Roger Donaldson
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Roger Donaldson (born 15 November 1945) is an Australian-born New Zealand film producer, director and writer who has made numerous successful movies. He was a co-founder of the New Zealand Film Commission.
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McLaren (2017)
The story of New Zealander, Bruce McLaren, who founded the McLaren Motor Racing team, showing the world that a man of humble beginnings could take on the elite of motor racing and win.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Roger Donaldson
Stars: Dwayne Cameron | Jackie Stewart | Mario Andretti | Alastair Caldwell | Dan Gurney
The November Man (2014)
An ex- CIA operative is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high level CIA officials and the Russian president-elect.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Roger Donaldson
Stars: Pierce Brosnan | Olga Kurylenko | Bill Smitrovich | Luke Bracey | Amila Terzimehic
All Quiet on the Western Front (2012)
A young German soldier's terrifying experiences and distress on the western front during World War I.
Directed by: Roger Donaldson
Stars: Daniel Brühl
Seeking Justice (2011)
After his wife is assaulted, a husband enlists the services of a vigilante group to help him settle the score.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Roger Donaldson
Stars: Nicolas Cage | Guy Pearce | January Jones | Jennifer Carpenter | Harold Perrineau
Lawyers (2010)
Short film about a failed marriage proposal by Roger Donaldson.
Runtime: 7 min.
Directed by: Roger Donaldson
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The Bank Job (2008)
Terry is a small-time car dealer trying to leave his shady past behind and start a family. Martine is a beautiful model from Terry's old neighbourhood who knows that Terry is no angel. When Martine proposes a foolproof plan to rob a bank, Terry recognises the danger but realises this may be the opportunity of a lifetime. As the resourceful band of thieves burrows its way into a safe-deposit vault ...
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Roger Donaldson
Stars: Jason Statham | Daniel Mays | Stephen Campbell Moore | Saffron Burrows | James Faulkner
The World's Fastest Indian (2005)
The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle -- a bike which helped him set the land-speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.
Runtime: 127 min.
Directed by: Roger Donaldson
Stars: Anthony Hopkins | Aaron Murphy | Iain Rea | Tessa Mitchell | Tim Shadbolt
The Recruit (2003)
A brilliant CIA trainee must prove his worth at the Farm, the agency's secret training grounds, where he learns to watch his back and trust no one.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Roger Donaldson
Stars: Colin Farrell | Gabriel Macht | Bridget Moynahan | Al Pacino | Karl Pruner
Thirteen Days (2000)
Dramatisation of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the discovery by the Americans of missle bases established on the Soviet allied island of Cuba. Shown from the perspective of the US President, John F Kennedy, his staff and advisors.
Runtime: 145 min.
Directed by: Roger Donaldson
Stars: Kevin Costner | Lucinda Jenney | Caitlin Wachs | Shawn Driscoll | Drake Cook
Dante's Peak (1997)
Volcanologist Harry Dalton comes to the sleepy town of Dante's Peak to investigate the recent rumblings of the dormant volcano the burg is named for. Before long, his worst fears are realized when a massive eruption hits, and immediately, Harry, the mayor and the townspeople find themselves fighting for their lives amid a catastrophic nightmare.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Roger Donaldson
Stars: Pierce Brosnan | Linda Hamilton | Jamie Renée Smith | Jeremy Foley | Elizabeth Hoffman
Species (1995)
In 1993, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Project receives a transmission detailing an alien DNA structure, along with instructions on how to splice it with human DNA. The result is Sil, a sensual but deadly creature who can change from a beautiful woman to an armour-plated killing machine in the blink of an eye.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Roger Donaldson
Stars: Ben Kingsley | Alfred Molina | Michael Madsen | Natasha Henstridge | Marg Helgenberger
The Getaway (1994)
Doc McCoy is put in prison because his partners chickened out and flew off without him after exchanging a prisoner with a lot of money. Doc knows Jack Benyon, a rich "business"-man, is up to something big, so he tells his wife (Carol McCoy) to tell him that he's for sale if Benyon can get him out of prison. Benyon pulls some strings and Doc McCoy is released again. Unfortunately he has to cooperate ...
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Roger Donaldson
Stars: David Morse | Michael Madsen | James Woods | Kim Basinger | Alec Baldwin
White Sands (1992)
A small southwestern town sheriff finds a body in the desert with a suitcase and $500,000. He impersonates the man and stumbles into an FBI investigation.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Roger Donaldson
Stars: Willem Dafoe | Mickey Rourke | Samuel L. Jackson | M. Emmet Walsh | Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Cadillac Man (1990)
Joe's a car salesman with a problem. He has two days to sell 12 cars or he loses his job. This would be a difficult task at the best of times but Joe has to contend with his girlfriends (he's two timing), a missing teenage daughter and an ex-wife. What more could go wrong ?.. a lot, enter a crazy jealous husband with a machine gun...
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Roger Donaldson
Stars: Tim Robbins | Zack Norman | Fran Drescher | Robin Williams | Pamela Reed
Cocktail (1988)
After being discharged from the Army, Brian Flanagan moves back to Queens and takes a job in a bar run by Doug Coughlin, who teaches Brian the fine art of bar-tending. Brian quickly becomes a patron favorite with his flashy drink-mixing style. Brian adopts his mentor's cynical philosophy on life and goes for the money. He leaves his artist girlfriend Jordan Mooney for Bonnie, a wealthy, ...
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Roger Donaldson
Stars: Kelly Lynch | Elisabeth Shue | Bryan Brown | Tom Cruise | Lisa Banes
No Way Out (1987)
Navy Lt. Tom Farrell meets a young woman, Susan Atwell , and they share a passionate fling. Farrell then finds out that his superior, Defense Secretary David Brice, is also romantically involved with Atwell. When the young woman turns up dead, Farrell is put in charge of the murder investigation. He begins to uncover shocking clues about the case, but when details of his encounter with Susan surface, ...
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Roger Donaldson
Stars: Will Patton | George Dzundza | Kevin Costner | Sean Young | Gene Hackman
Marie (1985)
A single mother takes a job with the government where she is confronted with corruption.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Roger Donaldson
Stars: Morgan Freeman | Keith Szarabajka | Jeff Daniels | Sissy Spacek | Fred Dalton Thompson
The Bounty (1984)
The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Lieutenant Bligh to get his loyalists safely to East Timor in a tiny lifeboat.
Runtime: 132 min.
Directed by: Roger Donaldson
Stars: Mel Gibson | Anthony Hopkins | Edward Fox | Daniel Day-Lewis | Laurence Olivier
Smash Palace (1981)
Al Shaw's life revolves around motor racing and his back country junkyard, the "Smash Palace". His French wife, Jacqui, doesn't appreciate the lack of attention due to Al's obsession with cars. When Al finds her in the arms of another man, he takes his daughter, Georgie and heads for the bush, desperately hoping to hold on to the only family he has left. Written by Evan Yates
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Roger Donaldson
Stars: Bruno Lawrence | Desmond Kelly | Anna Maria Monticelli | Keith Aberdein | Greer Robson
Sleeping Dogs (1977)
Recluse Smith is drawn into a revolutionary struggle between guerrillas and right-wingers in New Zealand. Implicated in a murder and framed as a revolutionary conspirator, Smith tries to maintain an attitude of non-violence while caught between warring factions.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Roger Donaldson
Stars: Ian Mune | Sam Neill | Warren Oates | William Johnson | Ian Watkin
Offerings to the God of Speed (1971)
Short subject documentary about land speed record holder Burt Munro. Produced for NZBC.
Runtime: 26 min.
Directed by: Roger Donaldson
Stars: Burt Munro
The Guinea Pig Club ()
Surgeon Archie McIndoe risks his life and career to save injured British pilots during World War II.
Directed by: Roger Donaldson
Stars: Kerry Fox | Richard E. Grant | Sam Neill | Jeremy Irvine