brother must survive a wild 24 hours during which a mass hysteria of unknown origins causes parents to turn violently on their own kids.

5.1

4K votes

5.1

4K votes

No One Lives

2012 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Ryûhei Kitamura

Cast Luke Evans · Adelaide Clemens · Lee Tergesen · Laura Ramsey

Synopsis Fourteen students appear brutally murdered, and the crime scene offers no clues as to the whereabouts of the one person who could be the only survivor, a young woman named Emma. Months later, some bandits attack a young couple’s car,...

5.0

2K votes

5.0

2K votes

Invaders From Mars

1986 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Tobe Hooper

Cast Hunter Carson · Karen Black · Louise Fletcher · Timothy Bottoms

Synopsis A small boy witnesses a flying saucer land near his house. The next day, his dad starts acting weird, and has a strange incision in the back of his neck. Soon the police, his mom, and a teacher are taken...

4.8

1K votes

4.8

1K votes

The Return

1980 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Greydon Clark

Cast Jan-Michael Vincent · Cybill Shepherd · Martin Landau · Raymond Burr

Synopsis Two young children and an adult in a small town have an encounter with an alien spaceship. 25 years later the children are reunited as adults in the same town which is now beset by strange cattle mutilations. Matters become...

4.6

27 votes

4.6

27 votes

The Intruder

2019 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Deon Taylor

Cast Michael Ealy · Meagan Good · Dennis Quaid · Joe Sikora

Synopsis When a young married couple (Michael Ealy & Meagan Good) buys their dream house in the Napa Valley, they think they have found the perfect home to take their next steps as a family. But when the strangely attached seller...

4.6

623 votes

4.6

623 votes

Friday the 13th

2009 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Marcus Nispel

Cast Derek Mears · Jared Padalecki · Danielle Panabaker · Amanda Righetti

Synopsis A remake of the classic horror film directed in 1980 by Sean S. Cunningham. Welcome back to Crystal Lake in a chilling re-imagining of the classic horror film. Searching for his missing sister, Clay Miller heads up to the eerie...

4.4

8K votes

4.4

8K votes

A Return to Salem's Lot

1987 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Larry Cohen

Cast Michael Moriarty · Ricky Addison Reed · Samuel Fuller · Andrew Duggan

Synopsis Anthropologist/filmmaker Joe Weber is called back from the Amazon urgently, only to find that it is his ex-wife who drops the unwanted charge of their son Jeremy upon him. Joe decides to take Jeremy away to the house he has...

4.4

373 votes

4.4

373 votes

Pathfinder

2007 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Marcus Nispel

Cast Karl Urban · Moon Bloodgood · Russell Means · Clancy Brown

Synopsis In Pathfinder (2007), a young Viking boy is left behind after his clan abandons their raid on North America. Raised by a Native American tribe, he grows up as one of their own, named Ghost. Years later, his peaceful life...

4.4

9K votes

4.4

9K votes

It's Alive 3: Island of the Alive

1987 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Larry Cohen

Cast Michael Moriarty · Karen Black · Laurene Landon · James Dixon

Synopsis The mutant babies have been placed by court order on a deserted island. Appalled by the cycnicism and exploitation of the children by the legal system and the media, the man responsible for them leads an expedition to the island...

4.2

114 votes

4.2

114 votes

Captivity

2007 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Roland Joffé

Cast Elisha Cuthbert · Daniel Gillies · Pruitt Taylor Vince · Laz Alonso

Synopsis Captivity" tells the story of a fashion model who, along with a chauffeur, gets kidnapped and held in a small room by a serial killer. While the psycho methodically terrorizes them, the victims draw strength from each other and fall...

4.0

2K votes

4.0

2K votes

Zapped!

1982 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Robert J. Rosenthal

Cast Scott Baio · Willie Aames · Robert Mandan · Felice Schachter

Synopsis A high school whiz kid who accidentally gains telekinetic powers. Barney uses his newly acquired talent to gain control over bullies, win baseball games, roulette, and of course, to win the affections of beautiful girls--including gorgeous Jane Mitchell. There's trouble,...

3.9

236 votes

3.9

236 votes

Full Moon High

1981 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Larry Cohen

Cast Adam Arkin · Ed McMahon · Roz Kelly · Bill Kirchenbauer

Synopsis A teenager (Adam Arkin) becomes a werewolf after a family vacation in Transylvania.

3.8

112 votes

3.8

112 votes

Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem

2007 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Colin Strause · Greg Strause

Cast Steven Pasquale · Reiko Aylesworth · John Ortiz · Johnny Lewis

Synopsis Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) follows the aftermath of the previous film, where a Predator ship crashes in a small Colorado town, releasing Aliens. A lone Predator arrives to clean up the infestation, but the situation spirals out of control...

3.6

12K votes

3.6

12K votes

The Apparition

2012 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Todd Lincoln

Cast Sebastian Stan · Ashley Greene · Tom Felton · Julianna Guill

Synopsis A couple are haunted by a supernatural presence that is unleashed during a college experiment.

3.4

2K votes

3.4

2K votes

Frankenstein (TV)

2004 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Marcus Nispel

Cast Parker Posey · Vincent Pérez · Thomas Kretschmann · Adam Goldberg

Synopsis Two hundred years after Mary Shelley's novel the brilliant but mad Doctor (Thomas Kretschmann) has sustained his creature and himself over two centuries through genetic experimentation. In present-day America Detective O'Connor (Parker Posey) is investigating a series of horrific murders...

3.2

301 votes

3.2

301 votes

Hometown U.S.A.

1979 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Max Baer Jr.

Cast Gary Springer · David Wilson · Brian Kerwin · Pat Delaney

Synopsis Three 1950s teenagers (Gary Springer, David Wilson, Brian Kerwin) drive around, hang out, listen to music and flirt with girls.

Not rated

Not rated