Cast: Michael York

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


Cabaret

1972 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction Bob Fosse

Cast Liza Minnelli · Michael York · Helmut Griem · Joel Grey

Synopsis Cabaret (1972) is a musical drama set in 1931 Berlin during the rise of the Nazi Party. The story follows Sally Bowles, a vivacious American cabaret performer, and Brian Roberts, a reserved British academic, as they navigate their complex relationship...

7.8

31K votes

7.8

31K votes

Romeo & Juliet

1968 · Movie · 138 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Franco Zeffirelli

Cast Leonard Whiting · Olivia Hussey · John McEnery · Michael York

Synopsis Shakespeare's classic tale of romance and tragedy. Two families of Verona, the Montagues and the Capulets, have been feuding with each other for years. Young Romeo Montague goes out with his friends to make trouble at a party the Capulets...

7.1

3K votes

7.1

3K votes

Murder on the Orient Express

1974 · Movie · 127 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Albert Finney · Lauren Bacall · Ingrid Bergman · Sean Connery

Synopsis Murder on the Orient Express (1974) follows the renowned detective Hercule Poirot as he boards the luxurious Orient Express train. During the journey, a wealthy American passenger is found dead in his compartment, stabbed multiple times. With the train stranded...

7.0

14K votes

7.0

14K votes

Fedora

1978 · Movie · 114 min. · France

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast William Holden · Marthe Keller · Hildegard Knef · José Ferrer

Synopsis Billy Wilder's knowing, deliberately old-fashioned homage to a bygone age of filmmaking, it stars William Holden as producer Barry Detweiler. In flashbacks, the producer recalls his efforts to coax aging movie queen Fedora out of retirement, while attending her funeral....

7.0

4K votes

7.0

4K votes

Jesus of Nazareth (TV Miniseries)

1977 · Series · 371 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Franco Zeffirelli

Cast Robert Powell · Anne Bancroft · James Mason · Rod Steiger

Synopsis Originally made for TV in 1977, this in-depth (six hours plus) version of Jesus' life is so thorough that the first hour is devoted solely to the story of his birth. The film doesn't skimp on some of the other...

6.9

5K votes

6.9

5K votes

Accident

1967 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Joseph Losey

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Stanley Baker · Jacqueline Sassard · Michael York

Synopsis Stephen is a married Oxford professor experiencing the pangs of a mid-life crisis as he begins to bristle at the stifling emotional repression of the society in which he lives. Things begin to change for him when he meets Anna,...

6.6

857 votes

6.6

857 votes

Borstal Boy

2000 · Movie · 93 min. · Ireland

Direction Peter Sheridan

Cast Shawn Hatosy · Danny Dyer · Lee Ingleby · Robin Laing

Synopsis The teen years of Irish writer and political activist Brendan Behan. At the age of sixteen, while on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during the Second World War, he is apprehended, charged and imprisoned by the British. He...

6.6

145 votes

6.6

145 votes

Logan's Run

1976 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Michael York · Richard Jordan · Peter Ustinov · Jenny Agutter

Synopsis In Logan's Run (1976), a futuristic society thrives in a domed city where pleasure reigns, but life ends at age 30. Logan, a "Sandman" tasked with hunting runners who flee this fate, uncovers a shocking truth about their world. When...

6.3

8K votes

6.3

8K votes

Conduct Unbecoming

1975 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Michael York · Richard Attenborough · Trevor Howard · Stacy Keach

Synopsis A company of British soldiers in colonial India is shaken when the widow of their most honored hero is assaulted. A young officer must defend a fellow lieutenant from the charges in an unusual court-martial, while investigating the deepening mystery...

6.2

135 votes

6.2

135 votes

For Those I Loved

1983 · Movie · 145 min. · France

Direction Robert Enrico

Cast Michael York · Brigitte Fossey · Jacques Penot · Helen Hughes

Synopsis The true story of Martin Gray, a Polish survivor of the holocaust, from how he survived the German invasion, how got captured, and how he fought back with the rebels, to his life in the Soviet army, and the building...

6.2

89 votes

6.2

89 votes

The Taming of the Shrew

1967 · Movie · 126 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Franco Zeffirelli

Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Richard Burton · Cyril Cusack · Michael Hordern

Synopsis Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor bring gusto and ferocity to their roles as Katherine and Petruchio in this quintessential battle of the sexes, a vibrant adaptation of the classic Shakespeare play. When young student Lucentio (Michael York) wanders into the...

6.2

912 votes

6.2

912 votes

Sword of Gideon (TV)

1986 · Movie · 173 min. · Canada

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Steven Bauer · Michael York · Robert Joy · Lino Ventura

Synopsis Chronicles a Mossad team hand picked to hunt down the terrorists involved in the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre of Israeli athletes.

6.1

66 votes

6.1

66 votes

The Mill and the Cross

2011 · Movie · 92 min. · Poland

Direction Lech Majewski

Cast Rutger Hauer · Charlotte Rampling · Michael York · Joanna Litwin

Synopsis Pieter Bruegel’s masterpiece ‘The Way To Calvary’ depicts the story of Christ’s Passion set in Flanders under brutal Spanish occupation in the year 1564, the very year Bruegel created his painting. From among more than five hundred figures, the life...

6.1

1K votes

6.1

1K votes

The Three Musketeers

1973 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Richard Lester

Cast Richard Chamberlain · Michael York · Raquel Welch · Oliver Reed

Synopsis Richard Lester's adaptation of The Three Musketeers was only the latest of many when released in 1974, but it arrived with a spirit all its own, one influenced as much by Lester's '60s work as the Alexandre Dumas classic. Even...

6.0

2K votes

6.0

2K votes

Something for Everyone

1970 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction Harold Prince

Cast Angela Lansbury · Michael York · Anthony Higgins · Heidelinde Weis

Synopsis Konrad, a handsome country boy in post-war Austria, charms his way into a butler position at the castle of a widowed countess that lost her fortune. Before long the opportunistic boy is running the entire household. As he starts affairs...

6.0

64 votes

6.0

64 votes

Alfred the Great

1969 · Movie · 122 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Clive Donner

Cast David Hemmings · Michael York · Prunella Ransome · Colin Blakely

Synopsis While Old England is being ransacked by roving Danes in the 9th century, Alfred is planning to join the priesthood. But observing the rape of his land, he puts away his religious vows to take up arms against the invaders,...

6.0

281 votes

6.0

281 votes

Come See the Paradise

1990 · Movie · 133 min. · United States

Direction Alan Parker

Cast Dennis Quaid · Tamlyn Tomita · Sab Shimono · Shizuko Hoshi

Synopsis Portraying one of the shadier details of American history, this is the story of Jack McGurn, who comes to Los Angeles in 1936. He gets a job at a movie theatre in Little Tokyo and falls in love with the...

6.0

516 votes

6.0

516 votes

Road to Avonlea (TV Series)

1989 · Series · 60 min. · Canada

Direction Kevin Sullivan

Cast Zachary Bennett · Lally Cadeau · Mag Ruffman · Cedric Smith

Synopsis TV Series (1989-1996). 7 seasons. 92 episodes. The most expensive Canadian TV series of its time, Road to Avonlea was created by producers Kevin Sullivan and Mairin Wilkinson in response to the avalanche of fan mail attending their earlier Anne...

6.0

62 votes

6.0

62 votes

The Master of Ballantrae (TV)

1984 · Movie · 150 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Douglas Hickox

Cast Michael York · John Gielgud · Ian Richardson · Finola Hughes

Synopsis The story of two brothers, Scottish noblemen whose family is torn apart by the Jacobite rising of 1745.

5.8

35 votes

5.8

35 votes

The Four Musketeers

1974 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Richard Lester

Cast Oliver Reed · Raquel Welch · Michael York · Richard Chamberlain

Synopsis D'Artagnan has become a Musketeer. Protestants hold La Rochelle, and the Queen loves Buckingham, who'll soon send ships to support the rebels. Richelieu enlists Rochefort to kidnap Constance, the Queen's go-between and D'Artagnan's love. The Cardinal uses the wily, amoral...

5.8

2K votes

5.8

2K votes