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...
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...
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...
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...
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
Direction Tony Richardson
Cast Lee Remick · Yves Montand · Bradford Dillman · Harry Townes
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
Direction Tony Richardson
Cast Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Gary Raymond · Vanessa Redgrave · Michael York
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