Hawaii

1966

English

6.5

♡ 7

70%

Arthur Hiller Director

Richard Harris as Capt. Rafer Hoxworth

Malcolm Atterbury as Gideon Hale

Julie Andrews as Jerusha Bromley

John Cullum as Rev. Immanuel Quigley

Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and takes her to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, intent on converting the natives. But the clash between the two cultures is too great and instead of understanding there comes tragedy.

Camelot

1967

English

6.6

♡ 14

39%

68%

Adventure

based on play or musical

Joshua Logan Director

Vanessa Redgrave as Guenevere

Richard Harris as King Arthur

Estelle Winwood as Lady Clarinda

Franco Nero as Lancelot Du Lac

The plot of his illegitimate son Mordred to gain the throne, and Guinevere's growing attachment to Sir Lancelot, threatens to topple King Arthur and destroy his "round table" of knights.

The Wild Geese

1978

English

6.8

♡ 23

70%

Andrew V. McLaglen Director

Richard Harris as Capt. Rafer Janders

Leslie Schofield as Hitman at Club

John Kani as Sgt. Jesse Link

David Ladd as Sonny Martinelli

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.

Tarzan the Ape Man

1981

English

3.5

♡ 12

John Derek Director

Harold Ayer as Club Member

Richard Harris as James Parker

Bo Derek as Jane Parker

Tony Longo as Stunts

The Tarzan story from Jane's point of view. Jane Parker visits her father in Africa where she joins him on an expedition. A couple of brief encounters with Tarzan establish a (sexual) bond between her and Tarzan. When the expedition is captured by savages, Tarzan comes to the rescue

Jungle Fighters

1961

English

6.6

♡ 3

57%

army

based on play or musical

Leslie Norman Director

Richard Harris as Cpl. Johnstone

Anthony Chinn as Japanese Sniper

Laurence Harvey as Pte. Bamforth

John Meillon as Pte. Smith

Based on a play by Willis Hall. A troop of British soldiers are out in the jungle to record jungle noises and troop noises in the jungle so that the recordings can be played back by other troops to divert the enemy to their whereabouts. As they progress to what they think is closer to the base camp they find themselves farther and farther from radio range until the only channel they can get clearly is that of a Japanese broadcast. They now realize they are probably only 10 to 15 miles from a Japanese camp! The tension is added to by rowdy and openly admitted "non-hero" Private Bamforth who has nothing good to say about anyone and especially Corporal Johnstone (who holds an equal dislike for Bamforth). When a Japanese soldier is taken as their prisoner, the true colours of each man comes to the surface

A Man Called Horse

1970

English

6.8

♡ 10

87%

Elliot Silverstein Director

James Gammon as Ed

Dub Taylor as Joe

Richard Harris as John Morgan

Manuel Padilla Jr. as Leaping Buck

In 1825, English peer Lord John Morgan is cast adrift in the American West. Captured by Sioux Indians, Morgan is at first targeted for quick extinction, but the tribesmen sense that he is worthy of survival. He eventually passes the many necessary tests that will permit him to become a member of the tribe.

Cromwell

1970

English

7.0

♡ 7

33%

70%

Action

based on a true story

Ken Hughes Director

Geoffrey Keen as John Pym

Richard Harris as Oliver Cromwell

Timothy Dalton as Prince Rupert

Nigel Stock as Sir Edward Hyde

Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will result in the English Civil War.

The Cassandra Crossing

1976

English

6.3

♡ 12

42%

George P. Cosmatos Director

Richard Harris as Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain

Sophia Loren as Jennifer Rispoli Chamberlain

Ava Gardner as Nicole / Nicole Dressler

Martin Sheen as Robby Navarro

Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease, and nobody will let them off the train.

Cry, the Beloved Country

1995

English

6.8

♡ 5

85%

based on novel or book

Darrell Roodt Director

Ron Smerczak as Captain van Jaarsveld

Jerry Mofokeng as Hlabeni

Richard Harris as James Jarvis

Lillian Dube as Mrs. Lithebe

A South-African preacher goes to search for his wayward son who has committed a crime in the big city.

Juggernaut

1974

English

6.6

♡ 10

83%

Richard Lester Director

Kenneth Cope as Bridgeman

Kenneth Colley as Detective Brown

Richard Harris as Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Fallon

Anthony Hopkins as Supt. John McCleod

A terrorist demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he has planted aboard a trans-Atlantic cruise ship. Inspired by real events.

Wild Geese II

1985

English

4.9

♡ 7

18%

Peter R. Hunt Director

Richard Harris as Capt. Rafer Janders

Scott Glenn as John Haddad

Stratford Johns as Mustapha El Ali

Patrick Stewart as Russian General

A group of mercenaries is hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin.

Strike Commando 2

1988

Italian

4.8

♡ 7

18%

Bruno Mattei Director

Massimo Vanni as Kelly Sellers

Richard Harris as Maj. Vic Jenkins

Brent Huff as Michael Ransom

Mary Stavin as Rosanna Boom

A commando rescues his squad leader from heroin smugglers in Burma.

The Deadly Trackers

1973

English

5.7

♡ 4

32%

Samuel Fuller Director

Read Morgan as Deputy Bob

Rod Taylor as Frank Brand

Isela Vega as Maria

Richard Harris as Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick

Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick is a pacifist. Frank Brand is the leader of a band of killers. When their paths cross Kilpatrick is compelled to go against everything he has stood for to bring death to Brand and his gang. Through his hunt into Mexico he is challenged by a noble Mexican Sheriff interested only in carrying out the law - not vengeance.

The Guns of Navarone

1961

English

7.5

♡ 55

92%

based on novel or book

J. Lee Thompson Director

Carl Duering as German Radar Operator

James Robertson Justice as Jensen / Prologue Narrator

James Darren as Spyros Pappadimos

Richard Harris as Squadron Leader Barnsby

A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.

Shake Hands with the Devil

1959

English

7.0

♡ 3

75%

ira (irish republican army)

ireland

irish

irish history

Michael Anderson Director

John Le Mesurier as British General

Walter Gotell as Sergeant 'Black &Tans'

Godfrey Quigley as Soldier

Richard Harris as Terence O'Brien

In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes to stay aloof, but saving a wounded friend gets him outlawed, and inexorably drawn into the rebel organization...under his former professor Sean Lenihan, who has "shaken hands with the devil" and begun to think of fighting as an end in itself. Complications arise when Kerry falls for a beautiful English hostage, and the British offer a peace treaty that is not enough to satisfy Lenihan.

The Molly Maguires

1970

English

6.8

♡ 4

90%

61%

Action

based on a true story

based on novel or book

co-worker relationship

Martin Ritt Director

Richard Harris as Detective James McParlan

Sean Connery as Jack Kehoe

Chuck Hicks as Policeman

Ian Abercrombie as Stock Actor

Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1876. A secret society of Irish coal miners, bond by a sacred oath, put pressure on the greedy and ruthless company they work for by sabotaging mining facilities in the hope of improving their working conditions and the lives of their families.

Orca

1977

English

5.8

♡ 20

10%

newfoundland and labrador

ship

Thriller

whale

Michael Anderson Director

Bo Derek as Annie

Richard Harris as Captain Nolan

Keenan Wynn as Novak

Wayne Heffley as Priest

After witnessing the killing of his mate and offspring at the hands of a reckless Irish captain, a vengeful killer whale rampages through the fisherman's Newfoundland harbor. Under pressure from the villagers, the captain, a female marine biologist, and an Indigenous tribalist venture after the great beast, who will meet them on its own turf.

The Heroes of Telemark

1965

English

6.5

♡ 17

67%

Anthony Mann Director

Geoffrey Keen as General Bolt

Patrick Jordan as Henrik

Richard Harris as Knut Strand

Ralph Michael as Nilssen

Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy water production plant in rural Telemark.

Caesar

2002

English

6.6

♡ 13

Uli Edel Director

Valeria Golino as Calpurnia 2 episodes, 2004

Clive Merrison as Catullus

Richard Harris as Lucius Cornelius Sulla 2 episodes, 2004

Christopher Walken as Marcus Portius Cato 2 episodes, 2004

Twenty year-old Julius Caesar flees Rome for his life during the reign of Sulla but through skill and ambition rises four decades later to become Rome's supreme dictator.