Mark L. LesterFilmography

The Lost Colony

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Veteran sci-fi and action stalwart Mark L. Lester (Commando, Class of 1984) helms this period supernatural horror opus, inspired by one of history's oddest mysteries: the question of what happened to the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke Island in 1587. In Lester's version of the tale, three demonic Read More

Devil's Dominoes

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Vincent Pastore, Daniel Baldwin

Synopsis: When four joyriding friends cause a crash that kills the son of Chicago's most notorious mob-boss, they find their bad luck quickly snowballing as the vengeful don sets out for settle the score, and a wily sheriff attempts to uphold the law. Leaving a trail of dead bodies in their wake, the Read More

Pterodactyl

Crew: Director

Actors: Cameron Daddo, Coolio, Amy Sloan

Synopsis: A dormant volcano houses a deadly prehistoric secret in this tale of reptilian terror from Firestarter director Mark L. Lester. As two expeditions journey into the deep forests of Mt. Ararat, a collection of un-hatched pterodactyl eggs lay safely nestled in a dormant volcano. When these eggs Read More

White Rush

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A drug deal gone awry leads to harrowing consequences for a group of campers in this thriller from Firestarter director Mark L. Lester. When they stumble across the aftermath of a botched, deep-woods drug deal, Chick (Louis Mandylor) convinces his nature-bound friends to pocket the cash and sell Read More

Stealing Candy

Crew: Director

Actors: Alex McArthur, Coolio, Daniel Baldwin, Jenya Lano

Synopsis: Mark L. Lester's Stealing Candy concerns three unsavory types who concoct a unique get-rich-quick scheme. The threesome attempts to put together a one-time-only online sex session featuring a famous actress. Their biggest problem to overcome is that fact that their star has no idea she will be Read More

Lady Jayne: Killer

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Erika Eleniak, Julie du Page, Jeremy Lelliott, Louis Mandylor, James Remar

Synopsis: Beautiful, sultry Jayne Ferre (Julie Du Page) is a ruthless, mob-connected hitwoman who, in the opening scenes, "eliminates" several mobsters by pretending to seduce them before blowing them away. Her greed gets the best of her, however, when she absconds with a metal briefcase containing a Read More

The Base II

Crew: Director

Actors: Antonio Sabato, Jr., James Remar

Synopsis: A military leader has taken the notion of discipline in the services too far in this action-drama. Lt. John Murphy (Antonio Sabato Jr., taking over the role played by Mark Dacascos in the first film) is sent in to investigate when a large number of American soldiers are reported missing from a Read More

Hitman's Run

Crew: Director

Actors: Eric Roberts

Synopsis: A mafia triggerman turns on the family and is placed into protective custody, via the FBI Witness Protection Program. He begins to realize, however, that his new guardians are just as deadly as his foes. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Blowback

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Mario Van Peebles, James Remar, Stephen Caffrey

Synopsis: Mario Van Peebles and James Remar star in this action drama in which a police detective learns that a murderer he helped put behind bars has been released from prison. The CIA recruited the felon to work as a hired killer for the federal government, but his superiors dangerously underestimated his Read More

Sacrifice

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Michael Madsen, Bokeem Woodbine

Synopsis: A serial killer with a singularly nasty penchant for peculiar mutilations makes a mistake when his next victim is the daughter of Tyler Pierce $Michael Madsen), a career bank robber who does not let a little thing like being in prison stop him from finding out who the killer is. Pierce escapes Read More

Double Take

Crew: Director

Actors: Craig Sheffer, Costas Mandylor, Brigitte Bako

Synopsis: In this drama, a popular writer fights for justice after he realizes that he helped convict the wrong man during a murder trial. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Misbegotten

Crew: Director

Actors: Kevin Dillon, Nick Mancuso, Lysette Anthony

Synopsis: Desperate for a child of their own, a young couple visits the local sperm bank so the wife can be artificially inseminated. The procedure is a success, and the two are blissfully happy until they discover that the donor is a crazed killer obsessed with raising the child himself. ~ Sandra Brennan Read More

The Base

Crew: Director

Actors: Mark Dacascos, Tim Abell, Paula Trickey

Synopsis: An Army intelligence officer's undercover assignment as a border guard reveals an extensive web of corruption spun by vicious Mexican drug czars and high-ranking members of the border patrol. This fast-paced actioner follows the officer's attempt to destroy them before they can get to him. Read More

The Ex

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Amy Yasbeck, Yancy Butler, Nick Mancuso, Suzy Amis, Babs Chula

Synopsis: A Manhattan architect starts a new life with a new wife. All seems to be going well until the day when his friends and acquaintances start turning up murdered. The killer turns out to be his psycho ex-wife, and the architect realizes his new wife is next on her list. ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide Read More

Public Enemies

Crew: Director

Actors: Theresa Russell, Dan Cortese, Alyssa Milano, Frank Stallone, Eric Roberts

Synopsis: This action-packed, fact-based crime drama tells the story of Ma Barker and how she turned her four sons into ruthless criminals in hopes of escaping a life of intense poverty. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Night of the Running Man

Crew: Director

Actors: Scott Glenn, Andrew McCarthy, John Glover, Wayne Newton

Synopsis: In this taut thriller, a Las Vegas taxi driver must run for his life after stealing a cool million's worth of Mafia money. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Extreme Justice

Crew: Director

Actors: Lou Diamond Phillips, Scott Glenn, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: Filmed just before the Rodney King incident, Extreme Justice is a violent tale of "police procedure" gone bonkers. Troublesome LAPD cop Jeff Powers (Lou Diamond Phillips) is assigned to an elite squad headed by his old friend Dan Vaughn (Scott Glenn). Ostensibly organized to collar violent repeat Read More

Showdown in Little Tokyo

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Dolph Lundgren, Brandon Lee, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Tia Carrere, Toshishiro Obata

Synopsis: Director Mark L. Lester modeled this police action drama on the Hong Kong style, guaranteeing plenty of over-the-top action sequences. Dolph Lundgren stars as police detective Chris Kenner, an American raised in Japan. He is given a new partner, Johnny Murata (Brandon Lee, making his Hollywood Read More

Class of 1999

Crew: Director, Producer, Screen Story

Actors: Bradley Gregg, Traci Lind, Malcolm McDowell, Stacy Keach, Patrick Kilpatrick, Pam Grier

Synopsis: Mark L. Lester's follow-up film to his Class of 1984 is a rancidly violent peek at a near-future high school world of terror -- The Jetsons meet The Terminator. In Lester's world, total anarchy rules (at least in Seattle). Classrooms are sinkholes of violence, and around the kill-zone high schools Read More

Armed and Dangerous

Crew: Director

Actors: John Candy, Eugene Levy, Robert Loggia, Kenneth McMillan, Meg Ryan

Synopsis: In Armed and Dangerous, John Candy plays a cop who has been kicked off the force on a trumped up charge. Eugene Levy costars as a disbarred lawyer. The two outcasts take low-paying jobs as security officers at a company controlled by mob boss Robert Loggia. In their own stumblebum fashion, Candy Read More

Commando

Crew: Director

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong, Dan Hedaya, Vernon Wells, David Patrick Kelly

Synopsis: Shortly after The Terminator wrote his name in bold neon lights across box-office grosses, this action thriller took advantage of the hitherto (almost) unexploited comic side of star Arnold Schwarzenegger and paired him with Rae Dawn Chong. Colonel Matrix (Schwarzenegger) is retired and living Read More

Firestarter

Crew: Director

Actors: David Keith, George C. Scott, Drew Barrymore, Martin Sheen, Heather Locklear, Art Carney

Synopsis: Firestarter is based on a bone-chilling novel by Steven King. Drew Barrymore plays Charlie McGee the young daughter of Andrew (David Keith) and Vicky (Heather Locklear) McGee, who years earlier had been guinea pigs for a top secret experiment. As a result, Charlie has acquired the unenviable Read More

The Funhouse

Crew: Producer

Actors: Elizabeth Berridge, Cooper Huckabee, Miles Chapin, Largo Woodruff, Sylvia Miles

Synopsis: This low-budget horror film about teenagers trapped in a carnival funhouse with a freakish monster is pretty standard stuff. Director Tobe Hooper manages a few shocks and includes some typically peculiar supporting characters, but this film is less entertaining than either of his previous Read More

Class of 1984

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Perry King, Timothy Van Patten, Merrie Lynn Ross, Roddy McDowall, Al Waxman

Synopsis: A music teacher (Perry King) at a tough Los Angeles high school reaches out to his students with the gift of music -- only to find a gang of sadistic punk rockers is actively dissuading new members from joining the orchestra. Not only are the punkers sadistic; they are also led by the nefarious Timothy Van Patten Read More

Roller Boogie

Crew: Director

Actors: Linda Blair, Jim Bray, Beverly Garland, Roger Perry

Synopsis: This lively film was made to cash in on the roller skating craze that swept Southern California in the late '70s. The story centers upon a poor-little-rich-girl runaway who heads for the Venice boardwalk to join the other hipsters on wheels. She and her new friends then team up to keep an Read More

Gold of the Amazon Women

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Released to video under the title Amazon Women, this made-for-TV movie follows two explorers as they discover a forgotten tribe of wildly attractive Amazons in the jungles of South America. Things really start to heat up when the women follow the men back to Manhattan. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Read More

Stunts

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Forster, Fiona Lewis, Joanna Cassidy, Darrell Fetty, Bruce Glover

Synopsis: Robert Forster delivers a well-turned performance as a professional stuntman in this Hawksian murder mystery. Forster is Glen Wilson, an ace stuntman who travels from movie set to movie set, performing dangerous professional work. Fiona Lewis is B.J. Parswell, a journalist whose presence creates Read More

The Way He Was

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this satire, the events leading up to and following the famous Watergate scandal are recreated. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Marjoe Gortner, Lynda Carter, Jesse Vint, Merrie Lynn Ross, Belinda Balaski

Synopsis: A young country-star wannabe takes off from her carhop career to join with a young, modern Billy the Kid wannabe for an adventure in theft, murder and mayhem. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

White House Madness

Crew: Director

Actors: Steve Friedman

Synopsis: Funnyman Steve Friedman stars in this satiric comedy that pokes not-so-gentle fun at the political and personal foibles of Richard M. Nixon in the wake of the Watergate scandal. Nixon finds his administration crumbling around him, his allies turning against him, the courts beginning to hound him Read More

Truck Stop Women

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Claudia Jennings, Lieux Dressier, John Martino, Dennis Fimple, Dolores Dorn

Synopsis: Mark L. Lester directed this exploitation feature that treats sex, violence, and sensationalism with love and affection. The story concerns a bloody turf battle between Smith (John Martino), a mob hit man, and independent gun moll Anna (Lieux Dressler) over Anna's prostitution and theft operation Read More

Steel Arena

Crew: Co-producer, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Dutch Schnitzer

Synopsis: Steel Arena features oodles of spectacular car stunts and crashes as it chronicles the attempts of a stunt driver to devise the ultimate stunt so that he can qualify to participate in a lucrative stunt show. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More