The best Troy Donahue’s drama movies

Troy Donahue

Troy Donahue

27/01/1936- 02/09/2001
Today we present the best Troy Donahue’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Troy Donahue’s movies.
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The Godfather: Part II

The Godfather: Part II
9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 20/12/1974
  • Character: Merle Johnson
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

Cockfighter

Cockfighter
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/08/1974
  • Character: Randall Mansfield
A man who trains fighting cocks vows to remain silent until one of his birds wins a championship.

Grandview, U.S.A.

Grandview, U.S.A.
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/08/1984
  • Character: Donny Vinton
Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants to go to Florida to study oceanography. He meets Michelle "Mike" Cody and is attracted to her. She runs the local Demolition Derby place. Ernie "Slam" Webster is one of the drivers in the derby who's wife is cheating on him and wants to later on be with Mike. Tim falls for Mike and a big love triangle is about to happen.

Man of a Thousand Faces

Man of a Thousand Faces
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/08/1957
  • Character: Assistant Director (uncredited)
The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney (1883-1930), the man of a thousand faces; bearer of many personal misfortunes that even his great success could not mitigate.

Susan Slade

Susan Slade
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 08/11/1961
  • Character: Hoyt Brecker
A pregnant teen allows her mother to pass the baby off as her own.

Bad Blood

Bad Blood
4.6/10
  • Genre: DramaHorror
  • Release: 01/07/1989
  • Character: Jack Barnes
In this low-budget thriller, a young man (Gregory Patrick) finds out that his mother (Georgina Spelvin) is really a wealthy recluse. His mother -- jealous, possessive and overbearing -- begins to victimize his wife Evie (Linda Blair). Lovers of movie trivia will note the unusual cast, including Georgina Spelvin of The Devil in Miss Jones fame appearing as Ruth Raymond, and 50's teenage heartthrob Troy Donahue.

Imitation of Life

Imitation of Life
7.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 02/10/1959
  • Character: Frankie
Lora Meredith, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway, has a chance encounter with Annie Johnson, a black single mother. Annie becomes the caretaker of Lora's daughter, Susie, while Lora pursues her stage career. Both women deal with the difficulties of motherhood: Lora's thirst for fame threatens her relationship with Susie, while Annie's light-skinned daughter, Sarah Jane, struggles with her African-American identity.

Rome Adventure

Rome Adventure
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 21/04/1962
  • Character: Don Porter
Prudence resigns from her teaching position after being criticized for giving a student her copy of a romance novel. She sails for Italy, takes a job at a small bookstore in Rome, and meets Don, who has just broken up with his girlfriend. Prudence and Don tour Italy together, and romance naturally follows.

Sweet Savior

Sweet Savior
4.2/10
Sandra Barlow is a 70's girl looking for kicks in the form of sex and drugs. One day, she decides to have an orgy drug party and invite some "freaks" led by Moon to entertain her and her rich friends. Moon has other things in mind as his friends are looking for an orgy of sex and gore.

A Summer Place

A Summer Place
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 18/11/1959
  • Character: Johnny Hunter
A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequences for both couples.

The Tarnished Angels

The Tarnished Angels
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/11/1957
  • Character: Frank Burnham
In the 1930s, once-great World War I pilot Roger Shumann performs as a daredevil barnstorming pilot at aerial stunt shows while his wife, LaVerne, works as a parachutist. When newspaper reporter Burke Devlin arrives to do a story on the Shumanns’ act, he quickly falls in love with the beautiful--and neglected--LaVerne.

Parrish

Parrish
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 04/05/1961
  • Character: Parrish McLean
Parrish McLean lives with his mother Ellen on Sala Post's tobacco plantation in the Connecticut River Valley. His mother winds up marrying Sala's rival Judd Raike, ruthless planter who wants to drive Sala out of business. Judd insists that Parrish learn the business from the ground up.

Summer Love

Summer Love
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 10/03/1958
  • Character: Sax Lewis
A neighborhood rock band gets a job playing at a summer camp.

My Blood Runs Cold

My Blood Runs Cold
5.5/10
Wealthy, reckless Californian Julie Merriday, accompanied by her boyfriend Harry Lindsay, an attorney, narrowly avoids crashing into a motorcycle driven by young Ben Gunther. Ben temporarily abandons his damaged cycle and accepts a ride from Julie but insists upon calling her Barbara. Later, at the Merriday beach house, Julie's Aunt Sarah tells Julie that her great great grandmother was named Barbara, and furthermore, that ancestress had an illegitimate child fathered by one Benjamin Gunther.

Malibu

Malibu
6/10
  • Genre: DramaTV Movie
  • Release: 23/01/1983
  • Character: Clint Redman
A young couple from Milwaukee moves into the fabled, high-society Malibu beach community and becomes involved with the lives of the various people living in the community.

Voice in the Mirror

Voice in the Mirror
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/08/1958
  • Character: Paul Cunningham
Jim Burton, chronic alcoholic, is cared for by Ellen, his incredibly patient, sexy, hard-working wife. A doctor's warning that Jim could become mentally ill strikes enough fear into him that he really wants to cure himself...but can't. One night, he meets William Tobin, a fellow drunk, and finds that he helps himself by trying to help Tobin. Thus is born, amid setbacks, a group resembling Alcoholics Anonymous.

The Crowded Sky

The Crowded Sky
5.7/10
When Navy pilot Dale Heath (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) takes off, he doesn't expect his navigational equipment to fail and must adapt when it goes out along with his radio. Heading straight for a commercial jet piloted by Dick Barnett (Dana Andrews), whose plane is full of passengers, Heath can't tell which way to turn in order to avoid a catastrophe.

Low Blow

Low Blow
4/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 01/04/1986
  • Character: John Templeton
Joe Wong (Fong) is a private investigator who goes in search of a young girl kidnapped by a religious cult. Destined to save her, he teams up with a Vietnam vet, a pro-boxing champ and a former cop to save her...

Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story

Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story
6.8/10
A group of high school friends starts a rock band during the 1950's.

Deadly Diamonds

Deadly Diamonds
4.9/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 01/03/1991
  • Character: Matt Plimpton
A mob messenger and a call girl attempt to steal, and get away, from mobsters with a million dollars worth of stolen diamonds.

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