Search results for "Richard Burton"
Thursday’s Children

Thursday’s Children

Thursday’s Children
IMDb: 7.4
21

Won the Academy Award for the Best Documentary Short of 1954. The subject deals with the children at The Royal School for the Deaf in Margate, Kent. The hearing-handicapped children…

Genre: Documentary
Ice Palace

Ice Palace

Ice Palace
IMDb: 6.3
143

Alaska: America’s last great wilderness frontier. A land of primitive grandeur, of glaciers, mountains and ice-fields. And of ambitious cannery tycoon Zeb “Czar” Kennedy (Richard Burton) and rugged activist leader…

Genre: Adventure, Drama
Massacre in Rome

Massacre in Rome

Massacre in Rome
IMDb: 6.5
99

In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. “Massacre in Rome” is the true story of how this partisan…

Genre: Drama, History, War
Under Milk Wood

Under Milk Wood

Under Milk Wood
IMDb: 6
88

The delightful if peculiar story of a day in the life of a small, Welsh fishing village called “Llareggub” in which we meet a host of curious characters (and ghosts)…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Comedians

The Comedians

The Comedians
IMDb: 6.4
152

American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.

Genre: Drama
The Rains of Ranchipur

The Rains of Ranchipur

The Rains of Ranchipur
IMDb: 5.9
104

India. The spoilt and stubborn Edwina Esketh, comes to a small town with her husband. She falls in love with an indian doctor, Dr. Safti. She also meets an old…

Bitter Victory

Bitter Victory

Bitter Victory
IMDb: 6.7
102

During the second world war, two British officers, Brand and Leith, who have never seen combat are assigned a vital mission. Their relationship and the operation are complicated by the…

Genre: Drama, War
Waterfront Women

Waterfront Women

Waterfront Women
IMDb: 6.4
80

When ship’s fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure. After an absence…

Genre: Drama
Doctor Faustus

Doctor Faustus

Doctor Faustus
IMDb: 5.6
93

Faustus is a scholar at the University of Wittenberg when he earns his doctorate degree. His insatiable appetite for knowledge and power leads him to employ necromancy to conjure Mephistopheles…

Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
The V.I.P.s

The V.I.P.s

The V.I.P.s
IMDb: 6.3
119

Wealthy passengers fogged in at London’s Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials.

Genre: Drama
The Sandpiper

The Sandpiper

The Sandpiper
IMDb: 6.3
117

A free-spirited artist, who lives near California’s Big Sur, meets the administrator of the parochial school that her young son attends and lures the cleric away from his wife.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Night of the Iguana

The Night of the Iguana

The Night of the Iguana
IMDb: 7.6
118

A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Raid on Rommel

Raid on Rommel

Raid on Rommel
IMDb: 5.6
99

Captain Foster plans on raiding German-occupied Tobruk with hand- picked commandos, but a mixup leaves him with a medical unit led by a Quaker conscientious objector. Despite all odds they…

Genre: Action, War
Sea Wife

Sea Wife

Sea Wife
IMDb: 5.7
81

In 1942, a cargo ship jammed with British evacuees from Singapore is sunk by a Japanese sub. A small lifeboat carries a beautiful woman, an army officer, a bigoted administrator,…

The Desert Rats

The Desert Rats

The Desert Rats
IMDb: 6.8
88

Richard Burton plays a Scottish Army officer put in charge of a disparate band of ANZAC troops on the perimeter of Tobruk with the German Army doing their best to…

My Cousin Rachel

My Cousin Rachel

My Cousin Rachel
IMDb: 7.1
98

A young man plots revenge against the woman he believes murdered his cousin, but his plans are shaken when he comes face to face with the enigmatic beauty.

Look Back in Anger

Look Back in Anger

Look Back in Anger
IMDb: 7
98

A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.

Genre: Drama
Villain

Villain

Villain
IMDb: 6.6
98

Ruthless East End gangster Vic Dakin has plans for an ambitious raid on the wages van of a plastic factory. This is a departure from Dakin’s usual modus operandi, and…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Klansman

The Klansman

The Klansman
IMDb: 5.2
112

A small southern town has just been rocked by a tragedy: a young woman has been violently raped. The white town fathers immediately declare that the attacker had to be…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Wild Geese

The Wild Geese

The Wild Geese
IMDb: 6.8
134

A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the…

Genre: Action, War
Equus

Equus

Equus
IMDb: 7.2
137

A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable…

Genre: Drama, Mystery
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
IMDb: 7.6
112

British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Boom!

Boom!

Boom!
IMDb: 5.6
113

Explores the confrontation between the woman who has everything, including emptiness, and a penniless poet who has nothing but the ability to fill a wealthy woman’s needs.

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nineteen Eighty-Four
IMDb: 7.2
113 min

George Orwell’s novel of a totalitarian future society where someone whose day daily job is rewriting historic past attempts to stop by falling into love.

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Absolution

Absolution

Absolution
IMDb: 6.5
95 min

In a Catholic boys’ school, domineering disciplinarian Father’s Goddard rules along his students with a iron hand. If one of his adolescent fees confesses to murder, the dogmatic but profoundly…

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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
The Medusa Touch

The Medusa Touch

The Medusa Touch
IMDb: 7.0
109 min

An French detective at London reconstructs the life span of a guy lying in hospital with acute injuries with the support of a psychologist. He realises that the guy had…

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Exorcist II: The Heretic

Exorcist II: The Heretic

Exorcist II: The Heretic
IMDb: 3.8
117 min

Unusual nightmares plague Regan MacNeil four decades following her possession and exorcism. Has the dull returned? And if that’s the case, can the mixed beliefs and understanding of a Vatican…

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Bluebeard

Bluebeard

Bluebeard
IMDb: 5.7
125 min

Baron von Sepper is a Austrian aristocrat known for his blue-toned blossom, and his desire for lovely wives. His most recent partner, a natural beauty called Anne, finds a vault…

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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Anne of the Thousand Days

Anne of the Thousand Days

Anne of the Thousand Days
IMDb: 7.5
145 min

Henry VIII of England discards one spouse, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to provide a male inheritor, in favor of the younger and exquisite Anne Boleyn.

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Genre: History, Romance
Where Eagles Dare

Where Eagles Dare

Where Eagles Dare
IMDb: 7.7
158 min

World Struggle II is raging, and an American normal has been captured and is being held hostage within the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian fortress that is practically unattainable to breach….

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Genre: Adventure, War
Candy

Candy

Candy
IMDb: 5.3
115 min

Primarily based on Terry Southern’s satirical novel, a send-up of Voltaire’s Candide. Younger Candy is a highschool lady who seeks fact and which means in life, encountering a wide range…

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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew
IMDb: 7.2
122 min

Baptista, a wealthy Paduan retailer, admits his fair young daughter, Bianca, will probably stay unwed before her older sister, Katharina, a hellish shrew, has wed. Lucentio, a pupil and the…

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Genre: Drama, Romance
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
IMDb: 8.0
131 min

A bitter, aging bunch, with the aid of alcohol, utilize a youthful couple to gas distress and psychological distress in each other.

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Genre: Drama
Becket

Becket

Becket
IMDb: 7.8
148 min

King Henry II of England has difficulty with the Church. As soon as the Archbishop of Canterbury expires, he’s got a fantastic idea. Instead of appoint another pious cleric faithful…

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Genre: History
Cleopatra

Cleopatra

Cleopatra
IMDb: 7.0
192 min

Located to continue to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. After Caesar is killed, she intimidates her attentions to his overall, Marc Antony, who promises to take…

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Genre: History, Romance
The Longest Day

The Longest Day

The Longest Day
IMDb: 7.8
178 min

The retelling of June 6, 1944, in the viewpoints of their Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, vacationing the guards being set as a member…

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Genre: Drama, History, War
Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great
IMDb: 5.8
141 min

He was a fierce military commander who led huge armies into battle without a single defeat; a magnificent warrior who many thought was a part god – that has been…

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The Robe

The Robe

The Robe
IMDb: 6.7
135 min

Marcellus is a tribune at the time of Christ. He’s in control of the group that’s delegated to crucify Jesus. Drunk, he wins Jesus’ homespun robe following the crucifixion. He’s…

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Genre: History