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...
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