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Richard Burton Movies Ranked: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
Richard Burton appears in the billed cast of 18 films in our catalog, from 1953 to 1984. Top of the list is Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ('1966), at 8.0 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.0. Biggest split between audiences and critics: The Medusa Touch, 6.9 on IMDb against 49 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? '1966 | Drama | 8.0 | 96% | 75 | 7.7 | Mike Nichols |
| 2 | The Longest Day '1962 | War / Drama | 7.7 | 83% | 75 | 7.6 | Ken Annakin |
| 3 | Where Eagles Dare '1968 | War | 7.6 | 84% | 63 | 7.5 | Brian G. Hutton |
| 4 | Becket '1964 | Drama | 7.7 | 75% | 68 | 7.2 | Peter Glenville |
| 5 | The Spy Who Came In from the Cold '1965 | Drama / Thriller | 7.5 | 86% | - | 7.1 | Martin Ritt |
| 6 | The Night of the Iguana '1964 | Drama / Romance | 7.5 | 75% | - | 7.2 | John Huston |
| 7 | Anne of the Thousand Days '1969 | Drama / Romance | 7.4 | 43% | - | 7.2 | Charles Jarrott |
| 8 | Cleopatra '1963 | Drama / Romance | 7.0 | 61% | 60 | 7.1 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| 9 | The Taming of the Shrew '1967 | Comedy / Romance | 7.0 | - | - | 6.9 | Franco Zeffirelli |
| 10 | Look Back in Anger '1959 | Drama | 7.0 | 92% | 69 | 6.7 | Tony Richardson |
| 11 | Equus '1977 | Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 7.1 | 70% | - | 7.0 | Sidney Lumet |
| 12 | Nineteen Eighty-Four '1984 | Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller | 7.0 | 76% | 67 | 6.8 | Michael Radford |
| 13 | The Desert Rats '1953 | War / Action | 6.7 | 100% | - | 6.3 | Robert Wise |
| 14 | The Robe '1953 | Drama | 6.7 | 74% | - | 6.8 | Henry Koster |
| 15 | The Medusa Touch '1978 | Horror / Thriller / Sci-Fi / Mystery | 6.9 | - | 49 | 6.8 | Jack Gold |
| 16 | The Wild Geese '1978 | Action / Thriller / War | 6.8 | 75% | - | 6.8 | Andrew V. McLaglen |
| 17 | Alexander the Great '1956 | Drama / War | 5.8 | 8% | - | 6.1 | Robert Rossen |
| 18 | Exorcist II: The Heretic '1977 | Horror | 3.8 | 10% | 39 | 4.5 | John Boorman |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.