Watch Richard Burton Movies and TV Shows in Australia

If you're looking to stream shows or movies starring Richard Burton in Australia then here is the definitive list. We show you which streaming providers currently have each of Richard Burton's most popular movies and shows available in their catalogue. List updated in December 2024.

List of the Best Movies and Shows Starring Richard Burton In Order of Popularity

  1. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  2. Becket
  3. The Longest Day
  4. The Night of the Iguana
  5. Where Eagles Dare
  6. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
  7. Anne of the Thousand Days
  8. My Cousin Rachel
  9. The Taming of the Shrew
  10. Nineteen Eighty-Four
  11. Becoming Mike Nichols
  12. Cleopatra
  13. Look Back in Anger
  14. The Medusa Touch
  15. The Robe
  16. Bitter Victory
  17. The Desert Rats
  18. The V.I.P.s
  19. The Sandpiper
  20. Alexander the Great
  21. The Rains of Ranchipur
  22. Divorce His - Divorce Hers
  23. Exorcist II: The Heretic
  24. Absolution
  25. 1984

Stream the top 25 Movies and Shows starring Richard Burton

1. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Rated: Not Rated

8.0/10

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.

2. Becket

Rated: PG-13

7.8/10

King Henry II of England has trouble with the Church. When the Archbishop of Canterbury dies, he has a brilliant idea. Rather than appoint another pious cleric loyal to Rome and the Church, he will appoint his old drinking and wenching buddy, Thomas Becket, technically a deacon of the church, to the post. Unfortunately, Becket takes the job seriously and provides abler opposition to Henry.

3. The Longest Day

Rated: G

7.7/10

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"

4. The Night of the Iguana

Rated: Approved

7.6/10

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.

5. Where Eagles Dare

Rated: M

7.6/10

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.

6. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Rated: Not Rated

7.5/10

British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.

7. Anne of the Thousand Days

Rated: PG

7.4/10

Henry VIII of England discards one wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.

8. My Cousin Rachel

Rated: R18+

7.1/10

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.

9. The Taming of the Shrew

Rated: Approved

7.1/10

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.

10. Nineteen Eighty-Four

Rated: R

7.1/10

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.

11. Becoming Mike Nichols

Rated: TV-14

7.1/10

This intimate portrait of director, producer, and improvisational comedy icon Mike Nichols shows his final and historic interviews filmed just months before his death. Director Douglas McGrath documents Nichols’s early life, as he opens up to his friend, director Jack O’Brien, about the storied beginnings of his career.

12. Cleopatra

Rated: G

7.0/10

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.

13. Look Back in Anger

Rated: Approved

7.0/10

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

14. The Medusa Touch

Rated: PG

6.9/10

A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had powerful telekinetic abilities.

15. The Robe

Rated: Unrated

6.7/10

Marcellus is a tribune in the time of Christ. He is in charge of the group that is assigned to crucify Jesus. Drunk, he wins Jesus' homespun robe after the crucifixion. He is tormented by nightmares and delusions after the event. Hoping to find a way to live with what he has done, and still not believing in Jesus, he returns to Palestine to try and learn what he can of the man he killed.

16. Bitter Victory

Rated: Approved

6.7/10

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.

17. The Desert Rats

Rated: Approved

6.7/10

Richard Burton plays a Scottish Army officer put in charge of a disparate band of ANZAC troops on the perimeter of Tobruk with the German Army doing their best to dislodge them

18. The V.I.P.s

Rated:

6.3/10

Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials.

19. The Sandpiper

Rated: TV-14

6.2/10

A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the wedded headmaster of an Episcopalian boarding school in Monterey, California.

20. Alexander the Great

Rated: Not Rated

5.8/10

An epic account of the young prince whose military conquests unified the civilised world in the 4th century BC.

21. The Rains of Ranchipur

Rated: Approved

5.8/10

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.

22. Divorce His - Divorce Hers

Rated: Not Rated

5.1/10

A two-part film, actually two concurrent stories, that reveals the dissolution of an 18-year marriage from two points of view. The stories are set in Rome, where the wealthy Martin and Jane Reynolds meet by chance after a two-year separation. In the first of the two stories, Martin has returned to Rome on business, representing an African managerial firm. Martin remembers his marriage as a rather sado-masochistic union. Part two examines the marriage from Jane's point of view, focusing more on the family life, on how the children have been scarred by the crumbling marriage.

23. Exorcist II: The Heretic

Rated: R

3.8/10

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 hypnotic research specialist free her from its grasp?

24. Absolution

Rated: R

2.4/10

Decades after a meteorite destroys much of life on Earth, young survivor Ryan Murphy travels to a military base as a new recruit. However, Murphy is really an agent investigating strange occurrences at the base, which is ruled by the unforgiving Sgt. Bradley. As Murphy trains with his fellow recruits and secretly looks into the disappearance of a friend, he uncovers a shocking secret that may change the fate of humankind.

25. 1984

Rated: R

/10

16mm experimental short film.