Richard Burton Movie Rankings
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3.1189
Turning the underbelly of bourgeois academia into a microcosm of human relationships in all their arduous complexities, Mike Nichols' auspicious debut feature is a harrowing descent into the private lives and painful secrets of two couples thrown together for an evening. ... more about Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
BAFTA Awards - Best British Actor
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
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2.9981
Two of the finest actors of their generation, Burton and O'Toole, square off in this splendid production of Jean Anouilh's 1959 play. ... more about Becket
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
3
2.9134
Tells the story of the D-Day invasion of Normandy in WWII. There are dozens of characters, some seen only briefly, who together weave the story of five separate invasion points that made up the operation. ... more about Longest Day
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2.9039
After The Atomic War the world is divided into three states. London is the capital of Oceania, ruled by a party who has total control over all its citizens. Winston Smith is one of the bureaucrats, rewriting history in one of the departments. ... more about Nineteen Eighty-Four
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2.8981
Alec Leamas, a British spy is sent to East Germany supposedly to defect, but in fact to sow disinformation. As more plot turns appear, Leamas becomes more convinced that his own people see him as just a cog. ... more about Spy Who Came In from the Cold
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
BAFTA Awards - Best British Actor
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2.8934
The film is the historical and poetical drama of Queen Cleopatra of Egypt who wants to stabilize her power by using the tensions in the Roman Empire. ... more about Cleopatra
7
2.7974
A British multinational seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. ... more about Wild Geese
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2.7037
Unfit commander receives an undeserved citation for an attack on Rommel's headquarters. Unbeknownst to him, his wife is having an affair with one of his officers. ... more about Bitter Victory
10
2.6780
A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. ... more about Equus
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
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2.5742
This is a delightful if peculiar story of a day in the life of a small, Welsh fishing village called "Llareggub" (read it backwards). We meet a host of curious characters (and ghosts) through the 'eyes' of Blind Captain cat. ... more about Under Milk Wood
12
2.5465
An epic film that follows the life of Alexander the Great, the macedonian king that united all ancient greek tribes and led them against the vast Persian Empire. ... more about Alexander the Great
13
2.4961
Actor Awards
BAFTA Awards - Best British Actor
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
14
2.4179
Henry VIII's obsession with siring a male heir endangers all around him: his courtiers, his government servants, and, especially, young Anne Boleyn. What ensues is both more, and less, than a love story; it changes England forever. ... more about Anne of the Thousand Days
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
Not Available on DVD
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2.3222
Rommel has the British in retreat on his way to the Suez Canal. All that stands in his way is Tobruk, held by a vastly out numbered force of Australian troops. ... more about Desert Rats
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2.2710
Burton and Taylor play Petrucio and Catherine in a fairly rigorous attempt to stay with both the Shakespearian language and script, while still adding a three dimensional, outdoor flavor to this screen adaptation. ... more about Taming of the Shrew
Actor Awards
BAFTA Awards - Best British Actor
David di Donatello Awards - Best Foreign Actor (Migliore Attore Straniero)
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy
18
2.2646
During WW2 a British aircraft is shot down and crashes in Nazi held territory. The Germans capture the only survivor, an American General, and take him to the nearest SS headquarters. ... more about Where Eagles Dare
19
2.1821
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 succeed with their mission. ... more about Raid on Rommel
20
2.0936
At a Catholic public school, Benjamin Stanfield is tired of being the teacher's pet and decides to play a practical joke on his form master Father Goddard. ... more about Absolution
21
2.0804
When defrocked American minister Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon is expelled from his Virginia church, he travels to Mexico in search of his destiny and sanity. ... more about Night of the Iguana
22
2.0799
Marcellus is a tribune in the time of Christ. He is in charge of the group that is assigned to crucify Jesus. Drunk, he wins Jesus' homespun robe after the crucifixion. He is tormented by nightmares and delusions after the event. ... more about Robe
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
23
2.0134
Charles Dyer and Harry Leeds are a couple that have been living together for nearly 20 years. ... more about Staircase
Not Available on DVD
24
2.0041
The Faust legend retold (loosely) and applied to a mentally disturbed patient in a hospital run by a doctor of dubious sanity himself. The patient (Burton) offers the innocent orderly (Bridges) vast riches if he'll help him escape. ... more about Hammersmith Is Out
Not Available on DVD
25
1.9173
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 black, and place the blame on Garth, a young black man. ... more about Klansman
26
1.8927
After having been forced to leave the Soviet Union 1929 Trotsky has ended up in Mexico 1940. He is still busy with the politics. Stalin has sent out an assassin, Frank Jacson. Jacson befriends a young communist and gets an invitation to Trotsky's house. ... more about Assassination of Trotsky
27
1.8503
Richard Burton, starring as Baron von Sepper, an Austrian aristocrat noted for his blue-toned beard, and his appetite for beautiful wives. ... more about Bluebeard
28
1.7946
The demon is back in this the second film of the three part series as a new priest played by Richard Burton tries to find the demon still living inside Regan (Linda Blair). ... more about Exorcist II: The Heretic
Actor Awards
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Actor - Horror
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1.5819
Set in the Haiti of "Papa Doc" Duvalier, The Comedians tells the story of a sardonic white hotel owner and his encroaching fatalism as he watches Haiti sink into barbarism. ... more about Comedians
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1.1365
Murderous, sadistic London gang leader Vic Dakin, a mother-obsessed homosexual modeled on real-life gangster Ronnie Kray, is worried about potential stool pigeons that may bring down his criminal empire. ... more about Villain
Not Available on DVD
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0.7152
The incredibly rich writer Sissy Goforth lives alone with her servants and nurses on the top of a Mediterranean island, on which she makes her own rules. Her days consist of dictating her autobiography and begging for injections. ... more about Boom
Not Available on DVD
36
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This promotional short for _Sandpiper, The (1965)_ (qv) visits the coastal area known as The Big Sur, in Monterey County, California, where the movie was filmed. ... more about Big Sur
Not Available on DVD
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A handsome and successful young doctor returns to his home town in New England to see his dying friend for one last time. ... more about Bramble Bush
Not Available on DVD
38
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An atmospheric tribute to the genius of Welsh poet and dramatist Dylan Thomas, using many of the windswept locations where Thomas himself grew up and found his inspiration. ... more about Dylan Thomas
Not Available on DVD
39
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A group of enterprising smugglers make use of an ancient charter to smuggle brandy into the southern coast of England. When their ship is seized it looks like they are in trouble until the Customs Officers try & find out where the brandy went. ... more about Green Grow the Rushes
Not Available on DVD
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Sir John Gielgud directed this "Electronovision" taping of the play "Hamlet" performed at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater on Broadway in 1964 ("Electronovision" was a short-lived gimmick which was basically closed-circuit TV). ... more about Hamlet
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When Philip Ashley's much-loved (and rich) cousin Ambrose dies, he is convinced that Ambrose was murdered by his new wife Rachel to inherit his wealth. ... more about My Cousin Rachel
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Not Available on DVD
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Not Available on DVD
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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 friend of hers, the alcoholic Tom Ransome. An awful earthquake is followed by days of rain. ... more about Rains of Ranchipur
Not Available on DVD
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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, and a black seaman. Only the seaman knows the woman is a nun. ... more about Sea Wife
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Not Available on DVD
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Some sculptors use marble as a medium to create beauty; 'Edmund Kara' (qv) uses large redwood tree stumps. Kara has been commissioned to create a statue of 'Elizabeth Taylor (I)' (qv), which will be featured in _Sandpiper, The (1965)_ (qv). ... more about Statue for 'The Sandpiper'
Not Available on DVD
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A brilliant documentary about the growth of Israel into the Jewish homeland. ... more about Un mur à Jerusalem
Not Available on DVD
54
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A good-for-nothing sailor walks out on his young family leaving them to fend for themselves in the Liverpool slums. They make a go of their lives and the eldest daughter, now a woman, is none too pleased at her father's attempted return. ... more about Waterfront
Not Available on DVD
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A young woman with amnesia finds herself in London during the second world war. She falls in love and marries a Polish man in the R.A.F. He gets killed and then a crippled man comes to her and says she is his wife. ... more about Woman with No Name
Not Available on DVD
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Young Danny Reynolds and his mother Laura (Elizabeth Taylor) live an idyllic life near California's Big Sur. Laura teaches Danny at home. After Danny shoots a deer, authorities take the boy away to live and study in a parochial orphanage/school. ... more about Sandpiper
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