Most Americans -- even those who travel in film spheres -- will not immediately recognize the name of Pierre Rissient, but...
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Cinematographer
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2008
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Cinematographer
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2007
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Camera Operator
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2006
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Cinematographer
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2005
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Cinematographer
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2003
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The film opens with long flashbacks to the dreadful original: crazy Suzanne Oliver (Shauna O'Bryan) has sex in a shower with...
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Director
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1998
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A wandering gunfighter finds himself unwelcome in a frontier town terrorized and controlled by a group of bandits in this...
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Cinematographer
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1997
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Cinematographer
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1997
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A 12-year-old girl needs help when her father falls on hard times after crooked competitors put his business on the rocks....
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Director
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1997
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When a finalist for "Centerfold of the Year" downs an experimental beauty-enhancing potion concocted by mad-scientist Dr....
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Cinematographer
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1995
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A man discovers that on-line sex isn't as impersonal as he thought in this erotic thriller. When his wife Susan (Tammy Parks)...
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Cinematographer
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1995
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Soft-core adventure ensues as a young assassin searches for her missing father in this satirical film. Drew Fontaine works...
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Cinematographer, Editor
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1994
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No sooner did Jurassic Park score at the box office than the imitations began turning up like bad pennies. The redoubtable...
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Cinematographer
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1993
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It is rumored that Orson Welles spent the last 25 years doing little more than wine commercials and appearing on the Johnny...
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Director
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1993
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Cinematographer
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1993
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From the evidence at hand, it seems apparent that the inexpensive Mind Twister was the last cinematic stand for the late...
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Cinematographer
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1993
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Both a documentary and a unique exercise in film restoration, It's All True tells the complex story of Orson Welles'...
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Cinematographer
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1993
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The direct-to-video Merlin brings the King Arthur legend up to date. The fun begins when a young Californian traces the ol'...
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Cinematographer, Second Unit Director
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1992
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This low-budget Troma film makes fun of low-budget sword and sorcery movies. The story centers on the battle for the...
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Cinematographer
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1992
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In this thriller, a seductive young woman returns to the home of her step-father, after having spent the last few years in...
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Cinematographer, Director, Screenwriter
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1991
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An interesting bit of casting enlivens this psycho-thriller set in a California boarding house run by eccentric Karen Black...
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Cinematographer, Director
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1991
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Exploitation king Fred Olen Ray bulldozes Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Premature Burial" in this sleazy direct-to-video...
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Cinematographer
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1991
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Veteran schlock merchant Fred Olen Ray serves up this silly horror comedy with a hearty helping of gratuitous softcore skin,...
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Cinematographer
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1990
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This gangster satire involves a boss (William Hickey) who turns over the reins of his organization to an incompetent son...
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Cinematographer
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1990
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This is a movie about a movie that is entitled Bad Girls from Mars. Mystery develops when the bountifully buxomed leading...
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Cinematographer
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1990
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This horror is set in a scary haunted house where researchers have come to investigate. Ten years before, a number of...
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Cinematographer
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1990
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Real Bullets is the result of a bunch of Hollywood stunt persons (male and female) getting together and saying "Let's make a...
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Cinematographer
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1990
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In this thriller, a bountiful female ex- cop teams up with a bounty hunter to find the psychotic artist and drug dealer who...
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Cinematographer
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1989
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There's not much doubt this film's a direct descendant of Schwarzenegger's Terminator classic, though it's certainly a...
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Cinematographer
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1989
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Director
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1989
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An archaeologist has come back home with a priceless gem in his possession. However, it was ill-gotten and his life is in...
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Second Unit Director Of Photography
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1988
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One of the few sleaze-horror movies that actually delivers on the lurid promise of its title (and what a title!), this trashy...
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Second Unit Director Of Photography
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1988
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This gory medical thriller managed to pre-date an early-'90s spate of direct-to-video exploitation films dealing with sleazy...
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Cinematographer
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1988
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A couple gets a job as nursing home orderlies in Venice, California, in this comedy. Before they know it, they get involved...
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Director
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1988
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Cinematographer
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1987
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In this adolescent-oriented comedy, a handsome young man gets a job as a counselor at a military summer camp so he can be...
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Cinematographer, Director, Screenwriter
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1987
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Phantom Empire pokes fun and pays a sly tribute to the sci-fi serials that made Saturday afternoon at the movies such a...
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Cinematographer
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1987
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Cinematographer
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1987
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A trip to Camp Paradise turns into a hellish nightmare for a group of teenage campers in this routine horror feature. The...
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Cinematographer
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1987
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Cinematographer
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1986
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In this provocative and scary supernatural thriller, a brides happy honeymoon aboard an Acapulco-bound yacht with her...
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Cinematographer, Director
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1986
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In this drama, a disturbed teenager turns to arson in order to vent his anger and frustration over his parent's upcoming...
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Cinematographer
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1985
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Henry Jaglom, the best professional "home movie" maker in the business, produced, directed, wrote and starred in Always. Also...
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Second Unit Director Of Photography
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1985
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The made-for-TV Fantastic World of D.C. Collins is curiously not a pilot film, despite the presence of the principal...
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Cinematographer
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1984
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This made-for-Disney drama is the fact-based account of Morris Frank (Timothy Bottoms), who, during the 1930s, trained...
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Cinematographer
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1984
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The owner of a professional football team must restore the titular train and run it from Tennessee to NYC in 24 hours if he...
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Cinematographer
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1984
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Cinematographer
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1984
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Nick Newell (Gary Coleman) doesn't like being called a "genius," but the word certainly fits. The 13-year-old is starting as...
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Cinematographer
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1983
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Eating Raoul was celebrated at the time of its release as the perfect marriage between mainstream moviemaking and the...
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Second Unit Director Of Photography
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1982
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Second Unit Director
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1982
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Gary Coleman stars as a teen-age angel who must return to Earth to help out three troubled families in order to earn his...
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Cinematographer
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1982
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First, a crazed and fighting Malcolm (Peter Jason) is hauled off to an asylum by two men just that much tougher than he is,...
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Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter
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1982
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Car chases abound in this youthful, comedy action outing that centers on the rivalry between a small-town Southern sheriff...
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Cinematographer
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1981
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Second Unit Director
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1981
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A manly trucker decides to make his gentle son more macho by taking him on a hunting trip in this family drama. They spend...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1981
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Originally made for television and based on a true story from the '50s, this film concerns a rural Arizona town that deals in...
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Cinematographer
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1981
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Cinematographer
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1981
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The two-part TV movie Through the Magic Pyramid stars Chris Barnes as a contemporary youngster who is whisked back to the...
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Cinematographer
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1981
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Cinematographer
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1980
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In this children's movie, a single executive enjoys her life on the fast track, but when she is talked into becoming a den...
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Cinematographer
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1980
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Cinematographer
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1980
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This hokey Italian monster movie -- distributed in the U.S. through Roger Corman's New World Pictures under the title...
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Cinematographer
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1979
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In this drama, a good-hearted, courageous boy from a poor New York neighborhood tries to rally his neighborhood together to...
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Cinematographer
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1979
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One of the less offensive Al Adamson productions of the 1970s, Save Our Beach is an R-rated rehash of all those "Beach...
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Cinematographer
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1978
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David Carradine romps around in a loin-cloth as Kaz Oshay, a good-guy biker who hops on his destructocycle to participate in...
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Cinematographer
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1978
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After a tense, bloody beginning, The Toolbox Murders takes a turn first into TV movie-style suspense and then stumbles...
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Cinematographer
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1978
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In this actioner, bounty hunter Sam Kellough, who is also an ex-cop, and an ex-ballplayer, is out to earn the $20,000 reward...
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Cinematographer
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1978
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This documentary chronicles the extraordinary efforts that went into Orson Welles' movie production of the Shakespearean...
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Cinematographer
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1978
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Cinematographer
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1977
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In exchange for being allowed to make his directorial debut in Grand Theft Auto, Ron Howard agreed to take no salary as a...
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Cinematographer
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1977
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In this low-budget exploitation outing, a trio of curvy young woman, fresh out of reform school, go to college to...
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Cinematographer
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1976
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Three female prisoners are liberated by a vengeful woman in this thriller. The woman is angry after her husband is murdered;...
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Cinematographer
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1975
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Comprised of nine of Bugs Bunny's most popular shorts--combined with interviews with those who created and brought the...
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Cinematographer
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1975
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John Cassavetes' harrowing masterpiece charts the emotional meltdown of a suburban housewife and its effects on her...
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Second Unit Director Of Photography
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1974
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One of the most popular kung fu films ever, and perhaps the peak of the famed Bruce Lee's career, Enter the Dragon achieved...
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Second Unit Director Of Photography
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1973
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Cinematographer
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1973
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Cinematographer
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1973
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The final directorial project the legendary Orson Welles completed during his lifetime, F for Fake is less a documentary than...
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Cinematographer
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1973
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A slapdash epic of bad filmmaking geared strictly toward drive-in audiences, Dracula vs. Frankenstein has gone on to achieve...
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Cinematographer
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1971
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Fast paced and violent, this Mexico-set western chronicles the bloody struggle over a stolen gold cross. The murderous...
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1970
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Sandra (Monica Gayle) is a spirited young woman who revels in her sexual freedom. Her first encounter is with a young...
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Cinematographer, Director, Screenwriter
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1970
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Cinematographer, Director, Producer
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1970
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In this melodramatic actioner, a carney finds himself entangled with gangsters and a speedboat racer and loses nearly...
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Producer
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1970
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Bikers, Nazis, Mafiosi, and the FBI all clash in this wild and wooly exploitation picture from director Al Adamson. Mark...
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Cinematographer
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1970
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The Hard Road is a 1970s exploitation flick posing as a crusading expose. Connie Nelson plays a "nice" girl who goes from bad...
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Cinematographer, Director, Editor
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1970
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The rise and fall of notorious Gay 90s tycoon Diamond Jim Brady provides the basis of this film that begins just after Brady...
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Cinematographer
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1970
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This graphically violent western features disturbing scenes of rape and torment. It was originally filmed in a triple-X...
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Cinematographer
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1969
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The Mojave desert becomes a battleground when vicious bikers go on a killing spree, causing innocent would-be victims to get...
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Cinematographer, Editor
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1969
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Cinematographer
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1969
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This documentary-style exploitation film contains such highlights as sadistic murders and lesbian as well as heterosexual...
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Cinematographer
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1969
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In this violent thriller, a gumshoe sets out to find a young woman's missing brother. His investigation leads him into the...
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Cinematographer, Director, Screenwriter
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1968
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In this exploitation film, a young homeless woman is sitting alone on a deserted beach when she meets and makes love to a...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1966
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A boy (Gary Graver) and a girl (Lois Adams) leaves separate towns to live out their youthful dreams of becoming stars in...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1963
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