Richard Burton films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 10 films on Boxlist

Known for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Longest Day and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.

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Starring Richard Burton

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1966 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
A bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use a young couple to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other.
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The Longest Day
1962 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers...
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
1965 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
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.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
1984 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
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.
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Where Eagles Dare
1968 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
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 up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general...
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Becket
1964 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
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 and the Church, he will appoint his old drinking and wenching...
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The Wild Geese
1978 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
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 virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically...
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Cleopatra
1963 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
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 take power—but Caesar’s successor has other plans.
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The Robe
1953 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
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. Hoping to...
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Exorcist II: The Heretic
1977 · Film
4.6/10 · TMDB
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 a hypnotic research specialist free her from its...
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