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

Plot A group of five close friends are heading through the back roads of Texas en route to their grandfather's potentially vandalized grave. Among them are Sally Hardesty, and her invalid...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot In the summer of 1973, four teenagers--Erin, Morgan, Kemper, and Andy--are driving through Texas on a road trip when they pick up a hitchhiker, Pepper, who is on her way...

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

Plot Greta (Lauren Cohan) is a nanny working for a family whose son has just passed away, finds herself put in charge of caring for a lifelike doll that the couple...

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

Plot 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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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....

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

Max

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

Plot 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...

Max

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

Plot An action-adventure set in the time when Vikings tried to conquer North America, PATHFINDER tells the heroic story of a young Norse boy left behind after his clan shipwrecks on...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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

Plot In the sequel to the hit 2004 film AVP, the Alien-Predator war continues. A Predator scout ship crash lands in a small Colorado town. The Aliens on board escape and...

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

Plot 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

Plot 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...

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

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

Not rated

Not rated