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1. The Avengers (1961–1969)
TV-14 | 50 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners.
Stars: Patrick Macnee, Diana Rigg, Honor Blackman, Linda Thorson
Votes: 8,885
2. Where Eagles Dare (1968)
M | 158 min | Action, Adventure, War
Allied agents stage a daring raid on a castle where the Nazis are holding American brigadier general George Carnaby prisoner, but that's not all that's really going on.
Director: Brian G. Hutton | Stars: Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure, Patrick Wymark
Votes: 62,875
3. The Wild Geese (1978)
R | 134 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A British banker hires a group of British mercenaries to rescue a deposed African President from the hands of a corrupt African dictator.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris, Hardy Krüger
Votes: 14,171
4. Great Performances (1971– )
TV-G | 180 min | Music, Musical
Filmed and televised versions of theater productions, such as plays, musicals, operas, ballets, and concerts from around the world.
Stars: Scott Yoo, Julie Andrews, Renée Fleming, Plácido Domingo
Votes: 896
5. Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
PG | 145 min | Biography, Drama, History
King Henry VIII of England discards one wife, Catharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.
Director: Charles Jarrott | Stars: Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, Irene Papas, Anthony Quayle
Votes: 8,110 | Gross: $2.07M
6. Here's Lucy (1968–1974)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Lucy Carter, a widow with two teen children, takes a job as a secretary for her stuffy brother-in-law.
Stars: Lucille Ball, Gale Gordon, Lucie Arnaz, Desi Arnaz Jr.
Votes: 1,785
7. The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
Approved | 131 min | Action, Drama, History
Norwegian resistance tries to stop German efforts to produce an atomic bomb component during World War II.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson, Michael Redgrave
Votes: 8,059
8. The Plague of the Zombies (1966)
Approved | 90 min | Horror
During a mysterious epidemic in a small Cornish village, the local doctor summons his professor friend for help.
Director: John Gilling | Stars: André Morell, Diane Clare, Brook Williams, Jacqueline Pearce
Votes: 5,642
9. First Men in the Moon (1964)
Not Rated | 103 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
When a spaceship lands on the moon, it is hailed as a new accomplishment, before it becomes clear that a Victorian party completed the journey in 1899, leading investigators to that mission's last survivor.
Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: Edward Judd, Martha Hyer, Lionel Jeffries, Miles Malleson
Votes: 6,411 | Gross: $1.65M
10. The Sea Wolves (1980)
PG | 120 min | Action, History, War
During World War II, British Intelligence brings a crew of ex-soldiers out of retirement, using their age as cover, to take to the seas and pull off an unlikely undercover mission in neutral Goa.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, David Niven, Trevor Howard
Votes: 5,275
11. The Medusa Touch (1978)
PG | 109 min | Drama, Mystery
A telekinetic novelist causes disasters simply by thinking about them.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Richard Burton, Lee Remick, Lino Ventura, Harry Andrews
Votes: 7,489
12. Villain (1971)
R | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In 1970s London, Scotland Yard orchestrates the downfall of mob boss Vic Dakin after he crosses the line by blackmailing Members of Parliament.
Director: Michael Tuchner | Stars: Richard Burton, Ian McShane, Nigel Davenport, Donald Sinden
Votes: 2,034
13. North Sea Hijack (1980)
PG | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
When terrorists take over two oil rigs, and threaten to blow them up if their demands are not met, an eccentric anti-terrorism expert volunteers his unique commando unit to stop them.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Roger Moore, James Mason, Anthony Perkins, Michael Parks
Votes: 5,814
14. ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969–1974)
78 min | Drama
Anthology series of dramatic works.
Stars: Michael Balfour, Madoline Thomas, Diane Cilento, Jim Dale
Votes: 98
15. Wild Geese II (1985)
R | 125 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A group of mercenaries is hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin.
Director: Peter R. Hunt | Stars: Scott Glenn, Barbara Carrera, Edward Fox, Laurence Olivier
Votes: 1,551
16. Pascali's Island (1988)
PG-13 | 104 min | Drama
A secret agent in Turkey is persuaded by his superiors to assist a couple of English cons in the theft of a priceless Greek statue.
Director: James Dearden | Stars: Ben Kingsley, Charles Dance, Kevork Malikyan, George Murcell
Votes: 1,495 | Gross: $1.45M
17. The V.I.P.s (1963)
Not Rated | 119 min | Drama
As fog delays departure for a group of travelers bound for New York City, they wait at the lounge of London's Heathrow airport, each passenger at a moment of crisis in his or her life.
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Louis Jourdan, Elsa Martinelli
Votes: 4,203 | Gross: $10.21M
18. Absolution (1978)
R | 95 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Two boys try to drive a strict priest mad with their confessed sins at a boarding school in England.
Director: Anthony Page | Stars: Richard Burton, Dominic Guard, David Bradley, Billy Connolly
Votes: 1,894
19. Brief Encounter (1974 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 74 min | Drama
Two strangers, both married to others, meet in a railroad station and find themselves in a brief but intense affair.
Director: Alan Bridges | Stars: Richard Burton, Sophia Loren, Jack Hedley, Rosemary Leach
Votes: 702
20. Long Ago, Tomorrow (1971)
GP | 110 min | Drama, Romance
Bruce Pritchard is paralyzed in a soccer game, rejected by his family, and placed in a nursing home. Angry and depressed, he finds hope with a nurse. Can Bruce find a life outside the home?
Director: Bryan Forbes | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Nanette Newman, Georgia Brown, Bernard Lee
Votes: 671
21. The Battle of Sutjeska (1973)
PG | 130 min | War
In 1943, 20,000 Yugoslav partisans led by Tito find themselves encircled by 120,000 well-armed Axis troops in the mountains of Bosnia and must break out of encirclement.
Director: Stipe Delic | Stars: Richard Burton, Ljuba Tadic, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Irene Papas
Votes: 1,837
22. Raid on Rommel (1971)
GP | 99 min | Drama, War
In 1942 Libya, a German-speaking British Intelligence officer uses former British POWs, some dressed in German uniforms, to fulfill a secret sabotage mission inside German-captured Tobruk.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Richard Burton, John Colicos, Clinton Greyn, Wolfgang Preiss
Votes: 2,430
23. Wagner (1983)
300 min | Biography, Drama, History
A huge panorama of Richard Wagner's life and work, from before the 1848 revolution, through his exile in Switzerland, his rescue by the besotted King Ludwig II of Bavaria, to the final ... See full summary »
Stars: Richard Burton, Vanessa Redgrave, Miguel Herz-Kestranek, László Gálffi
Votes: 616
24. Massacre in Rome (1973)
PG | 110 min | Drama, History, War
Rome, March 23, 1944: 33 German soldiers are killed by a bomb. Lt. Col. Herbert Kappler is ordered to execute ten times that many Italians.
Director: George P. Cosmatos | Stars: Richard Burton, Marcello Mastroianni, Leo McKern, John Steiner
Votes: 1,486
25. Hammersmith Is Out (1972)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama
The Faust legend retold (loosely) and applied to a mentally disturbed patient in a hospital run by a doctor (Sir Peter Ustinov) of dubious sanity. The patient (Richard Burton) offers the ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Ustinov | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Peter Ustinov, Beau Bridges
Votes: 462 | Gross: $0.09M
26. Dr. Finlay's Casebook (1962–1971)
50 min | Drama
Dr. Finlay is a member of a medical practice in the Scottish town of Tannochbrae during the late 1920s.
Stars: Bill Simpson, Andrew Cruickshank, Barbara Mullen, Eric Woodburn
Votes: 142
27. ITV Play of the Week (1955–1974)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
An anthology series from the U.K., from 1955 to 1974, producing about five hundred ninety-minute episodes from Granada Television.
Stars: Derek Francis, Alfred Burke, Arthur Hewlett, Esther Lawrence
Votes: 93
28. Agent 8 3/4 (1964)
98 min | Comedy
Czech-speaking, out-of-work Briton Nicholas Whistler (Dirk Bogarde) is unwittingly sent on a secret mission to Prague by British Intelligence.
Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Sylva Koscina, Robert Morley, Leo McKern
Votes: 934
29. Dr. Crippen (1963)
TV-PG | 98 min | Crime, Drama, History
The real-life story of Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen, who was hanged in London in 1910 for poisoning his wife so he could be with his young lover. But was he truly guilty of murder?
Director: Robert Lynn | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Samantha Eggar, Coral Browne, Donald Wolfit
Votes: 737
30. The Children (1990)
115 min | Drama
Rose Sellars (Kim Novak) is a middle-aged woman who falls in love with a widower (Sir Ben Kingsley). However, his children believe that their father is too old to start a new relationship.
Director: Tony Palmer | Stars: Ben Kingsley, Kim Novak, Siri Neal, Geraldine Chaplin
Votes: 128
31. The Gathering Storm (1974 TV Movie)
75 min | Biography, Drama
The story of British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, focusing on his place in British life just prior to World War II.
Director: Herbert Wise | Stars: Richard Burton, Virginia McKenna, Angharad Rees, Lesley Dunlop
Votes: 268
32. England, My England (1995)
153 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1960s, a British playwright attempts to reconstruct the life of real life 17th century English composer Henry Purcell even though little is known about him. Purcell's life is reenacted and his music performed.
Director: Tony Palmer | Stars: Simon Callow, Michael Ball, Rebecca Front, Lucy Speed
Votes: 193
33. The Jokers (1967)
94 min | Comedy, Crime
Michael Tremayne (Michael Crawford) and David Tremayne (Oliver Reed) decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not for criminal purposes, but to make themselves famous.
Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Michael Crawford, Oliver Reed, Harry Andrews, James Donald
Votes: 920
34. Testimony (1987)
Not Rated | 157 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.
Director: Tony Palmer | Stars: Ben Kingsley, Sherry Baines, Magdalen Asquith, Mark Asquith
Votes: 287
35. Lenin: The Train (1988 TV Movie)
198 min | Drama, History, War
March 1917. World War I is already three years in. A sealed train with Russian emigrants keeps on driving from Germany and Sweden to St. Petersburg. The outlaws stand under the guidance of ... See full summary »
Director: Damiano Damiani | Stars: Ben Kingsley, Leslie Caron, Dominique Sanda, Jason Connery
Votes: 359
36. The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka: The Mystery of Chopin (1999)
109 min | Drama
Warsaw, 1945. The invading Nazis are gone and, in a symbolic gesture, the preserved heart of Polish composer and national hero Frédéric Chopin is returned. Under German rule, even the ... See full summary »
Director: Tony Palmer | Stars: Paul Rhys, Penelope Wilton, Valentina Igoshina, Elizabeth McGorian
Votes: 23
37. Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood (2001 TV Movie)
119 min | Documentary, History
A trip through the idiosyncrasies and difficulties of making one of the most tormented movies ever filmed.
Directors: Kevin Burns, Brent Zacky | Stars: Robert Culp, Roddy McDowall, Darryl F. Zanuck, Mel Gussow
Votes: 406
38. ITV Sunday Night Drama (1959–1980)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
ITV Sunday Night Drama is a UK television anthology series produced by ABC Weekend Television, Associated Television (ATV), Associated-Rediffusion Television, and Granada Television.
Stars: André Morell, Victor Platt, Anthony Mayne, Donald Houston
Votes: 27
39. O Quinto Macaco (1990)
PG-13 | 93 min | Drama
A Brazilian snake hunter, trying to make enough money to marry the woman he loves, finds four mysterious chimpanzees. He embarks upon a journey to sell them in the big city, and learns a ... See full summary »
Director: Éric Rochat | Stars: Ben Kingsley, Mika Lins, Vera Fischer, Silvia De Carvalho
Votes: 143
40. Raising the Dead: The Making of the Plague of the Zombies (2012 Video)
34 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Marcus Hearn | Stars: John Carson, Marcus Hearn, Jacqueline Pearce, Mark Gatiss
Votes: 9
41. Farewell, Farewell, Eugene (1959 TV Movie)
40 min
Two reclusive sisters send greeting cards to the outside world through their cousin, for which they make money that goes into a fund to visit their brother in Africa.
Director: William Chappell | Stars: Beryl Andrews, Avril Elgar, Frances Guthrie, Patrick McAlinney
42.
Great Performances (1971– )
Episode:
Richard Burton: In from the Cold
(1988)
TV-G | 126 min | Music, Musical
Richard Burton: In from the Cold.
Director: Tony Palmer | Stars: Lauren Bacall, Melvyn Bragg, Kate Burton, Philip Burton
Votes: 120
43.
The Avengers (1961–1969)
Episode:
Wish You Were Here
(1968)
TV-14 | 52 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A holiday resort has a strict "no check out" policy for certain guests, including Tara King, in this clever parody of Patrick McGoohan's "The Prisoner."
Director: Don Chaffey | Stars: Patrick Macnee, Linda Thorson, Liam Redmond, Robert Urquhart
Votes: 216
44.
Dr. Finlay's Casebook (1962–1971)
Episode:
Death Is a Colony
(1967)
Drama
Director: Richard Argent | Stars: Bill Simpson, Andrew Cruickshank, Barbara Mullen, Willoughby Gray
45.
Here's Lucy (1968–1974)
Episode:
Lucy Meets the Burtons
(1970)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Richard Burton, the movie star, escapes riotous fans by wearing a plumber's disguise. Lucy Carter mistakes him for a much needed plumber, and brings him back to the office to fix a sink. ... See full summary »
Director: Jerry Paris | Stars: Lucille Ball, Gale Gordon, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton
Votes: 216
46.
ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969–1974)
Episode:
You See, the Thing Is...
(1970)
Drama
Director: Herbert Wise | Stars: Ian Holm, Priscilla Morgan, Brook Williams, Mike Reynell
47.
Wagner (1983)
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(1983)
Biography, Drama, History
In the year 1849, Richard Wagner is a respected composer living in Dresden where he works as royal court conductor for the King of Saxony. Although his wife, Minna, enjoys their life and ... See full summary »
Director: Tony Palmer | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Philipp Brammer, Gemma Craven, Richard Burton
Votes: 138
48.
ITV Play of the Week (1955–1974)
Episode:
My Father's Keeper
(1965)
Comedy, Drama
Director: Royston Morley | Stars: Christine Finn, Joyce Heron, William Job, Delena Kidd
49.
ITV Sunday Night Drama (1959–1980)
Episode:
Four Triumphant: St David
(1966)
45 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Stars: Donald Houston, John Collin, John Rees, Jessica Dunning
50.
Wagner (1983)
Episode:
Episode #1.10
(1983)
67 min | Biography, Drama, History
Construction on the opera house in Bayreuth begins and his epic Der Ring des Nibelungen can finally be premiered. The performance is attended by Ludwig who is slowly losing his mind, while ... See full summary »
Director: Tony Palmer | Stars: Richard Burton, Bill Fraser, Vanessa Redgrave, Ronald Pickup
Votes: 122