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

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...

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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