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Richard Harris has 25 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 2000s. 4 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Unforgiven.
Of Mice and Men
1992
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Max · Included

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Max · Included

Unforgiven
1992 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Max · Included

The Guns of Navarone
1961 · Movie · Actor
Top 7%Netflix · Included

Mutiny on the Bounty
1962 · Movie · Actor
Top 20%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Red Desert
1964 · Movie · Actor
Top 22%Max · Included

Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard—with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he learns to harness his newfound powers with the help of the school's kindly headmaster, Harry uncovers the truth about his parents' deaths—and about the villain who's to blame.
Dir. Chris Columbus · With Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson

Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of his second year at Hogwarts. Adventure and danger await when bloody writing on a wall announces: The Chamber Of Secrets Has Been Opened. To save Hogwarts will require all of Harry, Ron and Hermione's magical abilities and courage.
Dir. Chris Columbus · With Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson

After the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, his devious son takes power and demotes Maximus, one of Rome's most capable generals who Marcus preferred. Eventually, Maximus is forced to become a gladiator and battle to the death against other men for the amusement of paying audiences.
Dir. Ridley Scott · With Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen

William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to find the men who brutalized a prostitute. Joined by his former partner and a cocky greenhorn, he takes on a corrupt sheriff.
Dir. Clint Eastwood · With Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman

Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.
Dir. Kevin Reynolds · With Jim Caviezel, Guy Pearce, Richard Harris

A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
Dir. J. Lee Thompson · With Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn
Covering only the first 22 chapters of the Book of Genesis, vignettes include: Adam and Eve frolicking in the Garden of Eden until their indulgence in the forbidden fruit sees them driven out; Cain murdering his brother Abel; Noah building an ark to preserve the animals of the world from the coming flood; and Abraham making a covenant with God.
Dir. John Huston · With Michael Parks, Ulla Bergryd, Richard Harris

The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means to keep up a strict discipline. When they arrive at Tahiti, it is like a paradise for the crew, something completely different than the living hell aboard the ship. On the way back to England, officer Fletcher Christian becomes the leader of a mutiny.
Dir. Lewis Milestone · With Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris

In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.
Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni · With Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chionetti

Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy water production plant in rural Telemark.
Dir. Anthony Mann · With Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson

A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically ill and due for execution. Just when the team has performed a perfect rescue, the multinational does a deal with the vicious dictator leaving the mercenary band to escape under their own steam and exact revenge.
Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen · With Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Roger Moore

Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assistant. On her travels, she meets two men who would change her life forever: a handsome young cadet Andrej Tolstoy with whom she shares a fondness for opera, and the powerful General Radlov who is entranced by her beauty and wants to marry her.
Dir. Nikita Mikhalkov · With Julia Ormond, Oleg Menshikov, Aleksey Petrenko
After witnessing the killing of his mate and offspring at the hands of a reckless Irish captain, a vengeful killer whale rampages through the fisherman's Newfoundland harbor. Under pressure from the villagers, the captain, a female marine biologist, and an Indigenous tribalist venture after the great beast, who will meet them on its own turf.
Dir. Michael Anderson · With Richard Harris, Charlotte Rampling, Will Sampson

In early 1960s Northern England, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver.
Dir. Lindsay Anderson · With Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, Alan Badel

"Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing much in the name of the land. When the widow who owns the field decides to sell it in a public auction, McCabe knows that he must own it. While no local dare bid against him, a wealthy American decides he requires the field to build a highway. "Bull" and his son decide they must try to convince the American to let go of his ambition and return home, but the consequences of their plot prove sinister.
Dir. Jim Sheridan · With Richard Harris, John Hurt, Sean Bean

During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas.
Dir. Sam Peckinpah · With Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton

A terrorist demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he has planted aboard a trans-Atlantic cruise ship. Inspired by real events.
Dir. Richard Lester · With Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings

Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease, and nobody will let them off the train.
Dir. George P. Cosmatos · With Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Martin Sheen

Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time.
Dir. Richard Lester · With Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn, Robert Shaw

When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.
Dir. Phillip Noyce · With Harrison Ford, Anne Archer, Thora Birch

Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will result in the English Civil War.
Dir. Ken Hughes · With Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley

In 1825, English peer Lord John Morgan is cast adrift in the American West. Captured by Sioux Indians, Morgan is at first targeted for quick extinction, but the tribesmen sense that he is worthy of survival. He eventually passes the many necessary tests that will permit him to become a member of the tribe.
Dir. Elliot Silverstein · With Richard Harris, Jean Gascon, Judith Anderson
In the early 1800s, a group of fur trappers and Indian traders are returning with their goods to civilization and are making a desperate attempt to beat the oncoming winter. When guide Zachary Bass is injured in a bear attack, they decide he's a goner and leave him behind to die. When he recovers instead, he swears revenge on them and tracks them and their paranoiac expedition leader down.
Dir. Richard C. Sarafian · With Richard Harris, John Huston, Henry Wilcoxon

Smilla Jaspersen attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that has made several mysterious expeditions to Greenland.
Dir. Bille August · With Julia Ormond, Gabriel Byrne, Richard Harris
The Tarzan story from Jane's point of view. Jane Parker visits her father in Africa where she joins him on an expedition. A couple of brief encounters with Tarzan establish a (sexual) bond between her and Tarzan. When the expedition is captured by savages, Tarzan comes to the rescue.
Dir. John Derek · With Bo Derek, Richard Harris, John Phillip Law
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