Peter Donat’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Peter Donat has 9 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2000s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by The Game.
Recurring themes

The Star Chamber
1983
Drama · Thriller

Jennifer Eight
1992
Crime · Drama

Murder by Numbers
2002
Crime · Drama

Johnny Handsome
1989
Crime · Drama

Bad Boys
1983
Crime · Drama

An Innocent Man
1989
Crime · Drama

White Nights
1985
Drama · Thriller

A Dry White Season
1989
Drama · Thriller

In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a cold-hearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad: a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nary a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distinguish where the charade ends and reality begins.
Dir. David Fincher · With Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger

Barbara and Oliver Rose live happily as a married couple. When Barbara starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver and likes what she sees, the two begin a campaign to force each other to leave their house, with their divorce lawyer D'Amato caught in the middle.
Dir. Danny DeVito · With Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito

While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. Wells is determined to publicize the incident, but soon finds herself entangled in a sinister conspiracy to keep the full impact of the incident a secret.
Dir. James Bridges · With Jane Fonda, Michael Douglas, Jack Lemmon

Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1945. Engineer Preston Tucker dreams of designing the car of future, but his innovative envision will be repeatedly sabotaged by his own unrealistic expectations and the Detroit automobile industry tycoons.
Dir. Francis Ford Coppola · With Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen, Martin Landau

Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher his methods become more ruthless and finally senator Madison starts a campaign to find the truth about the alleged connections with the Mob.
Dir. Norman Jewison · With Sylvester Stallone, Rod Steiger, Peter Boyle

When David Greene receives a football scholarship to a prestigious prep school in the 1950s, he feels pressure to hide the fact that he is Jewish from his classmates and teachers, fearing that they may be anti-Semitic. He quickly becomes the big man on campus thanks to his football skills, but when his Jewish background is discovered, his worst fears are realized and his friends turn on him with violent threats and public ridicule.
Dir. Robert Mandel · With Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Chris O'Donnell

With her husband Jack perpetually away at work, Margaret Hall raises her children virtually alone. Her teenage son is testing the waters of the adult world, and early one morning she wakes to find the dead body of his gay lover on the beach of their rural lakeside home. What would you do? What is rational and what do you do to protect your child? How far do you go and when do you stop?
Dir. Scott McGehee, David Siegel · With Tilda Swinton, Goran Višnjić, Jonathan Tucker

An American attorney on business in China, ends up wrongfully on trial for murder and his only key to innocence is a female defense lawyer from the country.
Dir. Jon Avnet · With Richard Gere, Bai Ling, Bradley Whitford
Bound together by a desire to play "Mazes and Monsters," Robbie and his four college classmates decide to move the board game into the local cavern. Robbie loses his mind, and the line between reality and fantasy fuse into a harrowing nightmare.
Dir. Steven Hilliard Stern · With Tom Hanks, Wendy Crewson, David Wallace