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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) more movies like this

directed by Martin Ritt
featuring Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Oskar Werner, Sam Wanamaker, George Voskovec

Based on the novel by John Le Carre, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold stars Richard Burton as a dispirited, end-of-tether British secret agent. He comes in from "the cold" (meaning he is pulled out of field operations) to act as a undercover man behind the Iron Curtain. To make his staged defection seem genuine, Burton goes on an alcoholic toot ...

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Where Eagles Dare

Where Eagles Dare (1968) more movies like this

directed by Brian G. Hutton
featuring Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure, Michael Hordern, Patrick Wymark

An expensive but enormously profitable war picture, Where Eagles Dare centers upon a daring rescue and even more daring escape. Disguised as Nazi officers, commandoes Maj. John Smith (Richard Burton), Lt. Morris Schaffer Clint Eastwood and six other courageous souls parachute behind enemy lines. Their mission: to rescue an American general, held ...

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Becket

Becket (2007) more movies like this

directed by Peter Glenville
featuring Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud, Donald Wolfit, Martita Hunt

A high-class costume drama with a substantive historical basis, Becket is the true story of the friendship between King Henry II (Peter O'Toole) and Thomas à Becket (Richard Burton), a royal courtier and confidant whom Henry appoints as Archbishop of Canterbury. As Becket takes his duties with the Church seriously, he finds himself increasingly ...

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Cleopatra

Cleopatra (1963) more movies like this

directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
featuring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Pamela Brown, Roddy McDowall, George Cole, Martin Landau

In 1963, this colossal and opulent $60 million spectacular was epic in every sense of the word -- an epic investment, an epic in the annals of Hollywood gossip, and, ultimately, an epic flop that nearly dragged 20th Century Fox down the Nile along with Cleopatra's barge. Handsomely mounted by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who replaced Rouben Mamoulian as ...

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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) more movies like this

directed by Mike Nichols
featuring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis

"You are cordially invited to George and Martha's for an evening of fun and games." Thus read the ad copy for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, which in 1966 went farther than any previous big-studio film in its use of profanity and sexual implication. George (Richard Burton) is an alcoholic college professor; Martha (Oscar-winner Elizabeth Taylor) ...

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The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew (1967) more movies like this

directed by Franco Zeffirelli
featuring Alfred Lynch, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Michael York, Vernon Dobtcheff, Michael Hordern, Natasha Pyne, Victor Spinetti

Franco Zeffirelli's adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is a zesty version of the classic comedy, highlighted by performances by Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor and Nino Rota's score. Instead of simply filming a play, Zeffirelli turned Shakespeare's text into a lively, cinematic movie, with sweeping sets and ...

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The Night of the Iguana

The Night of the Iguana (1964) more movies like this

directed by John Huston
featuring Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, Sue Lyon, James Ward

Filmed on location in Mexico by John Huston, Night of the Iguana stars Richard Burton as Rev. Shannon, an alcoholic defrocked minister, who scratches out a living as a south-of-the-border tour guide. His latest customers are several American schoolteachers, and he guides their bus to a rundown hotel owned by flamboyant widow Maxine Faulk (Ava ...

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The Wild Geese

The Wild Geese (1978) more movies like this

directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
featuring Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris, Hardy Kruger, Stewart Granger

The plot of this of this adaptation of the Daniel Carney's novel, sprinkled throughout a series of extended Sam Peckinpah-inspired action sequences, deals with a collection of mercenary toughguys -- Colonel Allen Faulkner (Richard Burton), Lieutenant Shawn Fynn (Roger Moore), Rafer Janders (Richard Harris), Pieter Coetzee (Hardy Kruger) -- who are ...

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The Robe

The Robe (1953) more movies like this

directed by Henry Koster
featuring Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Michael Rennie, Jay Robinson

Historically important as the first CinemaScope feature film, 20th Century-Fox's The Robe is fine dramatic entertainment in its own right. Based on the best-selling novel by Lloyd C. Douglas, the film stars Richard Burton as the wastrelly Roman tribune who is assigned by a weary Pontius Pilate (Richard Boone, who spends the whole of his single ...

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The Desert Rats

The Desert Rats (1953) more movies like this

directed by Robert Wise
featuring Richard Burton, Robert Newton, Robert Douglas, James Mason, Torin Thatcher, Chips Rafferty

The Desert Rats was a quickly assembled follow-up to 20th Century-Fox's successful war film The Desert Fox. Richard Burton plays an officer in the British Eighth Army, battling Rommel's forces in defense of Tobruk. Put in charge of an Australian unit, Burton rides his men ruthlessly, with laudatory results. He is briefly captured by the Nazis and ...

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Doctor Faustus (1968) more movies like this

directed by Nevill Coghill, Richard Burton
featuring Hugh Williams, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Andreas Teuber, Ian Marter, Elizabeth O'Donovan

Richard Burton co-directed (along with Nevill Coghill) this labor of love that records a performance given by Burton at Oxford University in 1966 of Christopher Marlowe's 400-year-old verse play. Burton plays Faust, a medieval doctor who sells his soul to Mephistopheles (Andreas Teuber) in exchange for mastering all human knowledge. The Devil ...

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Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) more movies like this

directed by Charles Jarrott
featuring Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, Irene Papas, Anthony Quayle, John Colicos

Anne of the Thousand Days is the belated film adaptation of Maxwell Anderson's 1948 stage play. The story concentrates on the romance between Britain's King Henry VIII (Richard Burton) and his ill-fated second wife Anne Boleyn (Genevieve Bujold). After holding out for marriage rather than an illegitimate union, Anne marries Henry after he sheds ...

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The Sandpiper (1965) more movies like this

directed by Vincente Minnelli
featuring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Eva Marie Saint, Charles Bronson, Robert Webber

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton -- then Hollywood's most bankable couple -- appeared onscreen together for the third time in this romantic drama shot on beautiful locations along the Big Sur region of the California coastline. Laura Edwards (Elizabeth Taylor) is a free-thinking artist and Bohemian who is raising a her teenage son, Danny ...

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Alexander the Great (1956) more movies like this

directed by Robert Rossen
featuring Richard Burton, Fredric March, Claire Bloom, Danielle Darrieux, Harry Andrews

The short life and quick death of Alexander the Great is recounted in this literate historical epic. Decked out in a blonde wig, Richard Burton stars as the Grecian warrior who conquered the known world while only in his twenties, then wept because there were no more worlds left to conquer. While the film's 141 minutes are occasionally bogged down ...

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Look Back in Anger (1958) more movies like this

directed by Tony Richardson
featuring Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Mary Ure, Edith Evans, Gary Raymond

Archetypal British "angry young man" Jimmy Porter (Richard Burton) is a college-educated bloke who can't seem to get any better job than working in a candy store. Jimmy's relationship with his wife Alison (Mary Ure) alternates between hugs and kisses when he's feeling good and verbal abuse when he's down on himself, which is often. Alison's best ...

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Equus (1977) more movies like this

directed by Sidney Lumet
featuring Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright, Harry Andrews

Richard Burton plays a psychiatrist who attempts to discover why young Peter Firth has taken to mutilating live horses. In probing Firth's psyche, Burton discovers that the source of the boy's obsession is his mother, Joan Plowright, who has raised Firth with a convoluted set of values. Even as he gets closer to the reason behind Firth's ...

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The Klansman (1974) more movies like this

directed by Terence Young
featuring Lee Marvin, Richard Burton, Cameron Mitchell, Lola Falana, Luciana Paluzzi

The setting is Atoka County, Alabama -- the time is somewhere after the peak of the civil rights movement, after cities such as Birmingham, Alabama were out of the headlines. The movement is coming to the sticks, including Atoka County, and a lot of the white residents don't like it and are prepared to commit felonious assault, rape, or murder to ...

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Hamlet (1964) more movies like this

directed by Bill Colleran
featuring Richard Burton, Michael Ebert, Barnard Hughes, Robert Milli, Alfred Drake

This 199-minute Broadway production of Shakespeare's classic tragedy was directed for the stage by John Gielgud, who also provides the voice of the Ghost. Richard Burton plays the lead in Hamlet, the dramatic and tragic tale of a Danish prince whose obsessive desire for certainty is his ultimate undoing. The entire production was filmed by ...

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Sergeant Steiner (1978) more movies like this

directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
featuring Richard Burton, Rod Steiger, Robert Mitchum, Curd Jürgens, Helmut Griem

Also released as Sergeant Steiner, Breakthrough is a German war flick helmed by western specialist Andrew McLaglen. Richard Burton stars as Sgt. Steiner, a German who doesn't subscribe to the Nazi party line. When the plot to kill Hitler is hatched, Steiner is persuaded to join the conspiracy by General Hoffman (Curt Jurgens). Robert Mitchum and ...

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The Medusa Touch (1978) more movies like this

directed by Jack Gold
featuring Richard Burton, Lino Ventura, Lee Remick, Harry Andrews, Marie-Christine Barrault

In The Medusa Touch Brunel (Lino Ventura), a French detective on temporary assignment with Scotland Yard, investigates a mysterious series of disasters. The uncanny events begin happening shortly after writer John Morlar (Richard Burton) was hit over the head by an unknown intruder and rendered comatose. Slowly, Brunel begins to connect the ...

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Raid on Rommel (1971) more movies like this

directed by Henry Hathaway
featuring Richard Burton

The British fleet is enroute to North Africa to engage the Germans, and the best port for them to use is Tobruk. There, they have problems: Germans occupy Tobruk, and have fortified it with devastating heavy artillery which would prevent a British landing. The original scheme for sabotaging the guns, by using British commandos planted behind the ...

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Absolution (1988) more movies like this

directed by Anthony Page
featuring Richard Burton, Dominic Guard, Dai Bradley, Billy Connolly, Andrew Keir

Two Catholic boarding school students (Dominic Guard and Dai Bradley) embark upon a carefully calculated campaign to drive their hated headmaster (Richard Burton) insane. The boys launch their scheme by cooking up the most bizarre and depraved of imaginary sins, then recite these infractions in the Confessional. This sadistic little game gets ...

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Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) more movies like this

directed by John Boorman
featuring Linda Blair, Richard Burton, Louise Fletcher, Max von Sydow, Kitty Winn

Four years after her bout of demonic possession, Regan MacNeil seems at peace as she enjoys a privileged but lonely adolescence. Her actress mother, absent on-location, leaves her in the care of her childhood nanny, Sharon, who feels inextricably bound to her young charge despite the terror she endured during the girl's possession. Regan attends ...

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Circle of Two (1980) more movies like this

directed by Jules Dassin
featuring Richard Burton, Tatum O'Neal, Nuala Fitzgerald, Robin Gammell, Patricia Collins

Director Jules Dassin, once shunned by Hollywood for being accused of "un-American activities," had already worked for nearly thirty years in Europe before making this Canadian drama about an elderly painter and a sixteen-year-old teen. Richard Burton delivers as a convincingly up-tight artist abandoned by his muse for the last ten years. After he ...

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The Comedians (1967) more movies like this

directed by Peter Glenville
featuring Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Alec Guinness, Peter Ustinov, Paul Ford

The humorous title of this story taken from the novel by Graham Greene gives the viewer the wrong impression. The story concerns the residents of a once-posh hotel in Haiti and the fate of the country's people under the despotic dictator Papa Doc Duvalier. Martha (Elizabeth Taylor) is the philandering wife of a South American ambassador Peter ...

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