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Roger Donaldson is a Director, Author, Producer, Art Direction and Thanks Néo-Zélandais born on 15 november 1945 at Victoria (Australie)

Roger Donaldson

Roger Donaldson
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Nationality Nouvelle zelande
Birth 15 november 1945 (78 years) at Victoria (Australie)

Roger Donaldson (born 15 November 1945) is an Australian-born New Zealand film director, producer and writer whose films include acclaimed 1981 relationship drama Smash Palace and a run of titles shot in the United States, including Kevin Costner starrers No Way Out and Thirteen Days, and 1997 disaster movie Dante's Peak.

Best films

Dante's Peak (1997)
(Director)
Cocktail (1988)
(Director)
The Recruit (2003)
(Director)
Seeking Justice (2011)
(Director)

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Ian Mune
Ian Mune
(2 films)
John Gilbert
John Gilbert
(3 films)
Geoff Murphy
Geoff Murphy
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Roger Donaldson (19 films)

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Director

The November Man, 1h48
Directed by Roger Donaldson
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors Pierce Brosnan, Olga Kurylenko, Bill Smitrovich, Luke Bracey, Will Patton, Eliza Taylor Morley
Rating62% 3.1480253.1480253.1480253.1480253.148025
Veteran CIA officer Peter Devereaux (Pierce Brosnan) supervises a young operative David Mason (Luke Bracey), and chides him for becoming intimate with a local woman. Relationships can be used against an agent, he says laying out a scenario forcing an agent to choose between the job and someone they love. Subsequently, in a mission to protect a US Ambassador in Montenegro. Devereaux, wearing Kevlar, impersonates the ambassador in a public square, drawing the fire of an assassin. Mason disobeys Devereaux's orders not to fire as the crowd is too close, and in shooting the assassin, Mason accidentally kills a child.
Seeking Justice, 1h45
Directed by Roger Donaldson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Rape and revenge films
Actors Nicolas Cage, January Jones, Harold Perrineau, Jr., Jennifer Carpenter, Xander Berkeley, Guy Pearce
Rating60% 3.0480453.0480453.0480453.0480453.048045
In New Orleans, Will Gerard (Nicolas Cage) is a humble English teacher at Rampart High School. Will's best friend Jimmy (Harold Perrineau) also works at the school. Will's wife Laura (January Jones) is a musician who is in a local orchestra. One night, after a performance, Laura is beaten and brutally raped by a stranger named Hodge (Alex Van).
The Bank Job, 1h51
Directed by Roger Donaldson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Documentary, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Richard Lintern, Stephen Campbel Moore, James Faulkner, Daniel Mays
Rating71% 3.5976753.5976753.5976753.5976753.597675
Petty-criminal-gone-straight, Terry Leather (Jason Statham), owns a struggling car-sales garage. His friend, the photographer Kevin Swain's (Stephen Campbell Moore) ex-girlfriend, a former model named Martine Love (Saffron Burrows) offers Terry a chance to earn enough money to never worry about debt again: a bank robbery in Baker Street, London. Terry gathers his petty-criminal friends, including Kevin, a sometime pornographic actor Dave Shilling (Daniel Mays), a mechanic named Bambas (Alki David), and an elegant con-man "Major" Guy Singer (James Faulkner). While scouting the branch of Lloyds Bank, Terry and Martine inspect the vault while Kevin and Dave case the exterior. The Soho gangster Lew Vogel (David Suchet) happens upon Kevin and Dave, the latter of whom has made some films for Vogel.
The World's Fastest Indian, 2h7
Directed by Roger Donaldson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Adventure, Historical
Themes Films about sexuality, Sports films, Transport films, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Films about automobiles, Motocyclette, Road movies, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Anthony Hopkins, Diane Ladd, Paul Rodriguez, Jessica Cauffiel, Joe Howard, Christopher Lawford
Rating77% 3.898693.898693.898693.898693.89869
Burt Munro is a sort of folk hero in his hometown of Invercargill, New Zealand, known for his friendly easygoing personality, for having the fastest motorcycle in New Zealand and Australia, and for being featured in Popular Mechanics magazine. However, that recognition is contrasted by his exasperated next-door neighbours, some of whom are fed up with his un-neighbourly habits such as revving his motorbike early in the morning, urinating on his lemon tree, and not mowing his grass. Burt however has a longtime dream, to travel to the USA and test his motorbike's capabilities at the Bonneville Speedway.
The Recruit, 1h55
Directed by Roger Donaldson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors Al Pacino, Colin Farrell, Bridget Moynahan, Gabriel Macht, Ron Lea, Kenneth Mitchell
Rating65% 3.29863.29863.29863.29863.2986
James Clayton (Colin Farrell), a computer programming expert at MIT, is offered an interview by senior Central Intelligence Agency instructor Walter Burke (Al Pacino) for a position with the Agency. After witnessing a demonstration of Clayton's skills, Burke tests Clayton with a puzzle encoded on the sports page of a newspaper. Clayton agrees to be recruited because he wants information about his missing father, whom he suspects was a CIA agent.
Thirteen Days, 2h25
Directed by Roger Donaldson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Documentary, Historical
Themes Films about families, Seafaring films, Politique, Transport films, Political films, Arme nucléaire
Actors Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, Steven Culp, Stephanie Romanov, Dylan Baker, Kevin Conway
Rating72% 3.64823.64823.64823.64823.6482
In October 1962, U-2 surveillance photos reveal that the Soviet Union is in the process of placing missiles carrying nuclear weapons in Cuba. President John F. Kennedy (Bruce Greenwood) and his advisers must come up with a plan of action to prevent their activation. Kennedy is determined to show that the United States will not allow a missile threat. The Joint Chiefs of Staff advise immediate U.S. military strikes against the missile sites followed by an invasion of Cuba. However, Kennedy is reluctant to attack and invade because it would very likely cause the Soviets to invade Berlin, which could lead to an all-out war. Citing The Guns of August, Kennedy sees an analogy to the events that started World War I, where the tactics of both sides commanders had not evolved since the previous war and were obsolete, only this time nuclear weapons are involved. War appears to be almost inevitable.
Dante's Peak, 1h49
Directed by Roger Donaldson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes La fin du monde, Volcanisme, Films about volcanoes, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Pierce Brosnan, Linda Hamilton, Charles Hallahan, Elizabeth Hoffman, Jamie Renée Smith, Jeremy Foley
Rating60% 3.001693.001693.001693.001693.00169
Dr. Harry Dalton (Pierce Brosnan), a volcanologist of the United States Geological Survey, and his partner Marianne (Walker Brandt), are studying volcanic activity in Colombia when the volcano erupts. Marianne is killed by a piece of falling debris, leaving Harry remorseful about her death, believing it could have been prevented by evacuating sooner.
Species
Species (1995)
, 1h48
Directed by Roger Donaldson
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Horror
Themes Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Films about extraterrestrial life, Alien invasions in films, Disaster films
Actors Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Alfred Molina, Forest Whitaker, Marg Helgenberger, Natasha Henstridge
Rating59% 2.9504152.9504152.9504152.9504152.950415
During the SETI program, Earth's scientists send out transmissions (shown to be the Arecibo message) with information about Earth and its inhabitants, DNA structure, etc., in hopes of finding life beyond Earth. They then receive transmissions from an alien source on how to create endless fuel effortlessly. Therefore, the scientists assume that this is a friendly alien species. From a second alien transmission, the scientists receive information about an alien DNA along with instructions on how to splice it with human DNA. A government team led by Xavier Fitch (Ben Kingsley) goes forward with the genetic experiment attempting to induce a female, because a female would have "more docile and controllable" traits. One of the hundred experimental ova produces a girl named Sil, who looks like a normal human but develops into a 12-year-old in 3 months.
The Getaway, 1h55
Directed by Roger Donaldson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Heist films, Chase films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Michael Madsen, James Woods, Jennifer Tilly, Richard Farnsworth
Rating57% 2.8991952.8991952.8991952.8991952.899195
Carter "Doc" McCoy (Baldwin) and his wife Carol (Basinger) are taking target practice with pistols when Rudy (Madsen) arrives to propose they break a Mexican drug lord's nephew out of jail for a $300,000 payment. The job is successful, but it turns out the drug lord wanted his nephew free only in order to kill him.
White Sands, 1h41
Directed by Roger Donaldson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Actors Willem Dafoe, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Mickey Rourke, Samuel L. Jackson, M. Emmet Walsh, James Rebhorn
Rating59% 2.999042.999042.999042.999042.99904
Ray Dolezal, a bored Torrance County, New Mexico Deputy Sheriff, investigates an apparent suicide in the desert. Alongside the body is a suitcase containing $500,000. During the autopsy, they find a digested piece of paper with a phone number; Dolezal, posing as Spenser, calls the number and goes to a meeting, where he is robbed and instructed to meet Gorman Lennox at a restaurant. FBI agent Greg Meeker intercepts Dolezal and informs him that Spenser was really an undercover agent. Now that Dolezal has lost the money, Meeker suggests he continue posing as Spenser to either recover the money or help arrest Lennox.
Cadillac Man, 1h37
Directed by Roger Donaldson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Robin Williams, Tim Robbins, Pamela Reed, Fran Drescher, Lauren Tom, Annabella Sciorra
Rating57% 2.850242.850242.850242.850242.85024
Queens car salesman Joey O'Brien (Robin Williams) must deal with the ever-increasing pressures in his life: he has an ex-wife demanding alimony, a daughter who is missing, a married mistress (Fran Drescher) and a single mistress (Lori Petty) who are both desperately in love with him, and a two-day deadline to either sell twelve cars or lose his job. In addition, he has an outstanding loan to a Mafia don which he must either quickly repay, or lose his life.
Cocktail
Cocktail (1988)
, 1h43
Directed by Roger Donaldson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Buddy films
Actors Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown, Elisabeth Shue, Gina Gershon, Kelly Lynch, Lisa Banes
Rating59% 2.9514952.9514952.9514952.9514952.951495
After leaving the United States Army and moving to New York City, Brian Flanagan (Tom Cruise) gets a part-time job as a bartender at night while studying for a business degree. Over time, he learns the tricks of the trade, including flairing, from his boss/mentor Doug Coughlin (Bryan Brown). Brian and Doug soon become very close; Doug readily assumes a mentor role over the young and naive Brian, and rains advice and opinions down upon him. His advice takes a familiar structure, as he usually begins most of them with "Coughlin's Law".
No Way Out
No Way Out (1987)
, 1h54
Directed by Roger Donaldson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance
Themes Spy films, Politique, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Political films, LGBT-related films, United States Armed Forces in films, LGBT-related film
Actors Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Will Patton, Sean Young, Howard Duff, David Paymer
Rating70% 3.54843.54843.54843.54843.5484
At an inaugural ball, US Navy Lieutenant Commander Tom Farrell meets a woman, Susan Atwell, and they begin an affair, although she is involved with another man. Later, Farrell begins to work at the Pentagon for the US Secretary of Defense, David Brice.
Marie
Marie (1985)
, 1h52
Directed by Roger Donaldson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Sissy Spacek, Jeff Daniels, Keith Szarabajka, Morgan Freeman, Lisa Banes, Trey Wilson
Rating66% 3.338873.338873.338873.338873.33887
La vie de Marie Ragghianti, une mère célibataire et de nomination politique, démise de ses fonctions et harcelée pour avoir refusé coopérer avec la corruption.
The Bounty
The Bounty (1984)
, 2h12
Directed by Roger Donaldson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox, Daniel Day-Lewis, Liam Neeson
Rating69% 3.497263.497263.497263.497263.49726
The film is set as flashbacks from the court martial at Greenwich of Commanding Lieutenant William Bligh (Anthony Hopkins) for the loss of HMS Bounty to mutineers led by his friend Fletcher Christian (Mel Gibson) during its expedition to Tahiti to gather breadfruit pods for transplantation in the Caribbean.