Search results for "Richard Burton"
Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nineteen Eighty-Four
IMDb: 7.1
113

George Orwell’s novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

Absolution

Absolution

Absolution
IMDb: 6.5
95

At a Catholic boys’ school, domineering disciplinarian Father Goddard rules over his pupils with an iron hand. When one of his teenage charges confesses to murder, the dogmatic but deeply…

Genre: Mystery
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: Uncategorized
The Medusa Touch

The Medusa Touch

The Medusa Touch
IMDb: 6.9
109

A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man…

Exorcist II: The Heretic

Exorcist II: The Heretic

Exorcist II: The Heretic
IMDb: 3.8
117

Bizarre nightmares plague Regan MacNeil four years after her possession and exorcism. Has the demon returned? And if so, can the combined faith and knowledge of a Vatican investigator and…

Genre: Horror
Equus

Equus

Equus
IMDb: 7.1
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: Mystery
The Klansman

The Klansman

The Klansman
IMDb: 5.2
112

A small southern town has just been rocked by a tragedy: a young white woman has been raped by a black man. When young black man Garth witnesses the Ku…

Genre: Crime
Brief Encounter

Brief Encounter

Brief Encounter
IMDb: 5.4
103

Two strangers, both married to others, meet in a railway station and soon find themselves in a brief but intense affair.

Genre: TV Movie
Under Milk Wood

Under Milk Wood

Under Milk Wood
IMDb: 5.8
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
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: History, War
Bluebeard

Bluebeard

Bluebeard
IMDb: 5.6
125

Baron von Sepper is an Austrian aristocrat noted for his blue-toned beard, and his appetite for beautiful wives. His latest spouse, an American beauty named Anne, discovers a vault in…

Genre: Comedy, Horror
Villain

Villain

Villain
IMDb: 6.5
98

In 1970s London, Scotland Yard orchestrates the downfall of mob boss Vic Dakin after he crosses the line by blackmailing Members of Parliament.

Genre: Crime
Raid on Rommel

Raid on Rommel

Raid on Rommel
IMDb: 5.4
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.

Genre: War
Where Eagles Dare

Where Eagles Dare

Where Eagles Dare
IMDb: 7.6
155

World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that’s nearly impossible to breach. It’s…

Genre: Adventure, War
Anne of the Thousand Days

Anne of the Thousand Days

Anne of the Thousand Days
IMDb: 7.4
145

Henry VIII of England discards his wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.

Genre: History
Doctor Faustus

Doctor Faustus

Doctor Faustus
IMDb: 5.4
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: Horror, Mystery
Candy

Candy

Candy
IMDb: 5.1
124

A high school girl encounters a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations while searching for the meaning of life.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!
IMDb: 5.5
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: Horror
The Comedians

The Comedians

The Comedians
IMDb: 6.3
152

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

Genre: Uncategorized
The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew
IMDb: 7.1
117

Italy, 16th century. Petruchio, a choleric, lying and poor rural landowner from Verona, arrives in Padua in search of fortune and a wife, while Baptista, a wealthy merchant, announces that…

Genre: Comedy
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
IMDb: 8
131

A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university’s faculty. As the drinks flow, secrets come to light, and the middle-aged couple unload…

Genre: Uncategorized
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: 7.5
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: Uncategorized
The Sandpiper

The Sandpiper

The Sandpiper
IMDb: 6.2
117

A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the wedded headmaster of an Episcopalian boarding school in Monterey, California.

Genre: Uncategorized
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: Uncategorized
Becket

Becket

Becket
IMDb: 7.8
148

King Henry II of England has trouble with the Church. When the Archbishop of Canterbury dies, he has a brilliant idea. Rather than appoint another pious cleric loyal to Rome…

Genre: History
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: Uncategorized
Cleopatra

Cleopatra

Cleopatra
IMDb: 7
251

Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his general, Marc Antony, who vows to…

Genre: History
Ice Palace

Ice Palace

Ice Palace
IMDb: 6.1
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
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: Uncategorized
Sea Wife

Sea Wife

Sea Wife
IMDb: 5.8
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,…

Genre: War
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: War
Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great
IMDb: 5.8
136

An engrossing spectacle set in the 4th-century BC, in which Alexander of Greece leads his troops forth, conquering all of the known world, in the belief that the Greek way…

The Rains of Ranchipur

The Rains of Ranchipur

The Rains of Ranchipur
IMDb: 5.8
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…

Genre: Adventure
Thursday’s Children

Thursday’s Children

Thursday’s Children
IMDb: 7.3
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
The Robe

The Robe

The Robe
IMDb: 6.7
135

Drunk and disillusioned Roman, Marcellus Gallio, wins Jesus’ robe in a dice game after the crucifixion. Marcellus has never been a man of faith like his slave, Demetrius, but when…

Genre: History
The Desert Rats

The Desert Rats

The Desert Rats
IMDb: 6.7
88

In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important port city. A ramshackle group of…

Genre: War
My Cousin Rachel

My Cousin Rachel

My Cousin Rachel
IMDb: 7
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.

Genre: Mystery
Waterfront

Waterfront

Waterfront
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: Uncategorized
HDElizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes

Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes

Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes
HD
IMDb: 7.5
101

Newly discovered interviews with Elizabeth Taylor and unprecedented access to the star’s personal archive reveal the complex inner life and vulnerability of the groundbreaking icon.

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Genre: Documentary