Cast: Yul Brynner

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Yul Brynner. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Magnificent Seven

1960 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

Direction John Sturges

Cast Yul Brynner · Steve McQueen · Charles Bronson · Eli Wallach

Plot John Sturges's remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 classic THE SEVEN SAMURAI has become an influential film in its own right. A small farming Mexican village that makes involuntary donations of...

7.4

26K votes

7.4

26K votes

The Ten Commandments

1956 · Movie · 219 min. · United States

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Charlton Heston · Yul Brynner · Anne Baxter · Edward G. Robinson

Plot To escape the edict of Egypt's Pharoah, Rameses I, condemning all first-born Hebrew males, the infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the...

7.3

17K votes

7.3

17K votes

Le Testament d'Orphée

1959 · Movie · 83 min. · France

Direction Jean Cocteau

Cast Jean Cocteau · Claudine Auger · Charles Aznavour · Lucía Bosé

Plot Le Testament d'Orphee, the last film made by Cocteau, is a visual summing up of the poet's own life. In it Cocteau gazes, one after the other, into the multiple...

7.1

777 votes

7.1

777 votes

The King and I (Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I)

1956 · Movie · 133 min. · United States

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Deborah Kerr · Yul Brynner · Rita Moreno · Martin Benson

Plot Mrs. Anna Leonowens and her son Louis arrive in Bangkok, where she has contracted to teach English to the children of the royal household. She threatens to leave when the...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

Morituri

1965 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction Bernhard Wicki

Cast Marlon Brando · Yul Brynner · Janet Margolin · Trevor Howard

Plot World War II espionage drama. Marlon Brando plays Robert Crain, a German deserter who is coerced by British Intelligence officer Colonel Statter (Trevor Howard) to impersonate a Gestapo officer in...

6.9

903 votes

6.9

903 votes

The Brothers Karamazov

1958 · Movie · 146 min. · United States

Direction Richard Brooks

Cast Yul Brynner · Claire Bloom · Maria Schell · Lee J. Cobb

Plot This epic 19th-century Russian tale is based on the critically acclaimed novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Four very different brothers growing up in a rural village in tsarist Russia plot against...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

Anastasia

1956 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast Ingrid Bergman · Yul Brynner · Helen Hayes · Akim Tamiroff

Plot Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir to the Russian throne. While...

6.7

2K votes

6.7

2K votes

Goodbye Again

1961 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast Ingrid Bergman · Yves Montand · Anthony Perkins · Jessie Royce Landis

Plot In this adaptation of Francoise Sagan's best selling novel, Paula is a beautiful, 40-year old, highly successful businesswoman. She is deeply in love with Roger, her mature consort of five...

6.6

358 votes

6.6

358 votes

Taras Bulba

1962 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction J. Lee Thompson

Cast Tony Curtis · Yul Brynner · Christine Kaufmann · Sam Wanamaker

Plot In the 16th century, a fierce Cossack chieftain (Yul Brynner) who has vowed to fight 'til the death to regain his lands from Polish invaders is confronted by his headstrong...

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes

Westworld

1973 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Michael Crichton

Cast Yul Brynner · Richard Benjamin · James Brolin · Norman Bartold

Plot An amusement park for rich vacationers. The park provides its customers a way to live out their fantasies through the use of robots that provide anything they want. Two of...

6.2

7K votes

6.2

7K votes

Solomon and Sheba

1959 · Movie · 139 min. · United States

Direction King Vidor

Cast Yul Brynner · Gina Lollobrigida · George Sanders · Marisa Pavan

Plot Shortly before his death in ancient Israel, King David has a vision from God telling him that his younger son Solomon should succeed him as king. His other son Adonijah...

6.1

1K votes

6.1

1K votes

Triple Cross

1966 · Movie · 126 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Young

Cast Christopher Plummer · Romy Schneider · Yul Brynner · Trevor Howard

Plot Plummer is a British safecracker imprisoned on the channel islands at the outbreak of WWII. When the Germans move in, he offers to work for them if they set him...

6.1

590 votes

6.1

590 votes

Yul Brynner: The Magnificent

2020 · Documentary · 52 min. · France

Direction Benoît Gautier · Jean-Frédéric Thibault

Cast Yul Brynner

Plot A documentary film dedicated to the Hollywood actor with Russian descent Yul Brynner.

6.0

80 votes

6.0

80 votes

The Sound and the Fury

1959 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Martin Ritt

Cast Yul Brynner · Joanne Woodward · Margaret Leighton · Stuart Whitman

Plot The Sound and the Fury doesn't exactly signify nothing, but as a filmization of William Faulkner it could have been far better. Yul Brynner is the oldest son of a...

6.0

196 votes

6.0

196 votes

The Buccaneer

1958 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Quinn

Cast Yul Brynner · Claire Bloom · Charlton Heston · Charles Boyer

Plot During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New Orleans when he learns that a British fleet will arrive with 60...

5.9

334 votes

5.9

334 votes

Port of New York

1949 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Laslo Benedek

Cast Scott Brady · Richard Rober · K.T. Stevens · Yul Brynner

Plot Agents Mickey Waters and John Flannery re-team to investigate the theft of medicinal narcotics from the S.S. Florentine. The vicious gang responsible is headed by the ruthless, but debonair Paul...

5.9

61 votes

5.9

61 votes

The Journey

1959 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

5.9

327 votes

5.9

327 votes

Anna and the King (TV Series)

1972 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction William Wiard · Hy Averback · Terry Becker · Jeff Corey

Cast Yul Brynner · Samantha Eggar · Keye Luke · Eric Shea

Plot In 1862, a strong American schoolteacher, with her young son, travels to Siam to serve as the personal educator to the King's many children. Though Anna and the King often...

5.8

35 votes

5.8

35 votes

The Serpent

1973 · Movie · 120 min. · France

Direction Henri Verneuil

Cast Yul Brynner · Henry Fonda · Dirk Bogarde · Philippe Noiret

Plot Vlassov (Yul Brynner) is a Soviet spy. In France, Vlassov defects. He is whisked to the U.S.A., where Allan Davies (Henry Fonda) takes over the case. After polygraph tests and...

5.8

319 votes

5.8

319 votes

The Madwoman of Chaillot

1969 · Movie · 132 min. · United States

Direction Bryan Forbes

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Paul Henreid · Oskar Homolka · Yul Brynner

Plot Taken from the popular play by Jean Giraudoux, The Madwoman Of Chaillot has an international all-star cast, but the final result falls short despite the talents of the celebrated thespians....

5.8

210 votes

5.8

210 votes