Nineteen Eighty-Four (
1984) | IMDb:
7.1
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.
Starring:
John Hurt
,
Richard Burton
,
Suzanna Hamilton
,
Cyril Cusack
,
Gregor Fisher
,
James Walker
The Wild Geese (
1978) | IMDb:
6.8
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 ill and due for execution. Just when the team has performed a perfect rescue, the multinational does a deal with the vicious dictator leaving the mercenary band to escape under their own steam and exact revenge.
Starring:
Roger Moore
,
Richard Harris
,
Hardy Krüger
,
Richard Burton
,
Stewart Granger
,
John Kani
Exorcist II: The Heretic (
1977) | IMDb:
3.8
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 research specialist free her from its grasp?
Starring:
Richard Burton
,
Linda Blair
,
Louise Fletcher
,
Max von Sydow
,
Kitty Winn
,
Paul Henreid
The Klansman (
1974) | IMDb:
5.2
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 Klux Klan's violent retaliation against his innocent friend, Garth declares a one-man war on the Klan and hunts them down one-by-one.
Starring:
Richard Burton
,
Lee Marvin
,
Cameron Mitchell
,
Lola Falana
,
Linda Evans
,
Luciana Paluzzi
Directed by:
Terence Young
The Assassination of Trotsky (
1972) | IMDb:
5.7
A Stalinist assassin tracks exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky to Mexico in 1940.
Starring:
Richard Burton
,
Alain Delon
,
Romy Schneider
,
Valentina Cortese
,
Duilio Del Prete
,
Enrico Maria Salerno
Directed by:
Joseph Losey
Candy (
1968) | IMDb:
5.1
A high school girl encounters a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations while searching for the meaning of life.
Starring:
Ewa Aulin
,
Charles Aznavour
,
Marlon Brando
,
Richard Burton
,
James Coburn
,
John Huston
Directed by:
Christian Marquand
Where Eagles Dare (
1968) | IMDb:
7.6
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 before it's too late.
Starring:
Richard Burton
,
Clint Eastwood
,
Mary Ure
,
Patrick Wymark
,
Michael Hordern
,
Donald Houston
The Taming of the Shrew (
1967) | IMDb:
7.1
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 he will not allow Bianca, his youngest daughter, to marry until the temperamental and unruly Katherina, his eldest daughter, does.
Starring:
Elizabeth Taylor
,
Richard Burton
,
Natasha Pyne
,
Michael York
,
Cyril Cusack
,
Michael Hordern
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (
1966) | IMDb:
8
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 onto their guests the full force of the bitterness, dysfunction, and animosity that defines their marriage.
Starring:
Elizabeth Taylor
,
Richard Burton
,
George Segal
,
Sandy Dennis
,
Agnes Flanagan
,
Frank Flanagan
The Night of the Iguana (
1964) | IMDb:
7.6
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.
Cleopatra (
1963) | IMDb:
7
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.
Starring:
Elizabeth Taylor
,
Richard Burton
,
Rex Harrison
,
Pamela Brown
,
George Cole
,
Hume Cronyn
The Longest Day (
1962) | IMDb:
7.7
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 that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
The Robe (
1953) | IMDb:
6.7
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 Demetrius escapes with the robe, Marcellus experiences disturbing visions and feels guilty for his actions. Convinced that destroying the robe will cure him, Marcellus sets out to find Demetrius — and discovers his Christian faith along the way.
Starring:
Richard Burton
,
Jean Simmons
,
Victor Mature
,
Richard Boone
,
Leon Askin
,
Michael Rennie
Directed by:
Henry Koster
Produced by:
Frank Ross