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.

The Rains of Ranchipur

1955

English

5.8

♡ 4

31%

Jean Negulesco Director

Lou Krugman as Courier

Richard Burton as Dr. Major Rama Safti

Michael Rennie as Lord Albert Esketh

King Calder as Mr. Smiley

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 friend of hers, the alcoholic Tom Ransome. An awful earthquake is followed by days of rain.

Equus

1977

English

7.1

♡ 11

70%

Sidney Lumet Director

Peter Firth as Alan Strang

Colin Blakely as Frank Strang

Jenny Agutter as Jill Mason

Richard Burton as Martin Dysart

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 boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.

Candy

1968

English

5.1

♡ 13

40%

Christian Marquand Director

James Coburn as Dr. A.B. Krankeit

Richard Burton as MacPhisto

International Velvet as Show Girl

John Astin as T.M. Christian / Jack Christian

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

Raid on Rommel

1971

English

5.5

♡ 7

31%

Henry Hathaway Director

Christopher Cary as Conscientious Objector

Patrick Whyte as Flag Captain

Richard Burton as Foster

Danielle De Metz as Vivi

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.

Bluebeard

1972

English

5.6

♡ 7

36%

Edward Dmytryk Director

Richard Burton as Kurt Von Sepper

Sybil Danning as The Prostitute

Mathieu Carrière as The Violinist

Peter Martin Urtel as Von Sepper's Friend

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 his castle that's filled with the frozen bodies of several beautiful women.

Doctor Faustus

1967

English

5.4

♡ 6

9%

33%

based on play or musical

Richard Burton Director

Richard Burton as Doctor Faustus

Richard Durden as Evil Angel / Knight

Elizabeth Taylor as Helen

Maria Aitken as Sloth

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 out of hell. He bargains away his soul to Lucifer in exchange for living 24 years during which Mephistopheles will be his slave. Faustus signs the pact in his own blood and Mephistopheles reveals the works of the devil to Faustus.

Thursday's Children

1954

English

7.3

70%

Action

Documentary

preserved film

Lindsay Anderson Director

Richard Burton as Narrator

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 are shown painstakingly learning what words are through exercises and games, practicing lip-reading and finally speech. Richard Burton's calm and sometimes-poetic narration adds to the heartwarming cheerfulness and courage of the children. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with British Film Institute in 2005.

Bitter Victory

1957

English

6.7

♡ 3

78%

Nicholas Ray Director

Richard Burton as Captain Leith

Curd Jürgens as Major Brand

Harry Landis as Private Browning

Nigel Green as Private Wilkins

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 arrival of Brand's wife, who had a tryst with Leith years earlier.

Brief Encounter

1974

English

5.4

♡ 6

47%

Action

Drama

Alan Bridges Director

Richard Burton as Alec Harvey

Sophia Loren as Anna Jesson

Jack Hedley as Graham Jesson

John Le Mesurier as Stephen

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

Exorcist II: The Heretic

1977

English

3.8

♡ 42

10%

religion and supernatural

Thriller

John Boorman Director

Richard Burton as Father Philip Lamont

Linda Blair as Regan MacNeil

Kitty Winn as Sharon Spencer

Paul Henreid as The Cardinal

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?

Boom!

1968

English

5.5

♡ 7

20%

Joseph Losey Director

Richard Burton as Chris Flanders

Elizabeth Taylor as Flora 'Sissy' Goforth

Michael Dunn as Rudi

Noel Coward as The Witch of Capri

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.

Zulu

1964

English

7.7

♡ 37

97%

91%

Action

africa

based on a true story

Cy Endfield Director

Nigel Green as Colour-Sergeant Bourne

Michael Caine as Lt. Gonville Bromhead

Stanley Baker as Lt. John Chard R. E.

Richard Burton as Narration spoken by

In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.

Look Back in Anger

1959

English

7.0

♡ 4

Action

based on play or musical

Tony Richardson Director

Abner Biberman as Attacked Cultist, in movie

Gary Raymond as Cliff Lewis

Richard Burton as Jimmy Porter

Philip Locke as Priest

A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

1966

English

8.0

♡ 53

96%

Mike Nichols Director

Richard Burton as George

Sandy Dennis as Honey

Elizabeth Taylor as Martha

George Segal as Nick

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.

The Night of the Iguana

1964

English

7.6

♡ 9

75%

John Huston Director

Sue Lyon as Charlotte Goodall

Ava Gardner as Maxine Faulk

Mary Boylan as Miss Peebles

Richard Burton as Rev. Dr. T. Lawrence Shannon

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.

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My Cousin Rachel

The Rains of Ranchipur

Equus

Candy

Raid on Rommel

Bluebeard

Doctor Faustus

Thursday's Children

Bitter Victory

Brief Encounter

Exorcist II: The Heretic

Boom!

Zulu

Look Back in Anger

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

The Night of the Iguana