Cast: Cyril Cusack
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Cyril Cusack. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
My Left Foot
1989 · Movie · 103 min. · Ireland
Direction Jim Sheridan
Cast Daniel Day-Lewis · Brenda Fricker · Ray McAnally · Fiona Shaw
Plot Set in Dublin, this film tells the story of Christy Brown (1932-1981), an Irishman born with cerebral palsy, who could only control his left foot. Christy Brown grew up in...
7.6
15K votes
7.6
15K votes
Harold and Maude
1971 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Hal Ashby
Cast Bud Cort · Ruth Gordon · Vivian Pickles · Cyril Cusack
Plot A suicidal young man gets a new lease on life when he falls for an 80-year-old woman.
7.5
7K votes
7.5
7K votes
The Day of the Jackal
1973 · Movie · 141 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Fred Zinnemann
Cast Edward Fox · Michael Lonsdale · Derek Jacobi · Alan Badel
Plot Year 1963. President De Gaulle decides to grant independence to French Algeria, several of the soldiers, who fought in that campaign, feel that De Gaulle is belittling the lives of...
7.5
9K votes
7.5
9K votes
Sacco and Vanzetti
1971 · Movie · 121 min. · Italy
Direction Giuliano Montaldo
Cast Gian Maria Volonté · Riccardo Cucciolla · Cyril Cusack · Rosanna Fratello
7.4
2K votes
7.4
2K votes
Fahrenheit 451
1966 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom
Direction François Truffaut
Cast Julie Christie · Oskar Werner · Cyril Cusack · Anton Diffring
Plot In an oppressive future, a fireman whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.
7.3
19K votes
7.3
19K votes
The Rising of the Moon
1957 · Movie · 81 min. · Ireland
Direction John Ford
Cast Tyrone Power · Maureen Connell · Eileen Crowe · Cyril Cusack
Plot Three vignettes of old Irish country life, based on a series of short stories. In "The Majesty of the Law," a police officer must arrest a very old-fashioned, traditional fellow...
7.1
943 votes
7.1
943 votes
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
1965 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Martin Ritt
Cast Richard Burton · Claire Bloom · Oskar Werner · Peter van Eyck
Plot When a fellow British agent is killed at Checkpoint Charlie right before his eyes, Alec Lemas, head of the Berlin station, returns to London headquarters. There his boss, Control, inquires...
7.1
3K votes
7.1
3K votes
Odd Man Out
1947 · Movie · 116 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Carol Reed
Cast James Mason · Robert Newton · Cyril Cusack · F.J. McCormick
Plot Johnny McQueen, leader of a clandestine Irish organization, has been hiding in the house of Kathleen and her mother, planning a hold-up that will provide his group with the funds...
7.1
2K votes
7.1
2K votes
King Lear
1970 · Movie · 137 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Peter Brook
Cast Paul Scofield · Irene Worth · Susan Engel · Tom Fleming
Plot The Shakespeare tragedy that gave us the expression "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child." King Lear has not one but two ungrateful children,...
7.0
67 votes
7.0
67 votes
Gone to Earth
1950 · Movie · 110 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger
Cast Jennifer Jones · David Farrar · Cyril Cusack · Sybil Thorndike
Plot Hazel Woodus (Jennifer Jones) is a child of nature in the Shropshire countryside in 1897. She loves and understands all the wild animals more than the people around her. Whenever...
6.9
160 votes
6.9
160 votes
Jesus of Nazareth (TV Miniseries)
1977 · Series · 371 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Franco Zeffirelli
Cast Robert Powell · Anne Bancroft · James Mason · Rod Steiger
Plot 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...
6.9
5K votes
6.9
5K votes
The Small Back Room
1949 · Movie · 106 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger
Cast David Farrar · Kathleen Byron · Jack Hawkins · Leslie Banks
Plot Sammy Rice (David Farrar) is a British scientist working with a specialist "back room" team in London during World War II. Rice is embittered because he feels military scientific research...
6.8
141 votes
6.8
141 votes
The Secret of Convict Lake
1951 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Michael Gordon
Cast Glenn Ford · Gene Tierney · Ethel Barrymore · Zachary Scott
Plot Jim Canfield, convicted of a crime he did not commit, escapes a Nevada prison with several hardened criminals. He leads them to the small farming community home of the man...
6.8
282 votes
6.8
282 votes
The Man Who Never Was
1956 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ronald Neame
Cast Clifton Webb · Gloria Grahame · Robert Flemyng · Josephine Griffin
Plot British Intelligence during World War II is trying to get the German High Command to shift it's forces away from Italy prior to the invasion. To create the illusion of...
6.8
676 votes
6.8
676 votes
Les Miserables (TV)
1978 · Movie · 150 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Glenn Jordan
Cast Richard Jordan · Anthony Perkins · Cyril Cusack · Claude Dauphin
Plot Jean Valjean, convicted of stealing bread, is hounded for decades by the relentless and cruel policeman Javert.
6.7
73 votes
6.7
73 votes
Execution Squad
1972 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy
Direction Steno
Cast Enrico Maria Salerno · Mariangela Melato · Mario Adorf · Franco Fabrizi
Plot It tells the gripping story of an organized vigilante group that kills criminals who couldn't be convicted by the police. Enrico Maria Salerno is the police officer who tries to...
6.6
36 votes
6.6
36 votes
The Ray Bradbury Theater (TV Series)
1985 · Series · 23 min. · United States
Direction Ray Bradbury · Randy Bradshaw · Roger Tompkins · John Laing
Cast Ray Bradbury · Harold Gould · Charles Martin Smith · Michael Sarrazin
Plot TV series (1985-1992). 6 seasons. 65 episodes. A Canadian-produced fantastic anthology series scripted by famed science-fiction author Ray Bradbury. Many of the teleplays were based upon Bradbury's novels and short...
6.6
39 votes
6.6
39 votes
Little Dorrit
1988 · Movie · 357 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Christine Edzard
Cast Derek Jacobi · Joan Greenwood · Max Wall · Patricia Hayes
Plot Arthur Clennam returns to London after working abroad for many years with his now deceased father. Almost at once he becomes involved in the problems of his mother's seamstress Amy...
6.6
39 votes
6.6
39 votes
Shake Hands with the Devil
1959 · Movie · 111 min. · Ireland
Direction Michael Anderson
Cast James Cagney · Don Murray · Dana Wynter · Glynis Johns
Plot In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes to stay aloof, but saving a wounded...
6.6
117 votes
6.6
117 votes
Escape
1948 · Movie · 78 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast Rex Harrison · Peggy Cummins · William Hartnell · Norman Wooland
Plot Matt Denant, ex-RAF flier, sentenced to three years in Dartmoor for striking and accidentally killing a detective who was attempting to arrest a lady of the evening to whom Denant...
6.5
104 votes
6.5
104 votes