Direction: Richard Donner

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Richard Donner. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


The Twilight Zone (TV Series)

1959 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Rod Serling · John Brahm · Douglas Heyes · Buzz Kulik

Cast Rod Serling · Burgess Meredith · Vaughn Taylor · Jack Klugman

Plot TV series (1959-1964). 5 Seasons. 156 Episodes. Rod Serling's seminal anthology series focused on ordinary folks who suddenly found themselves in extraordinary, usually supernatural, situations. The stories would typically end...

8.0

4K votes

8.0

4K votes

The Twilight Zone: Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (TV)

1963 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Richard Donner

Cast William Shatner · Christine White · Ed Kemmer · Asa Maynor

Plot A man, newly recovered from a nervous breakdown, becomes convinced that a monster only he sees is damaging the plane he's flying in.

7.5

258 votes

7.5

258 votes

The Omen

1976 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Richard Donner

Cast Gregory Peck · Lee Remick · David Warner · Billie Whitelaw

Plot Robert and Katherine Thorn seem to have it all. He is the US Ambassador to Italy and they want for nothing in their lives, except one thing: they do not...

7.4

42K votes

7.4

42K votes

The Goonies

1985 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Richard Donner

Cast Sean Astin · Corey Feldman · Josh Brolin · Martha Plimpton

Plot The Goonies are a crazy bunch of misfit kids whose only hope of saving their neighbourhood from greedy developers who want to use the area to build a new golf...

7.3

72K votes

7.3

72K votes

The Fugitive (TV Series)

1963 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Roy Huggins · Jerry Hopper · Walter Grauman · Alexander Singer

Cast David Janssen · Barry Morse · William Conrad · Paul Birch

Plot TV Series (1963-1967). 4 Seasons. 120 Episodes. Dr. Richard Kimble, an Indiana pediatrician, is accused, arrested, tried and convicted of the murder of his wife. Kimble claims he was on...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

Get Smart (TV Series)

1965 · Series · 20 min. · United States

Direction Buck Henry · Mel Brooks · Gary Nelson · Bruce Bilson

Cast Don Adams · Barbara Feldon · Edward Platt · Robert Karvelas

Plot TV Series (1965-1970). 5 Seasons. 138 Episodes. Mel Brooks and Buck Henry created this show as a spoof of James Bond and the many TV imitators that followed in 007's...

6.9

9K votes

6.9

9K votes

Ladyhawke

1985 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction Richard Donner

Cast Michelle Pfeiffer · Matthew Broderick · Rutger Hauer · Leo McKern

Plot A haunting adventure fantasy about a pair of cursed lovers who are transformed into animal shapes during alternate periods of the day. It all begins when the thief Philippe Gaston...

6.7

18K votes

6.7

18K votes

Lethal Weapon

1987 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Richard Donner

Cast Mel Gibson · Danny Glover · Gary Busey · Mitchell Ryan

Plot The first in a series of four Lethal Weapons. Mel Gibson plays an emotionally off-balanced undercover cop. His partner, Danny Glover, is good valued family man. The two opposite personalities...

6.7

83K votes

6.7

83K votes

Superman: The Movie

1978 · Movie · 143 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Richard Donner

Cast Christopher Reeve · Marlon Brando · Gene Hackman · Margot Kidder

Plot Chronicles the origins of Superman - rocketed from the dying planet Krypton by his scientist father Jor-El, Kal-El arrives on Earth and is taken in by the Kents. After his...

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6.7

79K votes

6.7

79K votes

Tales from the Crypt (TV Series)

1989 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Steven Dodd · Russell Mulcahy · Elliot Silverstein · Robert Zemeckis

Cast John Kassir · Roy Brocksmith · Miguel Ferrer · Larry Drake

Plot TV Series (1989-1996). 7 Seasons. 93 Episodes. Based on the legendary and gruesome 1950's EC Comics from publisher, William M. Gaines, this horror anthology featured stories of murder, greed, lust,...

6.5

6K votes

6.5

6K votes

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

2006 · Movie · 115 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Richard Donner

Cast Christopher Reeve · Gene Hackman · Marlon Brando · Ned Beatty

Plot Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut is a 2006 American superhero film directed by Richard Donner. It is re-edited director's cut of the 1980 theatrical version of Superman II directed...

6.5

3K votes

6.5

3K votes

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series)

1964 · Series · 50 min. · United States

Direction Sam Rolfe · E. Darrell Hallenbeck · Joseph Sargent · John Brahm

Cast Robert Vaughn · David McCallum · Leo G. Carroll · Barbara Moore

Plot TV Serie (1964-1968). 4 Seasons. 105 episodes. Napoleon Solo and Illya Kullyakin are the two agents of the United Network Command for Law Enforcement, who fight evil (primarily an organization...

6.5

197 votes

6.5

197 votes

Perry Mason (TV Series)

1957 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Erle Stanley Gardner · Arthur Marks · Jesse Hibbs · William D. Russell

Cast Raymond Burr · William Hopper · Barbara Hale · William Talman

Plot TV Series (1957-1966). 9 Seasons. 271 Episodes. Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) is an attorney who specializes in defending seemingly indefensible cases. With the aid of his secretary Della Street (Barbara...

6.5

1K votes

6.5

1K votes

Wanted: Dead or Alive (TV Series)

1958 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Thomas Carr · Don McDougall · George Blair · Murray Golden

Cast Steve McQueen · James Coburn · Jack Tornek · Michael Landon

Plot TV Series (1958-1961). Wanted: Dead or Alive was an American Western television show which ran for three seasons from 1958 to 1961, starred unconventional-looking leading man Steve McQueen, and was...

6.4

70 votes

6.4

70 votes

The Wild Wild West (TV Series)

1965 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Michael Garrison · Irving J. Moore · Robert Sparr · Alan Crosland Jr.

Cast Robert Conrad · Ross Martin · Dick Cangey · Red West

Plot TV Series (1965-1969). 4 Seasons. 104 Episodes. James West and Artemus Gordon are two agents of President Grant who take their splendidly appointed private train through the west to fight...

6.4

463 votes

6.4

463 votes

Ironside (TV Series)

1967 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Collier Young · Don Weis · Don McDougall · Russ Mayberry

Cast Raymond Burr · Don Galloway · Don Mitchell · Barbara Anderson

Plot Ironside is confined to a wheel chair (an attempted assassination left him paralyzed). With his former assistants Brown and Whitfield (later Belding) and former delinquent (and later lawyer) Mark, he...

6.3

445 votes

6.3

445 votes

The Twilight Zone: The Jeopardy Room (TV)

1964 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Richard Donner

Cast Martin Landau · John Van Dreelen · Bob Kelljan

Plot A defector is trapped in a hotel room and given 3 hours to find a hidden bomb.

6.3

53 votes

6.3

53 votes

Radio Flyer

1992 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Richard Donner

Cast Lorraine Bracco · John Heard · Elijah Wood · Joseph Mazzello

Plot A father reminisces about his childhood when he and his younger brother moved to a new town with their mother, her new husband and their dog, Shane. When the younger...

6.3

786 votes

6.3

786 votes

Inside Moves

1980 · Movie · 180 min. · United States

Direction Richard Donner

Cast John Savage · David Morse · Diana Scarwid · Amy Wright

Plot The story follows Rory (Savage), a man who has come to the end of his life only to begin life anew amongst the patrons of Max's, a bar in Oakland...

6.2

187 votes

6.2

187 votes

Maverick

1994 · Movie · 129 min. · United States

Direction Richard Donner

Cast Mel Gibson · Jodie Foster · James Garner · James Coburn

Plot Bret Maverick is a superb professional poker gambler, as handy with the handgun as he handles the cards, but also a master at avoiding violence by deception. Like all great...

6.1

18K votes

6.1

18K votes