Burt Lancaster films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 19 films on Boxlist

Known for Sweet Smell of Success, The Leopard and Local Hero.

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Starring Burt Lancaster

Sweet Smell of Success
1957 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't control is his younger sister, Susan, who is in a relationship with aspiring jazz guitarist...
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The Leopard
1963 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his...
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Local Hero
1983 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
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The Killers
1946 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look...
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Field of Dreams
1989 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice's directions don't stop -- even after the spirits of deceased ballplayers turn up to play.
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From Here to Eternity
1953 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.
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Brute Force
1947 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains?
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Seven Days in May
1964 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
A U.S. Army colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
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Judgment at Nuremberg
1961 · Film
8.1/10 · TMDB
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning...
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Birdman of Alcatraz
1962 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise...
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Ulzana's Raid
1972 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Report reaches the US cavalry that the Apache leader Ulzana has left his reservation with a band of followers. A compassionate young officer, Lieutenant DeBuin, is given a small company to find him and bring him back; accompanying the...
The Crimson Pirate
1952 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball Scientist...
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The Professionals
1966 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit.
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Vera Cruz
1954 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
After the American Civil War, mercenaries travel to Mexico to fight in their revolution for money. The former soldier and gentleman Benjamin Trane meets the gunman and killer Joe Erin and his men, and together they are hired by the Emperor...
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1957 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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1900
1976 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
Set in Bertolucci's ancestral region of Emilia, the film chronicles the lives of two men during the political turmoils that took place in Italy in the first half of the 20th century.
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private...
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Airport
1970 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Melodrama about a bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.
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The Cassandra Crossing
1976 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease, and nobody will let them off the train.
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