Direction: Tony Richardson

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Tony Richardson. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

1962 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tony Richardson

Cast Tom Courtenay · Michael Redgrave · James Bolam · Avis Bunnage

Plot A Borstal boy has nothing going for him except the ability to run. He is selected to compete against a public school and starts a training programme, during which he...

7.5

5K votes

7.5

5K votes

A Taste of Honey

1961 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tony Richardson

Cast Rita Tushingham · Dora Bryan · Murray Melvin · Robert Stephens

Plot In a working-class British neighborhood, a 17-year-old girl is living with an alcoholic, promiscuous mother who ignores her. When her mother runs out on her with a new boyfriend, she...

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7.2

722 votes

7.2

722 votes

Look Back in Anger

1958 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tony Richardson

Cast Richard Burton · Claire Bloom · Mary Ure · Edith Evans

Plot Archetypal British "angry young man" Jimmy Porter (Richard Burton) is a college-educated bloke who can't seem to get any better job than working in a candy store. Jimmy's relationship with...

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7.1

769 votes

7.1

769 votes

Mademoiselle

1966 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Tony Richardson

Cast Jeanne Moreau · Ettore Manni · Keith Skinner · Umberto Orsini

Plot In a French village, Manou is an Italian logger, virile, with a broad laugh. He can't say no to women's sexual invitations, and jealous villagers blame him for recent fires...

7.0

219 votes

7.0

219 votes

Momma Don't Allow (S)

1955 · Documentary · 22 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Karel Reisz · Tony Richardson

Cast Chris Barber · Ron Bowden · Jim Bray · Lonnie Donegan

Plot A night at the Wood Green Jazz Club - an example of 'Free Cinema'.

6.7

78 votes

6.7

78 votes

Tom Jones

1963 · Movie · 129 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tony Richardson

Cast Albert Finney · Susannah York · Hugh Griffith · David Warner

Plot Tom Jones (Albert Finney), abandoned as a baby in mysterious circumstances, is brought up by Squire Allworthy. Resented by Allworthy's legitimate heir Blifil, Tom grows into an amiable rascal, fond...

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6.5

2K votes

6.5

2K votes

The Entertainer

1960 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tony Richardson

Cast Laurence Olivier · Brenda De Banzie · Joan Plowright · Roger Livesey

Plot Archie Rice, a pathetic music hall comic, plagued by debts, manipulates those around him in a defiant and selfish attempt to survive against improbable odds. He drinks, makes crude philosophical...

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6.5

288 votes

6.5

288 votes

Hamlet

1969 · Movie · 113 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tony Richardson

Cast Nicol Williamson · Anthony Hopkins · Marianne Faithfull · Judy Parfitt

Plot Hamlet is Prince of Denmark, son of the recently deceased King Hamlet and his wife, Queen Gertrude. At a frosty night at Elsinore, the Danish royal castle, Hamlet meets King...

6.5

136 votes

6.5

136 votes

The Phantom of the Opera (TV Miniseries)

1990 · Series · 168 min. · United States

Direction Tony Richardson

Cast Charles Dance · Burt Lancaster · Teri Polo · Adam Storke

Plot Tony Richardson's version of Leroux's oft-filmed novel about a disfigured hermit and his tortured love for a gifted young singer stars Charles Dance as the maimed Erik Destler, aka the...

6.4

296 votes

6.4

296 votes

The Charge of the Light Brigade

1968 · Movie · 141 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tony Richardson

Cast Trevor Howard · John Gielgud · David Hemmings · Vanessa Redgrave

Plot Snobbery and bad politics lead to military disaster during the Crimean War.

6.3

763 votes

6.3

763 votes

The Loved One

1965 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Tony Richardson

Cast Robert Morse · Anjanette Comer · Jonathan Winters · Dana Andrews

Plot A clash of cultures is under way when a young British poet must come to California to preside over the burial of his Hollywood star uncle. He encounters a tawdry...

6.2

264 votes

6.2

264 votes

A Delicate Balance

1973 · Movie · 133 min. · United States

Direction Tony Richardson

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Paul Scofield · Lee Remick · Kate Reid

Plot The setting is the comfortable Connecticut home of a well-to-do family. Agnes is a determined, powerful woman who feels she must hold her husband together and present a brave face...

6.0

110 votes

6.0

110 votes

Sanctuary

1961 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

5.9

35 votes

5.9

35 votes

Blue Sky

1994 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Tony Richardson

Cast Jessica Lange · Tommy Lee Jones · Powers Boothe · Carrie Snodgress

Plot Jessica Lange stars as army wife Carly Marshall in Tony Richardson's last film, set in the early 1960s. Carly, a very beautiful woman, spices up the drabness of military life...

5.9

815 votes

5.9

815 votes

The Border

1982 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Tony Richardson

Cast Jack Nicholson · Harvey Keitel · Warren Oates · Valerie Perrine

Plot A border agent involved in drug smuggling decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.

5.8

594 votes

5.8

594 votes

The Sailor from Gibraltar

1966 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tony Richardson

Cast Jeanne Moreau · Ian Bannen · Vanessa Redgrave · Orson Welles

Plot Alan, after quarreling with his girlfriend Sheila, becomes to be intrigued by Anna, a mysterious widow who's searching a sailor known many years before. Alan and Anna begin the search...

5.6

40 votes

5.6

40 votes

Joseph Andrews

1977 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tony Richardson

Cast Ann-Margret · Michael Hordern · Jim Dale · Peter Bull

Plot Peter Firth stars in this picaresque tale as Joseph Andrews, a young servant switched at birth who undergoes a series of romantic escapades. Joseph even has the fortune of becoming...

5.3

95 votes

5.3

95 votes

The Hotel New Hampshire

1984 · Movie · 109 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tony Richardson

Cast Jodie Foster · Rob Lowe · Beau Bridges · Nastassja Kinski

Plot British director Tony Richardson takes on John Irving's picaresque black comedy about an eccentric and unusually peripatetic family in a film starring Rob Lowe as John Berry, the family's oldest...

5.1

555 votes

5.1

555 votes

Ned Kelly

1970 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tony Richardson

Cast Mick Jagger · Clarissa Kaye-Mason · Mark McManus · Ken Goodlet

Plot Unable to support his family in the Australian outback, a man turns to stealing horses in order to make money. He gets more deeply drawn into the outlaw life, and...

4.4

88 votes

4.4

88 votes

Red and Blue

1967 · Movie · 36 min. · United Kingdom

Not rated

Not rated